Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 12, 1976:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Sara [Reg]: Code Of The West
Season 1, episode 5 With Kim Richards (Maude), Hunter von Leer (Dennis), Ron Soble (Bell), Art Burns (Cockburn), Richard Stanley (Harvey). A youth living with his harsh uncle steals a horse to run away, and Sara is alone in her campaign to save him from the gallows.
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[ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 1, episode 7 With Pearl Bailey, Sherman Hemsley, The Osmond Brothers, Iron Eyes Cody, Jim Connell. Pearl Bailey claims this will be her farewell appearance as an entertainer. In addition to Pearl's rendition of "Time", there are songs and skits by Donny and Marie and the other guests.
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[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Sergeant Gork
Season 5, episode 23 W: Ted Bergman D: Bill Wyse With Fritzi Burr (Helga), Frank Nelson (Soldier), Edward Crawford (Roger), Pat Morita (Colonel Hiakowa), Martin Kosleck (General). Fred tells his future grandson about his heroism during World War II.
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[NBC 8:30] The Practice [Reg]: The Unsinkable Molly Gibbons
Season 1, episode 6 With John Byner (Dr. Caine). Dr. Bedford nearly suffers cardiac arrest when he discovers that his doctor-son is secretly conducting cancer tests on Nurse Gibbons.
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[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: 20 Shades Of Pink (1976)
D: Paul Stanley With Edward Binns, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Keenan Wynn. A befuddled 46-year-old house painter enters middle age with a feeling of despair that he's lived his life without experiencing it, so he begins to train for a bicycle race.
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[ABC 9:00] Movie: The Neptune Factor (1973)
W: Jack DeWitt D: Daniel Petrie With Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggins, Michael J. Reynolds. Giant fish and sea animals menace a sunken "Sealab" and a helpless rescue team under the waters of the mid-Atlantic.
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[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Foul On The First Play
Season 2, episode 21 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Lou Antonio With Lou Gossett Jr. (Marcus Hayes / O'Brien), Pepper Martin (Greg Smith), Dick Davalos (Manny Stickells), David White (Martin Eastman), James Ingersoll (Steve Sorenson), Al Ruscio (Tom Corell), John Mahon (Todd Morris), Chuck Bowman (Commissioner Tremayne), Vincent Cobb (Ray Fairchild), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Sherm Addison), Jayne Kennedy (Janice), Al Checco (Leasing Agent). A double-dealing old friend of Rockford's -- a cop turned private eye -- tries to help a questionable client obtain a basketball franchise.
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[NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: Open City
Season 3, episode 22 W: Sean Baine D: Barry Crane With Edmund Gilbert (Dutch Bennett), George Murdock (Captain Michaels), Hugh O'Brian (Daley), Christopher Stone (Gentry), Carl Betz (Chief Elliot), Christopher Norris (Debby), Jerry Douglas (Kosta), Art Metrano (Jake). Vice squad officers track a ring of pornographers from the east who will go as far as kidnapping and homicide to protect themselves.
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