Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 17, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 2 With Hermione Baddeley, Fred MacMurray. A comedy sketch saluting captains real and imaginary (John Smith, Kidd, Queeg and Spalding). Tony persuades Fred to appear on his show. Magician "The Great Orlando" dispalys his legerdemain by attempting to saw his assistants (Joyce & Telma) in half. Hermione and Tony duet on "Lambeth Walk", Dawn performs "Have You Never Been Mellow?" and Tony sings "How Sweet It Is".
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| [ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: The French Dis-Connection
Season 1, episode 2 W: Bo Kaprall, Pat Proft, Gene Wood, Jay Burton D: Coby Ruskin With Sid Caesar (Marquis de la Salle). Robin and his men infiltrate the castle to prevent Prince John from signing a treaty with the French ambassador.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Four Eyes
Season 2, episode 2 W: B.W. Sandefur D: William F. Claxton With Ford Rainey (Dr. Burke). Failing grades and trouble in school lead Charles Ingalls to seek medical help for Mary -- who learns that glasses can help, but they can also hurt.
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| [ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: Business Is Business
Season 2, episode 2 W: Walter Bien, Gene Farmer D: Noam Pitlik With Mel Stewart (Laforche). Earl is the stumbling block between Clifton and a lucrative business opportunity.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Deadly Conspiracy (Part 1)
Season 5, episode 2 W: Stephen Kandel D: Michael Caffey With Barry Sullivan (Gordon McKenna), Murray Hamilton (Bud McKenna), Diana Douglas (Alex Parks), Sharon Acker (Laura Venner), Charles Durning (Don Corcoran), Hayden Roarke (Senator), Ron Rifkin (Paul Goldberg), John Zaremba (Arthur Allen Royce). Cannon takes the case of a liquor deliveryman charged with murder as a favor to the public defender representing the man. Despite heavy circumstantial evidence against him, Cannon believes his story. (The conclusion of this two-part story aired on Barnaby Jones.)
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Glory Game
Season 2, episode 2 W: Michael Butler D: Jeannot Szwarc With Harris Yulin (Detective Grissom), Angus Duncan (Deputy Commissioner Van Der Meer), Al Stellone (Chico), Bill McKinney (Tobias), Chick Vennera (Rudolfo Cruz), Joe Renteria (Joe Molina). Tony Baretta is framed for the murder of a suspected gun dealer and becomes a fugitive to clear his name.
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| [NBC 9:00] Doctors' Hospital [Reg]: Come At Last To Love
Season 1, episode 2 W: Chester Krumholz D: Vincent Sherman With Marc Plastrik (Lawyer), Madge Sinclair (Emma Delaney), Larry Hagman (Dr. David Stone), Elizabeth Hartman (Bobbie Marks). Nurse Bobbie Marks injects herself with a deadly virus after the hospital refuses to permit Dr. David Stone to test his serum on humans.
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| [CBS 10:00] Kate McShane [Reg]: Terror On Sycamore Street
Season 1, episode 2 W: Michael Butler D: Robert Scheerer With Clu Gulager, Robert Walden, Michael Anderson Jr.. When a terrified homeowner shoots an armed intruder, it looks like a simple case of self-defense.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Texas Longhorn
Season 1, episode 2 W: Michael Mann D: Jack Starrett With Med Flory (Zack Tyler), George Loros (Little Huey Chaco), Charles Napier (John Brown Harris), Michael Lerner (Fat Rolly), Ann Weldon (Angel), Nora Denney (Ray), Al Hansen (Sergeant), Alta Christopher (Emma Lou Tyler), Bobby Hall (Marty), Butcher Brannigan (Wrestler). When the wife of a famous used car tycoon is slain by a pair of crazed drug addicts, Starsky and Hutch have to move fast to catch the killers before the agonized widower takes the law into his own hands.
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: The Mark Of Cain
Season 2, episode 2 W: Leonard Katzman D: Leonard Katzman With John Saxon (Richie Martin), Carver Barnes (Connors), John H. Cox (Davis), Paul Koslo (Morgan), Vincent Beck (Parker), Ken Swofford (Lt. John Clifford). A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge.
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