TV schedule highlights and movie lineup for Thursday night
Prime time features NBC news and soap operas followed by The Brady Bunch and Bob Newhart programs. Movie offerings include Quest and Ice Station Zebra with ongoing late-night films and talk shows, plus sports alerts and special reports.
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Maine Medical
Donald Byrd
Blackbyrds
Howard University
Sam Whiskey
Burt Reynolds
Clint Walker
Barney Miller
Fish
Lowell Thomas
Fox
Eliot Asinof
NBC News
Susan Starr
NBC
Tim Matheson
Kurt Russell
San Francisco
Mike Stone
Steve Keller
CBS
Marion Winters
Phil Fisher
New York City
Lower East Side
Onedin
Harry O “Lester
Harry Orwell
Sue
Barnaby Jones
Betty Jones
Barnaby
Bill Moyer
RED Sox
Desert Fox
James Mason
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Rommel
B News
ABC
Mary Hartman
Rock Hudson
Ernest Borgnine
Mannix
Perry Mason
Anthony Blake
Boris Karloff
Exorcist and Other Films Headline Local Theaters
Local listings show The Exorcist at SACO Cinema and CINEMA III with showtimes at 7 and 9. Other venues including Portland Maine Mall and Sanford Cinema feature titles like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Bad News Bears with multiple daily slots. Drive-ins list They Came From Within and The Exorcist as evening features.
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Kennebunk
Universal Leads TV Schedule With 14 Hours Of Prime Time
Universal TV dominates in the new schedule with 14 weekly prime time hours and an additional 1.5 hours ordered for mid season. Columbia Television, Norman Lear’s company, MTM Enterprises, and Quinn Martin Productions follow with five, three and a half, and three hours respectively. Frank Price credits product quality and early entry for Universal’s gains, noting past hits like Rich Man Poor Man and The Six Million Dollar Man shaping the field.
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Universal TV
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Emergency
Kojak
Baretta
Columbo
Rockford Files
City of Angels
Sara
MCA
Jules Stein
Lew Wasserman
Revue Productions
Old Republic
Universal TV Leads 1976 77 TV Schedule Victory
Los Angeles AP reports Universal Television wins the season as top network studio with the winner and still champion status, amid announced fall schedules for the 1976 77 slate.
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Bicentennial band seeks young Maine musicians
The Deering Ice Cream Shops sponsor a 76 member bicentennial concert band with Southern Maine high school musicians. Recruitment runs through May 28 with rehearsals starting June 21 and a tentative July 4 concert at the Eastern Promenade.
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