Prime-time network TV listings for Monday September 20, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Rhoda [Reg]: The Separation
Season 3, episode 1 W: Charlotte Brown D: Jay Sandrich With Phoebe Dorin (Mrs. Carvello). The third season begins with Rhoda becoming bewildered as to why Joe is reluctant to buy their first house. She senses a problem beyond that, and eventually her worst fears are realized -- Joe decides he wants a separation.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Captain & Tennille
Season 1, episode 2 With Jackie Gleason, Ron Palillo, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Penny Marshall.
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| [NBC 8:00] Movie: Airport 1975 (1974)
W: Don Ingalls D: Jack Smight With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Linda Blair, Helen Reddy, Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy. A passenger-laden jumbo jet is crashed into by a light plane and the crew must guide the crippled airliner back home.
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| [CBS 8:30] Phyllis [Reg]: The New Job
Season 2, episode 1 W: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels D: Jay Sandrich With John Ritter (Paul Jameson), Dick Van Patten (Walter), Joe George (Bartender). The second season opens with Phyllis deciding to make an exciting career change, and she unexpectedly becomes an administrative assistant to a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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| [CBS 9:00] Maude [Reg]: Vivian's First Funeral
Season 5, episode 1 W: Sam Greenbaum D: Hal Cooper With Arny Freeman (Ronald McDonald), Richard McMurray (Malcolm Flanagan). The fifth season begins as the persuasive Maude gets Vivian to attend the funeral of a supposed "dear friend" they both hated, and the ordeal is worsened by a revelation in the "unending slumber room".
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| [ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football
Oakland Raiders at Kansas City Chiefs. Frank Gifford, Alex Karras and Howard Cosell report.
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| [CBS 9:30] All's Fair [Reg]: Strange Bedfellows
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Rod Parker D: Hal Cooper With Salome Jens (Barbara Murray). Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters star in a comedy about an ultra-conservative political columnist and an equally liberal photographer who are attracted to one another. In the opening episode, Richard Barrington meets Ms. Charley Drake at a photo session -- and neither will be the same again.
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| [CBS 10:00] Executive Suite [Reg]: Re: The Secret
Season 1, episode 1 W: Henry Slesar, Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday D: Joseph Hardy, Charles S. Dubin With James Karen (Carter), Trisha Noble (Yvonne Holland), Dennis Redfield (David). A new continuing drama series set against the backdrop of a giant corporation and focusing on the interpersonal relationships in the business and private lives of those who make up the corporation. In the premiere episode, a bomb rips the Cardway Corporation, arguments arise as to the membership of a young executive on the board of directors, and a woman's scandalous past is revealed.
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| [NBC 10:00] Van Dyke And Company [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 With Flip Wilson, Chevy Chase. Dick Van Dyke hosts a new comedy-variety series. Tonight's highlights include Van Dyke and Wilson involved with a strange ailment; Wilson and Chase portray an unconventional pair of chiropractors; Chase and Van Dyke appear in "The Bright Family", a continuing story of the world's dumbest family; Van Dyke appears in a mime skit about man's solution to loneliness.
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