Tuesday September 28, 1976
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday September 28, 1976:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Tony Orlando & Dawn Rainbow Hour M*A*S*H: Margaret's Engagement One Day At A Time: The Runaways (1) Switch: The Twelfth Commandment
ABC Happy Days: Fonzie Loves Pinky (3) Laverne & Shirley: Drive! She Said Rich Man, Poor Man (Book II): Chapter 2 Family (R)
NBC Black Sheep Squadron: One Small War Police Woman: The Trick Book


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando & Dawn Rainbow Hour [Reg]
Season 3, episode 2

With Steve Lawrence, The Walter Murphy Band.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Fonzie Loves Pinky (3)
Season 4, episode 2
W: Joe Glauberg   D: Jerry Paris

With Ken Lerner (Rocco), Roz Kelly (Pinky Tuscadero), Michael Pataki (Count Mallachi), Doris Hess (Tina), Kelly Sanders (Lola), Ceil Cabot (Nun). Fonzie battles the Mallachi brothers in a demolition derby.

[NBC 8:00] Black Sheep Squadron [Reg]: One Small War
Season 1, episode 4
W: Philip DeGuere   D: Walter Doniger

With Rene Auberjonois (Lt. Hooper), Lloyd Kino (Japanese Captain), Hatsuo Uda (Japanese Sentry), Dale Ishimoto (Japanese Mechanic), Jill Jaress (Pamela). Pappy finds himself accidentally fighting a small war with an Australian Lieutenant Hooper, who has been hiding in the jungle of a Japanese-held island since his plane crashed. When Pappy parachutes onto the island, Hooper saves him from the enemy.

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Drive! She Said
Season 2, episode 1
W: Jack Winter   D: Howard Storm

With Bo Kaprall (Policeman). Season premiere. Shirley wants to buy her first car but she can't afford it, so she tries to talk Laverne into going "halvesies", not knowing that Laverne is terrified of driving.

[CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Margaret's Engagement
Season 5, episode 2
W: Gary Markowitz   D: Alan Alda
Hot Lips breaks up with Major Burns and announces her engagement to Lt. Colonel Donald Penobscott, a West Point man.

[ABC 9:00] Rich Man, Poor Man (Book II): Chapter 2 [special]
W: Ann Beckett   D: Alex Segal

With Peter Strauss, Gregg Henry, James Carroll Jordan, William Smith, Susan Sullivan, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Dimitra Arliss, John Anderson, Sorrell Booke, Peter Haskell. Rudy starts to rebuild his life around Wesley and Billy.

[NBC 9:00] Police Woman [Reg]: The Trick Book
Season 3, episode 1
W: Edward DeBlasio, Douglas Benton   D: Barry Shear

With Brooke Bundy (Renee Andrews), Joan Collins (Lorelei Frank), Dorothy Malone (Madame LaSalle), Carole Wells (Dani Summers), Jack Gilford (Michael Eglash), Jerry Douglas (Leo Patri), Ned Wilson (Channing Andrews), David White (Brinker), Joe Burke (Jules Buck), C. Lindsay Workman (Medical Examiner), Maidie Norman (Celia Jackson), Clayton Wilcox (Roberts), John McCann (Adam), Susan Mullen (Mickey), Kathrine McKee (Barbara), Kandi Keith (Harriet Styles), Irene Yah-Ling Sun (Hanako), Michael Swan (Chaucer), Ian Wolfe (Mr. Meservey), Hayden Rorke (Cromwell). The season premiere deals with the murder of a madame who caters to sick men addicted to kinky sex, many of them men of prominence who are now fearful of the whereabouts of the madame's "trick book" filled with their names, addressess and particular preferences.

[CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: The Runaways (1)
Season 2, episode 1
W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant   D: Herbert Kenwith

With William Kirby Cullen (Chuck Butterfield). Season premiere. Julie turns to her boyfriend when she and her mother reach an impasse regarding education, employment and marriage.

[CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg]: The Twelfth Commandment
Season 2, episode 2
W: Leigh Vance   D: Sutton Roley

With Thayer David (Paul Berryman), Richard Lynch (David Ring), Margot Kidder (Andrea Morris), Shay Duffin (Father Gorman), Luke Andreas (Roger Krupinski), George Murdock (Prof. Grosswirter), Nick Dimitri (Art Willis). A stolen attache case reveals a bundle of money and an apparent death note pinned to a picture of several priests.

[ABC 10:00] Family [Reg] Willie's best friend is arrested in a gay bar. (Repeat program)

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