Monday, September 20, 1976
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
MORNING
5:40
2—Down to Earth
5:45
2—Intersect
6:00
2—Captain Kangaroo
6—Farm and Home Report
6:30
6—Good Day
6:45
4—Farm Report
7:00
2—CBS Morning News
4—Good Morning America
(David Hartman, Nancy Dussault)
6—Today
(Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley)
8:00
2—The Mike Douglas Show
Co-Host: John Byner. Guests: Jazz guitarist George Benson, actor Robert Conrad, Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra, comedienne Phyllis Diller, magician Mercer Helms, gymnast Jody Kline.
9:00
2—The Price Is Right
4—The Phil Donahue Show
Maxine Schnall and Robert Rosend discuss the “Wives’ Self-Help Hotline” and problems that women encounter in their marriages.
6—Sanford and Son
9:30
6—Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:00
2—Gambit
4—The $20,000 Pyramid
6—Wheel of Fortune
10:30
2—Love of Life
4—Happy Days
6—The Hollywood Squares
10:55
2—CBS News
11:00
2—The Young and the Restless
4—Hot Seat
6—Fun Factory
11:30
2—Search for Tomorrow
4—Family Feud
6—Kaleidoscope
11:55
6—NBC News
AFTERNOON
Noon
2—Channel 2 News
4—Dialing for Dollars
6—Somerset
12:25
2—Take Kerr
12:30
2—As the World Turns
4—All My Children
6—Days of Our Lives
1:00
4—Ryan’s Hope
1:30
2—Guiding Light
4—One Life to Live
6—The Doctors
2:15
4—General Hospital
2:30
2—Match Game ’76
3:00
2—Superman
4—The Edge of Night
6—The Big Valley
3:30
2—The New Mickey Mouse Club
4—MOVIE: “Illegal”
(1955) Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch. A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
7—Lilias, Yoga and You
4:00
2—The Brady Bunch
6—The Merv Griffin Show
Alan Sues, Milt Kamen, Stan Kann, comic Stewie Stone.
7—Sesame Street
4:30
2—The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show
5:00
4—Thrillseekers
7—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
5:30
2—Channel 2 News
4—News Scene
6—Q-6 News Alive
7—The Electric Company
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
4—Monday Night Football
Live coverage of a game between the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs from Kansas City, Missouri.
6—NBC Nightly News
(John Chancellor, David Brinkley)
7—Zoom
6:30
2—My Three Sons
6—Concentration
7—Villa Alegre
7:00
2—Adam-12
6—The Odd Couple
7—Book Beat
7:30
2—The Hollywood Squares
6—The $128,000 Question
7—The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2—Rhoda
“The Separation.” As the third season opens, the Gerards’ marriage hits the skids when, following a house-hunting expedition, Joe vetoes Rhoda's choice of a dream house. Rhoda: Valerie Harper. Ida: Nancy Walker. Joe: David Groh. Brenda: Julie Kavner.
6—NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “Airport 1975
(1974) Charlton Heston, Karen Black. When a small private plane collides over The Rockies with a passenger-laden jumbo jet, a stewardess takes control until efforts can be made to place a pilot on board via a mid-air transfer. Joe Patroni: George Kennedy. Captain Stacy: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
7—The Adams Chronicles
“Chapter One: ‘John Adams, Lawyer’ (1758-1770) Debut: Profiling four generations of the American family. Chapter One traces the coming of age of John Adams (George Grizzard) and of the independence movement in the American colonies. Abigail: Kathryn Walker.
8:30
2—Phyllis
In the second-season opener, Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) makes an exciting career change when she unexpectedly becomes the administrative assistant to a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (Carmine Caridi). Paul Jameson: John Ritter. Jonathan: Henry Jones.
9:00
2—Maude
“Vivian’s First Funeral.” In the fifth-season opener, Vivian (Rue McClanahan) is traumatized when she must attend her first funeral. Maude: Beatrice Arthur. MacDonald: Arny Freeman. Malcolm Flanagan: Richard McMurray.
4—Dinah!
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, Pratt and McClain.
7—In Performance at Wolf Trap
“La Traviata.” Beverly Sills and Richard Fredericks star in this new production of Verdi’s opera, performed by the San Diego Opera Company.
9:30
2—All’s Fair
“Strange Bedfellows.” Debut: Can a sophisticated, ultraconservative 49-year-old political columnist find happiness in the Washington, D.C. fishbowl with an earthy, emotional, ultraliberal photographer? The answer seems to be “maybe” as Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters star as the columnist and photographer in the premiere of this comedy series.
10:00
2—Executive Suite
“Re: The Secret.” Debut: The drama presents interpersonal conflicts of executives, office workers, factory hands and their families against the backdrop of a large corporation. In the opener, crises arise for the company president: his new board nominee is greeted with fierce opposition, and a terrorist's bomb rocks his plant. Walling: Mitchell Ryan. Helen: Sharon Acker. Howell Rutledge: Stephen Elliott. Desmond: Richard Cox.
4—The Captain and Tennille
Debut: The Grammy-Award winning team of Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille are the stars of this diversified, upbeat variety series. The guests for the premiere episode are Jackie Gleason, Ron Palillo, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs and Penny Marshall.
6—Van Dyke and Company
Dick Van Dyke, the Emmy-Award-winning comedian and all-around entertainer, returns to TV in his first weekly comedy-variety series. Guests on this premiere show include Flip Wilson and Chevy Chase.
11:00
2—Channel 2 News
4—News Scene
6—Q-6 News Alive
11:30
2—The CBS Late Movie: “The Virginia Hill Story”
(TV, 1974) Dyan Cannon, Allen Garfield. Story based on fact, about Virginia Hill, who abandons a life of poverty and abuse in the South to make a new life in Chicago. Harvey Keitel. (Repeat)
4—Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
6—The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Guest Host: Shelley Winters. Guests: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Geoffrey Holder, Desi Arnaz, Vicky Fletcher, Howard Teichman.
7—ABC Captioned News
Midnight
4—MOVIE: “The Kashmiri Run”
(1970) Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastedo. An American adventurer leads another man and a girl on an escape route out of Chinese communist-occupied Tibet.
1:00
6—Tomorrow
Host: Tom Snyder. A demonstration of video golf, an electronic method of helping golfers to practice.
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
MORNING
5:40
2—Down to Earth
5:45
2—Intersect
6:00
2—Captain Kangaroo
6—Farm and Home Report
6:30
6—Good Day
6:45
4—Farm Report
7:00
2—CBS Morning News
4—Good Morning America
(David Hartman, Nancy Dussault)
6—Today
(Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley)
8:00
2—The Mike Douglas Show
Co-Host: John Byner. Guests: Jazz guitarist George Benson, actor Robert Conrad, Maynard Ferguson and His Orchestra, comedienne Phyllis Diller, magician Mercer Helms, gymnast Jody Kline.
9:00
2—The Price Is Right
4—The Phil Donahue Show
Maxine Schnall and Robert Rosend discuss the “Wives’ Self-Help Hotline” and problems that women encounter in their marriages.
6—Sanford and Son
9:30
6—Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:00
2—Gambit
4—The $20,000 Pyramid
6—Wheel of Fortune
10:30
2—Love of Life
4—Happy Days
6—The Hollywood Squares
10:55
2—CBS News
11:00
2—The Young and the Restless
4—Hot Seat
6—Fun Factory
11:30
2—Search for Tomorrow
4—Family Feud
6—Kaleidoscope
11:55
6—NBC News
AFTERNOON
Noon
2—Channel 2 News
4—Dialing for Dollars
6—Somerset
12:25
2—Take Kerr
12:30
2—As the World Turns
4—All My Children
6—Days of Our Lives
1:00
4—Ryan’s Hope
1:30
2—Guiding Light
4—One Life to Live
6—The Doctors
2:15
4—General Hospital
2:30
2—Match Game ’76
3:00
2—Superman
4—The Edge of Night
6—The Big Valley
3:30
2—The New Mickey Mouse Club
4—MOVIE: “Illegal”
(1955) Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch. A DA falls apart when his machinations send an innocent man to the chair.
7—Lilias, Yoga and You
4:00
2—The Brady Bunch
6—The Merv Griffin Show
Alan Sues, Milt Kamen, Stan Kann, comic Stewie Stone.
7—Sesame Street
4:30
2—The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show
5:00
4—Thrillseekers
7—Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
5:30
2—Channel 2 News
4—News Scene
6—Q-6 News Alive
7—The Electric Company
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
4—Monday Night Football
Live coverage of a game between the Oakland Raiders and the Kansas City Chiefs from Kansas City, Missouri.
6—NBC Nightly News
(John Chancellor, David Brinkley)
7—Zoom
6:30
2—My Three Sons
6—Concentration
7—Villa Alegre
7:00
2—Adam-12
6—The Odd Couple
7—Book Beat
7:30
2—The Hollywood Squares
6—The $128,000 Question
7—The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2—Rhoda
“The Separation.” As the third season opens, the Gerards’ marriage hits the skids when, following a house-hunting expedition, Joe vetoes Rhoda's choice of a dream house. Rhoda: Valerie Harper. Ida: Nancy Walker. Joe: David Groh. Brenda: Julie Kavner.
6—NBC Monday Night at the Movies: “Airport 1975
(1974) Charlton Heston, Karen Black. When a small private plane collides over The Rockies with a passenger-laden jumbo jet, a stewardess takes control until efforts can be made to place a pilot on board via a mid-air transfer. Joe Patroni: George Kennedy. Captain Stacy: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
7—The Adams Chronicles
“Chapter One: ‘John Adams, Lawyer’ (1758-1770) Debut: Profiling four generations of the American family. Chapter One traces the coming of age of John Adams (George Grizzard) and of the independence movement in the American colonies. Abigail: Kathryn Walker.
8:30
2—Phyllis
In the second-season opener, Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) makes an exciting career change when she unexpectedly becomes the administrative assistant to a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (Carmine Caridi). Paul Jameson: John Ritter. Jonathan: Henry Jones.
9:00
2—Maude
“Vivian’s First Funeral.” In the fifth-season opener, Vivian (Rue McClanahan) is traumatized when she must attend her first funeral. Maude: Beatrice Arthur. MacDonald: Arny Freeman. Malcolm Flanagan: Richard McMurray.
4—Dinah!
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke, Carl Reiner, Pratt and McClain.
7—In Performance at Wolf Trap
“La Traviata.” Beverly Sills and Richard Fredericks star in this new production of Verdi’s opera, performed by the San Diego Opera Company.
9:30
2—All’s Fair
“Strange Bedfellows.” Debut: Can a sophisticated, ultraconservative 49-year-old political columnist find happiness in the Washington, D.C. fishbowl with an earthy, emotional, ultraliberal photographer? The answer seems to be “maybe” as Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters star as the columnist and photographer in the premiere of this comedy series.
10:00
2—Executive Suite
“Re: The Secret.” Debut: The drama presents interpersonal conflicts of executives, office workers, factory hands and their families against the backdrop of a large corporation. In the opener, crises arise for the company president: his new board nominee is greeted with fierce opposition, and a terrorist's bomb rocks his plant. Walling: Mitchell Ryan. Helen: Sharon Acker. Howell Rutledge: Stephen Elliott. Desmond: Richard Cox.
4—The Captain and Tennille
Debut: The Grammy-Award winning team of Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennille are the stars of this diversified, upbeat variety series. The guests for the premiere episode are Jackie Gleason, Ron Palillo, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs and Penny Marshall.
6—Van Dyke and Company
Dick Van Dyke, the Emmy-Award-winning comedian and all-around entertainer, returns to TV in his first weekly comedy-variety series. Guests on this premiere show include Flip Wilson and Chevy Chase.
11:00
2—Channel 2 News
4—News Scene
6—Q-6 News Alive
11:30
2—The CBS Late Movie: “The Virginia Hill Story”
(TV, 1974) Dyan Cannon, Allen Garfield. Story based on fact, about Virginia Hill, who abandons a life of poverty and abuse in the South to make a new life in Chicago. Harvey Keitel. (Repeat)
4—Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
6—The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Guest Host: Shelley Winters. Guests: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Geoffrey Holder, Desi Arnaz, Vicky Fletcher, Howard Teichman.
7—ABC Captioned News
Midnight
4—MOVIE: “The Kashmiri Run”
(1970) Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastedo. An American adventurer leads another man and a girl on an escape route out of Chinese communist-occupied Tibet.
1:00
6—Tomorrow
Host: Tom Snyder. A demonstration of video golf, an electronic method of helping golfers to practice.