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Saturday May 21, 1977
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 21, 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: Murray Can't Lose (R) The Bob Newhart Show: The Slammer (R) All In The Family: Archie's Brief Encounter (3) (R) Alice: The Accident (R) The Carol Burnett Show (R)
ABC Blansky's Beauties: Dear Nancy Fish: The Really Longest Day (R) Starsky & Hutch: Gillian (R) The Feather And Father Gang: The Golden Fleece
NBC Circus Lions, Tigers And Melissas Too TV Movie: Spectre (1977)
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[CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Murray Can't Lose
Season 7, episode 10
W: David Lloyd   D: Jay Sandrich

With Joyce Bulifant (Marie Slaughter), Larry Wilde (Emcee), Lisa Parkes (Award Presenter).
Lou learns from a source on the Teddy Awards' panel that Murray will finally win an award for his news writing.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/27/1976)

[ABC 8:00] Blansky's Beauties [Reg]: Dear Nancy
Season 1, episode 11
D: Alan Rafkin

With Frank Aletter (John), Dena Dietrich (Katherine).
Nancy becomes concerned when Bambi falls in love with a socially prominent young lawyer.

[NBC 8:00] Circus Lions, Tigers And Melissas Too [special]
Melissa GIlbert & Melissa Sue Anderson host animal acts from circuses around the world.

[CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: The Slammer
Season 5, episode 9
W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr   D: Michael Zinberg

With Tom Poston (Cliff Murdock), Bobby Ramsen (Johnny Carson Jr.), Kim O'Brien (Kim), Lucy Lee Flippin (Darva), Rhodes Reason (Detective), David Himes (Detective), Jean Palmerton (Corrine Murdock).
Bob and his friend "The Peeper" take a trip down Memory Lane and wind up in the slammer.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1976)

[ABC 8:30] Fish [Reg]: The Really Longest Day
Season 1, episode 1
W: Rchard Baer, Barbara Corday, Barbara Avedon   D: Lee Bernhardi

Series debut. Abe Vigoda stars as Fish, the dour detective of the popular "Barney Miller" series, as he and his wife Bernice undertake a new way of life as the adoptive parents of five disadvantaged youngsters. In the initial episode, Fish gets some counsel for his new role from a college student working for his Ph.D. in psychology.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1977)

[CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Archie's Brief Encounter (3)
Season 7, episode 3
W: Mel Tolkin, Larry Rhine   D: Paul Bogart

With Scott Brady (Joe Foley), Jason Wingreen (Harry Snowden), Maxine Elliott (Mrs. Bradley), Bella Chronis (Sylvia Freedman), Harry Davis (Sol Kleeger).
Edith forgives Archie's indiscretion after Mike and Gloria bring the two together for an emotional reunion.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1976)

[ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Gillian
Season 2, episode 5
W: Ben Masselink   D: George McCowan

With Karen Carlson (Gillian Ingram), Mike Kellin (Al Grossman), Sylvia Sidney (Olga Grossman), Doodles Weaver (Eddie Hoyle), Diana Canova (Nancy Rogers), Joanna Kerns (Joy), Richard Foronjy (Harry Blower), Marilyn Joi (Pepper), Ted Grossman (Evans).
A pretty girl creates a conflict between Starsky and Hutch when Hutch falls in love with a call girl.

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

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Spectre (1977)
W: Samuel Peeples, Gene Roddenberry   D: Clive Donner

With Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Majel Barrett, Gordon Jackson, Ann Bell, James Villiers.
Renowned criminologist and occult investigator William Sebastian recruits his old friend Dr. Hamilton to aid him in his current case.

[CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: The Accident
Season 1, episode 16
W: Harvey Bullock, Roy Kammerman   D: Alan Rafkin

With Chi Chi Navarro (Maria), Hamilton Camp (Fred), Leonard Stone (Arnie).
Flo destroys Mel's old car after it was given to Alice for safekeeping.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1977)

[CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
With Ken Berry.
A mini-musical based on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 10:00] The Feather And Father Gang [Reg]: The Golden Fleece
Season 1, episode 8
W: Robert Dellinger   D: Jerry London

With Pernell Roberts (Meminger), Raymond Singer (Sheldon), Richard Herd (Applegate), William Bogert (Bricklaw).
The gang attempts to expose a larcenous evangelist and to solve the mysterious death of an investigative reporter.


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