Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 8, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: George Won't Talk
Season 2, episode 9 W: John Ashby D: Jack Shea With Robert Guillaume (Charles Thompson), Ernest Thomas (Ronnie Walker). George is excited about being invited to lecture at a college, until he learns where the "college" is located. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1975)
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| [ABC 8:00] TV Movie: Brenda Starr (1976)
W: George Kirgo D: Mel Stuart With Jill St. John, Victor Buono, Jed Allan, Sorrell Booke, Tabi Cooper, Barbara Luna, Marcia Strassman, Royce D. Applegate, Joel Fabiani. The comic strip woman comes to life and sets out to track down a hermit-like billionaire in the Brazilian jungle, where she finds herself in the middle of an extortion plot, voodoo and supernatural occurrences.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Simple Adjustment
Season 5, episode 10 W: Robert Hamilton D: Dennis Donnelly With Gary Crosby (John Crosby), Elisabeth Brooks (Marla Ekberg), Jane Dulo (Salon Manager), Aneta Corsaut (Sheila), Robin Clarke (Chris). An overdose of diet pills causes a total personality change in a beauty operator who makes a play for Gage and DeSoto. The paramedics also have to cope with a fire in the engine room of a ship at a marine salvage yard. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1975)
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: My Son, The Doctor
Season 1, episode 13 W: Tony Webster D: Howard Storm With Fred Grandy (Chuck Bogert). Medical practice makes perfect joy for Doc when his son, Chuck, hangs out his shingle with his father. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1975)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Ted's Wedding
Season 6, episode 9 W: David Lloyd D: Jay Sandrich With John Ritter (Rev. Chatfield). A quiet luncheon Mary hosts for Ted and Georgette turns into an erratic spontaneous wedding. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Joe Kidd (1972)
W: Elmore Leonard D: John Sturges With Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Paul Koslo, James Wainwright, Gregory Walcott, Dick Van Patten, Lynne Marta, Stella Garcia, Ron Soble. An ex-bounty hunter reluctantly helps a wealthy landowner and his henchmen track down a Mexican revolutionary leader.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Bob Has To Have His Tonsils Out, So He Spends Christmas Eve In The Hospital
Season 4, episode 15 W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: James Burrows With Graham Jarvis (Dr. Bickwell), Merie Earle (Mrs. Loomis). Christmas Eve finds Bob in the hospital with tonsilitis and an impending operation while his friends all suffer on the outside with an attack of Christmas-itis. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/20/1975)
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| [ABC 9:30] TV Movie: Kiss Me, Kill Me (1976)
W: Robert E. Thompson D: Michael O'Herlihy With Stella Stevens, Dabney Coleman, Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Anderson Jr., Alan Fudge, Tisha Sterling, Robert Vaughn, Claude Akins, Morgan Paull, Steve Franken. A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
With Bernadette Peters. A tribute to Irving Berlin. You'll hear "Alexander's Ragtime Band", "Steppin' Out With My Baby", "What'll I Do" and "Say It Isn't So". (Repeat program)
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