TV Schedule Highlights Prime Time Lineup
TV listings show ABC NBC and CBS presenting a mix of dramas, talk shows, and films. Highlights include The Tonight Show with guest Johnny Mathis, NBCs The UFO Incident and The Italian Job films, plus CBS late movie Waterhole No 3 and Red River later film screenings.
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Great Debate disrupts premieres across networks
TV premier week faces upheaval as the first presidential debates push back start times. Networks weigh shifting seven new and returning shows including Welcome Back Kotter Hawaii Five-O Barney Miller Streets of San Francisco Waltons Gemini Man Best Seller. Three hour opening eps extend into prime time.
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Thursday Night Premieres Include Barnaby Jones and New NBC Show
TV listings note the premieres of four Thursday night regulars. Barnaby Jones moves to CBS while ABC debuts Tony Randall and Nancy Walker comedies and NBC launches Dick Van Dyke’s new show in the September 30 lineup.
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New ABC comedy blends Far East with Midwest humor
ABC’s Mr. T. and Tina centers a widowed Japanese man in Chicago who hires a Nebraska governess for his two children. Producer Jimmie Komack explains the idea evolved from Chico and the Man, preserving a Nisei angle while addressing wartime guilt without dwelling on it.
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Crosswords, TV comedies, and Liberia history note
The article lists four Komack comedies for TV this season including Chico and Welcome Back Kotter and notes NBC postponed Snip. It also mentions the American Colonization Society founded in 1817 to purchase slave freedom and settle freed Negroes in Liberia, continuing post 1865.
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