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NBC Schedule Thursday, October 20, 1977 (with YouTube link)

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RALfan

All Times EST

7:00 Today
9:00 Local Programming
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12:00 To Say the Least
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Local Programming
1:30 Days of our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 The Gong Show
4:30 Local Programming

NBC Nightly News airs at 6:30 or 7:00

8:00 CHiPs "Career Day"
9:00 The Richard Pryor Show
10:00 Rosetti and Ryan "Is There a Lawyer in the House?"
11:00 Local Programming
11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1:00 The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0n9qsf4BA

Sources:

The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television by Wesley Hyatt
The Complete Guide of The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
TV.com http://www.tv.com
 
RALfan said:
All Times EST

9:00 The Richard Pryor Show
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I'm almost certain that by this date, The Richard Pryor Show was already history. It only lasted 4 episodes, with the last airing in the first week of October. It also aired on Tuesdays at 8 pm, not Thursdays at 9 pm. (Imagine putting Pryor, with his track record, on at 8 -- what were they thinking?) If it appears at this date and time on a schedule, I can only figure they planned to move it to Thursdays, sent out the schedules, then canceled the show before the change took place.

RALfan said:
10:00 Rosetti and Ryan "Is There a Lawyer in the House?"
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Another short-lived show -- wow, one I haven't thought about in years. The October 20 episode was the 4th of 7 -- the last would air November 10.
 
1977...that was quite a summer/fall for New Yorkers. That summer had the Son of Sam killings and the August blackout with the rampant looting. And two days before this schedule, the deciding game (Game 6) of the World Series (Dodgers-Yankees), which for the first time in ages was not on NBC, but on ABC. That was the game in which Reggie Jackson ("Reg-gie! Reg-gie!") hit 3 first-pitch home runs in three at-bats. Also the Series during which (in Game 2), Howard Cosell caught sight of a warehouse fire from the blimp camera and uttered his famous over the top pronouncement, "Ladies and gentlemen...the Bronx is burning!" (Which gave the title to the ESPN mini-series about that October classic.)

Also, for fans of Southern Rock, October 20 was the day three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash in Mississippi.
 
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