Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 18, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The African Queen [special]
W: Irving Gaynor Neiman D: Richard Sarafian With Warren Oates, Mariette Hartley, Wolf Roth, Johnny Sekka. A scruffy, unpolished boat captain and a feisty woman missionary join forces to thwart the Germans in World War I Africa. (Pilot episode for a projected series.)
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 2, episode 22 With McLean Stevenson, Sonny James, The Osmond Brothers.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Fred Sings The Blues
Season 6, episode 24 W: Larry Mintz, Alan Eisenstock D: Russ Petranto With Raymond Allen (Uncle Woody), Basil Hoffman (Maitre 'd), B.B. King (Himself), Ji-Tu Cumbuka (Edmond), Happy Hairston (Man), Hannah Dean (Woman). Buoyed by his success in an amateur songwriting contest, Fred tries to peddle some of his songs to blues singer B.B. King, but B.B.'s got the blues because the woman he once loved ran away with a junkman from St. Louis.
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Gregory Peck Is A Rooster
Season 3, episode 19 W: George Arthur Bloom, Beverly Bloomberg D: Jack Donohue With Pat Buttram (Jed Gibson), Danny Mora (Salvador), Jerry Fujikawa (Chang). Ed sells a rooster, but when he finds out that it will be used for cockfighting, he tries to get the bird back.
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| [CBS 9:00] Hunter [Reg]: The Costa Rican Connection
Season 1, episode 5 W: Gregory S. Dinallo D: Barry Crane With Donald O'Connor, Susan Anton (Cissy), Ken Swofford (Beerwood), Gary Lockwood (John DeLacey), Stephen Boyd (Garth Roberts), Naomi Stevens (Mrs. Teller), Pat Renella (Augie). After a witness for a Senate committee investigating a connection between organized crime and a U.S. government intelligence agency is murdered, Hunter and Marty face the challenge of convincing the last surviving witness that they can protect him if he testifies. A retired song-and-dance man becomes a key figure in their search for the assassin.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Woman Who Cried Murder (1975)
W: Stirling Silliphant D: Richard T. Heffron With Edward Asner, Cloris Leachman, Raul Julia, Nancy Walker, Art Carney, Diahann Carroll, Lucie Arnaz, Tina Louise, Kate Jackson. Fifteen people witness the murder of a young woman, but do nothing to help and then won't cooperate with the police. The story is loosely based on the Kitty Genovese murder which took place in New York City in 1964.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: To Protect And Serve (2)
Season 3, episode 20 W: David Chase D: William Wiard With Luke Andreas (Syl), George Loros (Anthony Gagglio), Pat Finley (Peggy Becker), Joyce Van Patten (Lianne Sweeney), Leslie Charleson (Patsy Fossler), Jon Cypher (Michael Kelly), Lou Frizzell (Wes Wesley), Angus Duncan (John Fossler), Bucklind Beery (Officer Al Mazursky). Rockford plots the spectacular rescue of a young woman whom mobsters are trying to eliminate, but an enthusiastic police buff reveals the location of the woman's new hideout.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Sonny & Cher Show
Season 2, episode 23 Highlights from the past season are shown. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?
Season 2, episode 6 W: Michael Sloan, Glen A. Larson D: Steven Hilliard Stern With Paul Lambert (Wilson), Yuki Shimoda (Dr. Hiro), Stu Gilliam (Driver), Louise Sorel (Harriet Crawford), Stewart Moss (Jack Taylor), Kelly Jean Peters (Charlene Taylor), Ned Wilson (Assistant), Jesse White (Mechanic), Bob Crane (Dr. Jamison). In Quincy's absence, the police ask a pathologist to perform an autopsy on a body that may contain contraband.
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