Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 6, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Papillon (1973)
W: Dalton Trumbo, Lorenzo Semple Jr. D: Franklin Schaffner With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Victor Jory, Woodrow Parfrey, Billy Mumy, Val Avery, Vic Tayback, Gregory Sierra, Mills Watson, Ron Soble, William Smithers. A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Just Testing
Season 3, episode 6 W: Mike Barrie, Jim Mulholland D: Bob Claver With Ellen Travolta (Mrs. O'Hara). Mr. Kotter has his hands full when he must decide to either help Julie with the housework and the babies or help Barbarino prepare for his make-up test.
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| [NBC 8:00] Major League Baseball Playoffs
Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees.
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Trial And Error
Season 2, episode 3 W: Rick Mittleman D: Lee Bernhardi With Tom Moses (Baliff), Olive Dunbar (Judge Lubash), Bill Henderson (Charles Hopkins). Raj is afraid to tell the grocery market owner that a new delivery bicycle he bought for Raj has been smashed by a car.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Corporation
Season 4, episode 4 W: Lee H. Grant, Tony Sheehan, Danny Arnold D: Hal Linden With David Dukes (Brad Laneer), Fran Ryan (Mrs. Hirsch), Vernon Weddle (Alvin Trager). A quixotic environmentalist who calls himself "The Hawk" faces the high-priced lawyer hired by the chemical plant he's been vandalizing.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: The Fireside Burnside Budget Chat
Season 1, episode 4 W: George Arthur Bloom D: Peter Baldwin With Jonathan Banks (Bob Phillips). An outraged Chief Roy is forced to make good on Mayor Teddy Burnside's promise in a radio talk to make a $20,000 cut in the police budget.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Redd Foxx Show
With Rodney Dangerfield, Jackie Gayle, O.C. Smith.
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