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TV Highlights

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
September
Year
1975
OCR Text

WED. 9/3

8:00 p.m. - VD Blues - Dick Cavett hosts this program which uses music, comedy & drama to explore the causes, effects & cures of venereal disease. Music stars Arlo Guthrie & Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show. Ch 56.

9:00 p.m. - Theatre in America. "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black." - Life of the youngest American & first black to win the N.Y. Drama Critics Award. Ch. 56.

10:30 p.m. - Hocking Valley Bluegrass - Concert of bluegrass being performed by the Eagle Mountain Boys of W. Virginia. Ch. 56.

FRI. 9/5

8:00 p.m. - Funshine Saturday Sneak Preview - (Special) - A sneak preview of the 1975-76 Sat. morning children's programs. Ch. 7.

8:30 p.m. - Merv Griffin Show - Famed bluesman B.B. King is one of the guests tonight.

10:00 p.m. - ABC News Closeup. (Special) on Today's Land Use Politics. Ch. 7.

1:00 a.m. - Rock Concert - Guests are Yes, David Essex, Jimi Hendrix, Fama All-Stars, Brian Cadd and Rush. Ch. 7.

SAT. 9/6

8:00 p.m. - The Philadelphia Folk Festival - w/Arlo Guthrie, Peg Leg Sam & Scottish folk star Murray McLauchlan. Ch. 56.

10:00 p.m. - An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe - (special) Ch. 7.

10:00 p.m. - Bergman Film Festival - "Through a Glass Darkly" Ch. 56.

SUN. 9/7

1:30 p.m. Soul Train - w/Joe Simon, Millie Jackson & The Choice Four. Ch, 2.

4:00 p.m. ''Stone in the River" - An Emmy Award winning drama that explores the study of experimental behavior under application in American prisons. Ch. 4.

7:30 p.m. - Sharks! Terror? Death? Truth! - (Special) examines the shark mania. Ch. 7.

10:00 p.m. - Vincent Van Gogh - a biography. Ch. 56.

11:00 p.m. - Kup's Show - Guest: Pres. Gerald Ford. Ch. 56.

MON. 9/8

7:00 p.m. - The People at the End of the Tunnel (Special) - Documentary, shot at Camp Pendleton, Calif., examining the plight of some of the Vietnamese refugees seeking new life in the United States. Ch. 56

10:30 p.m. - "The Conger-King Report: The Certainty of Punishment" - Examines the criminal justice system & its effect on those convicted of crimes: Bob King and Bob Conger interview prominent defense attorneys. F. Lee Bailey, Ken Cockrel & Ivan Barris, Det. Free Press editor Joe Stroud, Jackson Prison's Warden Charles Egeler, Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Rashid, Director of the State Corrections Dept. Perry Johnson & Randy Griffin, a former inmate at Jackson Prison. Ch. 56

9/8: "The Conger-King Report: The Certainty of Punishment"  examines the criminal justice system and its effect on those convicted. Channel 56, 10:30pm.

TUES. 9/9

9:30 p.m. - Dinah! The Jackson Five are guests tonight. Ch. 50.

10:00 p.m. - Monty Python's Flying Circus. Ch. 56.

10:30 p.m. - Report from Mexico City: The International Women's Year Conference. Shana Alexander will report on the conference held earlier this year in Mexico City. Ch. 56.

9/10: Report from Mexico City: The International Women's Year Conference, with Shana Alexander. Ch. 56 at 10:30 p.m.

WED. 9/10

9:00 p.m. - Theatre in America - "Paradise Lost" - Clifford Odets' study of a decaying, frustrated middle class during the 1930's in America. Ch. 56.

FRI. 9/12

6:30 p.m. - Jeanne Wolf With ... "Guest - Florynce Kennedy" - founder of the Feminist Party speaks out. Ch. 56.

9:00 p.m. - ABC Friday Night Movie - "Diamonds Are Forever," James Bond. Ch. 7.

1:30 a.m. - Rock Concert - Guests are Isis, T-Rex & Ross. Ch. 7.

SAT. 9/13

2:00 p.m. - Soul Train - w/New Birth, Blue Magic & Bobby Moore. Ch. 2.

5:00 p.m. - Speaking Freely - "Shirley MacLaine" - actress and author, Shirley discusses her 1974 trip to China & her recent book, "You Can Get There from Here." Ch. 56.

6:00 p.m. - The Appalachian Green Parks Project - touring group of musicians & singers filmed in an open-air performance in Ohio. Ch. 56.

8:00 p.m. - The Philadelphia Folk Festival - Diana Marcovitz makes her debut - John Prine, Tom Rush, Elizabeth, Murray McLaughlin, Pappy Sherrill & Snuffy Jenkins and the Putnam String County Band. Ch. 56.

8:00 p.m. - The Muhammad Ali Variety Special - Muhammad Ali will star w/ his guests Flip Wilson, Aretha Franklin, The Captain & Tennille (r&r) soul singer Barry White, plus others. Ch. 7.

9:00 p.m. - The First Edition: Tell It All - Rock group Kenny Rogers & the First Edition are seen on tour throughout North and South Carolina. Ch. 56.

10:00 p.m. - Bergman Film Festival - "White Light." Ch. 56.

MON. 9/15

9:30 p.m. Dinah! - The Supremes are guests tonight. Ch. 50.

TUES. 9/16

10:00 p.m. - Monty Python's Flying Circus. Ch. 56.

11:00 p.m. - Interface - "Profile: Political Wife and a Civil Rights Retrospective." - Roscoe Dellums, wife of Calif. Congressman Ron Dellums, explores the conflicts of being a political wife. Ch. 56.

9/20: Actor Marlon Brando discusses his role in the American Indian quest for equality, with Ed Newman on "Speaking Freely," Ch. 56, 5pm.

THURS. 9/18

9:00 p.m. - Hollywood TV Theatre - "Incident at Vichy" - Arthur Miller's tense drama about occupied France. Ch. 56.

SAT. 9/20

5:00 p.m. - Speaking Freely - "Marlon Brando." - Brando visits with Ed Newman to discuss his active role in the American Indian quest for equality. Ch. 56.

8:00 p.m. - The Philadelphia Folk Festival - w/Norman Blake, Frankie Armstrong, National Fiddle Champ Buck Ryan. Ch. 56.

9/20: Documentary on the birth, decline and rebirth of New Orleans jazz as a musical force.

9:00 p.m. - 'Til the Butcher Cuts Him Down - Documentary on The birth, decline & rebirth of New Orleans jazz as a musical force. Study centers on Preservation Hall, a New Orleans sanctuary for traditional jazz. Ch. 56.

10:00 p.m. - Bergman Film Festival - "The Silence" Ch. 56.

SUN. 9/21

10:00 p.m. - Only Then Regale My Eyes - Narrated by Paul Winter. A visual representation of the moral & social forces that produced French romantic art during the period of 1784-1830. Ch. 56.

MON. 9/22

3:00 p.m. The Naturalists - "Henry David Thoreau: The Captain of a Huckleberry Party" - The 1st in a series of 4 profiles of American naturalists. Ch. 56.

THURS. 9/25

9:00 p.m. - Classic Theatre - "MacBeth" - starring Eric Porter & Janet Suzman. Ch. 56.

SAT. 9/27

8:00 p.m. - War & Peace - Ch. 56.

8:30 p.m. - Rock Concert Premiere - Well-known jazz, rock and rhythm & blues artists are featured. Ch. 50.