Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday October 28, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Good Times [Reg]: Michael's Big Fall
Season 3, episode 8 W: Bob Peete D: Herbert Kenwith With Norma Donaldson (Mrs. Baker), Lou Gossett Jr. (Uncle Wilbert), Jay Riley (Mr. Jenkins), Kathryn Jackson (Mrs. Jenkins), Ronnie Cox (Bobby Jenkins). A change in schools brings on a change in Michael, and Florida fears it's for the worst.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Howard's 45th Fiasco
Season 3, episode 8 W: Frank Buxton D: Jerry Paris With Mary Treen (Miss Prism). Fonzie comes to the rescue as Howard is suffering a case of the blues on his birthday.
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| [NBC 8:00] Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness [special]
David Brinkley narrates this first program in a trilogy of Bicentennial specials. Brinkley will evaluate how the American people lived life as Thomas Jefferson understood it. The program will show where those people came from, what they brought and what they found in America.
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| [CBS 8:30] You're A Good Sport, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz D: Phil Roman With Duncan Watson, Melanie Kohn, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Stuart Brotman, Jimmy Ahrens. Charlie is talked into entering a charity motocross, pitted against tough contenders Peppermint Patty and the Masked Marvel, a determined beagle.
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: One Of Our Sweathogs Is Missing
Season 1, episode 8 W: Marilyn Miller D: Bob Lahendro With Dennis Bowen (Todd Ludlow). After losing a fight, Juan is made fun of by his fellow Sweathogs and runs away -- to the Kotters' bathroom.
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| [CBS 9:00] Perry Como's Lake Tahoe Holiday [special]
With Bob Hope, Anne Murray, Billie Jean King, Sandra Palmer, Suzy Chafee. A musical-variety salute to the great outdoors with a bevy of feminine sports champions, including a sextet of teenage skateboard champs, who join the festivites that celebrate the many scenic wonders of the California-Nevada high mountain country.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Measure Of Mercy
Season 4, episode 8 W: Robert I. Holt D: Phil Bondelli With Cleavon Little (Cully Ames), Fritzi Burr (Landlady), Didi Conn (Young Woman), Harold Gould (Dr. Asmos), Thad Geer (Tad Warren), Anne Bloom (Midge Warren), Joseph DiSante (Doctor), George Wallace (Bracken), Martin Kove (Jimmy Jay). Thieves steal Memorial Hospital's entire blood supply to sell it on the black market.
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| [NBC 9:30] Police Story [Reg]: The Cut Man Caper
Season 3, episode 5 W: Larry Brody D: Don Medford With Paul Benjamin (Jesse), Robert Hooks (Ernie Tillis), Lou Gossett Jr. (Freddy), Godfrey Cambridge (The Cut Man), Scoey Mitchell (Mal Groves), Raymond St. Jacques (Floyd), James Gregory (Captain McKay), Tracy Reed (Dorita), Harrison Page (George), Albert Popwell (Black Stallion), Ray Vitte (Slow Pony), Beverly Atkinson (Esther), Paul Smith (Stout), Davis Roberts (Nance), Don Diamond (Ackerman), Pepper Martin (Ash), Isabel Cooley (Mrs. Fielder), Thomas Bellin (Warren), William Chiles (Neeley), Kenneth Washington (Neeley's Partner), Trevor Stephens (Paxton). While two police officers search for a pair of armed robbers, their informant, a con man, steals their sophisticated wiretap device.
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| [CBS 10:00] Beacon Hill: The Test
Season 1, episode 10 Fawn Lassiter takes a screen test for a legendary director after receiving what she considers encouragement from Sarah Bernhardt.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Tidal Wave
Season 7, episode 8 W: Eugene Price D: Marc Daniels With Anthony Geary (John Gavanelli), Robert Hays (Officer Gilpin), Aldo Ray (Joe Gavanelli), Jodean Russo (Rose Gavanelli), Rod Colbin (Dr. Leonard), Bernard Behrens (Dr. Brigg), Robert Forward (Byron West), Harry Hickox (Walt Baker). A patient subject to fits of violence does not respond to medication and turns on his wife. Dr. Welby and Kiley are at odds over the merits of a controversial type of brain surgery which the patient may need.
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