Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 19, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Morley Safer visits the Sullair Corporation in Michigan City, Ind., where the 400 employees do not punch a time clock, there's no assembly line, no union -- and there's a 4 o'clock beer break in an attempt to humanize the manufacture of air compressors.
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| [ABC 7:00] Cos [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 With Lynda Carter, Gabe Kaplan, Cindy Williams, Bruce Jenner, Charlie Callas, Jabberjaw, The rock group Chicago. Bill Cosby hosts a new series featuring musical acts, puppets and stories relating to children. Tonight's skits are a tribute to the Peanuts comic strip and an animated segment about a chocolate bar and a sourball; Chicago performs "If You Leave Me Now"; Cindy Williams sings "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" while a wind machine blows her clothes off.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: Davy Crockett And The River Pirates
Season 2, episode 13 W: Tom Blackburn, Norman Foster D: Norman Foster With Fess Parker (Davy Crockett), Buddy Ebsen (Georgie Russel), Walter Catlett (Colonel Plug), Jeff York (Mike Fink). The King of the Wild Frontier and his sidekick Georgie Russel are taken prisoner by an Indian chief and find that neighboring tribesmen have been attacked by a band of white men posing as Indians. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1955)
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| [CBS 8:00] Johnny Cash & Friends
With Charlie Pride, Jessi Colter. Highlights include Cash singing "Folsom Prison Blues"; Pride sings "Oklahoma Woman" and then duets with Cash on "I Guess Things Happen That Way"; Colter sings "You Did Hang The Moon, Didn't You Waylon?"
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| [ABC 8:00] The Six Million Dollar Man [Reg]: The Return Of Bigfoot (1)
Season 4, episode 1 W: Kenneth Johnson D: Barry Crane With Martin E. Brooks (Dr. Rudy Wells), Lindsay Wagner (Jaime Sommers), John Saxon (Nedlick), Stephen Young (Dallett), Severn Darden (Apploy), Sandy Duncan (Gillian), Ted Cassidy (Bigfoot), Stefanie Powers (Shalon), Charles Cyphers (Faler). The season-opening program finds Steve Austin in combat with rebel aliens from another planet who have programmed the giant Bigfoot to steal gold and jewels, which authorities believe were stolen by Steve himself. Meanwhile back at headquarters, Jaime Sommers (the Bionic Woman) makes plans with Oscar Goldman to go to Steve's aid.
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| [NBC 8:00] Movie: Hercules Unchained (1959)
W: Ennio De Concini, Pietro Francisci D: Pietro Francisci With Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Sylvia Lopez, Primo Carnera, Patrizia Della Rovere. Hercules, accompanied by his wife Iole, slays a malevolent giant but is then taken prisoner by the evil Queen Omphale, who decrees that in order to win his freedom, he must battle a trio of tigers.
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| [CBS 9:00] Kojak [Reg]: Bad Dude
Season 3, episode 18 W: Joseph Gores D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. With Roger Robinson (Gil Weaver), Roosevelt Grier (Salathiel Harms), Charles Weldon (Shotgun Willie Blaine), Bill Duke (Sylk). A man seems to be purposely setting himself up as a target for a hit man -- and doesn't want the police to interfere. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1976)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Sky Terror (1972)
W: Stanley R. Greenberg D: John Guillerman With Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Susan Dey, Leslie Uggams, Ken Swofford, Mike Henry, Mariette Hartley, Roosevelt Grier, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain. A flight captain, expecting a peaceful journey from Oakland to Minneapolis, receives a scrawled message warning that the 707 will be blown up if not rerouted to Alaska, and then on to Moscow. This film was released theatrically under the title "Skyjacked".
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Wrong Medicine
Season 5, episode 3 W: Norman Lessing D: Paul Stanley With David Birney (Dr. Restin), Richard Jaeckel (Cy Carter), Don Gordon (Mr. Tillis), Jack O'Halloran (Wally), Marianne McAndrew (Nurse Hedding), James Rosin (Intern). Cannon becomes immersed in a medical malpractice suit when a young resident physician is charged with making the wrong diagnosis on a woman. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Ellery Queen [Reg]: The Adventure Of Caesar's Last Sleep
Season 1, episode 20 W: Rudolph Borchert D: Richard Michaels With Timothy Carey (Jay Bonner), Edward Albert (Lee Marx), Michael V. Gazzo (Benny Marks), Jan Murray (Ralph Caesar), Kevin Tighe (Detective Jim Millay), Stuart Whitman (D.A. Irwin Murphy), Elizabeth Lane (Ruth Caesar), Erica Hagen (Melody Todd), Arch Johnson (Deputy Commissioner Hayes), Bibi Besch (Edie Allen), Stanley Ralph Ross (Gabe). An ambitious prosecutor persuades a gangster to give evidence against other underworld figures -- but in spite of around-the-clock police protection, the gangster is murdered. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1976)
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