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Sunday iSs ■t - The life story of novelist Charles Dickens Is told in “Dickens of London,” the new 10-part Masterpiece Theatre series, beginning Sun., Aug. 28 (9-10 p.m., EDT) over PBS. SIMON BELL (bottom), GENE FOAD (1.) and ROY DOLTRICE play the author at different ages. Roots' fame), George Carlin, Carol Channing, Redd Foxx, Robert Gou let, Loretta Lynn, Don Rickies, Beverly Sills, Red Skelton, Dionne Warwick, and Paul Wil liams. (2 hours) o — Masterpiece Theatre: Dickens of London The rags-to riches life of Charles Dickens, world's most popular English author, unfolds in this 10-part series, which traces the author's event-packed life from penniless child hood through unprece dented success as a pioneering novelist. Si mon Bell plays Dickens as a boy. (60 min.) ED — MOVIE: 'A Fistful of Dollars' Two rival gangs fight for control of a Mexican border town and the money to be made there in selling contraband whiskey and guns to the Mexicans and Indians. Clint East wood, Marianne Koch, W. Lukschy. 1967 CD — Ernest Angley 9:30 P.M. 0 _ MOVIE: The Possessed' A dissolute, defrocked minister bat tles the forces of evil which apparently are responsible for a rash of fires at an isolated girls' school. James Faren tino, Joan Hackett, Clau dette Nevins, Eugene Roche, Harrison Ford, Ann Dusenberry, Diana Scarwid. 1977 ED — Wanted: Dead Or Alive 10:00 P.M. O — David Susskind (D — Sportsweek CD — Turning Point 10:30 P.M. CD — Max Morris 11:00 P.M. 0 0 CD — News ED — Open Up CD —Moment Os Truth 11:30 P.M. 0 _ MOVIE: The Party' Starring Peter Sellers and Claudine Longet. 1968 0 — CBS News (D — Contact CD — Dwight Thompson 11:45 P.M. 0 — MOVlE:'Ritual of Evil’ Psychiatrist tres passes in the superna tural when he investigates the myster ious death of his patient. a young heiress. Louis Jourdan, Anne Baxter, Diana Hyland. ". 1969. 12:00 A.M. 0 CD — Sign Off MONDAY 10:00 A.M. ED _ MOVIE: When The Daltons Rode' The Dalton family become outlaws after one of their brothers is con victed of the murder of a trespasser. Randolph Scott, Kay Francis, Brian Donlevy. 1940. 12:30 P.M. ED — MOVIE: 'Drums Across The River' Against father's wishes, young man joins group invading Indian territory for gold. Realizing leader is provoking war for profit, he rejoins father to restore peace. Audie Murphy, Walter Brennan, Lisa Gave, Lyle Bettger, Mara Corday, Hugh O'Brien, 1954. 6:00 P.M. 0 0 ED — News o — Sesame Street Confd ED — Andy Griffith CD — F-Troop 6:30 P.M. 0 — Withit CD — ABC News ED — My Three Sons CD — Rifleman 7:00 P.M. 0 — NBC News 0 — CBS News 0 — Special Kind Os Morning ED — Concentration ED — Gomer Pyle CD — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 — In Search 0f.... 0 — Match Game PM 0 — Atlanta Week In Review ED —To Tell The Truth ED — Hogan's Heroes 8:00 P.M. 0 — Life Goes to the Movies Henry Fonda, Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli are the hosts for this nostalgic look at the movies. Based on the 1975 book of the same title, the three-hour special looks at the stars - from Berg man, Bogart and Brando to Temple, Tracy and Taylor-the films and the legends of three-and-a half glamorous decades (1936 to 1972) in the history of motion pic tures. (Repeat) 0 — Jeffersons Louise learns that the trouble with being a mother-in law is that you start act ing like one. Sherman Hemsley, Isabel San ford. (Repeat) 0 — Grand Prix Tennis: Summer Tour '77 Bud Collins, tennis columnist for the Boston Globe, reports from the Longwood Tennis Club in Brookline, Mass. (3 hours) CD — Comedy Special MacNamara's Band,' Part 1. A spoof of World War II adventure mov ies. After dapper big-city gangster/man-about town Johnny MacNa mara leads his group of roughnecks and con men in a series of intri cate crimes, MacNa mara and his band are recruited as secret agents when World War II erupts. MacNamara: John Byner. Part 2 will be seen next week. ED — Let's Go To The Races CD — 700 Club 8:30 P.M. 0 — Szysznyk When the basketball team at the community center needs another player, the boys want to draft Ray Gun's recently re turned brother. Nick is agreeable until he finds out they are talking about a onetime Marine who deserted. Ned Beatty, Olivia Cole, Su san Lanier, Leonard Barr. (Postponed from last week.) ED — Monday Night Baseball ABC Sports provides live coverage of regional Major League games. At press time, however, the games to be televised and the re gions in which they would be seen had not been determined. ED _ MOVIE: Secret Ways' American adven turer goes into Hungary, behind Iron Curtain, to bring out leader of Anti- Communist forces. Ri chard Widmark, Sonja Ziemann, Charles Reg nier, Walter Rilla. 4" 1961. 9:00 P.M. 0 — Maude Maude be gins to lose control of her efforts to raise mo ney for a mental-health clinic when her hero worshipping cousin (John Byner) pays a sur prise visit and wreaks havoc in the family household. Beatrice Ar thur, Bill Macy. (Repeat) 9:30 P.M. 0 — Sheila The co medy revolves around the life of Shelia Levine (Dori Brenner) a young, somewhat bewildered, marriage-minded city single girl of the 70's who works for a Broad way composer-producer (Milton Berle). George Wyner and Barbara Trentham are featured. CD — Life In The Spirit 10:00 P.M. 0 — Sonny and Cher The 'Cutsey News' pre sents stories about re modeling the White House, with special at traction Ken Berry as a staff member and Sonny as a carpenter, special guest star Flip Wilson in his popular Geraldine character, and guest star Betty White giving Cher Southern-drawl lessons. (Repeat; 60 min.) CD — Living ~aith 10:30 P.M. CD — Good News 11:00 P.M. 0 0 ED — News 0 _ MOVIE: 'Scarlet Street Cashier, to im press girl, pretends he's famous artist and em bezzles money to carry out fraud. Discovering she was using him, he murders her. Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea, Margaret Lindsay. ***. 1945 ED -i Love Lucy CD — Best Os Groucho 11:30 P.M. 0 — Tonight 0 — Little House on the Preirie Patricia Neal stars as a widow who finds out she's termin ally ill and must find a home for her three young sons. Julia San derson calls upon the In galls to help her when she discovers she only has three weeks left to live. Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Victor French. ED — Fernwood 2 Night ED — MOVlE:'Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse Criminal medico, with a woman fence, takes over a gang and stages robberies, to study the criminal mind. Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Kaplan. 1938 CD — Mayberry, R. F. D. 12:00 A.M. ED — Streets of San Francisco/ Toma STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO: A man serves a prison term for a crime committed by his brother in order to help his family. Guest star: Nehemiah Persoff. TOMA: Toma enlists the aid of a powerful pimp to stop mob takeover of prostitution and avert a potential race war. (Re peat; 2 hours, 15 min.) CD — News TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. ED — MOVIE: Death In Small Doses' U. S. inves tigator, working as a trucker, uncovers more than the illegal stay awake' drug gang finding the girl a major 'pusher'. Peter Graves, Mala Powers, Chuck Connors. 1957. 12:30 P.M. ED — MOVIE: 'Scarlet Angel' A saloon girl be friends a widow and her baby in New Orleans af ter the Civil War. When her friend dies she as sumes her identity and takes the baby to live with its grandparents in San Francisco. Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson, Richard Denning, 1952. 6:00 P.M. 0 0 ED — News 0 — Sesame Street Confd ED — Andy Griffith CD — F-Troop 6:30 P.M. 0 — Once Upon A Classic ED — ABC News ED — My Three Sons CD — Rifleman 7:00 P.M. 0 — NBC News 0 — CBS News 0 — Paint With N. Kominsky ED — Concentration ED — Gomer Pyle CD — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 — Wild Kingdom 0 — Price is Right 0 — Opera Theater: La Traviata Elizabeth Har wood is Violetta, John Brecknock is Alfredo and Norman Bailey is Giogio Germont is this English-language ver sion of Verdi's opera. (Repeat; 2 hours.) ED —To Tell The Truth ED — Major League Baseball: Atlanta vs. Philadelphia 8:00 P.M. 0 — Baa Baa Black Sheep A Japanese air ace spots Pappy (Robert Conrad), who is having engine trouble, and spares him on condition that he will meet him in combat the following day. The real Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington, who is the show's technical advisor, is featured in this episode. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — In Concert Connie Stevens ED — Happy Days Ar nold's Drive-in comes alive with the sound of music when Fonzie sings, as only he can, at the big senior dance. (Repeat) CD — 700 Club 8:30 P.M. ED — Laverne and Shirley Ron Howard and Anson Williams guest star when the girls trick them into taking them to a high school dance so Laverne can win the grand prize -a brand new television set. (Re peat) 9:00 P.M. 0 — Police Woman Eugene Roche guest stars as a New York pol iceman who travels to Los Angeles where he arrests the man respon sible for the death of his partner, but in the confu sion following a bomb explosion at the airport, the culprit escapes. An gie Dickenson and Earl Holliman star. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — M*A*S*H With Frank Burns cracking the whip over a G.l. work party and the mail ser vice having broken down, morale is at a low ebb until Col. Potter an nounces that his all-time favorite movie, a classic western, will be shown that evening. Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Mor gan. (Repeat) ED — MOVIE: 'The Great Bank Robbery* Al though this comedy western boasts the pres ence of Mostel as a wily Monday Maude’s somewhat eccentric cousin (guest star JOHN BYNER) explains to Maude (BEATRICE ARTHUR) how as “Captain Hero” he is going to rid the planet Bruce of Bruceonlans on Maude, Mon., Aug. 29 on CBS. would-be bank robber and a plot that sounds like it can't miss, it pe ters out long before it gets up a full head of steam. The yarn is about three separtate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Riendly, circa 1880. Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Zero Mostel. 1969. 9:30 P.M. 0 — One Day At a, Time Julie and Barbara take turns at being the worried parent’ when Ann is late in calling while away on a busi ness trip. Bonnie Frank lin, Makenzie Phillips. (Repeat) 0 _ MOVIE: Sherlock Holmes And The Woman In Green' An other case for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, as he solves the 'finger murders'. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary 8r00ke.1945. ED — Christian Living 10:00 P.M. 0 — NBC Reports: Failing to Learn, Learning to Fail Corres pondent Betty Rollin is the reporter for this spe cial examining learning disabilities, a problem that is gaining wide re cognition because of the effect that it is having on an estimated eight mil lion school children and because it is one of the primary reasons for de linquent behavior. (60 min.) 0 — Kojak In the con clusion of a two-part epi sode, more facts come to light regarding the uni dentified body found in a car. Telly Savalas, Kevin Dobson, Dan Fra zer. Guest stars: Kitty Winn, Maude Adams and Michael Tolan. (Re peat; 60 min.) ED — Star Trek ED — Hi Doug 10:30 P.M. ED — Dwight Thompson 11:00 P.M. 0 0 ED — News 0 _ MOVIE: 'Sparrows’ A mother cares for her nine child ren on an impoverished farm, warding off starva tion and kidnappers. Mary Pickford, Gustav Von Seyffertiz, Roy Ste wart, Mary Louise Miller, 1926. ED -i Love Lucy ED — Best Os Groucho 11:30 P.M. 0 — Tonight Host Johnny Carson s guest is Rodney Dangerfield. (90 min.) 0 _ MOVIE: Beyond the Bermuda Triangle*-A wealthy businessman with a yacht off the Flor ida coast is fascinated by the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle. But his fascination turns into an obsession for discov ering its secret when his fiancee disappears and only her sailboat is found floating in its wat ers. Fred Mac Murray, Donna Mills, Sam Groom, Suzanne Reed. 1975 ED — Fernwood 2 Night ED — MOVIE: 'Little Caesar* A small time hood rises to become the czar of gangland. Ed ward G. Robinson, Doug las Fairbanks Jr. 1931. ED — Mayberry, R. F. D. 12:00 A.M. ED — MOVIE: The Out of Towners' Jack Lem mon and Sandy Dennis star in Neil Simon's co medy as two innocents from a small town who suffer all the miseries that can befall visitors to New York City. Sandy Baron, Robert Nichols, Anne Meara, Don Carey. 1970 ED — News WEDNESDAY 10:00 A.M. ED — MOVIE: 'Run Like A Thief American Sol dier of Fortune in South America inadvertently becomes involved in highjacking of diamond shipment. Girl employed by one of four groups searching for him aids in fight through jungle. Kie ron Moore, Keenan Wynn, Ina Balin. " 1967. 12:30 P.M. ED — MOVIE: 'Posse From Hell' Four con victed killers escape from jail, take over peaceful town, killing marshal. Audie Murphy, John Saxon, Zohra Lam pert. ” 1961. 6:00 P.M. 0 0 ED — News 0 — Sesame Street Confd ED — Andy Griffith ED — F-Troop 6:30 P.M. 0 — Zoom ED — ABC News ED — My Three Sons ED — Rifleman 7:00 P.M. 0 — NBC News 0 — CBS News 0 — College For Canines ED — Concentration ED — Gomer Pyle ED — Big Valley 7:30 P.M. 0 — Name That Tune 0 — Crosswits 0 — Harold Lloyd Film Festival ED —To Tell The Truth ED — Major League Baseball: Atlanta vs. Philadelphia 8:00 P.M. 0 — Grizzly Adams Grizzly (Dan Haggerty) sends Mad Jack (Denver Pyle) to bring back the Oregon-bound parents of a lost young girl (Kris ten Curry) he found and befriended. (Repeat; 60 min.) 0 — Energy.. The Facts.. The Fears.. The Future The broadcast will assess the energy
