Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 7, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 15 With Danny Thomas, Georgia Engel. Comedy segments include the invention of the doorbell by Ludwig Who-iz-it (Tony), and Lou Effy and Moreen's experiences with shady television salesman Wild Bill (played by Ted Zeigler). Danny does a monologue about his father. Georgia sings and dances in a production number. Dawn teases Tony, who's performing in a barbershop quartet. Georgia sings "I'm the First Girl in the Second Row", and Tony Orlando and Dawn sing "Never Ending Song of Love".
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| [ABC 8:00] Suddenly An Eagle
Lee J. Cobb and British actor Kenneth Griffith are seen alternately in America and England, showing how events, ideas and people combined to set the Colonies and the Crown on a collision course. Filmed on location on both sides of the Atlantic.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: His Father's Son
Season 2, episode 12 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Kyle Richards (Alicia), Brian Part (Carl), Bonnie Bartlett (Grace Edwards), E.J. Andre (Amos Thomas), Radames Pera (John Jr.), Neil Russell (Len Coty), Peter Haas (Tad Coty). Unhappiness hits the new Edwards family when Mr. Edwards tries to make a hunter out of his bookish son, against the lad's wishes.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Reformer
Season 5, episode 17 W: Larry Forrester D: Lawrence Dobkin With Lawrence Pressman (Kent Brady), Tim O'Connor (James Matthews), Ramon Bieri (Capt. Styles), Patricia Smith (Emily Matthews), Otis Young (Kasiman Grant), Wallace Rooney (Blair Simmons), Reid Cruickshanks (Sgt. Holden), Barney Phillips (Police Officer), John Dullaghan (Mitch), James Nusser (Ryan), Marla Carlis (Hooker), Jette Seear (Karla Novakovitch). A crusading newspaper editor whose favorite targets are police corruption and gangland vice, is arrested when he is found in a hotel room with a dead girl.
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Left Hand Of The Devil
Season 2, episode 14 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Robert Douglas With Joey Aresco (Johnny Evans), J.R. Clark (Officer Smith), Leland Sun (Internal Affairs), Gayle Rogers (Girl Biker), Larry Horowitz (Checker), Billy Green Bush (Coz Rogers), Bruce Boxleitner (Dom), Stacy Keach Sr. (D.A. Pruett), Sally Kirkland (Rita), Smith Evans (Chip Chip), Alan Mandell (Assistant D.A. Merriman), John Lehne (Assistant D.A. Stone). After hiding a frightened informant and infiltrating a motorcycle gang which specializes in low-priced "hits", Baretta must risk his life to save the informant.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Count Of Monte-Cristo [special]
W: Sidney Carroll D: David Greene With Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasance, Trevor Howard, Kate Nelligan. A new adaptation of the Dumas classic of adventure and intrigue, as a conspiracy against the Count secretly imprisons him in a dungeon on the eve of his wedding. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Blue Knight [Reg]: A Fashionable Connection
Season 1, episode 4 D: Robert Scheerer With Ina Balin (Gwen Foster), Alan Manson (Frawley), Leigh Christian (Linda Wilder), Bruce Glover (Jay Stoll), Victor Mohica (Martinez), John Steadman (Wimpey), Byron Morrow (Brogan). Bumper discovers that a high style fashion firm, headed by a shrewd woman designer, is the front for a smoothly-operated narcotics trade.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Hostages
Season 1, episode 15 W: Edward J. Lakso D: George McCowan With John Ritter (Tom Cole), Linda Kelsey (Ellie Cole), Will Hare (Ames), Jean Hagen (Belle Kates), Nellie Bellflower (Sweet Alice), Susan Peretz (Mary Polanski), Kristy McNichol (Meg), Mellisa Newman (Amy), Clay Tanner (Conrad), Richard Foronjy (Gibson), Madison Arnold (Tobin), Art Burns (Miller). Starsky and Hutch try to save the lives of a young armored car driver and his captive wife.
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