Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday August 28, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
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| [ABC 7:00] Hardy Boys-Nancy Drew Mysteries [Reg]: The Flickering Torch Mystery
Season 1, episode 7 W: James Henerson D: Ivan Dixon With Edith Atwater (Aunt Gertrude), Rick Nelson (Tony Eagle), John Pleshette (Carl Fry), Herb Voland (Chief Collig), Ned Van Zandt (Richard Johnston), Deirdre Berthrong (Leslie Johnston), Robert Sampson (Lou Haskell). While on a missing persons investigation for their father, the boys uncover a plot against the life of the nation's top rock 'n' roll star. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/27/1977)
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: It's Tough To Be A Bird
Season 17, episode 11 W: Ted Berman, Ward Kimball D: Ward Kimball With Ruth Buzzi (Soprano), Richard Bakalyan (M.C. Bird). Oscar-winning 1969 short subject combines animation and live-action to study man's love for -- and brutal treatment of -- birds. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1970)
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| [CBS 8:00] Rhoda [Reg]: To Vegas With Love
Season 3, episode 24 W: Coleman Mitchell, Geoffrey Neigher D: Tony Mordente With Michael DeLano (Johnny Venture), Carol Arthur (Doris), Sharon Redd (Sherrye), Charlotte Crossley (Renee), Prasuti Kirk (Woman). Rhoda flies to Las Vegas for another encounter with her amorous suitor, Johnny Venture. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/13/1977)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Six Million Dollar Man [Reg]: The Infiltrators
Season 4, episode 18 W: Sam Ross D: Phil Bondelli With Jerry Quarry (Wally), Harold Sylvester (Tollombe), Joe Kapp (Cooper), Yvonne Craig (Lena Bannister), Michael Conrad (Boris Retsky), Pervis Atkins (George Mason), Cliff Carnell (Duclaire). After several foreign athletes defect to the U.S., Steve Austin goes undercover as an amateur boxing champion to infiltrate a suspected assassination team made up of the alien expatriates. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/6/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] McCloud [Reg]: McCloud Meets Dracula
Season 7, episode 6 W: Glen A. Larson D: Bruce Kessler With Diana Muldaur (Chris Coughlin), Tom Snyder (Himself), John Carradine (Loren Belasco), Michael Sacks (Dr. Pollick), Reggie Nalder (Morris), Booth Colman (Coroner), Michael Pataki (Reporter), Vince Howard (Reporter), Bobbie Mitchell (Angie), Ken Lynch (Sgt. Grover), Ken Scott (Det. Polk). Murder victims are found to be drained of blood, and an elderly star of vampire films is suspected; Chief Clifford is on the hunt for a random sniper. (Last show of the series.) (Repeat program, originally aired 4/17/1977)
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| [CBS 8:30] A Year At The Top [Reg]
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| [CBS 9:00] People's Command Performance [special]
With George Benson, LeVar Burton, George Carlin, Edgar Bergen, Ace Trucking Company. George Burns and Bernadette Peters host. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)
W: Victor Andres Catena, A. Bolzoni, Sergio Leone D: Sergio Leone With Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch. A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
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| [NBC 9:30] TV Movie: The Possessed (1977)
W: John Sacret Young D: Jerry Thorpe With James Farentino, Claudette Nevins, Eugene Roche, Harrison Ford, Joan Hackett, Dinah Manoff, P.J. Soles, Diana Scarwid. A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
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