Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 6, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Mixed Company (1974)
W: Mort Lachman, Melville Shavelson D: Melville Shavelson With Joseph Bologna, Barbara Harris, Tom Bosley, Lisa Gerritsen, Ruth McDevitt, Haywood Nelson, Dorothy Shay. A prejudiced basketball coach is persuaded to adopt three kids of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Frustrated and angry at first, his feelings soon turn to love.
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 1, episode 11 With McLean Stevenson, Minnie Pearl, Rick Hurst. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/9/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: The Engagement Man Always Rings Twice
Season 5, episode 20 W: Ted Bergman D: Lewis Gomavitz With Raymond Allen (Uncle Woody), Marlene Clark (Janet), Frank Nelson (Salesman), Derek Triplett (Roger). Lamont and Janet are engaged to be married and Fred is happy until Lamont announces that they don't plan to live with him. To keep Lamont home, Fred tells Janet that Lamont is a heavy drinker and a compulsive gambler. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/20/1976)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Hammer Of C Block
Season 2, episode 14 W: Gordon Dawson D: Jerry London With Isaac Hayes (Gandolph Fitch), James A. Watson Jr. (Arthur Bingham), Annazette Chase (Debbie Bingham), Jack Somack (Oliver Prey), Lynn Hamilton (Eunice Charles Bingham), Allan Rich (Pebbles Runkin), Bill Walker (Rosie), Sandra de Bruin (Receptionist), Hank Stohl (Wino). A one-time prostitute, now well married, holds the key to a slaying of the wife of a former cellmate of Rockford who has served 20 years for the crime. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/9/1976)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: John And Mary (1969)
W: John Mortimer D: Peter Yates With Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan, Tyne Daly, Olympia Dukakis, Marian Mercer, Sunny Griffin, Stanley Beck, Cleavon Little. Two young people meet at a chic, overcrowded Manhattan cocktail lounge -- fall in love with each other without even asking each other's names -- and spend the next few days combing the streets of New York in search of the happiness they found.
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| [NBC 9:30] Police Story [Reg]: Odyssey Of Death (2)
Season 3, episode 15 W: Harold Medford D: Don Medford With Robert Stack (Sgt. Stoddard), Brock Peters (Sgt. Bagney), Ed Lauter (Ralph Coleman/Joseph Kinsella), Jim Backus (Pollack), Robert Sampson (Lt. Tober), Joan Goodfellow (Bobbie-Lou), Christopher Norris (Suzie), Lou Frizzell (Mr. Gallaway), Paul Jenkins. A trail of holdups and homicide leads a pair of detectives on a grim cross-country chase. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1976)
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| [CBS 10:00] Don't Call Us [special]
With Jack Gilford. Comedy pilot about the proprietors of a small Philadelphia theatrical agency.
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| [CBS 10:30] You're Just Like Your Father [special]
With Dick Shawn. Comedy pilot about a man who believes success is just around the corner.
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| [NBC 10:30] The Legion Disease: What Happened In Philadelphia
The aspects that surround the tragedy over the past week. Tom Snyder and Dr. Frank Fields are anchormen.
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