Figures Testify on Prologue to Family Viewing
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Monday Tuesday Wednesday ABC CBS NBC ABC CBS NBC ABC CBS NBC 8:00 8:00 8:00 Rhoda Happy Days Good Times (MTM) (Paramount) (Norman Lear) Little House Captain and Tony Orlando Baa, Baa Gemini Man Bionic Woman on the 8:30 Tennille 8:30 and Dawn Black Sheep 8:30 (Universal) (Universal) Prairie (Bob Henry) (Universal) and (CBS) (NBC) hyyllis Laverne Ball Four Shirley IPMTM) (CBS) (Paramount) 9:00 9:00 900 Maude Nancy Walker MASH All in the (Norman Lear) Show (20th Family Police (Norman Lead Century.Fox) (Norman Lear) Ouest 9:30 9:30 Woman 9:10 Beretta (Universal) (Columbia (Columbia Pictures TV) All's Fair Tony Randall One Day al Pictures TV) Alice (Norman Lear) Show a Time (Warnei NFL Monday NBC Monday (MTM (Norman Lear) Bros.) 10:00 Night Night at 10:00 Productions) 1000 Football the Movies (various) Rich Man. Poor Man (Universal) Charlie's Executive Police Story The Blue Gibbsville 10:30 10:30 Of Suite Switch (Columbia 10:30 Angels Knight (Columbia (MGM TV) Family (Universal) Pictures TV) (Spelling- (Lorimar) Pictures TV) (Spelling. Goldberg) Goldberg) 11:00 11:00 1100 Sunday on Thursday. But ABC's early- evening good start and boosts even further the comedies Welcome Back, Kotter and already considerably popular Six Million ABC CBS NBC Barney Miller are in a growth pattern, par- Dollar Man and The ABC Sunday Movie. ticularly during second season. Streets of If Cosby fails, CBS has to get high 7:00 San Francisco figures to stay hotly com- Nielsens with its 10- o'clock show Delvec- Bill Wonderful petitive at 9 (according to these sources) chio to come away with a convincing win. Cosby World 01 60 Minutes and a new Quinn Martin cop show at 10, NBC is also expected to make a lot of hay D isney (Chris Bearde) (CBS) (Walt Most Wanted, starring Robert Stack, has early on by frontloading The Big Event Disney) the hard- action elements that could stir with blockbuster attractions. mass -audience memories Mr. 8:00 of Stack's last big -hit series The Untouchables (also produced by Quinn Martin). The insiders Million NBC Sunday find Thursday too close to call, although 8:30 Six Sonny and Former key FCC Dollar Man Cher Show Mystery they're leaning toward ABC. (Universal) (Nick Vanoln Movie (Columba: Friday may wind up as the only night figures testify McCloud, NBC will be able to win consistently next 900 McMillan: Oumcy) fall, these sources say, with the return of on prologue (Universal) Chico and the Man at 8:30 p.m. expected to give a booster shot to the slightly sag- to family viewing 9:30 Kojak ging Sanford and Son (although next (Universal) season will be Redd Foxx's last at NBC - Johnson contends concept was not ABC Sunday he's headed for ABC on a multi -year con- of FCC Movie first example 10:00 (various) tract that begins in September of 1977). influencing self -regulation; NBC's The Rockford Files figures to hold Big Event Cole recounts visit (various) its own at 9 against movies on ABC and of network officials at commission 10:30 Delvecchio CBS, these sources add, with the new 10 (Universal) p.m. cop series Serpicoproviding good au- A former FCC commissioner was in Los dience flow from Rockford. ABC will pro- Angeles last week testifying in the federal 11:00 bably come in second for the night on the appeals court there for the plaintiffs in the strength of more potent movies, and a family viewing suit. more potent Friday lead -in (Donnie and Nicholas Johnson, who was appearing Marie) than CBS's (Spencer's Pilots), ac- as a witness for the Hollywood producers, them in between two Norman Lear shows, cording to these sources. writers and actors who are suing the net- Good Times and All in the Family. If On the theory that it's always unwise to works, the FCC and the National Associa- Bionic Woman is able to hold its own, bet against CBS's Saturday -night comedy tion of Broadcasters over the family view- however, ABC's Baretta, the series it leads block, the insiders are again handing ing concept, said: "Financial issues are into, will stay close enough to All in the Saturday over to CBS. ABC has moved its most important to the broadcasting indus- Family and Alice to deliver a healthy au- highest -rated new 60- minute show this try." Mr. Johnson, who is now chairman of dience flow to Charlie's Angels and give year, Starsky and Hutch, from Wednesday the National Citizens Committee for ABC the night, according to these sources. at 10 to Saturday at 9. If the gamble pays Broadcasting, went on to say that "at any But if Bionic Woman proves vulnerable, off, ABC could finish a strong second for time in history, any one of the networks these sources add, then CBS will emerge the night, according to these sources. If it has matters before the commission on top, even with- a marginal cop show, doesn't, these sources add, ABC will amounting to millions of dollars, so they The Blue Knight, at 10. finish a poor third (as usual) and mortally pay particular attention to any statement CBS is banking on audience familiarity wound a potential long- running hit in by the chairman of the FCC" He was re- with three of its old war horses, The Starsky and Hutch. ferring to the invitation of FCC Chairman Waltons (going into its fifth year), Hawaii All three networks play strong cards on Richard E. Wiley to the heads of the three Five-0 (ninth season) and Barnaby Jones Sunday, and the insiders say ABC will win networks to come to Washington on Nov. (fifth season), to squeak by with a victory if the new Bill Cosby Show gets off to a 22, 1974, to discuss with him "explicit Broadcasting Apr 19 1976 44 .