Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 8, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Secret
Season 4, episode 16 W: Rod Peterson, Claire Whitaker D: Harvey Laidman With Nora Marlowe (Mrs. Brimmer), Adrienne Marden (Mrs. Breckenridge), Eddie Ryder (The Yo-Yo King). Jim-Bob becomes tormented by the doubt that he is not a real Walton, but a foundling.
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| [ABC 8:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Happy New Year
Season 2, episode 15 W: Danny Arnold, Chris Hayward, Arne Sultan D: Bruce Bilson With Edith Diaz (Pregnant Shoplifter), John Dullaghan (Pickpocket), Joseph Bova (Michael D. Crowley). On New Year's Eve, Barney's detectives face an evening of jumpers, drunks, pickpockets and an expectant mother.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Cop & The Kid [Reg]: The Weekend Guest
Season 1, episode 5 With Marc McClure. Officer Murphy is asked by the station captain if he'd mind taking care of his young boy while he and his wife go away for a weekend.
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| [ABC 8:30] On The Rocks [Reg]: The Underground Movement (1)
Season 1, episode 15 D: John Rich With Jack Grimes (Baxter), George Loros (Vinnie Parelli), Logan Ramsey (Warden Poindexter). Fuentes and his friends are visited by Mr. Big, the resident hotshot of Alamesa, who demands their help in digging an escape tunnel.
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| [NBC 8:30] Grady [Reg]: Night School
Season 1, episode 5 With Alix Elias (Rose Kosinski). Grady falls under the spell of a desperate fellow student in his black history class, and switches exams with her so she can pass the course.
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Loose Ends Get Hit
Season 8, episode 18 W: Jerome Coopersmith D: Charles S. Dubin With Henry Darrow (Billy Madrid), Jimmy Borges (Kum Chi), Lynne Ellen Hollinger (Madeleine Grey), Ted Scott (Chauncey Allen), Dick Fair (Ralph Gordon), Mitch Mitchell (Chief Davis), Beau Van Den Ecker (Joe), Amanda McBroom (Sandi Welles). McGarrett is stunned as the state's case against an island racketeer vaporizes because McGarrett has been suckered by the prosecution's star witness.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Police Buff
Season 4, episode 15 W: Guerdon Trueblood D: Virgil Vogel With Fred Sadoff (Dr. Murchison), Vince Howard (Charley Johnson), Reuben Collins (Inspector Tanner), Bill Bixby (Eric Doyle), Christopher Stone (Officer Harris), Bert Freed (Morrie), James Karen (TV Reporter), Hank Brandt (Sgt. Washington), Patti Jerome (Joanne), Robert Miano (Joey Lucero), Larry St. James (Jack Williamson). Stone and Keller race against time to find a murderer who approaches his victims by impersonating a police officer.
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| [NBC 9:00] Medical Story [Reg]: The Quality Of Mercy
Season 1, episode 12 W: Robert L. Collins D: Robert L. Collins With Scott Hylands, Tony Musante, Dabney Coleman, Harold Gould, Don Mitchell, Catherine Burns, Arthur Franz, Mark Lambert, Robert Mandan, Ross Bickell, Jan Clayton, Helmut Dantine, Linda Gillen, Richard Partlow (Detective). Faced with appalling conditions at a county hospital, a doctor becomes militant and leads a confrontation between doctors and poliicians. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: The Lonely Victims
Season 4, episode 16 W: Worley Thorne D: Michael Caffey With Peter Haskell (Jack Arno), E.J. Peaker (Sheila Wild), Inga Swenson (Ann Hobson), Jenny O'Hara (Joanie Enders), Claire Brennan (Laura Enders), Don Nagel (Pete), George Sawaya (Ted), Joseph Mell (Mr. Inball), Conlan Carter (Ed Chandler), Marcy Lafferty (Connie), Paul Lukather (Lewis Gorman), Rozelle Gayle (Alf Wortman). A smooth-talking con artist uses his wiles to gather information for his burglary ring from women who hold responsible positions with firms ripe for robbery.
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| [ABC 10:00] Harry O [Reg]: Mister Five And Dime
Season 2, episode 14 W: Robert C. Dennis D: Richard Lang With Les Lannom (Lester Hodges), Margaret Avery (Ruby), Michael Pataki (Bargo), J. Pat O'Malley (Bill Hoxley), Glynnis O'Connor (Gayle), Michael McGuire (Lipton), Booth Colman (Sturgis), Charles Siebert (Schaeffer), Paul Jenkins (Ludford), Douglas Dirkson (Tim Condit). Would-be supersleuth Lester Hodges involves Harry in an intriguing case, but his bungling gets Harry in trouble with the police and government agents.
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