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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1976
Page
6
A dense listing shows program blocks for 6:00 to 12:00 with scores and titles across networks ABC CBS NBC and local stations. Notable entries include The Waltons Tonight Show Streets of San Francisco and NCAA Basketball between Ky and Notre Dame.
A dense listing outlines Columbus broadcast times across channels from 3 to 20 with morning shows News quizzes game shows and soap operas. Notable titles include Today Show Captain Kangaroo Lassie The Price Is Right Hollywood Squares General Hospital The Dating game and Sesame Street among others. The grid spans 3.4.15 to 4.13.15 with multiple channels and program blocks.
Friday and Saturday evening listings feature Rockford and Blue Bonnet Bow games, Serpico, Movie selections, skating spectaculars, The Tonight Show and New Year specials. Also aired are Truth or Consequences, To Tell The Truth, Bowling for Dollars, Candid Camera, Donny and Marie, and Washington Week.
The Jack Daniel's Original Silver Corner Band returns after 65 years for Hometown Saturday Night a PBS program from Nashville. The show features turn of the century pieces plus modern selections with tunes like Dixie Robert E. Lee Maple Leaf Rag and We've Only Just Begun.
The page lists TV movie bouts and film titles spanning Thursday to early Saturday. Highlights include Love Has Many Faces with Cliff Robertson and Lana Turner, The Hatfields and the McCoys with Jack Palance and Steve Forrest, and It's A Mad Mad World with Spencer Tracy and Milton Berle. Also shown are One of My Wives Is Missing, Die Die My Darling, Snake People, Experiment in Terror, and a Batman feature with Adam West and Lee Meriwether.
Jimmy Buffett and Thomas McGuane collaborate on Mangrove Opera, a film set in Florida's Everglades about reptile smugglers and cocaine crime. Buffett, 29, describes a colorful cast inspired by his past records and bar days in Key West.
Los Angeles producer Danny Arnold wins ABC shift of Barney Miller to a 9 pm slot for a new episode featuring a plot about brownies laced with hashish given to Detective Wojo. Arnold argues the move reflects a change in scheduling to boost a struggling comedy between Welcome Back Kotter and Miller.
Hope United Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church co sponsor a Holy Communion observance in the First Presbyterian sanctuary from 8 to 10 pm on New Year’s Eve. The joint service brings together congregants for a reflective year end communion event.
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