Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 17, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Florence's Problem
[Episode "Florence's Problem" pre-empted; aired on January 24, 1977.]
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| [ABC 8:00] Saturday Night Live With Howard Cosell
With The Bay City Rollers, Billy Crystal, Ed Bluestone, Elayne Boozler.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Girl On The Balance Beam
Season 5, episode 16 W: Robert Hamilton D: Christian I. Nyby II With William Bryant (Captain Engine 14), Patricia Morrow (Jenny Carter), Andrea Bell (Karen), Charles Knox Robinson (Alan Benedict), Patti Cohoon (Nancy Benedict), Ronnie Schell (Drunk Driver). A former athlete with dreams of Olympic glory for his motherless daughter pushes the teenager beyond her capacity. The paramedics also aid an infant with respiratory problems.
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: Greatest Expectations
Season 1, episode 18 W: Jack Mendelsohn, George Burditt D: Howard Storm With Robert Mandan (Fitzgibbons), Irene Tedrow (Vivian McLean), Herbie Faye (Goldman), Joseph Medalis (Jim). Doc loses a patient but gains a fortune when a departed lady leaves him $240,000 in her will. However, the rest of the heirs contest the will.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Once I Had A Secret Love
Season 6, episode 18 W: Pat Nardo, Gloria Banta D: Jay Sandrich Lou Grant finds that a secret love is a hard thing to keep secret after he regretfully takes part in a romantic fling with Sue Ann Nivens.
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| [ABC 9:00] S.W.A.T. [Reg]: Deadly Tide
Season 2, episode 1 W: Ben Masselink D: Gene Levitt With Christopher George (Harry), Lesley Ann Warren (Linda), Sal Mineo (Roy), Susan Dey (Janice), Don Stroud (Danny), Phil Silvers (Professor Pelican). The series' first full season starts with a two-hour drama. A ring of scuba-diving thieves are suspected of committing two homicides and of holding hostages. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Midnight Man (1974)
W: Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster D: Roland Kibbee, Burt Lancaster With Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin. A former police officer returns to a Carolina college town and becomes enmeshed in a web of blackmail and homicide when one of the students -- the daughter of a Senator -- is murdered.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Warden Gordon Borden
Season 4, episode 18 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: James Burrows With William Redfield (Gordon Borden), Pat Finley (Ellen Hartley). Howard Borden's game-warden brother comes to Chicago to witness the mating of two whooping cranes, but stays to make a play for Howard's girlfriend.
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| [CBS 10:00] Super Night At The Super Bowl [special]
With Dinah Shore, The Pointer Sisters, Bob Newhart, Burt Reynolds, Joe Namath, O.J. Simpson. Jackie Gleason and Andy Williams co-host an all-star entertainment show from the Miami Convention Center on the eve of Super Bowl X.
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