Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 12, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Pony Cart
Season 5, episode 11 W: Jack Miller D: Ralph Senensky With Beulah Bondi (Martha Corinne Walton), Patrick Skelton (Tom Wheeler). Martha Corrine, a 90-year-old abrasive, proud Walton relative, visits the family and manages to alienate everybody by trying to run the household. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/2/1976)
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Sweathog Clinic For The Cure Of Smoking
Season 2, episode 11 W: Eric Cohen, Steve Hayden D: Bob Lahendro When Juan Epstein is caught smoking on school grounds, the other Sweathogs take on the task of breaking him of the habit. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Black Sheep Squadron [Reg]: The Meatball Circus
Season 1, episode 8 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: John Peyser With Bill Fletcher (Commander Pritchett), Stewart Moss (Lt. Commander Hightower), Robert Clarke (Admiral Grayson), John Kerry. Pappy and his men are ordered to fly a suicide mission. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/9/1976)
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Saturday's Hero
Season 1, episode 5 W: Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz D: Mark Warren With Rosanne Katon (Darlene), Taurean Blacque (Mr. Donovan), Renny Roker (Coach). Rerun is given the chance to join the floundering football team and becomes an instant hero, which over-inflates his ego. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/13/1976)
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Oldest Profession -- Latest Price
Season 9, episode 4 W: Anne Collins D: Philip Leacock With Elaine Joyce (Cory), Ned Beatty (Keith Caldwell), Kimo Kahoano (Frank), Robert Witthans (Pendleton), Darrah Lau (Alison Moana), Debby Simpson (Dee), Edda Damon (Pam), Kelly Bishop (Char), JoAnn Morgan (Teura), Ted Purcell (Mark), Donna Ornellas (Joanie). The murder of island prostitutes seems to be linked to an extortion racketeer who is determined to make a return. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1976)
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Bus Stop
Season 3, episode 4 W: Tony Sheehan, Danny Arnold, Reinhold Weege, Jerry Ross D: Noam Pitlik With Florence Halop (Mrs. Pierce), Philip Bruns (Harry Cranston), Candy Azzara (Miss Lambert), Sal Viscuso (Brenner), Howard Honig (Mr. Quentin), Joe George (Bus Driver). Barney's detectives play host to a busload of people when a hijacked vehicle crashes in the neighborhood. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1976)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Danger In Paradise (1977)
W: William Wood D: Marvin Chomsky With Ina Balin, John Dehner, Richard McKenzie, William Lucking, Cliff Potts, Richard Venture, Denny Miller, Moe Keale, Wayne Heffley. A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.
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| [ABC 9:30] Mixed Nuts [special]
Comedy pilot with Zohra Lampert.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: The Inside Man
Season 5, episode 23 W: Paul Robert Coyle D: Guerdon Trueblood With Mark Jenkins (Ralph Hugh Alcott), Laurie Prange (Chris Longacre), Michael Baseleon (Roy Twain), Richard O'Brien (Joe Montgomery), Deborah White (Kathy Rondel), Than Wyenn (Professor), Betty Anne Rees (Sherry McLeod), Erik Holland (Leo Gully), Jean Gillespie (Nora Longacre), Frank Downing (Bob Dyer), John Yates (Artie Moss). The inside man in an attempted robbery inadvertently becomes a hero when he murders a double-crossing confederate.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Breakup
Season 5, episode 21 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Harry Falk With Pernell Roberts (Charlie Finn), Sharon Acker (Ethel Finn), George Murdock (Harlan Betz), Lawrence Pressman (Larry Drake), Marla Adams (Ceci Roman), Janis Hansen (Julia Drake), John Friedrich (Hal Finn), Lesley Woods (Emily Bradley), Jordan Rhodes (Jerry Billings), Kirk Mee (Kenneth Bennett), Paul Pepper (Bronson). A man under pressure because of an impending divorce and apparent business collapse becomes the principal suspect in a murder case.
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