Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 4, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] George M! [special]
With Red Buttons, Jack Cassidy, Blythe Danner, Nanette Fabray. Joel Grey recreates his stage role of George M. Cohan in a special adaptation of the Broadway musical. The program departs from the straight musical formula in that the actors will be seen working on a rehearsal of "George M" and will appear both as themselves and as characters in the musical. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Bionic Woman [Reg]: Angel Of Mercy
Season 1, episode 2 W: James D. Parriott D: Alan J. Levi With Andy Griffith (Jack Starkey), Claudio Martinez (Julio), James Karen (George Morehouse), Jean Allison (Judith Morehouse), Bert Santos (Castro Beard), Robbie Rist (Andrew), Paul Berrones (Wounded Soldier), Alycia Gardner (Gwen), Robbie Wolcott (Mark). Disguised as a rescue team nurse, Jaime flies into a civil war-torn South American country with a helicopter pilot to rescue an American ambassador and his wife. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Runaway Caboose
Season 2, episode 16 W: John Hawkins D: William F. Claxton With Bonnie Bartlett (Grace Edwards), Brian Part (Carl), Arch Johnson (Shell), Parley Baer (Diamond), Larry J. Blake (Asa Dunn), Paul Bryar (Kelly), James Chandler (Hotchkiss), Robert F. Hoy (Fireman), Skip Riley (Jim Fox), Troy Melton (Homer Greenwood), Jerry Gatlin (Steve Ames), Don Collier (Schultz). Charles Ingalls and his friend race to catch a caboose that Mary accidentally released with Laura and Carl inside. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/11/1976)
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| [CBS 9:00] To America [special]
Portrait of two families who gambled everything to flee their Iron Curtain homelands and seek a new life in America.
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Glory Game
Season 2, episode 2 W: Michael Butler D: Jeannot Szwarc With Harris Yulin (Detective Grissom), Angus Duncan (Deputy Commissioner Van Der Meer), Al Stellone (Chico), Bill McKinney (Tobias), Chick Vennera (Rudolfo Cruz), Joe Renteria (Joe Molina). Tony Baretta is framed for the murder of a suspected gun dealer and becomes a fugitive to clear his name. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Best Of Sanford & Son [Reg]
Lamont nearly gives his father a real heart attack. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Return Of Aunt Connie
Season 2, episode 20 W: Iris Rainer, Mort Scharfman D: Jack Donohue With Angelina Estrada (Aunt Connie), Cesare Danova (Count Emilio). Chico and Ed suspect that a fortune hunter is about to prey on Chico's aunt. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1976)
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Death Ride
Season 1, episode 3 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Gene Nelson With Trish Mahoney (Joanne Wells), Kathleen Miller ("Joanne Wells" / Det. Linda Williams), Ben Marino (Phelps), Jeff Corey (Andrew Mello), Mary Margaret Lewis (Terry Evers), Robert Nadder (Cook), E.J. Andre (Jenson), Paul Hecht (District Attorney), Joseph Bova (George). Driving from San Francisco with the daughter of a crime czar who has agreed to tell all when the girl arrives, Starsky and Hutch are pursued by killers. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Hawk [Reg]
Detective Hawk investigates a construction tycoon. (Repeat program)
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