Saturday May 15, 1976
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 15, 1976:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Jeffersons: George's Best Friend (R) Doc: The Rivalry (R) The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Lou Douses An Old Flame (R) The Bob Newhart Show: Carol At 6:01 (R) Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant
ABC TV Movie: Panache (1976) TV Movie: High Risk (1976)
NBC Emergency!: Tee Vee (R) Movie: White Lightning (1973)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: George's Best Friend
Season 2, episode 11
W: Calvin Kelly, Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell   D: Jack Shea

With Lou Gossett Jr. (Wendell Brown). George's old Navy buddy shows up at the house and makes a pass at Louise.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1975)

[ABC 8:00] TV Movie: Panache (1976)
W: E. Duke Vincent   D: Gary Nelson

With Rene Auberjonois, David Healy, Charles Frank, Charles Siebert, John Doucette, Amy Irving, Joseph Ruskin, Liam Dunn. In 17th-century France, palace guards protect King Louis XIII from his crafty cleric, Cardinal Richelieu. Pilot movie for a series.

[NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Tee Vee
Season 5, episode 11
W: John Groves   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With Gil Serna, Lin McCarthy, Heath Jobes (John Whitaker), Moosie Drier, Laurie Burton (Jane Ellis). Dr. Brackett faints during a consultation after being bitten by an aquarium catfish; a boy refuses to have a cut stitched.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1975)

[CBS 8:30] Doc [Reg]: The Rivalry
Season 1, episode 14
W: Bob Illes, James R. Stein   D: Jeff Bleckner
Doc's grandson sparks a rivalry between Doc and his son-in law Fred over their respective professions. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1975)

[CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Lou Douses An Old Flame
Season 6, episode 10
W: David Lloyd   D: Jay Sandrich

With Beverly Garland (Veronica Ludlow). Thirty years after sending him a "Dear John" letter, Lou Grant's old flame comes back into his life.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1975)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: White Lightning (1973)
W: William W. Norton   D: Joseph Sargent

With Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley, Ned Beatty, Bo Hopkins. A hot rod driver-moonshiner, currently doing some time in the penitentiary, learns that his brother has been killed and arranges a deal with the U.S. Treasury to be sprung from prison to help catch a corrupt sheriff.

[CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Carol At 6:01
Season 4, episode 17
W: Gordon Farr, Lynne Farr   D: Peter Bonerz

With Will Mackenzie (Larry Bondurant), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman). Bob contends with a patient's fixation that her bingo game is fixed, staggers through a series of weird stag poker parties, and watches in wonder as his secretary slowly smothers under an onslaught of love.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1976)

[ABC 9:30] TV Movie: High Risk (1976)
W: Robert Carrington   D: Sam O'Steen

With Victor Buono, Joseph Sirola, Don Stroud, Ronne Troup, Rene Enriquez, JoAnna Cameron. A troupe of former circus performers plot to steal a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC. Pilot for a series.

[CBS 10:00] Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant [special]
With Englebert Humperdinck. The 25th annual festivities from Niagara Falls, N.Y. Bob Barker and Helen O'Donnell co-host.

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