Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 25, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: George And The President
Season 3, episode 1 W: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Jack Shea With David Dukes (Cal Roberts). The third season starts with George jumping on the Bicentennial bandwagon by claiming to be the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Jefferson.
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| [ABC 8:00] Holmes And Yoyo [Reg]: Holmes And Yoyo
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jack Sher, Lee Hewitt D: Jackie Cooper With Sarah Jane Miller (Mrs. Powers), Madison Arnold (Karl Kincaid), Doris Hess, Bobby Herbeck, Jay Leno (Gas Station Attendant). Debut of a comedy series about an experienced but accident-prone detective and his partner, who happens to be a not-quite perfected humanized robot. In the first show the detective, whose partners usually end up in the hospital, is teamed with his new rookie partner.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Game
Season 6, episode 1 W: Christian I. Nyby II D: Christian I. Nyby II With Jack Knight (Fan), Richard Paul, Polly Middleton, Laurie Kennedy, Steve Drexel, Jack Carter (Game Announcer), Larry Carroll (Walters). The sixth season starts with paramedics Gage and DeSoto delighted with being assigned to work the biggest football game of the season, but soon a series of emergencies, including a heart attack suffered by a sportscaster, keep them too busy to enjoy the event.
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: Carry On Nurse, Please
Season 2, episode 2 W: Laurence Marks, Martin Cohan With Wynn Irwin (Broderick), Rhoda Gemignani (Mrs. Gerber), Audra Lindley (Janet Scott), David Ogden Stiers (Stanley Moss), Ray Vitte (Woody Henderson), Lisa Mordente (Teresa Ortega). The second season starts with Doc Bogert in a new environment. He's the only resident physician of New York's Westside Community Clinic, where he sees a cross section of low-income free-clinic patients with a variety of ailments. In the first show, he has a run-in with clinic director Stanley Moss.
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| [ABC 8:30] Mr. T And Tina [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bob Carroll Jr., Madelyn Pugh Davis D: James Sheldon Debut of a comedy about a widowed Japanese businessman who moves to Chicago and unwittingly hires a scatter-brained American girl as a governess for his children, who soon capitulate to baseball, hot dogs and apple pie.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Mary Midwife
Season 7, episode 1 W: David Lloyd D: Jay Sandrich With Ford Rainey (Doctor). The seventh season starts with Mary having more duties as a hostess than she anticipated when she gives a quiet dinner for the WJM-TV news team.
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| [ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Las Vegas Strangler
Season 2, episode 1 W: Michael Fisher D: George McCowan With Joan Blondell (Mrs. Pruitt), Frank Converse (Jack Mitchell), Paul Burke (Lieutenant Cameron), Lynda Carter (Vicky), George Dunn (Officer O'Keefe), James Ray (Dr. Cleveland), Stymie Beard (Duke), Jayne Kennedy (Gretchen), Collette Bertrand (Glenda Hollander), Victoria Ann Berry (Sharon Flint), Roz Kelly (Iris Thayer), Darrell Fetty (Eugene Pruitt), Foster Brooks (Comic), George Tobias (Ace). The second season starts with a two-part episode. The detectives go undercover for the Las Vegas police to find a "Jack the Ripper"-type killer whose victims are beautiful chorus girls.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Big Jake (1971)
W: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink D: George Sherman, John Wayne With John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot. An aging, determined cowboy sets out to rescue his grandson who has been kidnapped.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Enter Mrs. Peeper
Season 5, episode 1 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: Michael Zinberg With Tom Poston (Cliff Murdock), Charles Thomas Murphy (Messenger), Jay Tarses (Waiter), Jean Palmerton (Corrine Murdock). The fifth season starts with Bob having mixed emotions when his old college chum shows up with a new bride.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 10, episode 1 With Jim Nabors. A "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" spoof; Nabors sings "Let Me Be There".
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