Prime-time network TV listings for Friday January 23, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] High Flying Hamburg Circus [special]
Bill Bixby hosts a show taped in Hamburg, Germany, that boasts a tour of the city and then goes on to international circus acts. Among them are the Flying Palacios, the Max Niedermayer Bears, the Great Fattini (sway pole artist), Los Diabolos (high ladder thriller), Jose Seitz (high wire) and the Fischer Elephants.
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 With Lee Majors, Farrah Fawcett, Vincent Price, Paul Lynde, Chuck Norris. Series premiere. Donny and Marie Osmond begin their weekly variety series, together singing such songs as "That's the Way I Like It", "Showboat's A-Comin'" and "Gimme My Country". Solo, Donny sings "Down by the Lazy River" and "For Once in My Life", while Marie takes "Everything Is Beautiful" on her own.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Fred Sanford Has A Baby
Season 5, episode 16 W: Jay Burton D: James Sheldon With Lynn Hamilton (Donna Harris), Howard Platt (Officer Hopkins), Fritzi Burr (Nurse), Bonnie Banfield (Louella), Skip Cunningham (Don). When Fred rents a room to a pregnant lady nearing delivery, he winds up having to take her to the hospital where a nurse mistakes him for the father.
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Reverend Bemis' Altar Ego
Season 2, episode 16 W: Arthur Phillips, John L. Greene D: Jack Donohue With Ronny Graham (Reverend Bemis), Portia Nelson. Chico makes such a successful debut in the pulpit that the Rev. Bemis threatens to quit.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Slither (1974)
W: W.D. Richter D: Howard Zieff With James Caan, Sally Kellerman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser, Richard B. Shull, Allen Garfield. While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: What's Up, Doc? (1972)
W: Buck Henry, David Newman, Robert Benton D: Peter Bogdanovich With Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars. An eccentric girl and an equally eccentric young professor become involved in a zany chase to recover four identical flight bags.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: A Portrait Of Elizabeth
Season 2, episode 16 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Meta Rosenberg With John Saxon (Dave Delaroux), Wayne Tippit (Agent Shore), Tom Atkins (Lt. Diehl), Joe E. Tata (Solly Marshall), Cynthia Sikes (Susan Valero), Katherine Woodville (Karen Silver), Robert Riesel (Mickey Silver), Angus Duncan (Morey Dayton), Ned Wilson (Arnold Adams / Rod Fitzpatrick), James Murtaugh (Tom Hanson). A suave eastern lawyer hires Jim to investigate charges of larceny in the western office of a company he represents.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: The Other Side Of The Fence
Season 3, episode 16 W: Tim Maschler D: Alexander Singer With David Groh (Det. Frank Benson), Glenn Corbett (Det. Ted Fisk), Brooke Mills (Kim Swanson), Ellen Geer (Jenny Benson), Howard Caine (Higby), James Daris (Butcher), George Hamilton (De Lucia), Guy Stockwell (Blodgett), Walter Burke (Riley). Two detectives play "fence" to trap a high-living homicidal jewel thief.
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