Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 8, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 5 With Nancy Walker, Tony Randall. Tony and Nancy take part in a comic treatment of old-fashioned gangster films with Tony as the tough guy, Randall as his kid brother the priest and Nancy as his disappointed mother. The trio also reminisce about the long-running TV Western "Gunsmoke". Tony plays a guru who tries to lead the bickering Dawn duo in a meditation session. Randall and Orlando duet with "Reach Out and Touch", Tony Orlando and Dawn sing "Put a Little Love in Your Heart", "Gone at Last" and "Listen What the Man Said".
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| [ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: A Ransom For Richard
Season 1, episode 5 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Peter H. Hunt With George Sawaya (Courier), Joseph Maher (Emissary), Jimmy Martinez (Sylvester). Robin becomes the victim of a cunning plot when a huge ransom is raised to spare King Richard's life.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Haunted House
Season 2, episode 5 W: Ray Goldrup, John Hawkins, B.W. Sandefur D: Victor French With John Anderson (Amos Pike), Lisa Lyon (Lilly Baldwin), Steffen Zacharias (Jamie Dent), Karen Nicoletti (Jane). Refusing to believe the town hermit is a dangerous madman, Laura enters his house on a dare and learns his secrets.
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| [ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: A Date With Judy
Season 2, episode 5 W: Larry Siegel D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Ray Vitte (Freddie), Tamu Blackwell (Judy). Clifton worries about what his friends will think when he falls for a plain-looking chick.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Victim
Season 5, episode 5 W: Jimmy Sangster D: Lawrence Dobkin With Donna Mills (Lena Michaels), Adrienne Marden (Mrs. Parker), Milt Kogan (Doctor), Clint Young (Dunn), Vic Vallaro (Harry), Jack Collins (Mr. Olsen), Peggy Doyle (Mrs. Olsen), Bernard Fox (Allan Farrell), Alfred Ryder (Leonard), James Callahan (Jake), Jess Walton (Janet Elliot), Joel Fabiani (Sean Donohue). When a police lieutenant friend asks Cannon to help out in the case of a girl who has been found beaten and drugged, he's skeptical of what appears to be routine drug addiction.
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Fire Man
Season 2, episode 5 W: Gregory Tiefer D: Ted Post With Hector Elizondo (Jerry Damon), Patch Mackenzie (Brunette), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Jefferson Hayes), Bart Burns (Colonel Parrish). Tony Baretta enlists the aid of a friend who is an expert arson investigator when several explosive fires remain a mystery.
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| [NBC 9:00] Doctors' Hospital [Reg]: The Loneliest Night
Season 1, episode 5 With Richard McKenzie (Dr. Williams), Beverly Dixon (Jackie Williams), Don Billett (Officer Beck), Philip Sterling (Dr. Miller), Frances Lee McCain (Annie Robaire), James Callahan (Ryan Noonan), Nora Heflin (Carole Williams), Cassie Yates (Evie Collins), Beverly Dixon (Jackie Williams). An overweight and unpopular coed falls in love with Dr. Goodwin, the only person who seems to care about her.
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| [CBS 10:00] Kate McShane [Reg]: Accounts Receivable
Season 1, episode 5 W: Michael Butler D: David Friedkin With Beverly Sanders, Allen Garfield, Wayne Tippit, Richard Rust, Eric Server, Gregory Enton, S. John Launer, Richard Mulligan, M. Emmet Walsh. Suspicious when her client readily confesses to a puzzling murder, Kate tries to find out what really happened.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Fix
Season 1, episode 5 W: Robert I. Holt D: William Crain With Robert Loggia (Ben Forest), Geoffrey Lewis (Allen "Monk" Philos), Leigh Christian (Jeanie Waldon), Gino Conforti (Mickey), Anthony Charnota (Coney), Macon McCalman (Officer Bernie Glassman). Starsky goes on a frantic search for Hutch, who has been abducted and strung out on heroin by a jealous mobster whose ex-girlfriend has become romantically involved with Hutch.
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: Chain Of Command
Season 2, episode 5 W: Katharyn Michaelian D: Herb Wallerstein With Lin McCarthy (Leo Shane), Lee H. Montgomery (Freddie), Rosemary DeCamp (Mrs. Drew), John Lupton (Billy Hanson), Warren Stevens (General Drew), John Ritter (John Oleson). Petrocelli's client is a mechanic whose wrench, found bearing his fingerprints, was used to murder the airline executive who fired him.
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