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Saturday April 9, 1977
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 9, 1977:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Mary Tyler Moore Show: What's Wrong With Swimming? (R) The Bob Newhart Show: Enter Mrs. Peeper (R) All In The Family: Archie's Operation (2) (R) Alice: Big Daddy Dawson's Coming (R) The Carol Burnett Show (R)
ABC Blansky's Beauties: Nancy Remembers Laverne Fish: The Social Worker Starsky & Hutch: The Specialist (R) Dog And Cat: A Duck Is A Duck
NBC King Of The Beasts The First Easter Rabbit (R) Movie: Where The Red Fern Grows (1974)
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[CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: What's Wrong With Swimming?
Season 7, episode 4
W: David Lloyd   D: Marjorie Mullen

With Caren Kaye (B.J. Smathers).
Mary hires a new sportscaster who refuses to cover any sports but swimming, and is faced with the prospect of firing her.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1976)

[ABC 8:00] Blansky's Beauties [Reg]: Nancy Remembers Laverne
Season 1, episode 8
W: Roger Garrett   D: Jerry Paris

With Penny Marshall (Laverne DeFazio), Phil Foster (Frank), Lenny Schultz (Mr. Gaffney), Fred Fox Jr. (Marvin).
In a flashback episode, a talent hunt brings Nancy and Laverne together in Milwaukee.

[NBC 8:00] King Of The Beasts [special]
W: John Culhane, Charles Mortimer Jr., Shamus Culhane   D: Shamus Culhane

An animated musical special which traces the transformation of an accident-prone lion into the leader of all animals.

[CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Enter Mrs. Peeper
Season 5, episode 1
W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr   D: Michael Zinberg

With Tom Poston (Cliff Murdock), Charles Thomas Murphy (Messenger), Jay Tarses (Waiter), Jean Palmerton (Corrine Murdock).
The fifth season starts with Bob having mixed emotions when his old college chum shows up with a new bride.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1976)

[ABC 8:30] Fish [Reg]: The Social Worker
Season 1, episode 9
W: Norman Barasch, Roy Kammerman, Laurence Marks   D: Mark Warren

With Vicky Huxtable (Janet Gerber).
An authority decides to replace Fish and Bernice in the group home after walking in on an argument between Fish and Victor.

[NBC 8:30] The First Easter Rabbit [special]
W: Jules Bass   D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

With Burl Ives, Robert Morse, Paul Frees, Stan Freberg, Don Messick, Joan Gardner, Dina Lynn.
Burl Ives tells the story of Stuffy, the first Easter Bunny, who tries to remind everyone about the true meaning of Easter.

(Repeat program)

[CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie's Operation (2)
Season 7, episode 7
W: Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine   D: Paul Bogart

With Vinnette Carroll (Dr. Thatcher), Frances Fong (Nurse), Danny Dayton (Hank Pivnik).
Archie recuperates in record time after he's called back to work -- with a raise and a promotion.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1976)

[ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Specialist
Season 2, episode 8
W: Robert Earll   D: Fernando Lamas

With Joel Fabiani (Alex Drew), Melendy Britt (Janice Drew), Charles Cyphers (Arthur Cole), Linda Scruggs (Sally Hagen), Denise Gordy (Hooker), Michael Twain (Officer Carl), John Zoller (Mr. McDermont), Anthony Ziggarelli (Flashy Floyd).
Under suspicion of shooting an innocent bystander, the wife of a government agent, Starsky and Hutch find their lives endangered.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1976)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Where The Red Fern Grows (1974)
W: Eleanor Lamb, Douglas Stewart   D: Norman Tokar

With James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Stewart Petersen, Jack Ging, Lonny Chapman.
Two redbone hounds repay their young master for his kindnesses when the boy becomes trapped by a mountain lion.

[CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: Big Daddy Dawson's Coming
Season 1, episode 8
W: Arnold Kane, Bruce Johnson   D: Norman Abbott

With Norman Alden (L.W. "Big Daddy" Dawson), Patrick Cronin (Judd).
Flo's flamboyant ex-husband, race driver Big Daddy Dawson, is back in town and has his eye on Alice.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/13/1976)

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 10, episode 17

With Steve Lawrence, Rock Hudson.
"The Newscasters" - a husband and wife news team argue while doing the news; "Mrs. Wiggins' Lunch Date" - Mrs. Wiggins (Carol) has a millionaire date, but wants to dump him.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/29/1977)

[ABC 10:00] Dog And Cat [Reg]: A Duck Is A Duck
Season 1, episode 4

With Alex Rocco (Sandborn), Gerrit Graham (Mick), Barbara Cason (Miss Shore), Arny Freeman (Kagan), Scott Edmund Lane (Jerry), Margie Gordon (Carol Lane).
Two small-time hoods rob and humiliate a wealthy, middle-aged man in the presence of his lady friend -- unaware that their victim is a powerful, egomaniacal crime syndicate chief.


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