Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday May 17, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Danny And The Mermaid [special]
With Patrick Collins, Harlee McBride. Comedy pilot. An oceanographer falls in love with a mermaid.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Carpenters: Space Encounters [special]
With Suzanne Somers, John Davidson, Charlie Callas. An hour of "spatial" music.
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: Lacy And The Mississippi Queen (1978)
W: Madeline DiMaggio, Kathy Donnell D: Robert Butler With Kathleen Lloyd, Debra Feuer, Edward Andrews, Jack Elam, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, James Keach, Les Lannom, Alvy Moore. A pair of sisters use their wiles to track down the two robbers they suspect of shooting their father.
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| [CBS 8:30] Goober And The Truckers Paradise [special]
With George Lindsey, Leigh French. Comedy pilot for a spinoff from the old Andy Griffith Show.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Getting Married (1978)
W: John Hudock D: Steven Hilliard Stern With Mark Harmon, Katherine Helmond, Richard Thomas, Bess Armstrong, Jerome Guardino, Vic Tayback, Fabian, Van Johnson, Audra Lindley, Dena Dietrich, Mark Lenard, Richard Deacon. A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man.
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| [ABC 9:00] Olivia Newton-John Special [special]
With Andy Gibb, Abba.
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| [NBC 9:30] Dean Martin Celebrity Roast Of George Burns [special]
With Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Connie Stevens, Abe Vigoda, James Stewart, Ronald Reagan.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Deckwatch
Season 3, episode 23 W: Don Patterson D: Paul Michael Glaser With Michael Baseleon (Hector Salidas), Kathryn Harrold (Laura Kanen), Susan French (Hannah Kanen), Carole Mallory (Madeline), Will Walker (Chicky), Jack Somack (Detective Peterson). Hutch impersonates a doctor in order to reach an injured seaman who is holding two people hostage.
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