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Show September 1, 1977 ((thursday)) EVENING 6:00 OOOCDNEWS QZOOM 6:30 O HOGAN'S HEROES O CONCENTRATION Q PRICE IS RIGHT O ONCE UPON A CLASSIC "Little Lord Fauntleroy" Episode Three. Cedric, still unaware that the old earl intends in-tends to ignore his mother, begins to learn what being the heir to a title entails. As a test of the boy's mettle, the earl has selected a frisky pony for him to ride. CD MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 7:00 Q COMEDY TIME "Rubber Gun Squad" When a young man attempts to hold up a streetwalker and then the meteorologist at the park weather station, members of the Rubber Gun Squad arrive on the scene and learn that the culprit is attempting to get to Kennedy Airport where he plans to hijack a plane. Stars: Andy Romano, Lenny Baker. O WELCOME BACK, HOTTER HOT-TER "The Littlest Sweathog" There are mixed emotions at the Kotter apartment when Gabe learns Julie is expecting a baby. Meanwhile, the Sweathogs are excited and await the arrival of their little buddy. (R) O THE WALTONS John-Boy is mesmerized by the striking contrast between New York City and Walton's Mountain when the impatient writer goes to the big city in hopes of finding out if his finally completed com-pleted novel will be published. (R) O UTAH WEEKEND CD UNCOMMON VALOR 7:30 O COMEDY TIME "Good Penny" Pen-ny" Renee Taylor stars in this comedy as a pregnant housewife and mother of two whose estrangement from her husband compels her to leave her home in search of a paying ob. Q WHAT'S HAPPENING!! "Dwayne's Dilemma" -Dwayne doesn't know what to do when his pretty date's ex-boyfriend, a mean dude named Darryl, threatens him with bodily harm if he takes the lovely girl out again. And he has to decide what'to do pretty fast because she's just agreed to date him the following night. (R) O MACNEIL'LEHRER REPORT CD DEATH: PERSONAL FRONTIERS 8:00 O THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK Bell System presentation presenta-tion starring Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Jenny Agutter. Based on swashbuckling tale of a man who is forced to wear a terrible iron mask because he so closely resembles his twin brother-King Louis XIV of France. (R) O BARNEY MILLER "Hash" Wojohowicz brings in a batch of cookies baked by his girlfriend and they have a strange effect on the detectives detec-tives who eat them. (R) O MOVIE "The Young Savages" 1961 Burt Lancaster, Dina Merill. An Idealistic D.A. battles all odds to see that justice is carried out in street-gang street-gang slaying. O KEY TO THE UNIVERSE Breakthroughs recently achieved by physicists and astrophysicists toward understanding the laws of creation, atomic structures and the mysteries of how the universe came into being are examined in a two-hour presentation. CD ANTIQUES "Stevengraphs" 8:30 O MOVIE "Firehouse"' 1972 Richard Roundtree, Vince Edwards. Ed-wards. Tense situation develops when, after death of fireman, fire station accepts black rookie as probational replacement. CD ERICA "Creatures Wild and Tame" are featured in this week's creations. 9:00 CD MASTERPIECE THEATRE The rags-to-riches life of English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) unfolds in the 10-week series "Dickens of London". In "The Deed", an aging ag-ing and ill Dickens reminisces while abroad on a lecture tour about his penniless childhood brought about by his irresponsible irrespon-sible father. 10:00 0O0NEWS O MASTERPIECE THEATRE The rags-to-riches life of English author Charles Dickens (1812-1870) unfolds in the 10-week series "Dickens of London". In "The Deed", an aging ag-ing and ill Dickens reminisces while abroad on a lecture tour about his penniless childhood brought about by his irresponsible irrespon-sible father. CD MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 10:30 Q THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guest: (FH2) EVENING 6:00 GO CD NEWS O NFL PRE-SEASON FOOTBALL FOOT-BALL ABC Sports will provide live coverage of the game between bet-ween the Chicago Bears and the St. Louis Cardinals from St. Louis, Missouri. QZOOM 6:30 O HOGAN'S HEROES Q BREAK THE BANK O FIESTA LATINA CD MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 7:00 O SANFORD AND SON "Fred Meets Redd" Fred's accountant accoun-tant tries to get him to complete com-plete his income tax forms and avoid a late payment penalty, but all that Fred's interested in is winning a Redd Foxx look-alike look-alike contest. (R) O THE KEANE BROTHERS SHOW Guest star: Bob Keane (former bandleader and father of Tom and John). O CONSUMER SURVIVAL KIT "Lawn and Order" Lawn seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and the tools needed in order to develop a good lawn are a few of the items Rhea Feikin and Bob Smith cover. (D MOVIE "Pigskin Parade" 1936 Judy Garland, Jack Haley. A crazy football musicomedy at college. 7:30 Q CHICO AND THE MAN "Matchmaker, Matchmaker" Chico and Delia decide that Ed needs some female companionship compa-nionship to smooth his rough edges, and sure enough, when Peggy Randall asks a favor, Ed is changed into a gallant garageman. (R) Q THE STARLAND VOCAL BAND SHOW O MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 8:00 Don Rickles. O S.W.A.T.-THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL S.W.A.T-"Any Second Now" Time bombs are planted throughout a radio station by killers. Thursday Night Special-"The Third Annual Miss Las Vegas Showgirl Pageant" Host: Steve Allen. Commentator: Rose Marie. Judges: Jayne Meadows, Louis Nye, Prof. Jrwin Corey. (R) CD UNCOMMON VALOR 10:40 O U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS CHAM-PIONSHIPS Featuring update and tournament highlights, with Pat Summerall providing the commentary. (From The West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N Y.) 10:55 0 GUNSMOKE 11:00 O WOMAN "Sexual Abuse of Children" Linda Sanford, founder and director of the Rape Prevention Forum in Seattle, Wash., and author Florence Rush discuss ways to warn and protect children against possible molestation. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:55 Q F.B.I. 12:00 O TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guests: Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz (former Monkees), Carroll Stoner. Joanne Park (authors). 12:55 Q NEWS O THE ROCKFORD FILtS "There's One in Every Port" When $200,000 is stolen from a private poker party in which Jim is a participant, he realizes that he's been duped by a father-daughter team of swindlers and sets in motion a scheme of his own. (R) O THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE "I Want to Keep My Baby" Mariel Hemingway, Susan Anspach. The drama revolves around a 15-year-old girl who discovers that she is pregnant and makes the momentous decision to have the baby and raise it herself. (R) Q WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW 8:30 O WALL STREET WEEK Host: Louis Rukeyser. "The Fixed Income Alternative" Guest: H. Russell Fraser, vice-president and manager of fixed income research for Paine, Webber, Jackson and Curtis, Inc. (D OPERA THEATRE "Die Fledermaus" The waltzes of Johann Strauss highlight this beloved light-opera comedy of errors, set in old Vienna. Raymond Ray-mond Leppard conducts the New Philharmonic Orchestra in this lavish BBC production. 9:00 Q QUINCY "A Good Smack in the Mouth" When the wife of Quincy's boss is hospitalized following an accident, Quincy discovers that her passenger-a passenger-a runaway hitchhiker is a victim vic-tim of child abuse and sets out to build a case against the child's mother. (R) O SPECIAL: BAY CITY ROLLERS O EVENING AT POPS Musical comedy stage star Ethel Merman sings tunes from her Broadway hits "Annie Get Your Gun", "Anything Goes" and "Gypsy". Arthur Fiedler leads the Pops Orchestra Or-chestra in tunes by Irving Berlin and Kurt Weill as well 5 The Hindenburg, one of Germany's luxury Zeppelins, unexpectedly crashed while landing in New Jersey after a 1937 Atlantic trip, a scene from 'THE HINDENBURG,' an adventure drama on 'The Big Event' Tuesday, Sept. 6 on NBC-TV. 'WASHINGTON: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS," a gripping contemporary drama exploring explor-ing the corruption spawned by pursuit of power in the nation's capital, based in part on John Ehrlichman's book, 'The Company,' will air as a 12-part 'ABC Novel for Television' starting Tuesday, Sept. 6. Cliff Robertson, Jason Robards and Robert Vaughn (l-r) head a cast of major personalities with other key roles portrayed by Andy Griffith. Stefanie Powers. Harold Gould, John Houseman, Lois Nettleton, Barry Nelson and Tony Bill. t . . - ..v - '"i |