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Show l - ((Saturday)) OD 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. 9:00 O SWITCH Pete and Mac act as executors and impartial referees when a wealthy racketeer leaves his entire fortune for-tune to be divided by the three women who were in his life. (R) O AUSTIN CITY LIMITS "Firefall and Denim" two groups on the rise, share the spotlight. Firefall performs pop music with a country flavor and Denim combines traces of jazz, country and rock 'n' roll. 08 MOVIE "Pigskin Parade" 1936 Judy Garland, Jack Haley. A crazy football musicomedy at college. 10:00 OONEWS Q PBS MOVIE THEATRE "Last Holiday" 1950 Alec Guinness, Guin-ness, Kay Walsh. A salesman decides to make the time count when he is told he has only a short time to live. 10:30 O MOVIE "Cry Rape" 1972 An CMnnSlS BY JOEYSASSO- CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: The ghost of Freddie Prinze drove Tonv Orlando out of show business. Tony told me that "I woke up in the middle of the night and talked to Freddie. The last time I .spoke to him I told him that his death had given me a new mission in life that I have to devote myself to saving other people from doing what he did.'' Orlando. 33. stunned even his closest friends when he announted at a concert in Cohasset. MA. that he was leaving the stage for good "All the shows I do from now on will be with a guitar beside a hospital bed as a servant of God.'' he said emotionally. "I ve cancelled all my engagements for the rest of this year, and next year too.'' Tony said calmly Tm going to spend all my time from now on at hospitals for the emotionally disturbed, working with patients on a one-to-one basis. I want them to get the message I couldn't give Freddie that suicide isn't the way out " . . . Mrs. Maria Pruetzel, Freddie Prinze's mother, was not impressed with Tony Orlando's declarations of friendship with her son. "Tony was no friend of Freddie's at all.'' she said recently. "He hadn't even talked to him in the last six months before he died. At the funeral, when Tony acted so bereaved, it made me sick to my stomach." Mrs. Pruetzel announced recently that she intends to write a book proving that Freddie did not commit suicide. She is currently in a legal battle with Freddie's insurance companies, who are withholding payment of over $500,000 life insurance. EYE ON TV: When Cher wants a hamburger, money is no obiect Recently, she pulled into Fatburgers' of L A with nothing smaller than a $100 bill. A sign over the cash register warned that hundred smacker bills would not be accepted. Cher ate anyway, left the $100. and said she'd come back for change. So far. Cher hasn't showed . . . True, she's put on some weight, but at 60, Dinah Shore is still one good-looking woman. The man in her life these days is Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi. She's giving him tennis lessons and he's paying for them with pounds and pounds of Beluga caviar . . . Barbi Benton, Hugh Hefner's ex. was a big hit in Japan, but her poor actor-boyfriend Andrew Prine felt like a big nobody. Barbi is a star over there thanks to her new country and western album, but they never heard of Andy. Barbi will soon be a big star here via her upcoming TV series 'Sugar Time!' . . . Here's more about Sonny Bono, 42, planning to marry his girlfriend, Susie Coelho, 23, live on NBC. There's a good chance that the happy occasion will be carried as an NBC special on the Sunday night 'Big Event' some time in the not-too-distant future. The whole idea is said to be Sonny's, as is the brainstorm to have the infamous Farrah and her Six Million Dollar man as matron of honor and best man. What's more, Sonny wants to have daughter Chastity Bono as flower girl and to have get this Cher singing 'I've Got You' as Sonny and his chickie walk down the aisle . . . John Chancellor recently played a doozy of a practical joke on his buddy David Brinkley. Chancellor found out Brinkley was staying at a Connecticut hotel and called the hotel manager and convinced him that David had a 'certain weakness' for liquor, was a little hard of hearing and should be 'locked in his room after dinner' to prevent embarrassment. A bewildered Brinkley found waiters shouting at him, his drinks watered down and became outraged when he was locked in his hotel room . . . Ralph Edwards has signed Bob Hilton for the modernized prime-time version of his long-running (37 consecutive years) series, 'Truth or Consequences,' to be syndicatd by Metromedia Producers Corporation. drea Marcoviccl, Peter Cof-fleld. Cof-fleld. Two stories in one: First, the problems, indignities, . frustrations in reporting rape to authorities; then, police chasing suspects. O MOVIE "The Roaring Twenties" Twen-ties" 1939 James Cagney, Priscilla Lane. Army buddies find their lives intertwining dramatically after W W I ends. 10:40 Q U.S. TENNIS HIGHLIGHTS 10:55 0 IRONSIDE 11:55 0 MOVIE "The Opposite Sex" 1956 June Allyson, Joan Collins. Col-lins. Kindly interference of feminine friends drives happily happi-ly married broadway producer's wife to Reno. T2:00 0 WEEKEND Topics are India's film industry; how games of chance have vastly increased the membership of American Legion clubs in Europe; problems of housing for the elderly. 12:30 O LOVE AMERICAN STYLE 1:00 O ABC NEWS 1:30 0 MUSIC HALL AMERICA 1:40 0 NEWS (D 'FBr ITS ' M I 1 fr - r -A MORNING 6:00 0 SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE 7:00 0 HERALD OFTRUTH QH.R.PUFNSTUF 0700 CLUB 7:30 0 SACRED HEART O BULLWINKLE 7:45 0 FROM THE CATHEDRAL 8:00 0 JERRY FALWELL O ANIMALS, ANIMALS, ANIMALS; SCHOOL. ROCK 0 ILLUSTRATED SIMPLIFIED SUNDAY SCHOOL 8:30 O JR- ALMOST ANYTHING GOES; SCHOOL. ROCK 0 LOOK UP AND LIVE 9:00 0 REX HUMBARD O ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN 0 DAY OF DISCOVERY 9:30 O ORAL ROBERTS TABERNACLE CHOIR 10:00 0 CONVERSATION WITH O LET'S FACE IT 0 U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS CHAM-PIONSHIPS Early-round play in the nation's most prestigious tennis tournament, tourna-ment, with Pat Summerall, Tony Trabert. Virginia Wade and Cliff Drysdale providing the commentary. (Live from the West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills. N Y.) 10:30 0 MEET THE PRESS It it a toss-up who eats more, the neighborhood kids or the grasshoppers? Well, Larry can't do much about the kids, but he can tale care of the grasshoppers! NOW! - Control Insects in Your Home and Yard SIX-WEEK GUARANTEE We spray trees, bushes, lawns, etc. 24-hour Service Johnson's Pest Control 1 678 North State Orem PHONE 375-7322 OR 225-5085 Mt. Pleasant area residents call collect ((sundayj) 11:00 0 THE GREAT AMERICAN COWBOYS "Hit the Saddle" 1941 Bob Livingston, Ray Cor-rigan. Cor-rigan. O ISSUES AND ANSWERS 11:30 O WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW OLD? AFTERNOON 12:00 0 MOVIE "Dimples" 1936 Shirley Temple, Helen Westley. A precocious child performs on the streets to support her grandfather and herself. O OUTDOORS WITH KEN CALLAWAY 1:30 0 MOVIE "Young At Heart" 1954 Frank Sinatra, Doris Day. Two eloping lovers have a row, and only an accident brings br-ings them together again. O BOOK BEAT "The Bravest Battle" by Dan Kurzman. 2:00 O DANCE IN AMERICA A profile of the 14-year-oid Pennsylvania Pen-nsylvania Ballet company located in Philadelphia includes in-cludes performances of selections selec-tions ranging from classical to modern and scenes in rehearsals rehear-sals and classes. 2:30 0 WORLD SERIES OF GOLF Third-round play in this $300,000 PGA tournament with a select field (approximately 25) of the world's greatest golfers competing. Vin Scully, Jack Whitaker, Rick Barry, OPERATION PETTICOAT During World War II, the Navy's most unusual crew sets sail on a series of comedic adventures aboard the world's only pink submarine in 'Operation Petticoat," a new comedy motion picture airing on 'The ABC Sunday Night Movie' Sept. 4. John Astin (left) and Richard Gilliland (right) star. Based on the 1959 film of the same name, 'Operation Peticoat' opens in 1942 when Lt. Cmdf. Matthew Sherman (Astin) takes command of the submarine USS Sea Tiger. The boat, however, is far from ship-shape having been sunk during a sneak attack. Undaunted. Sherman and his crew of characters restore the sub using the 'resourcefulness' of the wheeler-dealer supply officer, Lt. Nick Holden (Gilliland). Once at sea. though. Sherman is up to his conning tower in problems, the crew ha-i i. a. '!'(! the Sea Tiger the only ava;i,-!'k- '.vior shocking pink and sc ' .- to piav host to five rescue-': r. 1 ' the remainder of the war Ben Wright, Frank Glieber and Ken Venturi will provide the commentary. (Live from the Firestone Country Club, Akron, Ohio) 3:00 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. 3:30 0 WILD KINGDOM 4:00 0 STAR TREK "The Deadly Years" O MOVIE 0TO BE ANNOUNCED 4:30 0 CBS NEWS 5:00 0 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC "Polynesian Adventures" 0 RHODA Rhoda flies to Las Vegas for another encounter with her amorous suitor, Johnny Venture. (R) O MD "Hypoglycemia" Guest: Dr. David M. Kipnis, chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis. 5:30 O THREE'S COMPANY "No Children, No Dogs" When Jack brings home a puppy, roommates Janet and Chrissy remind him that the landlord doesn't allow pets on the premises. (R) O A YEAR AT THE TOP Greg falls in love with a beautiful actress ac-tress and wants to make it legal, but Hanover has a contract con-tract of his own for her future. O LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS "Aviation 1935" Highlights recall Frank Pangborn's nonstop around-the-world flight, China clippers clip-pers opening new routes, Amelia Earhart's solo flight from Hawaii to the U.S. and the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post in an Arctic crash. QD CROCKETT'S VICTORY GARDEN Jim visits Holland's Royal Dutch Bulb Growers Association, where new breeds are judged and entered into the annals of tulip history. EVENING 6:00 0 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY "The Ranger of Brownstone" An animated cartoon tale (with live action wildlife) of a National Na-tional Park ranger's humorous problems with animals and tourists. Donald Duck plays several of the parts. (R) O HARDY BOYS-NANCY DREW MYSTERIES "The Disappearing Floor" A flying saucer, a man who mysteriously vanishes, a house that changes its interiors in-teriors and a floor that collapses col-lapses are only some of the challenges that face the Hardy Boys as they try to solve one of their most mind boggling mysteries. (R) 060 MINUTES O AMERICANA "A Blind Teacher in a Public School" profiles David Ticchi, a seventh grade English teacher who, despite his handicap, engages in counselling and extracurricular activities in addition ad-dition to teaching. QD 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. 6:30 O REALIDADES "Mestizaje" Three sketches which convey the cultural and racial experience ex-perience - of three Latino groups-Cubans, . Chicanos and Puerto Ricans-dramatize the conflict of loss of identity as they merge with Anglo society. (D HUMAN DIMENSION 7:00 0 NBC SUNDAY MYSTERY MOVIE "Columbo: The Bye Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case" The wily Lt. Columbo is pitted against Oliver Brandt, a successful suc-cessful accountant with an arrogant ar-rogant pride in his intellect, and his flighty wife whose expensive ex-pensive tastes drove Oliver to embezzlement-and beyond. (R) O THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN The Golden Pharaoh" Steve Austin enlists the aid of a larcenous beauty to help him retrieve a priceless statue stolen from a small country before an International Inter-national incident - occurs. Guest star: Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Fawcett-Majors. (R) 0 CBS SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIAL MOVIE "The Getaway" 1972 Steve McQueen, Mc-Queen, All MacGraw. Husband Hus-band and wife plan and execute ex-ecute a bank robbery, then attempt at-tempt a complicated getaway with their half a million dollars. O NOVA "The Pill for the People" Peo-ple" This documentary look at the development of the birth control pill uses archive film and interviews with the surviving surviv-ing scientists who played a part in the research. The discovery of hormone actions, large-scale production of the pill and its worldwide effects are reviewed. fD THIS IS THE LIFE "A Shameful Kind of Death" 7:30 September 1, 1977 QD INSIGHT ' 8:00 O THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE "Operation Petticoat' John Astin, Richard Gilliland, Yvonne Wilder. During W.W. II, the Navy's most unusual crew sets sail on a series ot comedic adventures aboard the world's only pink submarine. sub-marine. O EVENING AT POPS Folkslnger Judy Collins performs per-forms "Both Sides Now", "Secret Gardens", "Amazing Grace" and "Send In the Clowns" as well as other tunes. The Pops Orchestra plays a selection of Strauss waltzes and Sousa's "Hands Across the Sea March". QQ RELIGION TODAY 8:30 0 NBC MOVIE OF THE WEEK "Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident" Lee Majors, William Daniels. True story of the pilot of a low-flying U-2 American reconnaissance plane who In 1960-was shot down while on a mission over Soviet territory, was captured, imprisoned and convicted as a spy. (R) (D UPDATE 9:00 Q MASTERPIECE THEATRE "Dickens of London" Episode Two. "Blacking" The Dickens' family's desperate poverty forces young Charles to go to work at Warren's Blacking Factory. There he meets personalities per-sonalities who will Inspire characters in his novels-the urchin Fagin and the bullies Smelly and Tucker. (D BYU DEVOTIONAL Guest: Spencer W. Kimball. 9:30 0 ALICE Vera is having problems pro-blems with her boyfriend and decides to end it all, but she doesn't count on Alice and Flo interfering with her plan. (R 10:00 0 NEWS O PICCADILLY CIRCUS "The General's Day" The late Alastair Sim stars in William Trevor's comedy-drama as an elderly-but still very lively-retired lively-retired general who pins his hopes for his sunset years on a spinster schoolmarm. OD DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW "Reincarnation-Is There Life After Death?" 10:30 NEWS O MOVIE 10:33 0 CBS NEWS 11:00 0 TAKE 2 WITH SANDY GILMOUR 0 IRONSIDE 11:30 0 NBC LATE NIGHT MOVIE "File of the Golden Goose" Yul Brynner, Charles Gray. 12:00 0 NEWS 12:30 O LOVE AMERICAN STYLE 1:00 O ABC NEWS P J$ K Don Williams The hat, the style and the smile are all part of Texas-born Texas-born Don Williams one of the newest members of the Grand Ole Opry and one of Mhe performers this summer in the 'Opry Guest Stars Show' at Opryland. The show, which features a different dif-ferent star of the Grand Ole Opry, Monday through Thursday during the summer, sum-mer, is one of 11 live musical shows covered by your admission ad-mission ticket to Opryland. Don, a singer with the Pozo Seco Singers, a mellow pop group, before giving it up to go Country, was voted Number One Male Country Singer in England in 1976. the same year he became the 60th member of the Grand Ole Opry. |