Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 16, 1977:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Cold Turkey (1971)
W: Norman Lear D: Norman Lear With Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Jean Stapleton, Pippa Scott, Tom Poston, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Edward Everett Horton, Graham Jarvis, Barbara Cason, Paul Benedict, Peggy Rea, Simon Scott, Gloria LeRoy, M. Emmet Walsh, Woodrow Parfrey. Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.
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| [ABC 8:00] Bumpers [special]
With Richard Masur. Comedy pilot about assembly line workers.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: I'll Ride The Wind
Season 3, episode 12 W: Harold Swanton D: William F. Claxton With Walker Edmiston (Deering). Once Charles and Caroline Ingalls get over the initial shock, they reluctantly agree to their 13-year-old daughter Mary's acceptance of a marriage proposal from Mr. Edwards' shy, sensitive stepson, John. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1977)
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| [ABC 8:30] Boxing
Muhammad Ali vs. Alfredo Evangelista from the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland; also, Roberto Duran vs. Javier Muniz.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Alexander: The Other Side Of Dawn (1977)
W: Walter Dallenbach D: John Erman With Leigh McCloskey, Eve Plumb, Juliet Mills, Lonny Chapman, Fred Sadoff, Earl Holliman, Diana Douglas, Alice Hirson, Alan Feinstein. A teenage boy arrives in Hollywood to become a movie star, but winds up becoming a male prostitute and gets involved with a homosexual football star.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Andros Targets [Reg]: The Smut Peddler
Season 1, episode 13 With Jack Gilford (Barney Gaylord), Caroline McWilliams (Celine Smith), Eric Berry (Ambassador Kaiwi). When a smut magazine publisher is repeatedly burned out, Mike's investigation leads him into the buying and selling of top secret documents. (Last show of the series.)
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