Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 11, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Sermon
Season 4, episode 1 W: Kathleen Hite D: Harry Harris With Cindy Eilbacher (Martha Rose Coverdale), Mariclare Costello (Miss Hunter), Nora Marlowe (Mrs. Brimmer), John Ritter (Rev. Matthew Fordwick), Basil Hoffman (Professor Ranney). The fourth season starts with John-Boy being appointed preacher-for-a-day, and although the family is bursting with pride at the honor, John-Boy is fearful and unsure of himself.
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| [ABC 8:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Doomsday
Season 2, episode 1 W: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan D: Noam Pitlik With J.J. Barry (Plumber), Steve Landesberg (Father Paul), William Windom (George Webber). A disgruntled man with a belt of dynamite threatens to blow himself and the squad room sky high unless President Nixon agrees to speak with him.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Montefuscos [Reg]: My Son The Actor
Season 1, episode 2 The family get-together is pleasantly diverted by youngest son Nunzio's first acting break on a local TV station.
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| [ABC 8:30] On The Rocks [Reg]: Old Fish, New Fish
Season 1, episode 1 W: Dick Clements, Ian La Frenais D: John Rich With Hamilton Camp (Howie Weston), Rita Moreno, Logan Ramsey (Warden Poindexter), Yvonne Wilder (Lillian), Britt Leach (Mechanic), Richard Stahl (Doctor), Sorrell Booke (Judge). Comedy series about a group of inmates who are "low risk" inhabitants of a minimum security prison. In the first show, Hector Fuentes arrives at the facility to play a return engagement, and teaches his fellow shut-ins little tricks.
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| [NBC 8:30] Fay [Reg]: Jack Remarries
Season 1, episode 2 W: Susan Harris D: Alan Arkin Fay learns that ex-husband Jack plans to marry a younger woman, and anxiously searches for a younger escort when Jack insists she meet his intended.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Cahill, U.S. Marshal (1973)
W: Harry Julian Fink, Rita Fink D: Andrew V. McLaglen With John Wayne, George Kennedy, Neville Brand, Gary Grimes, Morgan Paull, Royal Dano, Denver Pyle, Jackie Coogan. A tough lawman sets his gunsights and skill as a tracker against a wily and successful bank robber.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Poisoned Snow
Season 4, episode 1 W: Paul Savage D: William Hale With Clu Gulager (George), Alan Fudge (Phil), Mark Hamill (Andy), Anthony Geary (Cajun), Ninette Bravo (Amy), Don Calfa (Sparrow), Robert Feero (Dr. Claymore), Janis Hansen (Maggie Collins), John Karlen (Vernon), Bebe Kelly (Judy Turner), Albert Popwell (Nappy), George Sawaya (Woody Parks), Matt Pelto (Dr. Colby). Stone and Keller hunt for the slayer of a female narcotics officer, but are hampered by her boyfriend who seeks revenge in the fourth season premiere.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ellery Queen [Reg]: The Adventure Of Auld Lang Syne
Season 1, episode 1 W: Peter S. Fischer D: David Greene With Ray Walston (Howard Pratt), Joan Collins (Lady Daisy Frawley), Karen Machon (Kitty McBride), Thayer David (Marcus Halliday), David Doyle (Don Becker), Herb Edelman (Cab Driver), Farley Granger (Paul Quincy), Guy Lombardo (Himself), Charles Knox Robinson (Louis Halliday), Barbara Rush (Emma Zellman), George Wyner (Joseph Kemmelman), Peggy Rea (Madge Velie), Arch Johnson (Deputy Commissioner Hayes), Louis Guss (Officer McCoy), Joseph V. Perry (Rawson), William Lanteau (Avery Dickson). Debut of a detective series set in the 1940s. In the first story, Queen is called on to investigate a slaying that took place in a New York hotel ballroom on New Year's Eve.
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| [ABC 10:00] Harry O [Reg]: Anatomy Of A Frame
Season 2, episode 1 W: John Meredyth Lucas D: Jerry Thorpe With Margaret Avery (Ruby Dome), Rene Auberjonois (Rabbit), James McEachin (Jimmy Dorn), Harold J. Stone (Capt. Gunther), Gordon Jump (Thornton Williams), John Harkins (Malcolm), William Sylvester (D.A.). Harry masquerades as a drug pusher in an attempt to clear his friend Lt. Trench of a murder charge as the second season starts for this private eye.
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| [NBC 10:00] Medical Story [Reg]: The Right To Die
Season 1, episode 2 W: Tim Maschler With Bradford Dillman (Dr. Gerald Warren), Ruth Gordon (Emily Dobson), Richard Mulligan (Dr. Ted Freeland), Sheila Larken (Jean Ingraham), Arthur O'Connell (Dr. Avery Loomis), Marsha Hunt (Sylvia Brent), Gerrit Graham, Mitzi Hoag, Juliet Mills (Nurse). An elderly woman resists having a critical operation for fear of becoming incapacitated and insists on her right to die.
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