Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 21, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Jenny's Grandparents
Season 2, episode 10 W: James Ritz D: Jack Shea With Leon Ames (Grandpa Willis), Victor Kilian (Uncle Bertram), Fred Pinkard (Grandpa Douglas). Mother Jefferson and the Willises' Uncle Bertram join forces to reunite the feuding factions of Tom and Helen's families. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1975)
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| [ABC 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman
Season 1, episode 2 W: David Ketchum, Bruce Shelly D: Barry Crane With Bo Brundin (Colonel Kesselmann), Colby Chester (Horst), Jeff Cooper (Major Scott), Keene Curtis (Mueller), Bill Fletcher, Lynda Day George (Fausta Grabels), Christopher George (Rojak). Germany sends her strongest woman and Olympic champion to Washington D.C. to defeat and bring to Germany America's own Wonder Woman. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/28/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Great Crash Diet
Season 5, episode 20 W: Timothy Burns D: Joseph Pevney With Holly Irving (Sarah), Ginger Mason, Michael Mullins (Bob Jensen), Rick Podell (Frank), Bill Quinn (Nick). When a nutritionist decides the men at Firehouse 51 are eating an unhealthy diet, fireman Kelly takes over, with disastrous results. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1976)
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| [CBS 8:30] Ivan The Terrible
With Lou Jacobi, Maria Karnilova, Phil Leeds, Despo, Alan Cauldwell. Comedy series that will run for five weeks about the adventures of the headwaiter at Moscow's Hotel Metropole. In the first episode, Ivan comes home from work one night and is confronted with his overcrowded apartment and decides to get a larger place.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Ted Baxter's Famous Broadcasters' School
Season 5, episode 23 W: Michael Zinberg D: Jay Sandrich With Leonard Frey (Student), Bernie Kopell (Tony), Norman Bartold (Allen Marsh). Ted envisions fame and fortune when a smooth-talking con artist convinces him to lend his name to "The Ted Baxter Famous Broadcasters School" (Repeat program, originally aired 2/22/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Hotel (1967)
W: Wendell Mayes D: Richard Quine With Rod Taylor, Catherine Spaak, Karl Malden, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Rennie. The story of the clock-like movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel.
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| [NBC 9:00] Preseason Football
New York Jets vs. Houston Oilers.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Over The River And Through The Woods
Season 4, episode 11 W: Bruce Kane D: James Burrows With Dave Himes (Delivery Boy), Janet Meshad (Elaine). It's a stag Thanksgiving for Bob when Emily flies off to join a family reunion, leaving Bob to cook a bird for all his male buddies. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] Diahann Carroll Show
With Jim Nabors, Betty White, George Benson. Miss Carroll scores with an Ethel Waters medley ranging from "Am I Blue" to "Happiness is Just a Thing Called Joe", and her own version of "Some of These Days". Guitarist George Benson is also effective and Betty White and Diahann examine "the working girl."
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