Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 6, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Selfish Giant [special]
W: Peter Sander D: Peter Sander With Paul Hecht. Adaptation of Oscar Wilde's classic about a giant whose heart is melted by children who play in his garden. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: They Call It Potsie Love
Season 3, episode 13 W: Marty Nadler D: Jerry Paris The cool Fonzie gives Joanie advice about love when she flips for Potsie, but things don't work out as planned. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1975)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movin' On [Reg]: . . .To Be In Carolina
Season 2, episode 5 W: Gwen Bagni, Paul Dubov D: Michael Schultz With Moses Gunn (Otis Andrews), David Downing (Lee Andrews), Lauren Jones (Liz Andrews), Jason Bernard (Cabe). While trying to help a tobacco farmer, Sonny and Will are duped into hauling illegal cargo. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1975)
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| [CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: The Weekend
Season 3, episode 6 W: Jack Elinson, Norman Paul D: Herbert Kenwith With Judy Pace (Gloria). For a romantic celebration of their 20th wedding anniversary, Florida and James go off to a mountain cabin that turns out to be full of surprises -- not all of them romantic. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1975)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: It's The Water
Season 1, episode 10 W: Greg Strangis D: Dennis Klein With Greg Lewis (Wolfgang Gessler). Shirley is promoted to official beer taster by an executive who knows she gets tipsy when she sips the brew.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Late Captain Pierce
Season 4, episode 4 W: Glen Charles, Les Charles D: Alan Alda With Richard Masur (Lt. 'Digger' Detmuller), Eldon Quick (Capt. Pratt), Sherry Steffens (Nurse Able). Reports of Hawkeye's death are greatly exaggerated, but his distraught father has no idea that the Army is guilty of a foul-up. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/3/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Time Is The Fire
Season 1, episode 6 W: Mark Weingart, William Blinn D: Earl Bellamy With Ketty Lester (Tina), John Kerr (Price), Craig Stevens (Howard Sloan), Joe Maross (Neilson), Peggy McCay (Mrs. Sloan), Lynne Marta (Andrea Sloan), William Windom (Frank Queenlin). Lt. Eddie Ryker takes more than a professional interest in a kidnapping case, when he learns the girl might be his daughter who was put up for adoption many years before. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1972)
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| [NBC 9:00] Police Woman [Reg]: The Chasers
Season 2, episode 5 W: Irving Tunick D: Barry Shear With Ida Lupino (Hilda Morris), Ian McShane (Dan Markson), Robert Forward (Senator), John Alvin (Will Hazen), Vivian Bonnell (Myrtle Washington), Berlinda Tolbert (Lily Thomas), Edward Andrews (Calhoun), John Smith (Russ Hawkins), Paul Benjamin (Roman Washington). When Pepper is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and is taken to a large hospital, she observes firsthand the tactics of a woman who ingratiates herself with patients and later bilks them. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1975)
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Ann's Decision
Season 1, episode 1 W: Allan Manings, Jack Elinson, Norman Paul D: Hal Cooper A Norman Lear situation comedy about a newly-divorced woman and her two teenage daughters living in an apartment in Indianapolis. In the first episode, the oldest daughter wants to go on a co-ed camping trip, but her mother disapproves. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg]: Death Squad
Season 1, episode 24 W: Lou Shaw D: John Peyser With Mark Goddard (Steve Martin), Johnny Haymer (Hal), Kelly Harmon (Bobbi), Jack Hogan (Hardy), William Bryant (Helmers), Linda Harrison (Jill Martin), William Sylvester (Ellis). A man warns his estranged wife that she and their son are in danger of being kidnapped.
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| [ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: Thursday's Child
Season 1, episode 5 W: Nigel Evan McKeand, Carol Evan McKeand D: Glenn Jordan With John Rubinstein (Jeff Maitland), Elayne Heilveil (Nancy Lawrence Maitland), Charles Lane (James Lawrence), Barbara Cason (Sylvia Maitland), William Putch (Fred Hogan), Bill Zuckert (Karl), Brendan Dillon (Mr. Bridges), Patricia Tidy (Mrs. Bridges), James Ray (Jeffrey Maitland II), Ralph Williams (Rev. Coltrane). Buddy resents it when the family's first grandchild is christened Timothy, after her brother who died several years earlier.
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| [NBC 10:00] City Of Angels [Reg]: The Losers
Season 1, episode 8 W: Roy Huggins D: Barry Shear With Marcia Strassman (Madge Carruthers), Broderick Crawford, Priscilla Pointer (Mrs. Macklin), Brett Halsey (Brad Caulfield), W.T. Zacha, David S. Cass Sr. A successful businessman hires Jake to find out if his girlfriend is being unfaithful to him, and the woman is later found dead in her bathtub.
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