Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 17, 1976:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Mother Jefferson's Fall
Season 2, episode 5 W: Erik Tarloff D: Jack Shea With Hilda Haynes (Alice), Maidie Norman (Rachel), Estelle Evans (Mary), Dorothy Butts (Bernice), Ruth Lee (Dorothy). Nobody seems to have time for Mother Jefferson, so she resorts to desperate measures to get some attention. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1975)
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| [ABC 8:00] Sports Special: The Olympic Champions And Challengers
Telly Savalas hosts a program focusing on the great athletes of the U.S. and Russia.
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]
A diver has a heart attack while being treated for the bends.
(Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: Doc Heal Thyself
Season 1, episode 10 W: Glen Charles, Les Charles D: Joan Darling With Merie Earle (Miss Sykes), Herbie Faye (Goldman), Richard Masur (Dr. Kramer), Jenny Hill (Miss Thompson). Doc is felled by a mysterious malady and a super-efficient lady doctor takes over his Westside Clinic practice. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1975)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Mary Richards Falls In Love
Season 6, episode 11 W: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels D: Jay Sandrich With Ted Bessell (Joe Warner), Valerie Harper (Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard), David Groh (Joe Gerard), Beth Howland (Joan), Michael Perotta (Waiter). It isn't spring, but Mary's heart couldn't care what season it is when she falls in love with a man who believes in expressing his emotions publicly. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] S.W.A.T. [Reg]: Criss-Cross
Season 2, episode 6 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Fernando Lamas With Carl Betz (Senator Colby), Jack Hogan (Frank), Neva Patterson (Ellen Stafford), Monica Gayle (Kathy), Carl Weathers (Ed), Steve Morgan (Arnold Stokes), Sandor Johnson (Joe Winters), Duffy Hambleton (Cal), Murray Matheson (Armand), Peter Breck (Marco), Luke Askew (Todd), Frank Parker (Larry Walker), Anthony James (Lonzo), Jean Gillespie (Betty Walker), Arthur Adams (Captain Evans), Ed Peck (Captain Salter). A financially-ruined ex-senator who led the heist of his own firm in which two cops were slain, pretends to assist in the investigation. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), part two
W: James Lee Barrett, George Stevens D: George Stevens With Max Von Sydow, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Telly Savalas, John Wayne, David McCallum, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, Roddy McDowall, Donald Pleasence. The conclusion of the dramatic presentation of the Christ story, detailing His mission on earth and the events leading to the Crucifixion.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Carol's Wedding
Season 4, episode 6 W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr D: Michael Zinberg With Will Mackenzie (Larry Bondurant), Vincent Milana (Moving Man #1), Ric Mancini (Moving Man #2), Pat Cranshaw (Old Gentleman), Robert Casper (Judge Tanner). A torrid blind date culminates in Carol Kester's marriage to a handsome travel agent. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
With Tony Randall, Dick Van Dyke. Dick and Tony join Carol in a salute to Ira Gershwin; Van Dyke dances to "Ballin' the Jack" and performs as a door-to-door salesman facing irate housewife Carol. Randall scores in a hand-signal routine fouling up the messages to wife Carol. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 10:00] Medicine And Money
An examination of tax-funded medical programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, looking at their quality, cost and the bonanza they have become to providers of health care.
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