Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday April 21, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 6 With Roy Clark, Ruth Buzzi. Ruth Buzzi plays Marsha Dillon, Dodge City's first woman sheriff, and country singer Roy Clark portrays the crook she is trying to catch in another sketch. Lonnie Schorr plays a carpool driver who is trying to force his mismatched, computer-selected riders to smile. Roy sings "Heart to Heart", Roy & Tony do "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", Tony Orlando & Dawn sing "Hello Goodbye", Dawn performs "Let Me Be the One" then Tony sings "Try to Remember". (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1975)
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| [ABC 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther
Season 1, episode 1 W: Margaret Armen D: Barry Crane With Christine Belford (Paula Von Gunther), Ed Gilbert (Warden), Ed Griffith (Hanson), Christian Juttner (Tommy), Bradford Dillman (Arthur Deal III), John Brandon (Sergeant Stratski). Wonder Woman employs her powers to save Major Steve Trevor from a Nazi spy ring.
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| [NBC 8:00] Bob Hope Olympic Benefit [special]
With Shirley Jones, Jesse Owens, Freddie Prinze, Bing Crosby, Lynn Anderson. Hope hosts a benefit for the U.S. and Canadian Olympic teams in Montreal. Prinze serves as "interpreter" for the French-speaking audience; the cast takes part in a sketch featuring Hope and Crosby as Mounties and Prinze as a poacher. There is a highlight reel of famous moments from previous Olympic games.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Iceman
Season 5, episode 4 W: Larry Alexander D: William Wiard With Robert Foxworth (Lanny McCrae), Dennis Patrick (Sturdevant), Paul Fierro (Frank Spinosa), Brad Stevens (Hoyt Daley), Paula Victor (Wilma), John Davey (Danny Fairchild), Margie Impert (Sondra Munson), Andrew Parks (Jimmy Carver), John Milford (Bob Costigan). A Green Beret Vietnam veteran appears to have government intelligence connections, and becomes a key figure in a reopened murder case involving a friend of Cannon's, who unexpectedly turns down parole. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: A Bite Of The Apple
Season 2, episode 9 W: Paul Magistretti, Robert James D: Robert Douglas With Paul Stevens (Rutherford), Donnelly Rhodes (Arthur Jay), Karen Valentine (Holly), Ed Begley Jr. (Ernie), Titos Vandis (Mr. Nicholas), Tom McCorry (Steve), Eleanor Zee (Clerk), Scott Glenn (Dave), Anne Revere (Dragon Lady), Elisha Cook Jr. (Banjo Vincent), Harry Caesar (Tucker), Al Ferrara (Pasquale). When a dying hoodlum entrusts his girlfriend with a detailed record of all his underworld activities, she is sought by both the police and his former cronies seeking to protect themselves. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/5/1975)
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| [NBC 9:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Mister Butterfly
Season 2, episode 8 W: Ron Friedman D: Jack Donohue With Beulah Quo (Mariko), George Takei (Yoshi Akimura). A Japanese mother reluctantly confesses to her grown son that Ed is not really his father, just an honorable role model for him to follow. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Blue Knight [Reg]: The Creeper
Season 1, episode 6 W: Peter Dixon D: Richard Benedict With Oliver Clark (Charley), Anthony Geary, Vince Howard (McDonald), Harry Lauter (Watch Commander), Suzanne Charny (Adele), Tom Castronova (Fence), Ben Frank (Max), John Steadman (Wimpy). Bumper Morgan sets out to track down a mentally deranged hotel sneak thief. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1976)
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Bounty Hunter
Season 1, episode 22 W: Steve Fisher D: Don Weis With Lola Albright (Lola Turkel), Sherry Jackson (Denise Girard), Ramon Bieri (Bo Rile), Muffi Durham (Nancy), Jack Kirby (Officer Day), Victoria Ann Berry (Nina), Doodles Weaver (Eddie Hoyle), Ann Foster (Abigail Crabtree), Jon Cedar (Jerry Konig), Stanley Ralph Ross (Monty Vorhees), Zale Kessler (Herman), John C. Johnson (Officer Nedloe), Rosalind Miles (Dorothy Nedloe). After murdering a man who tries to escape their clutches, a pair of extortionists go after the dead man's girlfriend.
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| [NBC 10:00] Hawk [Reg]: Do Not Mutilate Or Spindle
Season 1, episode 1 W: Allan Sloane D: Sam Wanamaker With Gene Hackman (Houston Worth), Louise Sorel (Melissa Grant), Fredd Wayne (Detective), John Marley (Sam Crown), Jeff Corey (News Stand Owner), Elianne Nadeau (Jane Charleston). Return of the series starring Burt Reynolds as Lt. John Hawk, a modern-day American Indian assigned to the district attorney's office in New York City. In the series-opening episode, Houston Worth, a religious fanatic, is the missing link between the murder of an office worker and the threatening telephone calls received by a young fashion model. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/8/1966)
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