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ABC debuts 1977 78 lineup headlined by Soap and Happy Days
TV listings note ABC launches the season with two top shows Soap and Happy Days on rival nights. The slate includes Three's Company and Laverne and Shirley soon, NBC introduces The Richard Pryor Show, while CBS counters with Night of the Champions boxing and popular dramas. Soap centers on the Tate and Campbell families with scandalous intrafamily entanglements and cameos by Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell.
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Bob Martin
ABC
Channel 7
Three
Pamily
NBC
Richard Pryor
Sour
Fonz
Laverne
Shirley
Richard
CBS
Channel 2
the Fitzpatricks
Olympic Auditorium
Los Angeles
Carlos Palomino
World Boxing Council
Everaldo Costa Azevedo
Danny “Little Red” Lopez
Jose Torres
Howard Davis
Arturo Pineda
Michael Spinks
Kay Elson
Norman Laar
Mary Hartman
Channel 11
Jessica Tate
Katherine Helmond
Mary Campbell
Cathryn Ramnon
Jessica
Corinne
Diana Canova
Peter
Robert Urich
Chester
Robert Mandan
Billy
Jimmy Baio
Mary
Burt
Richard Mulligan
Jodie Dallas
Billy Crystal
Danny Dallas
Ted Wass