Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 10, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: The Breakup (2)
Season 2, episode 17 W: Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell D: Jack Shea With Marion Ramsey (Tracy Davis). While Lionel and Jenny feud, George adds fuel to the fire by setting his son up with a beautiful young woman.
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| [ABC 8:00] Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Right At Home
Season 5, episode 15 W: Preston Wood D: Georg Fenady With Poindexter Yothers (Eddie Lapeer), Steven Marlo (Swede), Peggy Stewart (Eddie Lapeer), Sandy Balson (Joan Hanrahan). The perils of too much understanding become apparent when kindness to the child of an accident victim turns to dismay.
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: A Little Bit Of Soap
Season 1, episode 17 W: Dennis Klein D: Martin Cohan With Ron Rifkin (Gary), John Ritter (Jeff / George), Edward Winter. Doc is asked to be a medical consultant on a TV soap opera. He reluctantly accepts the assignment, then learns he has to pick a disease so that a member of the cast can be written out of the show as having "died".
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Seminar
Season 6, episode 17 W: James Macdonald, Robert Gerlach D: Stuart Margolin With Betty Ford (Herself), Dabney Coleman (Phil Wright). Lou Grant refuses to admit he has lost touch with the prestigious contacts he once knew in Washington, D.C., when he takes Mary to the capital for a press seminar.
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| [ABC 9:00] S.W.A.T. [Reg]: S.W.A.T.
Season 0, episode 1 W: Robert Hamner D: E.W. Swackhamer With Leslie Nielsen (Larry Neal), Robert Walden (Kevin), Jaime Lyn Bauer (Susan), Dick Van Patten (Waldon), Arte Johnson (Justin), Lloyd Bochner (Giraud), Donna Mills (Gwen DeWitt). Rookie cops Terry Webster, Mike Danko and Chris Owens are assigned to temporary duty under Lt. Hondo Harrelson for Special Weapons and Tactics training. The two-hour episode of "The Rookies" introduced the S.W.A.T. characters. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Oregon Trail (1976)
W: Michael Gleason, Eugene Price D: Boris Sagal With Rod Taylor, Douglas Fowley, Blair Brown, Andrew Stevens, David Huddleston, Tony Becker, G.D. Spradlin, Linda Purl. A pioneer family pulls up stakes and heads west, seeking free land and a better way of life. Pilot for the series which premiered later in the year.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Carol At 6:01
Season 4, episode 17 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: Peter Bonerz With Will Mackenzie (Larry Bondurant), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman). Bob contends with a patient's fixation that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of weird stag poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an onslaught of love.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 9, episode 17 With Steve Lawrence. A salute to Hollywood's oldest movie factory, Universal Studios. Highlights: Carol plays an old fashioned secretary and a woman driven crazy by "riddles" addicts; Lawrence solos "In the Still of the Night".
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