Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 5, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Great Motorcycle Race
Season 5, episode 10 W: John Joseph D: Richard Thomas With Rachel Longaker (Aimee Godsey), Lewis Charles (Eddie Stoker), Eileen McDonough (Patsy Brimmer). Following in the footsteps of hs idol Charles Lindbergh, Jim-Bob enters a tough motorcycle race against the wishes of his mother and grandmother. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/18/1976)
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Gabe Under Pressure
Season 2, episode 6 W: George Yanok D: Jay Sandrich With Carole Androsky (Miss Matusak). Gabe is afraid to get a physical when the free clinic comes to Buchanan High. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Black Sheep Squadron [Reg]: New Georgia On My Mind
Season 1, episode 11 W: Ken Pettus D: Jeannot Szwarc With James Luisi (Col. Hutton), William Lucking (Sgt. Callahan), John Davey (Third Marine), Muni Zano (Rouva), Ken Lesco (First Marine), Dennis Madalone (Second Marine). A tough Marine colonel leads his paratroopers in a landing on Vella la Cava, then tells Pappy Boyington they're taking over. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1976)
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Puppy Love
Season 1, episode 10 W: Bill Richmond, Gene Perret D: Mark Warren With Thalmus Rasulala (Bill Thomas), Ta-Tanisha (Patrice Williams). Mama misunderstands when Raj takes on a tutoring job in hopes of getting a pedigreed puppy, and calls on her ex-husband to talk to their "errant" son. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/30/1976)
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Practical Jokes Can Kill You
Season 9, episode 24 W: Bill Stratton D: Ernest Pintoff With Norman Wright (Walter Bemsley), Lee Purcell (Molly Taggart), Charles Frank (Todd Seymour), Barry Russo (Abilleno), Chuck-Chuck Akamine (Joko), Dane Taylor (Benjie), Lani Kim Wolter (Lani), Jeff Kennedy (Col. Westmore), Brad Dugan (Cpl. Hawpes), Terence Brady (Sgt. Sperry), Allan Rich (Lou Marvin). A team of crooks, intent on stealing M-16 rifles and selling them to terrorists, forces a pair of hang-gliding pranksters to help them.
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| [ABC 9:00] Love Boat III [special]
Comedy pilot starring Gavin McLeod. The lives of the crew members and passengers aboard the Pacific Princess cruise ship are brought together in romance and comedy.
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| [NBC 9:00] Richard Pryor Special [special]
With John Belushi, Maya Angelou, LaWanda Page, Shirley Hemphill, Mike Evans, Glynn Turman, The Pips. A takeoff on blues singers; the Pips perform "Midnight Train to Georgia" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"; poet Maya Angelou portrays a drunken man's wife.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Duet For Danger
Season 5, episode 22 W: Gerald Sanford D: Leslie H. Martinson With Cassie Yates (Ruby Connors), Mary Ann Chinn (Pearl Connors), Ray Danton (Nick DeMarco), Bryan Montgomery (Lester Gibson), Andy Jarrell (Johnny Blue), Quinn Redeker (Ben Kingston), Mark Thomas (Murray), Barbara Mallory (Mary Beth Wells), Paul Picerni (Stan Toland), Gloria Manon (Maxine), Clark Howat (Minister), Tony Ballen (Smiley Olswanger). Barnaby is again on the trail of the Starshine Sisters, who escape from prison and head for Nashville.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Dead Lift
Season 5, episode 20 W: Larry Brody D: Michael Preece With Arnold Schwarzenegger (Josef Schmidt), Diana Muldaur (Judith Winters), Bert Freed (Mr. Jenks), Larry Mahan (Henry Wilcox), Frances Rafferty (Maxine), Hilary Thompson (Irene Lupoff), Peter Brandon (Paul Allen), Jerry Ayres (David Garver), Brendan Burns (John Kopecki), Eddie Ryder (Jim Barnotti), Florence Sundstrom (Lydia Beauchamps), Larry Delaney (Sergeant Andrews), Barry Cahill (Colonel Langley), Victor Izay (Tony Lawler), William Bronder (Pappy Thompson), Irene Robinson (Riva Allen). A bodybuilder is dangerously sensitive to criticism of his vocation.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Chevy Chase Show [special]
With Tim Conway, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ken Norton, Jack LaLanne, Duane Bobick, Jimmy Ellis, The Shapiro Sisters. Comedy-variety special.
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