Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 25, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] TV Movie: Just An Old Sweet Song (1976)
W: Melvin Van Peebles D: Robert Ellis Miller With Cicely Tyson, Robert Hooks, Beah Richards, Edward Binns, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Kevin Hooks, Mary Alice. A married couple with three children leave their Detroit home for a two-week vacation in the South leading to some surprising changes in their lives.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Has Anyone Seen Arnold?
Season 2, episode 18 W: Peter Meyerson, Nick Arnold D: Bob Lahendro With Helaine Lembeck (Judy Borden), Barbara Deutsch (Maxine Griffin). On the eve of his acting debut in a school play, Arnold Horshack disappears, only to emerge days later with the announcement that he is quitting school to get a job and support his family. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] Riding High [special]
With Charlie Frank. Comedy pilot about a would-be screenwriter who works as an extra for a movie company.
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| [NBC 8:30] Calling Dr. Storm, M.D. [special]
With Larry Linville, Bruce Gordon. Comedy pilot about a bumbling but dedicated surgeon.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Strike (2)
Season 3, episode 22 W: Reinhold Weege, Tony Sheehan, Danny Arnold D: Danny Arnold With Peter Hobbs (Charlie Prevette), Peggy Pope (Miss Lane), Joe George (John Blomquist). Captain Miller, Inspector Luger and Officer Levitt attempt to man the phones and maintain law and order while waiting for the detectives of the 12th Precinct to return to their jobs. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/31/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Escape From Colditz (1971)
With Robert Wagner, David McCallum. Allied POWs at a maximum security prison camp in Germany devise a daring plan that, if successful, will get them to the safety of the Swiss border.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Banana Company [special]
With John Reilly, Ted Gehring. Comedy pilot. The head of a group of combat correspondents tries to buck the commanding officer's red tape.
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| [ABC 9:30] Three's Company [Reg]: Roper's Niece
Season 1, episode 3 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt D: Bill Hobin With Christina Hart (Karen). Mr. Roper, convinced that Jack Tripper's interest in girls is strictly platonic, arranges for Jack to date his gorgeous visiting niece. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/31/1977)
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: The Killer On Campus
Season 5, episode 20 W: Dick Nelson D: Leo Penn With Katherine Cannon (Karen Bateman), Jess Walton (Doris Carson), Robert Mandan (Raymond Carson), Jerry Houser (Manny Edison), Jeff Conaway (Jeff Saunders), Raymond Singer (Roger Lessing), Don Keefer (Professor Albertson), Jenny Sherman (Alice). Barnaby and J.R. investigate the apparent suicide of a university professor, and discover that he was a former member of an underground revolutionary cell and was planning to write a book about it. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/24/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] Westside Medical [Reg]: Pressure Cooker
Season 1, episode 11 W: Larry Alexander With Clu Gulager (Jim MacAllister), Bert Kramer (Matt Swanson), Ellen Geer (Susan MacAllister), Buck Young. A feisty policeman, soon to be eligible for a pension, attempts to ignore his serious illness. (Last show of the series.)
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