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About Griffin daily news. (Griffin, Ga.) 1924-current | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1977)
ffi — That Girl flj — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 — Name That Tune & — Crosswits o — Folk Guitar 0 — To Tell The Truth (D — Dragnet 8:00 P.M. 0 — Life and Times of Grizzly Adams A volcano erupts and Grizzly (Dan Haggerty) risks his life to save the lives of the ani mals caught in the vicin ity of the crater. Guest star: Don Galloway. (60 min.) 0 — Good Times JJ. thinks he's found away out of the ghetto by man aging Tyrone Tyler, The Atomic Comic,' but the scene explodes when his financial backers turn out to be a loan shark. Esther Rolle, Jimmie Walker. (Repeat) 0 — Nova 'What Price Coal?* It has been esti mated that America has enough coal in reserve to supply our energy needs for several hundred years. To night's program looks into the costs, both econ omic and social, of re covering that energy. (60 min.) ffl — The Best of Donny and Marie To night's guests are Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Georgia Engle, Rich Lit tle and the Osmond Brothers. (Repeat; 60 min.) (B — Major League Baseball: Atlanta vs. Cincinnati CD — 700 Club 8:30 P.M. 0 — Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis 9:00 P.M. O — CPO Sharkey When Chief Sharkey (Don Rickies) hears that recruit Mignone (Barry Pearl) is using a hair dryer in the barracks in violation of the rules, he orders it confiscated - thereby precipitating a laconic rebellion. (Re peat) 0 — MOVIE:‘Made for Each Other* A couple in their mid-thirties, meet for the first time at an 'emergency encounter group'. They each have drastically different upbringings and quarrel constantly but their comic quarrels show a deep need for each other which they finally real ize. Renee Taylor, Jo seph Bologna, Norman Shelly. ••”. 1971 0 — Opera Theater: The Gondoliers A host of handsome gondoliers, pretty young girls, the shabby and somewhat shady Duke and Du chess of Plaza-Toro and sly Don Alhambra prov ide a variety of comic si tuations. (2 hours) (D — Baretta Baretta hunts for the killer of a police officer apparently shot down attempting to thwart a robbery, and slowly realizes that the dead man was not a chance victim, but the target for a carefully planned murder which involved the victim's wife, who is also a cop. Guest stars: Anjanette Comer, Ron Hayes and Will Mackenzie. (Repeat; 60 min.) 9:30 P.M. 0 — Comedy Time 'Susan and Sam.' Robert Foxworth and Christine Belford star as a pair of reporters on a slick ma gazine. He's the top in vestigative reporter and she's the rising star - who are lovers away from the job, at least un til the competition starts to get tough. Lee Ber gere, Alan Openheimer, Jack Bannon. 1977 CD — The Rock 10:00 P.M. 0 — Kingston: Confidential Kingston's associate, Tony Marino (Art Hindle), realizes that his life is in danger after his undercover investi gation reveals that a right-wing racist organi zation operating on an Army base is playing for keeps. Raymond Burr. (60 min.) CD — Charlie's Angels Sabrina poses as the mistress of one of Char lie's clients who believes he is the next victim of an assassin who has al ready taken the lives of several former wartime comrades. Guest stars: Fernando Lamas and John Larch. (Repeat; 60 min.) CD — Crisis Living / Courage 10:30 P.M. (B — Night Gallery CD — Gerald Derstine 11:00 P.M. 0 0 CD — News 0 — MOVIE: A Farewell To Arms' Tragic love story of an American ambulance driver and an English nurse who meet on the Italian front in World War I. Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oscar Homolka, Mercedes McCam bridge. 1957. (B — All That Glitters CD — Best Os Groucho 11:30 P.M. 0 — Tonight Show Johnny Carson is the host. (90 min.) 0 — MOVIE: 'Columbo: The Most Crucial Game' Lt. Col umbo investigates the slaying of the owner of a professional football team. Los Angeles Lak ers Basketball players Keith Ericson, Happy Hairston, Jim McMillan and Flynn Robinson ap pear as themselves. 1973 CD — Fernwood 2 Night (B — MOVIE: Dawn Patrol' Two daredevil British fliers on the 1916 front; one orders Friday IIMI . JEhI JONATHAN WINTERS, as a police deputy, “coolly” marshals his volunteer defenders when a Russian submarine runs aground on Cape Cod, in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” zany comedy to be broadcast on “The CBS Friday Night Movies,” Friday July 15 on CBS. inexperienced young brother of the other into combat, where he is killed. Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Donald Crisp, Barry Fitz gerald. ••*. 1938. CD — Mayberry, R. F. D. 12:00 A.M. — Rookies A one time POW believes that Mike Danko, a former Air Force helicopter rescue pilot in Vietnam, left him to suffer at the hands of the Viet Cong and plans a bizzare method of pun ishing the rookie. (Re peat; 60 min.) CD — News THURSDAY 10:00 A.M. CB — MOVIE: Istanbul' Adventurer returns to Is tanbul after 5 years to recover $200,000 worth of diamonds. Finds the girl alive he believed dead-an amnesia victim. Errol Flynn, Cornell Borchers, John Bently. " 1/2. 1957. 1:00 P.M. CB — MOVIE: Flood Tide' Man tries to con vince authorities that a crippled youngster, whose testimony con victed man of murder is a habitual liar. George Nader, Cornell Borchers, Michel Ray. •• 1958. 6:00 P.M. 0 0 CD — News 0 — Sesame Street (tent'd CB — Father Knows Best CD — F-Troop 6:30 P.M. 0 — New Zealand CD — ABC News CD — Andy Griffith CD — Rifleman 7:00 P.M. 0 — NBC News 0 — C B S News 0 — Annual Watermelon Festival CD — Concentration (B — That Girl CD — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 —525,000 Pyramid 0 — Match Game PM CD —To Tell The Truth (B — Dragnet 8:00 P.M. 0 — Julie And Robert In Concert 0 — Waltons Guest star Pippa Scott plays Alvira Drummond, a fa mous actress who is left stranded on Walton's Mountain when her lim ousine breaks down and she is without funds. Ri chard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — Daktari CD — Welcome Back, Kotter 'Follow the Leader,' Part 1. Kotter holds an election for class leader, and winds up in trouble at home and in the classroom. (Repeat) CD — Major League Baseball: Atlanta vs. Cincinnati CD — 700 Club 8:30 P.M. (D — What's Happening!) Raj finds the gift of two very ex pensive tickets to a Stevie Wonder concert is a very mixed blessing when he has to decide which of his two best friends, Dwayne or Re run, will go with him. (Repeat) 9:00 P.M. 0 _ MOVIE: 'The Pink Jungle' Commercial pho tographer and his sexy model find themselves trapped in a sleepy South American country trying to convince au thorities that his photo graphic equipment and thousands of lipstick tubes are to be used in a cosmetic ad lay out and are not spy apparatus, get involved in mad sa fari to uncover lost dia mond mine. James Garner, Eva Renzi, George Kennedy, Nigel Green, Michae* Ansara. 1968. 0 — Hawaii Five-0 Steve McGarrett searches for both a man iacal rapist-murderer and a lost college girl in the mountains of Oahu, fearful in the meantime that they will encounter one another. McGarrett: Jack Lord. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — Age of Uncertainty The Fatal Competition.' A sequ ence actually filmed in side NORAD the nuclear war command center buried one mile beneath Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado is a highlight of tonight's program written and narrated by John Kenneth Galbraith. (60 min.) — Barney Miller A 'think tank' report criti cal of detectives upsets the 12th precinct and Wojo threatens to resign from the force when he learns he’ll have to walk a beat. (Repeat) 9:30 P.M. (D — Fish Fish cuts off the kid's allowances, but Victor suddenly turns up with an unexpected sum of cash. Meanwhile, Fish can't find an important file he needs to testify in a criminal case. (Repeat) CD — Manna 10:00 P.M. 0 — CBS Reports: Born Again CBS News presents a special report on Evangelical Chris tianity - the fastest growing religion in the country. Bill Moyers is the reporter and editor of this broadcast. (60 min.) 0 — Fall Os Eagles (D — Westside Medical Sam is treating a deep-sea salvage diver for serious injuries when he discovers that Aileen, the therapist he is dat ing, is the man's es tranged wife. Sam Lanagan: James Sloyan. Guest stars: William Green Bush and Gail Strickland. (60 min.) CD — The Answer 10:30 P.M. (B — Wanted: Dead Or Alive CD —Travel 11:00 P.M. 0 0 ffl — News 0 — MOVIE: 'Bluebeard' Young Pari sienne suspects hand some puppeteer may be the murderous Blue beard. Suspenseful. John Carradine, Jean Parker, Niles Asther. 1944. (B — All That Glitters CD — Best Os Groucho 11:30 P.M. 0 — Tonight Show Johnny Carson's guest is Rodney Dangerfield. (90 min.) 0 — Kojak After acci dentally witnessing a bank holdup, a young gypsy graduates from small-time cons to a multi-million-dollar crime when she master minds a plan to rob six banks in one day and re cruits the robbers who pulled off the job she witnessed. Telly Sava las, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson. (Repeat; 60 min.) (D — Fernwood 2 Night CD — MOVIE: Dinner At The Ritz' Daughter of murdered Parisian banker, resolves to find killer, aided by financier fiance, who is the mur derer. Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas. ", 1937. CD — Mayberry, R. F. D. 12:00 A.M. QD — S.W.A.T./ Special S.W.A.T.: Hondo and his men search for an unk nown sniper whose care fully selected male victims had but one thing in common - each was romantically in volved with the same young woman. (Repeat; 60min.) —SPECIAL: Mu hammad Ali, Arte John son, Adrienne Barbeau and Larry Storch are David Frost's guests. (Repeat; 90 min.) CD — News FRIDAY 10:00 A.M. (B — MOVIE: Once Upon A Horse' Western satire: Two zany cow boys steal herd of cattle from girl who practically owns the town only to discover it costs more to feed them than they are worth. Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Ericson. " 1958 1:00 P.M. (B — MOVIE: Bamboo Saucer* A Red Chinese peasant's crude drawing of an object from outer space starts a dramatic three nation life and death struggle. To con trol the space object is to rule the world. Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton. •* 1967. 6:00 P.M. 0 0 ® — News 0 — Sesame Street (tent'd CB — Father Knows Best CD — F-Troop 6:30 P.M. 0 — Withit CD — A B C News (B — Andy Griffith Saturday Hv B Bl B v t/5 On Saturday, July 16 on CBS, RINA MESSINGER, Miss Universe 1976, will highlight the Pageant when she relinquishes her coveted crown to the new title holder. CD — Rifleman 7:00 P.M. 0 — NBC News 0 — C B S News 0 — Untamed World (D — Concentration (B — That Girl CD — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 — Let's Make A Deal 0 — The Muppets 0 — Zorro (D —To Tell The Truth ffi — Dragnet 8:00 P.M. 0 — Sanford and Son Convinced that he is at death's door after being knocked cold by Aunt Esther's purse, Fred (Redd Foxx) summons family and friends for an emotional reading of his last will and testament. (Repeat) 0 _ MOVIE: 'The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming' Members of a Russian submarine crew get stuck on a sandbar off an island near Cape Cod, and a landing party ?oes ashore for help, ownspeople go into a frenzy thinking they are being invaded. The laughs come fast and fu rious until the people learn the truth. Based on the novel The Off- Islanders' by Nathaniel Benchley. Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Ar kin, Brian Keith, Jona than Winters, Theodore Bikel, Paul Ford, Tessie O'Shea. ••• 1966. 0 — National Geographic Special CD — MOVIE: Over- The- Hill Gang Rides Again' Three retired Texas Rangers get to gether again to rescue an old comrade, who has become a down and out drunk. They do such a good job the reformed drunk is made marshall of Waco and they be come his deuties. Walter Brennan, Fred Astaire, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Andy Devine. 1970. (B — Night Gallery CD — 700 Club 8:30 P.M. 0 — Chico and the Man Though fully recov ered from an operation, Ed (Jack Albertson) hires a nurse (Shirley Mitchell), not knowing that she met all four of her husbands in the hos pital and nursed them - to death. (Repeat) CB — All That Glitters 9:00 P.M. 0 — Rockford Files Det. Becker (Joe Santos) is suspended from the force when he is sus pected of dealing in drugs, but Jim (James Garner) investigates and uncovers a frame-up per petrated by Becker's 'best friend' on the force. Guest stars: Jack Kelly and Jack Carter. (Re peat; 60 min.) 0 — Wash. Week In Review (B — MOVIE: The Beast In The Cellar' Story of two old ladies, a house of horror and mur der. Flora Robson, Beryl Reid. 1970. 9:30 P.M. 0 — Wall Street Week CD — MOVIE: A Gunfight When two former gunfighters meet in a quiet Southwestern town, the townspeople expect a showdown. Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander. 1971 CD — Pat Robertson 10:00 P.M. 0 — Quincy While seeking relaxation on a fishing trip, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is in volved in an attempt to uncover new evidence in a manslaughter case and becomes embroiled in a conspiracy by the lo cal residents. Pernell Roberts, Hillary Thomp son and Jack Kelly are featured. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — Upstairs, Downstairs CD — Living Word 10:30 P.M. 0 — Stop the Presses Two eager young report ers, complete opposites of each other, find them selves working together as an investigative re porting team on a small New England newspa per. John Rubinstein, Bryan Gordon, James Gregory, Sharon Farrell. 11:00 P.M. 0 o®— News 0 — MOVlE:'Sherlock Holmes In Washington'