Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 27, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Career Girl
Season 5, episode 18 W: Kathleen Hite D: Harry Harris With Sheila Allen (Fanny Tatum), Mariclare Costello (Rosemary Fordwick), Billie Bird (Shirley), Alice Hirson (Jane Stephens), Donald Hotton (Eli Carr), Ted Jordan (Sturgeon Connors). Erin's excitement on her high school graduation day quickly turns to frustration when she suddenly realizes she has made no plans for the future.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Chicken A La Kotter
Season 2, episode 17 W: Raymond Siller D: Bob Lahendro With Stephen Pearlman (Diner Owner). Gabe, in need of money for a root canal, takes a second job as a restaurant mascot.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Parenthood Game [special]
An authentic close-up look at how untamed creatures court, breed, raise, care for and protect their young. Bob Newhart narrates.
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Sunday Father
Season 1, episode 14 W: James R. Stein, Bob Illes D: Mark Warren With Fritzi Burr (Mrs. Collins), Thalmus Rasulala (Bill Thomas), Rosalind Cash (Loretta). Raj tries to avoid telling his mother that he's been expelled by conning his father into going to the principal with him, and he thinks he's home free. But Mama finds out that things have been happening behind her back.
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Elegy In A Rain Forest
Season 9, episode 16 W: Herman Groves D: Sutton Roley With William Watson (Marcus Lucien), Edward Gallardo (David), Randy Ruff (Rich), Harry Williams (Sancho), Francis Kamahele (Jerry), Lauren Levian (Niami), Laurie Prange (Karen), Beau Van Den Ecker (Homer Wamano). Steve McGarrett searches for both a rapist-murderer and a lost college girl in the mountains of Oahu, fearful in the meantime that they will encounter one another.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Fire '77
Season 3, episode 15 W: Tony Sheehan D: Bruce Bilson With Howard Platt (Lawrence Weiskoff), Russell Shannon (Fireman), Sal Viscuso (Thomas Vitella), K Callan (Gwen Baxter). Barney and Wojo battle a squad room fire while a church robber wants out of his cell and a young couple consider staying in the station house to complete their "suicide pact".
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977)
W: Lionel Chetwynd D: Gilbert Cates With Paul Rudd, Burgess Meredith, William Prince, Shirley Rich, Brian Dennehy, Kenneth McMillan, Tom Berenger. Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Tony Randall Show [Reg]: Case: McClellan vs. Immigration
Season 1, episode 16 W: David Lloyd D: Hugh Wilson With Cliff Norton (Harry), Richard Libertini (Nadim), James Greene (Dr. Pepper). When Judge Franklin's housekeeper, Mrs. McClellan, finds out she may have to leave the country because of an invalidated visa, she comes up with a plan to avoid deportation.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Copy-Cat Killing
Season 5, episode 14 W: Larry Forrester D: Leslie H. Martinson With Trish Stewart (Kitty Bradden), David Huddleston (Sheriff Bradden), Wayne Maunder (Deputy Campbell), Jeff Cooper (Billy Cranston), Annette Cardona (Lucy Stahl), George Wallace (Gus Willison), Roger Carrion (Vince Stahl), Jorge Cervera Jr. (Cesar Ducentes), Sean Michael Rice (Arnold Nessen), Alvah Stanley (Clem Nugent), John Rayborn (Jake McDermott). A middle-aged, small-town sheriff discovers that his seductive young wife has been cheating on him, and it appears that her philandering may be connected with the latest in a series of murders he's been investigating.
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| [ABC 10:00] Roots: Part 5 [special]
W: James Lee With John Amos, Lou Gossett Jr., Thayer David, Lee de Broux, Gary Collins, Madge Sinclair, Beverly Todd, Robert Reed, Lynda Day George. Kizzy helps a young slave to run away. As punishment, she is to be sold and she is even rejected by her one white friend.
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