Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 27, 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: Mary's Big Party (R)	The Bob Newhart Show: Desperate Sessions (R)	All In The Family: Mike And Gloria's Will (R)	Alice: The Failure (R)	Switch (R)
ABC	Fish: The Adoption (R)	Sugar Time!: Maggie's Long Date	Starsky & Hutch: Murder On Stage 17 (R)		The Equality Conflict
NBC	Emergency!: The Boat (R)		Preseason Football

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[CBS 8:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Mary's Big Party
Season 7, episode 22
W: Bob Ellison D: Jay Sandrich
With Johnny Carson (Himself - voice), Irene Tedrow (Rep. Geddes). Mary has planned a fancy party at her apartment with a mystery guest of honor, but the power in the building goes out before he arrives. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/5/1977)

[ABC 8:00] Fish [Reg]: The Adoption
Season 1, episode 12
W: Reinhold Weege D: Howard Storm
With Howard Honig (Mr. Lester), K Callan (Mrs. Lester). Everyone misses Victor while he is away with the people who could become his foster parents. (Repeat program, originally aired 6/2/1977)

[NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: The Boat
Season 6, episode 19
W: Hannah Shearer D: Georg Fenady
With William Boyett (Chief Battalion 14), Zitto Kazann (Alvie), Richard Bakalyan (Charlie), Ted Gehring (Clinton). The paramedic crew thinks they have the perfect solution to their recreation needs when one of them has to sell his sleek jet boat. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1977)

[CBS 8:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Desperate Sessions
Season 5, episode 21
W: Michael Zinberg, Michael Davidson D: Dick Martin
With Robert Pine (Mel), Walker Edmiston (Sergeant Webber), Ron Vernan (Police Officer), Richard Dioguardi (Bank Guard), Andrea Adler (Bank Teller). Bob is held hostage in his office by a friendly bank robber. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/26/1977)

[ABC 8:30] Sugar Time! [Reg]: Maggie's Long Date
Season 1, episode 3
With Archie Hahn (Frank), James Staley (Roger). Maxx and Diane decide that all work and no play is making Maggie a dull girl and pressure her into dating.

[CBS 9:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Mike And Gloria's Will
Season 7, episode 10
W: Bill Richmond, Gene Perret D: Paul Bogart Mike and Gloria make a decision concerning Joey's future, and end up destroying his first birthday party when Archie and Edith find out. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1976)

[ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Murder On Stage 17
Season 2, episode 24
W: Ben Masselink D: Earl Bellamy
With Chuck McCann (Wally Stone), Jeff Goldblum (Harry Markham), Rory Calhoun (Steve Hanson), Layne Britton (Shotgun Casey), Susan Cotton (Julie West), Toni Lamond (Ruth Willoughby), Sandy Herdt (Charlotte Rogers), Read Morgan (Blackie). Starsky and Hutch track an ex-comedian who is killing his old pals. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/19/1977)

[NBC 9:00] Preseason Football Dallas Cowboys vs. Baltimore Colts.

[CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: The Failure
Season 1, episode 17
W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer D: William P. D'Angelo
With Henry Polic (Walter), Bernie Kopell (Burt), Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Rivera). When Alice finds a hold-up note lost during the morning rush at Mel's Diner, she tips off the police to stake out the bank across the street, with totally unexpected results. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/29/1977)

[CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg] When Pete tries to assist a former buddy, he almost causes the dissolution of his partnership with MacBride. (Repeat program)

[ABC 10:00] The Equality Conflict Howard K. Smith hosts a report on 'reverse discrimination'.