Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday July 4, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] In Celebration Of Us [special]
St. Louis air show; Alistair Cooke reports from London.
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| [ABC 7:00] The American Idea: The Glory Road West [special]
The grandeur of the West is recalled by the Indian, mountain man, settler, cowboy, gold miner and railroad man. Chad Everett, Henry Fonda and Buffy Sainte-Marie narrate.
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| [NBC 7:00] Happy Birthday America [special]
With Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gordon Cooper, Jim Irwin, Ed Mitchell, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Jim Backus, Sandy Duncan, Arte Johnson, Gloria Loring, Evel Knievel, the Mexico International Circus, Meredith Willson, Robbie Rist, Mark Spitz. Tape of the Los Angeles City School's Bicentennial presentation at the L.A. Coliseum. Paul Anka and family hosts.
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| [CBS 8:00] In Celebration Of Us [special]
Beverly Sills joins Walter Cronkite for commentary looking in on Miami, Paris and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Washington Mall. Betty Ford does a Bicentennial Minute at 8:57 PM.
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| [ABC 8:00] Movie: The New Land (1972)
W: Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund D: Jan Troell With Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg. The life of an immigrant family from Sweden in the Minnesota forests during the mid-19th century.
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| [NBC 8:30] Bob Hope Bicentennial Special: Happy, Happy, Happy Birthday, America [special]
Hope joins Debbie Reynolds, Donny and Marie Osmond, Sammy Davis Jr., Ron Howard, Captain and Tennille, Angie Dickinson and Phyllis Diller.
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| [CBS 9:00] In Celebration Of Us [special]
Danny Kaye and Walter Cronkite observe N.Y. fireworks, St. Louis water show and the Mars Viking spacecraft.
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| [CBS 10:00] In Celebration Of Us [special]
Valerie Harper and Walter Cronkite introcduce fireworks in Washington and St. Louis; Viking pictures from Mars.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Best Of The Fourth
David Brinkley and John Chancellor recap today's Bicentennial programming.
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