Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 6, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Good Times [Reg]: J.J.'s Fiancee (1)
Season 3, episode 17 W: Roger Shulman, John Baskin D: Herbert Kenwith With Debbie Allen (Diana), Sonny Jim Gaines (Fred Buchanan), Marie Moore (Lucille Buchanan), Mel Bryant (Salesman). J.J. astounds his family with the news that he plans to wed "the neighborhood weirdo", but to J.J. she's a deep thinker who loves him for his mind, not his body.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Dance Contest
Season 3, episode 15 W: Bob Howard D: Norm Gray With Rance Howard (Announcer). Fonzie gets more than he bargained for when Mrs. Cunningham asks him to be her partner at the Harvest Moon dance.
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| [NBC 8:00] Movin' On [Reg]: The Old South Will Rise Again
Season 2, episode 14 W: Jimmy Sangster D: Bob Kelljan With Dub Taylor (Luke Hinshaw), Devon Ericson (Lila Hinshaw). Sonny switches from piloting a rig on the road to piloting a balloon in the air in an episode filmed around Atlanta, Ga.
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| [CBS 8:30] Joe And Sons [Reg]: Thou Shalt Steal
Season 1, episode 13 With John Brascia (Piggy). Gus fears for his life after running out of a crap game without paying his losses.
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: The Longest Weekend
Season 1, episode 14 W: Carl Kleinschmitt D: Bob Lahendro Kotter has second thoughts about his "free and equal relationship" with his wife when she takes off on a skiing weekend with a single girlfriend.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Der Tag
Season 4, episode 17 W: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell D: Gene Reynolds With Joe Morton (Capt. Saunders). Hoping to perk up the morose Frank Burns while Hot Lips attends a nurses seminar, Col. Potter asks Hawkeye and B.J. to forget their dislike of the man and show him some friendship.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Sudden Death
Season 4, episode 18 W: Jack V. Fogarty D: Phil Bondelli With Ned Wilson (Thomas Tyson), Sally Carter (Audrey Tyson), Jerome Guardino (Sgt. Louden), Charles Woolf (Broker), Thom Christopher (Peter Johnston). A onetime P.O.W. believes that Mike Danko, a former Air Force helicopter rescue pilot in Vietnam, left him to suffer at the hands of the Viet Cong and plans a bizarre method of punishing the rookie.
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| [NBC 9:00] Police Woman [Reg]: The Melting Point Of Ice
Season 2, episode 16 W: Shimon Wincelberg D: Robert Vaughn With Tom Reese (Piers), Paul Lambert (Ulrich), Charles Frank (Fuller), John Bleifer (Nathan Shotness), Hector Elias (Rio), Carmine Caridi (Starbo), John Crawford (Captain Parks), Kieu Chinh (Mai Fuller), Joan Tetzel (Mrs. Fuller), Alvin Kupperman (Haskow), Jason Wingreen (Copeman), William Phipps (C.J.). Amateur thieves steal a million dollars worth of uncut diamonds from professional robbers when one of the pros panics.
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: How To Succeed Without Trying
Season 1, episode 4 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Noam Pitlik, Gloria Monty With Robert Mandan (Pete Holston), Sherry Danese (Miss Hefley), Louisa Moritz (Receptionist). There's a man in Ann's life who has something she wants -- a job. But he has something else in mind.
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| [CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg]: The Walking Bomb
Season 1, episode 15 W: Bruce Shelly, David Ketchum, David Chase D: John Peyser With Jacques Aubuchon (Earl Harper), Ken Swofford (Lt. Griffin), Larry Manetti (Sgt. Valli), Patrick Duffy (Sgt. Musial), Milt Kogan (Doctor), Charles Haid (Pepper), Terry Kiser (Hanna), Sandra Deel (Viv Harper), Sandra de Bruin (Michelle Savarese). A bank president has been turned into a human bomb by a pair of extortionists, with Pete and Mac stuck with figuring out the solution before everyone is blown up.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: Strike Two!
Season 7, episode 15 W: Jerome Ross D: Dennis Donnelly With Shelley Fabares (Norma Fritchie), Kent McCord (Scott Fritchie), Jean Allison (Mrs. Maynor). Drs. Welby and Kiley help a reformed alcoholic get a job as an athletic instructor, unaware that he is a hepatitis carrier.
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| [NBC 10:00] Joe Forrester [Reg]: Fire Power
Season 1, episode 13 W: Frank Telford, Orville Hampton D: Reza Badiyi With Barra Grant (Nancy), James Naughton (Harry Enders), Deidre Hall, Stack Pierce, Edward Winter, Rick Garcia, Claire Touchstone. Forrester is instrumental in thwarting a band of robbers using sophisticated weapons, meanwhile helping a fellow officer accept his mixed-race stepdaughter.
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