Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday February 12, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Mary And The Sexagenarian
Season 7, episode 19 W: Les Charles, Glen Charles D: Jay Sandrich With Joyce Bulifant (Marie Slaughter), Lew Ayres (Doug Booth), Jon Lormer (Ronny Williams), Bartine Zane (Aunt Helen), Walker Edmiston (Joe). Mary is up to her neck in jokes about May-December romances when she starts dating Murray's charming father.
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| [ABC 8:00] Blansky's Beauties [Reg]: Blansky's Biking Beauty
Season 1, episode 1 W: Warren S. Murray D: Garry Marshall With Roz Kelly (Pinky Tuscadero). Debut of a comedy series starring Nancy Walker as Nancy Blansky, dynamic den mother to a bevy of beautiful Las Vegas showgirls. In the initial episode, Nancy, with her show in trouble, hires bike ace Pinky Tuscadero to jump her bike over 20 showgirls.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Breakdown
Season 6, episode 15 W: John Groves D: Georg Fenady With Jean Allison (Grace), Richard Bakalyan (Charley), Brian Byers (Gerald), Joan Roberts (Jane). Gage and DeSoto get more than they bargained for when the ignore the advice of the fire company repairman and try to fix a faulty rescue vehicle.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Death Be My Destiny
Season 5, episode 19 W: Sy Rosen D: Michael Zinberg With Lieux Dressler (Lady on Elevator), Tom Patchett (Dave Death), Oliver Clark (Mr. Herd). Dr. Hartley attempts to help a friend and patient overcome his fear of falling, but succumbs himself when he is subjected to a harrowing elevator experience.
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| [ABC 8:30] Fish [Reg]: The Car
Season 1, episode 2 W: Tom Reeder D: Lee Bernhardi With Sidney Clute (Sheldon). Mike "borrows" Detective Fish's car and ends up in jail when Fish insists he be treated like any other lawbreaker.
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| [CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Mike, The Pacifist
Season 7, episode 21 W: Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine D: Paul Bogart With Wynn Irwin (Howard), Nita Talbot (Marcia), William Lanteau (Doctor), Vanda Barra (Clarise), Richard Lawson (Angry Black Man), Sudie Bond (Old Woman). After trying not to interfere, Mike strikes a subway passenger who was physically abusing his wife, and then feels guilty.
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| [ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Starsky's Lady
Season 2, episode 19 W: Robert Earll D: Georg Stanford Brown With Season Hubley (Terry Roberts), Sanford Smith (Woody "The Magic Man"), Stephen McNally (Crazy George Prudholm), Rita George (Christine), Beulah Quo (Dr. Quo), Joey Vera (Freddie), Angela McClelland (Sally). A vindictive hoodlum holds Starsky and Hutch responsible for his son's death, and in retaliation he shoots and critically wounds Starsky's girlfriend.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Wild Party (1975)
W: Walter Marks D: James Ivory With James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Royal Dano, Tiffany Bolling, David Dukes, Marya Small, Regis Cordic. Loosely based on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free-for-all.
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| [CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: The Pain Of No Return
Season 1, episode 19 W: Rick Mittleman D: Alan Rafkin With Tom Mahoney (Travis), Warren Berlinger (Marion Bartlett), Arlene Golonka (Shirley Bartlett). A deceptively mild-mannered IRS agent informs Alice of her late husband's tax delinquency.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 10, episode 19 With Eydie Gorme.
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| [ABC 10:00] Most Wanted [Reg]: The Ritual Killer
Season 1, episode 13 W: Stephen Kandel With James Olson (Ryerson), Robert Dowdell (Dr. Andrews), Ned Romero (Dan Fox), David Hinton (Spencer), Devon Ericson (Julia). A noted newsman, who has an uncanny knack for learning pertinent facts surrounding a series of bizarre deaths, becomes the link between the police and a ritualistic murderer.
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