Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday June 16, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jacksons [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 W: Tom Chapman, April Kelly, Winston Moss D: Bill Davis With Sonny Bono. Debut of a summer series featuring the musical Jackson family, spotlighting Michael Jackson and his brothers and sisters.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Bionic Woman [Reg]: A Thing Of The Past
Season 1, episode 3 W: Philip DeGuere D: Alan Crosland With Lee Majors (Steve Austin), Ford Rainey (Jim Elgin), Donald O'Connor (Harry Anderson), Don Gordon (Glen Morgan), Roger Perry (Mr. Stone), W.T. Zacha (Raines), Robbie Wolcott (Mark), Alycia Gardner (Gwen), Christian Juttner (Teddy), Lori Busk (Caroline), Brian Cutler (Major Mills). A beloved school bus driver who has been hiding for years is located by underworld connections he fears. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: The Return of The World's Greatest Detective (1976)
W: Dean Hargrove, Roland Kibbee D: Dean Hargrove With Larry Hagman, Jenny O'Hara, Nicholas Colasanto, Woodrow Parfrey, Ivor Francis, Ron Silver, Sid Haig, Charles Macaulay, Booth Colman. A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
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| [CBS 8:30] Kelly Monteith Show
With Freddie Prinze. Stand up and sketch comedian Kelly Monteith headlines a half-hour series to run for four weeks.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Man In The Middle
Season 5, episode 8 W: Richard Landau D: Allen Reisner With Michael Pascal (Padre Perez), Corey Rand (Rodero), Robert Tafur (Melendez), Ray Victor (Peralta), Natividad Vacio (Paco Barriga), Abel Franco (Molina), James McCallion (Walt Morgan), William Jordan (Holt), Christine Avila (Maria Morgan), Chris Robinson (Ernie Morgan), Stuart Whitman (Nelson Brill), Lou Peralta (Julio Ganida). As a favor to a dying police captain, Cannon agrees to go to Baja California to return the man's body to his long-missing son. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/29/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Only Game In Town (1970)
W: Frank D. Gilroy D: George Stevens With Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty, Charles Braswell, Hank Henry, Olga Valery. A not-so-young divorcee chorus girl in Las Vegas, waiting for her married lover to divorce his wife and marry her, meets a compulsive gambler and accepts his proposal of marriage.
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| [NBC 9:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: The Hypnotist
Season 2, episode 15 W: Douglas Tibbles, Barbara Tibbles D: Jack Donohue With Carole Cook (Flora). Chico accidentally hypnotizes Ed into being sweet and obedient in response to the words "will you". (Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1976)
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| [CBS 10:00] The American Parade: With All Deliberate Speed [special]
Dramatization of events which finally led to the momentous 1954 Supreme Court decision barring racial segregation in public schools.
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| [NBC 10:00] Hawk [Reg]: Wall Of Silence
Season 1, episode 16 W: Robert Crean D: Alexander Singer With Michelle Myers (Mrs. Currin), Beverlee McKinsey (Mattie Mulroy), Emily Prager (Lily Gilworth), Scott Glenn (Hal Currin), Kim Hunter (Mrs. Gilworth). When an autistic teenager is the sole witness to a cop killing, her brother tries to shield her from Lt. Hawk and the slayer, who does not know that the girl cannot speak. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/22/1966)
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