Thursday June 16, 1977
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday June 16, 1977:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Foundling (R) Hawaii Five-O: Man On Fire (R) Barnaby Jones: Sister Of Death (R)
ABC Welcome Back, Kotter: Radio Free Freddie (R) What's Happening: The Burger Queen (R) Barney Miller: Abduction (R) Fish: Fish's Job (R) The Streets Of San Francisco: The Canine Collar
NBC The Fantastic Journey: The Innocent Prey TV Movie: The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977)


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[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Foundling
Season 1, episode 1
W: John McGreevey   D: Vincent Sherman

With Erica Hunton (Holly Collier), Richard Kelton (Anson Collier), Tammi Bula (Marcia Woolery), Charlotte Stewart (Ruth Collier). Series about a family living in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia during the Depression years; their hopes, desires and relationships and the people who make up their community. The family was introduced in the TV movie pilot, "The Homecoming" which was based on the 1963 movie, "Spencer's Mountain". In the first episode, a woman abandons her young daughter on the Waltons' doorstep without her husband's knowledge, and the head of the house feels he must turn the child over to the county home.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1972)

[ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Radio Free Freddie
Season 2, episode 21
W: Peter Meyerson, Neil Rosen, George Yanok   D: Bob Lahendro

With George Carlin (Wally 'The Wow' Wechsel), Fred Grandy (Andy), Marcie Barkin (Groupie). Freddy's success as a part time disc jockey arouses jealousy among the Sweathogs.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1977)

[NBC 8:00] The Fantastic Journey [Reg]: The Innocent Prey
Season 1, episode 10
W: Robert Hamilton   D: Vincent McEveety

With Lew Ayres (Rayat), Richard Jaeckel (York), Nicholas Hammond (Tye), Jim Poyner (Roland), Cheryl Ladd (Natica), Burt Douglas (Pilot), Gerald McRaney (Co-Pilot). The travelers unwittingly bring criminals to a colony where the concept of evil is unknown. (Last show of the series.)

[ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: The Burger Queen
Season 1, episode 6
W: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein   D: Dick Harwood

With Dick Van Patten (Mr. Claxton), David White (Reynolds), Robbie Rist (John Stevens), Allison McKay (Mrs. Stevens). Rerun's visions of greatness as the official "Bridge Burger Spokesman" are dampened when Dee steps in and appears to have the job in the bag.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1976)

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Man On Fire
Season 9, episode 5
W: Stephen Kandel   D: Gordon Hessler

With Pat Hingle (Dr. Grant Ormsbee), John Hillerman (Donald Blair), Alan Fudge (Piet deGroot), Wayne Oxford (Dolby), Elizabeth Smith (Mrs. Kapehala), Camille Yamamoto (Marston), George Playdon (Dr. Larch), Ann Ramos (Janice), Paulette Franco (Barbara Soong), Carl Smith (Blake), John Gary (Grainger), Pauly Gardner (Peg Wilson), Lynn Howell Morse (Leila Kapehala), Jim Doney (Dr. Gleason), Tamar Cooper (Julia). Five bodies are found in the Mauna Loa crater and the mystery becomes even more startling to McGarrett when he discovers who they were and what caused their deaths.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1976)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Abduction
Season 3, episode 16
W: Tom Reeder, Tony Sheehan, Reinhold Weege   D: Bruce Bilson

With Florence Stanley (Bernice Fish), David Clennon (Bodhisattva), Rod Colbin (Joe Wheaton), Vivi Janiss (Lois Wheaton), Buddy Lester (Sidney the Bookie), Jane Alice Brandon (Barbara Lynn Wheaton). The parents of a runaway girl attempt to snatch her from her new religious cult, and Barney has to work out a reconciliation.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1977)

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977)
W: Philip DeGuere   D: Russ Mayberry

With Cliff De Young, Glenn Ford, Blair Brown, David Spielberg, Priscilla Pointer, Brendan Dillon. Secret courier Matt Considine accepts the mission to escort chief witness Dvorak and his wife from San Francisco to a trial in New York. They have to cover 3,000 dangerous miles.

[ABC 9:30] Fish [Reg]: Fish's Job
Season 1, episode 5
W: Barbara Corday, Barbara Avedon   D: Dennis Steinmetz

With Richard Schaal (Dunnagan), Wendy Schaal (Peggy). Fish contemplates a second job as an insurance agent while Mike is trying to fend off the amorous advances of a neighborhood girl and placate her angry father.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1977)

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Sister Of Death
Season 5, episode 11
W: Gerry Day, Bethel Leslie   D: Michael Caffey

With Sheila Larken (Sister Terry), Katherine Justice (Suzanne Montaigne), Jack Ging (Dave Hendricks), Jonathan Lippe (Mr. T), Fred Sadoff (Freddy Fairfield), Skip Homeier (Col. John), Laurel Barnett (Rita Carbone), Maria Cale (Adelina), Danny Sue Nolan (Nurse McKay), Sally Marr (Marie Holcomb). Barnaby confronts the controversial subject of euthanasia when a young nun is suspected of pulling the plug on the life-support machine that kept her incurably ill sister alive.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/6/1977)

[ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: The Canine Collar
Season 5, episode 24
W: Robert Malcolm Young   D: Harry Falk

With Reuben Collins (Inspector Tanner), Dennis Patrick (Dr. Thompson), Kaz Garas (Thor Olafson), Claire Brennan (Betty Richley), Bruce Neckels (Andy Wilson), Tom Ormeny (Walechi), Robert Behling (Jacob), George Dzundza (Paul Weber), Curt Lowens (Capt Gregory), Dean Santoro (Fred Spears), Jack Stauffer (Conrad), Alexander Courtney. Stone and Robbins track a killer on a crowded ocean liner, with help from the victim's dog. (Last show of the series.)

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