Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 4, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Mary's Insomnia
Season 7, episode 11 W: David Lloyd D: James Burrows With Sherry Hursey (Bonnie Slaughter), Ted Lehman (Janitor). Lou Grant fears Mary is becoming addicted to sleeping pills when she turns to a doctor's prescription after nights of suffering from insomnia.
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| [ABC 8:00] Holmes And Yoyo [Reg]: Dead Duck
Season 1, episode 10 W: Jack Sher, Lee Hewitt D: John Astin With Harry Basch (Tony Papas), Robert H. Harris (Ben Barstow), Louis Guss (Saul Barstow), Cordy Clark (Doris). When Big Bad Bennie Brown, wanted by the Kansas City police, arrives in town by bus, Holmes and Yoyo are waiting, which is why Benny manages to remain at large.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Computer Terror
Season 6, episode 9 W: Bruce Shelly D: Georg Fenady With Russ Grieve, Walt Davis, Zitto Kazann. Paramedic Gage is the bewildered and frustrated recipient of a payroll check erroneously made out by a computer for thousands, rather than hundreds, of dollars.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Here's To You, Mrs. Robinson
Season 5, episode 11 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: James Burrows With Lucy Landau (Jerry's Mother), Fred D. Scott (Mr. Robinson), Steven Anderson (Young Man). Jerry Robinson makes his latest and most desperate attempt to locate his missing parents.
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Shirley's Date
Season 1, episode 8 W: James R. Stein, Bob Illes D: Anthony Chickey With Bryan O'Dell (Marvin), Janet MacLachlan (Mrs. Cavendish), Ralph Wilcox (Allan), Cinque Attucks (Dewey). Rerun, Dwayne and Roger each secretly try to get a party date for Shirley to spare her the embarrassment of going alone.
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| [CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie's Secret Passion
Season 7, episode 12 W: Michael Loman D: Paul Bogart With Estelle Parsons (Dolores Fencel), Mike Kellin (Bummie Fencel). Archie panics when Edith invites Dolores, an old schoolmate, to dinner, fearing Edith will find out too much about his past.
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| [ABC 9:00] NCAA Football
Arkansas vs. Texas.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Moneychangers: Part 1 [special]
W: Dean Riesner D: Boris Sagal With Kirk Douglas, Christopher Plummer, Helen Hayes, Timothy Bottoms, Anne Baxter, Lorne Greene, Jean Peters, Ralph Bellamy, Susan Flannery, Joan Collins. First of a four-part adaptation of Arthur Hailey's best-selling novel detailing the infighting and intrigue in a vast banking empire. In part one, the announcement that the president of the First Mercantile Exchange Bank is dying precipitates an intense, no-holds-barred struggle for succession between two vice-presidents.
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| [CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: Who Killed Bugs Bunny?
Season 1, episode 11 W: Lloyd Schwartz D: Bruce Bilson With Peter Zapp (Delivery Man), Noble Willingham (Floyd). Alice is thrilled that Mel is taking Tommy camping, until she finds out that it involves hunting as well.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 10, episode 11 With Alan King. King adds flair to a psychiatrist sketch with patient Carol, in which his own problems come first. The finale is a tribute to those flamboyant movie dance numbers staged by Busby Berkeley. The cast pokes fun at movies like "The Fountainhead", "Night and Day" and "The Died With Their Boots On".
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