Friday March 19, 1976
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Friday March 19, 1976:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Dr. Seuss Special: Horton Hears A Who (R) More Travels With Flip Movie: Busting (1974)
ABC Donny And Marie TV Movie: Time Travelers (1976)
NBC Sanford And Son: Camping Trip The Practice: The Down Payment The Rockford Files: A Bad Deal In The Valley Police Story: Vice: Twenty-Four Hours (R)


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[CBS 8:00] Dr. Seuss Special: Horton Hears A Who [special] Rerun of a 1970 cartoon about a gentle elephant that hears voices emanating from a dust speck. The endearing elephant chases around a pink countryside, clutching the dust speck which contains the little creatures living in Whoville. (Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 1, episode 8

With Anne Meara, Milton Berle, Nipsey Russell, Paul Lynde.

[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Camping Trip
Season 5, episode 24
W: Garry Shandling   D: Alan Rafkin

With Carol Arthur (Miss Barnes), Deborah Berns (Girl Scout #1), Teri Hermosillo (Girl Scout #2), Susan Newmark (Girl Scout #3), Kimberly Zuckert (Girl Scout #4), Tifni Carson (Girl Scout #5), Janine Williams (Girl Scout #6). When Fred and Lamont go on a camping trip, their truck breaks down and they are stranded in the wild. Sensing their fate, they watch their lives pass before their eyes (via flashbacks to earlier shows).

[CBS 8:30] More Travels With Flip [special]
With Roy Rogers, Willie Shoemaker, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Flip Wilson rides in a balloon, flies over the Grand Canyon, tries out with pro football's San Diego Chargers, gets sawed in half at Hollywood's Magic Castle, rides against jockey Willie Shoemaker, and talks with Roy Rogers and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

[NBC 8:30] The Practice [Reg]: The Down Payment
Season 1, episode 7
Dr. Bedford's office is vandalized and he has trouble raising funds to replace equipment.

[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Time Travelers (1976)
W: Jackson Gillis   D: Alexander Singer

With Sam Groom, Francine York, Richard Basehart, Booth Colman, Tom Hallick, Walter Brooke, Trish Stewart. Based on a story by Rod Serling, the search for a cure for a deadly epidemic sends two men on a desperate mission through time to Chicago in 1871 on the eve of the great Chicago fire.

[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: A Bad Deal In The Valley
Season 2, episode 22
W: Donald L. Gold, Lester William Berke   D: Jerry London

With Susan Strasberg (Karen Stiles), Jack Colvin (Preacher), Veronica Hamel (Sandy Lederer), John Lupton (Tony Lederer), Gordon Jump (Appleby), David Sabin (Murray Slauson), Rod Cameron (Jack Chilson), Ross McGinn (Fred Southerland), Laurence Haddon (Braverman), Fritzi Burr (Maid), Dudley Knight (Agent). A real estate entrepreneur uses her former boyfriend -- an unwitting Jim Rockford -- to transport counterfeit money for a grandiose land scheme.

[CBS 9:30] Movie: Busting (1974)
W: Peter Hyams   D: Peter Hyams

With Elliott Gould, Robert Blake, Allen Garfield, Michael Lerner, Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, Logan Ramsey, Ivor Francis, Richard X. Slattery. Two cynical Los Angeles detectives on the vice squad are forced to arrest small-time addicts and hookers instead of the real kingpins because their police superiors are getting paid off. They decide to go after a big crime boss on their own, and quickly wind up in over their heads.

[NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: Vice: Twenty-Four Hours
Season 3, episode 10
W: Don Ingalls   D: Lee H. Katzin

With Ron Leibman (Ray Oberstar), Lane Bradbury (Sharon), Janis Paige (Mrs. Driscoll), Paul Burke (Lt. Barrett), Rudy Solari (Det. Romano), Shelly Novack (Danny Hicks), Ron Masak (Lt. Vukovich), Hari Rhodes (L.C. Madden), Marty Ingels (Marty Abbots), David Doyle (Ralph Driscoll). One vice squad officer fights to keep his wife alive, while another officer "agrees" to eliminate a civilian's wife.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1975)

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