Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 7, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Louise's Cookbook
Season 2, episode 20 W: Jay Moriarty, Mike Milligan, Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell D: Jack Shea With Robert Lussier (Howard Brooks). It looks like success for Louise's cooking when she's encouraged to write a cookbook based on her grandmother's quaint old ghetto recipes. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1976)
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| [ABC 8:00] Monty Hall's Variety Hour [special]
With Cloris Leachman, Edward Asner, Minnie Riperton, Shields & Yarnell. Monty Hall hosts a musical-variety show.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adventurizing With The Chopper [special]
With Harrison Page, Antonio Fargas. A bungling, black private eye goes to work for racketeers without knowing it. Pilot for a series.
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: A Quiet Anniversary
Season 1, episode 20 W: David Lloyd D: Howard Storm With Fred Grandy (Chuck), Linda Kelsey (Gwen), Barbara Cason (Mrs. Wagstaff). Doc Bogart's plans for a quiet 35th wedding anniversary turn into a riot of family fun when Annie arranges the party. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1976)
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: There Was A Crooked Man. . . (1970)
W: David Newman, Robert Benton D: Joseph L. Mankiewicz With Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith, John Randolph, Lee Grant, Arthur O'Connell, Alan Hale Jr., Victor French. A charming but totally ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison. He enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Edie Gets Married
Season 6, episode 1 W: Bob Ellison D: Jay Sandrich With Priscilla Morrill (Edie Grant), Nora Heflin (Janey Grant), Patrick Campbell (Bartender), Hal Ridel (Minister), Brad Trumbull (Howard Gordon). As the sixth season opens, Lou Grant has the newsroom buzzing with curiosity over the possibility that he may remarry his ex-wife, after word leaks out that they are having lunch together. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
W: Alan Jay Lerner D: Vincente Minnelli With Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Jack Nicholson, Simon Oakland, Larry Blyden, Roy Kinnear, Mabel Albertson, John Richardson. A troubled young woman who visits a psychotherapist to help her quit smoking undergoes hypnosis and finds herself reliving a tragic Victorian romance from a past life.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Here's Looking At You, Kid
Season 4, episode 2 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: Peter Bonerz With Richard Balin (Fred Goring), Don Nagel (Waiter), Vern Rowe (Trumpet Player), Pat Finley (Ellen Hartley). Bob and Emily celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary by helping Howard propose to Bob's sister. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] Preseason Football
Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Rams.
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