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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1977
Page
4
TV lineup lists prime time shows and episodes across networks with stars Sky, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Hawaii Five-O, The Tonight Show, Mary Tyler Moore, and ongoing daytime programs including The Price Is Right and Sesame Street. Nonfiction and game shows appear alongside dramas and soap operas.
A dense listing of daytime and afterschool TV slots features US soap operas including General Hospital and One Life to Live, sitcoms like I Love Lucy and The Beverly Hillbillies, child programs Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, and game shows Price is Right and The $20,000 Pyramid. Networks note stations reserve right to changes.
National Geographic ends nine years on commercial TV and moves to public television with Gulf Oil funding. Executive producer Dennis Kane notes better planning time. PBS airings reach 18 to 20 million across two to three showings. The first PBS special Yu kon Passage airs, with more titles planned including The Legacy of L. S. B. Leakey and The Great Whales.
The article sketches Pecos Enterprise adapting to the desert over millions of years. It tracks themes on gold and human involvement with the metal, the human mind and its powers, the last great steamships, Hong Kong, and elephant conservation in Africa with possible extinction by century’s end.
Paul Lynde stars in ABCs Twas The Night Before Christmas on December 7 while Bette Midler headlines The Bette Midler Special on NBC also December 7. Christmas Around the World airs December 24 with Maori dances and satellite broadcasts from Bethlehem to Jamaica, including a U S segment with the University of South Carolina choir in Columbia, South Carolina.
Glen Campbell presents a two record set from his British tour featuring hits such as Rhinestone Cowboy By the Time I Get to Phoenix Wichita Lineman Galveston Sunflower and Southern Nights plus lesser known favorites A medley tribute to Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys Campbell produced all but one track Dottie West entertained at halftime in Atlanta for a charity drive benefiting the Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children aiming to raise 100000 toward 600000 needed for the hospital which plans 12000 outpatients 32 clinics and 3500 operations next year Local TV appearance and a luncheon honored West and the hospital with performers from both Georgia Tech and Georgia football squads also noted Hank Thompson Ray Griff and Donna Fargo as other country artists touring and recording projects
The listing notes a showtime for Country Morning Farm and Ranch at seven o clock, with the program running until eight. It indicates a morning segment likely featuring farming and ranching topics.
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby star in a 1974 comic caper as a factory hand and cabbie chase a gangster who steals their winnings. With Harry Belafonte and Richard Pryor in supporting roles, the film unspools a nightlife caper involving a con-man detective and a rival gangster.
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