Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 23, 1976:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz D: Bill Melendez With Chad Webber, Robin Kohn, Stephen Shea, Hilary Momberger. Charlie enters the race for class presidency. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Career Day
Season 2, episode 1 W: Eric Cohen D: Bill Hobin With Pat Morita (Mr. Takahashi), George Yanok (Mr. Ferguson). Season premiere. A career day speaker causes havoc with the Sweathogs when he tries to hire Mr. Kotter for his Chicago business.
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| [NBC 8:00] Gemini Man [Reg]: Smithereens
Season 1, episode 1 W: Frank Telford D: Alan J. Levi With Andrew Prine (Stark), Alan Oppenheimer (Arthur Hale), Jim Stafford (Buffalo Bill), Gil Serna (Hank), Jeannie Wilson (Guard). Debut of a science fiction adventure series about a researcher, Sam Casey, who is exposed to nuclear radiation of an unknown order that has left him with the power to appear and disappear, but only up to 15 minutes at a time. In the first show, he poses as a truck driver to safely transport a top-secret liquid cargo, unaware that it has been replaced by a volatile chemical.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Waltons [Reg]: The First Edition
Season 5, episode 1 W: John McGreevey D: Lawrence Dobkin With Conrad Janis (Graham Thornbury), Hal Riddle (Mr. Lowenthal), Meegan King (Louie), Laird Fenwick (Tucker), Brad Rearden (Chuck), Michael McDonough (Joe), Rick Meyer (Wally). The fifth season starts with John-Boy ready to print the first edition of his own newspaper, The Blue Ridge Chronicle, though he faces a dilemma over whether to write about his brother Ben, who was arrested for breaking and entering.
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| [ABC 8:30] Barney Miller [Reg]: Evacuation
Season 3, episode 1 W: Danny Arnold D: Noam Pitlik With Paul Lichtman (Beckman), Denise Miller (Jilly Papalardo), Kenneth Mars (Officer Callahan), Joe Petrulllo (Krevey). The third season starts with Officer Fish meeting his match in a girl he picks up for suspected theft, and Wojo inadvertently causing a rumor to be spread about a disaster.
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| [NBC 8:30] Black Sheep Squadron [Reg]: Best Three Out Of Five
Season 1, episode 3 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Lawrence Doheny With Curtis Credel (Navy Lieutenant), Patrick Skelton (Hamilton), Dave Roy Chandler (DeSoto), Robin Riker (1st Nurse), Sharmagne Leland-St. John (2nd Nurse), Richard Doughty (Tom Buell), Charles Napier (Major Buell), Noel Conlon (Capt. McGinty). Pappy learns that he and his flying "black sheep" are going to be reassigned to rear area oblivion for bending too many Corps regulations.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Tony Randall Show [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Jay Sandrich With Melendy Britt (Mrs. Jenkins), Robert Mandan (Lionel Crenshaw), David Rounds (Edwin Marden), Garry Walberg (Waiter), Emory Bass (Maitre D'). A comedy series about a contemporary courtroom judge in Philadelphia, a widower with two children, along with their housekeeper. Randall returns in a weekly series as Judge Walter Franklin. In the first show, he meets an attractive widow.
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| [CBS 9:30] Presidential Debate
President Ford and Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter meet in the first of their three nationally televised debates. The 90-minute session is to take place in Walnut St. Theater in Philadelphia.
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| [ABC 9:30] Presidential Debate
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| [NBC 9:30] Presidential Debate
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