Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 12, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Conflict (1)
Season 3, episode 1 W: Jeb Rosebrook D: Ralph Senensky With Morgan Woodward (Boone Walton), Beulah Bondi (Martha Walton), Richard Hatch (Wade), Lindsay Jones (Vera), Mills Watson (Blake), William Quinn (Senator Burgess), Bill Erwin (Senator Rogers), Casey Tibbs (Flagman), Harry Pugh (Slim), Paul Fix (Lucas Avery). The third season starts with a two-hour show. John-Boy is caught between the family and the law. Grandpa agrees to take up arms against the federal government and insists that John-Boy do the same when his sister-in-law demands that Grandpa help the men in her family defend her home with rifles against the encroachment of a federal highway.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Rain In Spain
Season 5, episode 1 W: Rick Mittleman D: Harvey Miller With Rob Reiner (Sheldon), Ronny Hallin (Verna Turner), Garry Marshall (Werner Turner), Bo Kaprall (Guy). The fifth season begins with Felix trying to help Oscar's secretary Myrna win back her old boyfriend Sheldon by convincing her to change her walk, her talk, her wardrobe and her personality.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sierra [Reg]: Cruncher
Season 1, episode 1 W: Preston Wood D: Bruce Bilson With Robert Hogan (Joe), Dick Van Patten (Ed), Jess Walton (Gail), Joan Freeman (Wanda), Maggie Malooly (Bess). An action-adventure series about rangers at Sierra National Park. In the first show they're frustrated in attempts to capture Cruncher, a bear who constantly harasses tourists.
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| [ABC 8:30] Paper Moon [Reg]: Settling
Season 1, episode 1 W: Alvin Sargent D: James Frawley With Ed Mullaney (Big Ben), Scotty Philip (Judge), Harry Geldard (Hathaway), Jacques Hampton (Old Man). The adventures of an engaging pair of con artists, a handsome traveling salesman and a bright 11-year-old, roaming the midwest. In the first show, tired of traveling, Addie persuades Moze to use his special method of getting $1,000 to buy a house so they can settle down.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: One Last Shot
Season 3, episode 1 W: Jack B. Sowards D: William Hale With Leslie Nielsen (Joe Landers), Jock Mahoney (Mel Schaffer), Robert Drivas (Frank Graves), Joe Spano (Toomey). The third season begins with the story of an alcoholic policeman who accidentally shot his partner and tries to stop Lt. Stone and Inspector Keller and an innocent witness from revealing the truth.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: Raise The Devil (1)
Season 8, episode 1 W: Anthony Lawrence, Jimmy Sangster D: Russ Mayberry With Norma Connolly (Lydia Todd), Sian Barbara Allen (Susan), Carolyn Jones (Justine Cross), Bill Bixby (Dr. Gallin), Granville Van Dusen (Doctor), Linda Dano (Katherine), Eric Chase (Neil). The eighth season begins with a two-part story about a woman seeking an exorcist. Her search ends when she is fatally stabbed and left inside a locked vault of her mansion.
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| [CBS 10:00] Perry Como's Summer Of '74 [special]
Paul Lynde, Michele Lee and Jimmie Walker join Como for a music and comedy tour of other summers and other places.
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| [ABC 10:00] Harry O [Reg]: Gertrude
Season 1, episode 1 W: Howard Rodman D: Jerry Thorpe With Julie Sommars (Gertrude Blainey), Michael McGuire (Jack Woolf), Clay Tanner (Marshall Coffey), Les Lannom (Harold Blainey), Mel Stewart (Roy Bardello), Fred Sadoff (Cmdr. Light), Jon Lormer (Mr. Olsher), Jim Bohan (Police Officer), Bill Stevens (Lt. Cmdr. Correo), Joseph Johnson (Sonny Limpio). An action dramatic series starring David Janssen as a retired police detective. The stories will accent the character of a man tough on the outside but sensitive and compassionate underneath. Harry owns a gun but keeps it in the drawer at home. In the first show, Harry is asked to find the AWOL brother of a kooky girl who sells her furniture to hire his services.
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| [NBC 10:00] Movin' On [Reg]: The Time Of His Life
Season 1, episode 1 W: George Kirgo D: Walter Doniger With Michael J. Pollard (Joe Shannon), Elisha Cook Jr. (Andrew Shannon), Fred Lerner (Mervyn Peck), Charles Macualay (Dr. Merrill), Karen Jensen (Myrna), Betty Ann Rees (Terry), Roberta Collins (Lucille). In the premiere episode of this action drama about truckers, Sonny and Will are the targets of a short-tempered young trucker who doesn't know he's dying of cancer.
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