Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday March 9, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Dr. Seuss On The Loose [special]
Three animated stories of the shortsighted "Sneetches", the stubborn "Zax" and "Green Eggs and Ham". (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Fearless Fonzarelli (1)
Season 3, episode 3 W: Michael Weinberger D: Jerry Paris With Jack Smith (Himself), Joseph Bova (Burt), Melinda Naud (Roberta). Worried that he's losing his cool, Fonzie attempts to jump 14 garbage cans on his motorcycle on live television. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1975)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movin' On [Reg]: The Toughest Man In America
Season 2, episode 3 W: David P. Harmon D: Lawrence Dobkin With Joe Frazier (Cpl. Brooks), Roosevelt Grier (Benjy), Art Metrano (Moose), Don Galloway (Sgt. Harris). Sonny tells a national magazine that truckers are the toughest men in America, and lands in a Marine boot camp to prove it. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1975)
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| [CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: The Nude
Season 2, episode 16 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Herbert Kenwith With Carl Weathers (Calvin), Betty A. Bridges (Charlene). J.J. has a chance at fame via an assignment to paint a nude portrait. When his parents say no, J.J. announces his plan to quit his art career. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/14/1975)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Dog Day Blind Dates
Season 1, episode 6 W: Dale McRaven D: James Burrows With Bo Kaprall (Cop), Guich Koock (Buck Wilson), Fred Willard (Charles). Laverne & Shirley double date with two criminals who secretly intend to rob the bank next to the Pizza Bowl.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Change Of Command
Season 4, episode 2 W: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum D: Gene Reynolds Col. Potter, a regular Army man with an affinity for horses, arrives to take command. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Lola [special]
W: Allan Blye, Bob Einstein With Redd Foxx, Dick Van Dyke. The glamorous, energetic and multi-talented Lola Falana stars in her third show of the season. Lola and her guests alternate between sketches and song-and-dance numbers, and the usual lush and lavish production values give the show its smart look.
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| [NBC 9:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Task Force: Cop Killer (2)
Season 2, episode 24 W: Edward DeBlasio, Douglas Benton D: Barry Shear With Dr. Joyce Brothers (Dr. Marie Guy), James Darren (Rick Matteo), Cynthia Sikes (Michelle), Don Stroud (Bobbo Olchin), Gerald McRaney (Comet), Betsy Slade (Joanie), Priscilla Pointer (Adele French), Than Wyenn (Surgeon), James Karen (Driver), Kim Langford (Kate), John Milford (Larry Burns), Read Morgan (Yavich), Walt Davis (Thorpe), John Crawford (Chief Parks), Cooper Huckabee (Yancey). The spinoff pilot concludes with more action involving the motorcycle division of the police department, as Pepper is kidnapped by a psychotic murderer.
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: The College Man
Season 1, episode 12 W: Michael Loman D: Howard Morris With Robby Benson (Ken). Tempers flare when Julie's blind date turns out to have eyes for Ann.
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| [CBS 10:00] The American Parade: Song Of Myself [special]
Rip Torn portrays Walt Whitman in this historical drama based on the poet's life, ranging from his days as a young, independent man to a philosophizing old man.
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| [ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: Pilot: The Best Years
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jay Presson Allen D: James Sheldon With Elayne Heilveil (Nancy Lawrence Maitland), John Rubinstein (Jeff Maitland), Bill Smiley (Doorman), Douglas Fowley (Watchman). The complexities of modern life as experienced by a contemporary American family are dramatized in this new series starring Sada Thompson and James Broderick as heads of the household. Tonight, 13-year-old Buddy (Kristy McNichol) goes on a rampage when she overhears an argument between her parents and concludes that she was an unwanted child.
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| [NBC 10:00] Dean Martin Celebrity Roast of Telly Savalas [special]
With Don Rickles, Alex Karras, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Howard Cosell, Angie Dickinson, George Savalas. (Repeat program)
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