Friday July 14, 1978
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday July 14, 1978:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Movie: Scalawag (1973) The Business of Newspapers
ABC Movie: The Last Dinosaur (1977) Asbestos: The Way To A Dusty Death
NBC C.P.O. Sharkey: Sharkey's Back Problem (R) Chico And The Man: The Peeping Tom The Rockford Files: The Paper Palace (R) Quincy, M.E.: Ashes To Ashes (R)


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[CBS 8:00] Movie: Scalawag (1973)
W: Albert Sidney Fleischman, Albert Maltz   D: Kirk Douglas

With Kirk Douglas, Mark Lester, Neville Brand, Don Stroud, Lesley-Anne Down, George Eastman, Danny DeVito. A one-legged vagabond searches for a fortune in gold with his only clue to its location being a drunken parrot.

[ABC 8:00] Movie: The Last Dinosaur (1977)
W: William Overgard   D: Alex Grasshoff, Tom Kotani

With Richard Boone, Joan Van Ark, Steven Keats. A wealthy big game hunter, along with his group, gets trapped in prehistoric times where they are stalked by a ferocious dinosaur.

[NBC 8:00] C.P.O. Sharkey [Reg]: Sharkey's Back Problem
Season 2, episode 13
W: Michael Lalor Brown, Andy Ruben

With Sondra Currie (Madeleine). Worried that a back injury will invalidate his nomination for "CPO of the Year", Sharkey heads for a Turkish bath, unaware that it is now a massage parlor.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1978)

[NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: The Peeping Tom
Season 4, episode 20
W: Al Schwartz, Sam Locke   D: Jack Donohue

With Bill McLean (Ira), Ken Sansom (Doctor), Tom Reese (Cop), Alice Ghostley (Harriett). Ed, convinced by a lady's complaint that he is acting abnormally, tries to get himself arrested.

[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Paper Palace
Season 4, episode 16
W: Juanita Bartlett   D: Richard Crenna

With Pat Finley (Peggy Becker), Rita Moreno (Rita Capkovic), Bruce Kirby (Sid Loft), David Lewis (Burton Woodrup), Patricia Donahue (Eleanor Loft), Rene Assa (Jeannot Turner), Shirley O'Hara (Maggie Gilson), James Jeter (Officer McRainey), Norwood Smith (Henry Helpern), Gene Scherer (Rudy Ganse), Jack Garner (Restaurant Manager). A prostitute hires Rockford to investigate when she is assaulted by two men for no apparent reason.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/20/1978)

[CBS 10:00] The Business of Newspapers Hughes Rudd reports on the conflict between editorial content and economic concerns and the move toward chain ownership in American newspapers.

[ABC 10:00] Asbestos: The Way To A Dusty Death Jules Bergman reports on the hazards of asbestos, which may be the biggest industrial killer in history.

[NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Ashes To Ashes
Season 3, episode 17
W: Max Hodge, Charles A. McDaniel   D: Herb Wallerstein

With John Fink (Richard Yager), Simone Griffeth (Cindy Allen), Larry D. Mann (Dr. Jones), Pitt Herbert (Dr. Gehringer), Judith Baldwin (Marie Yager), William Larsen (Board Chairman), Norman Levitt (Gravedigger). Quincy suspects that an ambitious young businessman administered a slow-acting drug which induced his wife's fatal heart attack.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/10/1978)

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