thursday, may 4, 1978
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Six-day auction
gets underway
About 2,000 items will have been on the television
auction block by the time the Nebraskans for Public Tele
vision complete their major fund raiser of the year, Auc
tion 78.
The six-day effort, which began May 2, will run each
evening, beginning at 6 p.m., through Sunday, May 7.
Items and services each worth more than $30 in donor
value will be auctioned off via television to tfje highest
telephone bidders from across the state.
This fifth annual event features items from more than
50 communities in Nebraska where Auction 78 "Go
Getter" workers solicited merchandise and services from
businessmen and individuals.
Some of the major items to be auctioned this year in
clude an original artist's proof of the Cybis porcelain
sculpture, Narcissus; a Spode proqelain planter, and an
original oil painting by Oscar Sormani, nationally known
Omaha artist.
Other items include a collector's football from the
nowjdefunct World Football League, an antique phone
booth, a clippership cruise, two days and three nights at
Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and a weekend at Kansas
City, Missouri. Among the other hundreds of auction
pieces are a chain saw, a 40-gallon and a 50-gallon hot
water heater, a rototiller, ceramic bathroom tile, rust
proofing for a car and club steaks.
live
Zoo: Sour Mash, May 4 thorugh 6, Billy Spears, May
8 through 10, Little Jimmy Valentine and the Heart Mur
murs, May 11, 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Personalities: John Thones, May 4 through 6, 8 p.m. to
12:30 a.m.
Oscar's: Heart Murmurs, May 4 through 6, Hughes and
Hall, May 8 through 10, Charlie Burton, May 1 1
Reuben's: Emanon, May 4 through 6, May 8 through
11, 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Tony and Luigi's: David Thompson, May 4 through 6,
8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Two Eyed Jack's: Freeride, May 6 though 7
Howell: Travesties, May 4 through 5
Sheldon Film Theater: Breathless, May 7,8 7,9 p.m.
EVENING
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1 Q ROLLERGIRLS Honey
ee becomes enraged, when she
Is traded to the skating team
whose owner Is threatening to
foreclose the mortgage on the
Pitts rink.
S O EIGHT IS ENOUGH The
radlord family takes to the stage
In a hectic one-night stand of toe
tapping, horn-tooting support for
the orphanage. (80 min.)
P CD KING Of THE ROAD
Roger Miller stars as Cotton
Grimes, a semi-retired, country-and-western
singer-who runs a
club which features musical
guest stars and regular per
formers. Guest star: John
Davidson. (Pilot; 60 min.)
O ADAM 12
NOVA The Light Of The 21st
nturv' The laaar beam mast
Intense light in the world, will
play a key role In the everyday
life and Industry of the 21st
century (60 min.)
7:30 fl JOKER'S WILD
11 0 JOE AND VALERIE When
Valerie's mother suddenly leaves
town for the weekend. Joe's
roommates assume he and
Valerie will spend the night
together
O MOVIE -(WESTERN) "The
Indian Fighter" 1BS5 Kirk
Douglas. Walter Matttiau A man
leads a wagon train through
rampaging Indian Country (2
ttra )
6:00 O MOVIE -(MYSTERY) "A Shot
In th Dark" 1B3S Charles
Starrett. Robert Warwick
Campus murder mystery with a
surprise ending (2hra
SO DEAN MARTIN
LEBAfTY ROAST Oscar winner
James Stewart will be 'roasted'
by a celebrity dais Including
Orson Welles. Milton Bene.
Janet Leigh Tony Randall
Lucille Ball. Mickey Rooney
June Allyson. Red Buttons and
Ruth Buzii (2hrs )
O O CHARLIE'S ANGELS
Dressed as Keystone Cops and
drying a Modef-T Ford. Sabrtna.
night on
the town
out on the
weekend
Kelly, Kris and Bosley Infiltrate
an antique auto rally to track
down stolen samples of a new
space age fuel worth millions to a
foreign power. (60 min.)
O WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE
'Murder At The Mardi Gras' Stars:
Didi Conn, David Groh, Harry
Morgan. The drama revolves
around an unlikely pair of tourists
who share romance and intrigue
during the famed New Orleans
carnival, the Mardi Gras. (2 hrs. )
CD LAWRENCE WELK SHOW
(S GREAT PERFORMANCES
Shooting The Chandelier' A
historian serving in the Russian
army joins up with a member ot
Stalin's secret police to com
mandeer a dilapidated country
house during the 1945 liberation'
of Czechoslovakia. Their
relationships to the adolescent
girl orphaned in the house, and to
each other, reveal two starkly
different faces of communism.
(90 min.)
9:00 O O STARSKY AND HUTCH
Starsky risks his life while posing
as a cabbie to capture a
chameleon character respon
sible for killing four drivers in a
vendetta against a cab company.
(60 min.)
eGUNSMOKE
NEWS
Cg BLUE COLLAR CAPITALISM
This program tells the story of the
workers at an asbestos mine In
Vermont. who themselves
assumed ownership of the mine
after the former corporate owner
decided not to make Im
provements required by federal
law.
10:00 O STAR TREK All Our
Yesterdays' (60 mlns.)
nOOOOCDNEws
8 ODD COUPLE
DICK CAVETT SHOW
Homosexual Rights' Part li
Guests: Mike Thompson,
spokesman tor Anita Bryant; Dr
Charles Soca rides professor of
psychiatry at the State University
of New York. Jean O'Leary, first
open lesbian to be elected to a
national political convention as i
delegate; and Malcolm Boyd, an
Episcopal priest who recently
declared his homosexuality
10:30 O O THE TONIGHT SHOW
Host Johnny Carson Guests
Mac Davis. Ronny Graham. Erma
Bombeck (90 min.)
O POLICE STORY
f l HONEYMOONERS
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O MOVIE -(COMEDY) "No Time
For Comedy" 1940 James
Stewart. Rosalind Russell A
mall-town playwright has play
done on Broadway, he falls In
love with the play s star (2 hrs .
10 mlns )
Q CBS LATE MOVIE 'Hawaii
Ftve-O McGarrer is the bait to
EVENING
8:00 nOOOQNEws
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m SUN: PERSONAL FINANCE
AND MONEY MANAGEMENT
6:18 fl BASEBALL '78
6:30 U BASEBALL Boston Red Sox
vs Kansas City Royals (2 hrs., 30
mlns.)
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CONCENTRATI
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ODD COUPLE
MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT
O KOMEDY TONITE Cleavon
Little and Paula Kelly head an all
black comedy company-in lavish
song and dance production
numbers and comedy sketches,
Guest stars: Lawrence Hilton
Jacobs, Paul Lynde. (60 min.)
O O HAPPY DAYS Fonzle falls
head over tutu In love with a
pretty dancing teacher, then
recruits all the gang to hone their
pirouettes at her troubled ballet
school. Guest star: Leslie
Browne.
Q(E) TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE
m The Alamo' Stars: John
Wayne, Richard Widmark,
Laurence Harvey. Davy Crockett,
Jim Bowie and Col. William Travis
take command of the 180 un
trained volunteers who prepare
to hold off the 7,000 Mexican
soldiers in the Alamo, a crum
bling Spanish mission, until
reinforcements reach them from
the north. (3 hrs.)
P ADAM 12
P WILLA CATHER'S AMERICA
This documentary, narrated by
Hal Holbrook, evokes the life and
times of one of America's most
idiosyncratic writers, Willa
Cather. The film indues locales
that play a central part in her
works: the plains of Nebraska;
the Southwestern pueblos; and
rural New England. Gena
Rowlands reads the author's
words. (60 min.)
7:30 O O LA VERNE AND SHIRLEY
Society will never be the same
when Laveme is invited to a ball
by Lenny who has just
discovered he's the Count of
Kilikowsky.
P MOVIE -(COMEDY) "A Shot In
the Dark" 1964 Peter Sellers,
Elke Sommer. A bungling In
spector Clouseau is on the loose
again in Paris. (2 hrs.)
8:00 p p THE 8IG EVENT MOVIE
'Wheels' Stars: Rock Hudson,
Lee Remick. Unable to leave his
devastated wife, Erica, Adam
Trenton ends his relationship
with an attractive account
executive. Executive infighting at
National Motors peaks when the
new car, Adam Trenton's Hawk,
fails its tests and is shelved. (Pt.
III. of a five-part episode; 2 hrs.)
P p THREE'S COMPANY
Janet is caught in the middle
when Jack and Chrissy vie for her
tickets to a Frank Sinatra concert.
tB MARK RUSSELL COMEDY
SPECIAL America's leading
political humorist returns with
comedy aimed at personalities
and events of the day.
8:30 pp CARTER COUNTRY Chief
Roy and Baker endanger their
lives by returning to a mountain
cabin where Roy thought he saw
a UFO not knowing The U.S. Air
Force has evacuated the area for
secret testing.
JfHf
bring a key witness against a
gambling operation out ol hiding
before the trial (R) 'Kojak: I Was
Happy Where I Was' Stars: Telly
Savalas. Kevin Dobson. (R)
P FIXING LINE Host: William F
Buc'xley. Jr. 'Algeria Revisited'
Guest: AlistalrHorne.
11:00 P POLICE STORY-MYSTERY
OF THE WEEK Police Story
'Odyssey Of Death Pt II Stars:
Robert Stack. Brock Peters (R)
Mystery of the Week-'Murder
Motet' After a woman's fiance Is
slain while attempting to report a
fraud, she traces his steps to the
'Murder Motel' where she Is
registered as the next Intended
victim (R. 2 hrs.. 30 min.)
P CBS LATE MOVIE 'Hawaii
Ftve-0' Hume Cronyn stars as the
criminal with a thousand faces,
who escapes from prison after
devising a scheme to steal tour
million doll.- from drug
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Lorna Doone' Episode Ten. John
pledges his loyalty to the King
before Chief Justice Jeffries.
Later he foils a kidnap attempt on
Lorna's life and is knighted for
his valor. Tom is pardoned and he
and Annie wed. Before Lorna can
be married to John, she is shot
and wounded by Carver, who
dies in a bog. '
9:00 P AMERICAN LIFESTYLE Pearl
Buck'
P P FAMILY Buddy learns
some valuable lessons from a
spirited classmate who paints
herself into a world of trouble
while preparing scenery for a
school dance. (60 min.)
tB MASTERPIECE THEATRE
'Our Mutual Friend' Mr. Boffin is
growing more and more miserly.
But what's come over beautiful
Bella? There seems to be more to
John Rokesmith than meets the
eye. (60 min.)
9:30 P NEWLYWEDGAME
P NEWS
10:00 f STAR TREK The Savage
Curtain' (60 mins.)
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g ODD COUPLE
DICK CAVETT SHOW
'Homosexual Rights' Part I.
Guests: Mike Thompson,
spokesman for Anita Bryant; Dr.
Charles Socarides, professor of
psychiatry at the State University
of New York; Jean O'Leary, first
SHOOTING THE
CHANDELIER
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Edward Fox and Denholm Elliott
are featured in David Mercer's
'Shooting the Chandelier, a provoca
tive new drama set in April 1945, just
as the Czech people paused in limbo
between the excesses of Nazism and
the prospect of socialism. The play
airs on the PBS series 'Great
Performances' on Wednesday. May
10.
Somewhere in the Czech country
side, a young girl (Felicity Dean,
pictured) emerges from a bomb
shelter to find that the war has finally
passed her home. She is deranged by
the war and the sole survivor of a
liberal, wealthy family. At the same
time, further down the road, Semyon
Rusakov (Denholm Elliott), suffering
from a hangover, is struggling out of
a ditch when Col. Nikolai Schotkin
(Edward Fox) and his driver (Alun
Armstrong) pull up in their jeep.
The characters converge on the
girl's family's estate for the final,
harrowing confrontation between the
cynical Rusakov and the hardened
pragmatist Schotkin. The climax
takes the form of a new parlor
game shooting the chandelier.
smugglers (R) 'Kojak: A Need To
Know' Stars. Telly Savalas. Kevin
Dobson. (R)
P IRONSIDE
11:30 O PTL PROGRAM
tB ABC CAPTIONED NEWS
12:00 n P TOMORROW Host Tom
Snyder. Guest: Don Rickles. (60
min.)
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12:30 I AFFIRMATIVE LIVE POWER
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12:40 f NEWS
12:45 f FOCUS
1 JO fl THAT GIRL
1J0 p MOVIE -(MYSTERY) "A Shot
In the Dark" 1935 Charles
Starrett. Robert Warwick
Campus murder mystery with a
surprise ending. (090 mlns.)
3:00 p DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
3 JO NIGHT GALLERY
4:00 3 THRILLER
9:00 f UNTAMED WORLD
9 JO IJ WILDLIFE THEATRE
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KOMEDY TONITE
Actor Cteavon Little (rear left) and
dancer Paula Kelly (rear right) lead
an all-black comedy company, Paul
Lynde heads the guest-star roster
and a 14-girl dance troupe is featured
in 'Komedy Tonite,' a special on
NBC-TV Tuesday, May 9.
Lavish song and dance production
numbers share the stage with
energy-packed comedy sketches
from 'Porgy and Bass' to
R.O.O.T.S.'
Joining Little and Miss Kelly in the
company are (front left to right)
Marion Ramsey, Shon Vaughn and
(rear center) Charles Valentino.
Guest stars in addition to Lynde are
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs of 'Welcome
Back, Kotter,' Danielle Spencer of
'What's Happening and Todd Bridges
of 'Fish.'
Following a stylish opening musical
production number, the Misses
Vaughn and Ramsey appear as
mismatched roommates . trying to
cope with two men (Valentino and
Hilton-Jacobs). Miss Kelly then
bursts on the scene as 'Super Sistuh'
in a kaleidoscopic musical number
with Valentino.
open lesbian to be elected to a
national political convention as a
delegate; and Malcolm Boyd, an
Episcopal priest who recently
declared his homosexuality.
10:30 P P THE TONIGHT SHOW
Host: Johnny Carson. Guests:
Louis Nizer, Tony Randall, Buddy
Rich. (90 min.)
OOD POLITICAL PROGRAM
8 HONEYMOONERS
UNOFFICIAL MISS LAS
VEGAS " SHOWGIRL PAGEANT
Steve Allen and Phyllis Diller co
host this eventr Rich Little,
Foster Brooks and Jayne
Meadows will be the judges.
P MOVIE -(COMEDY) "The
Philadelphia Story" 1940 Cary
Grant, Katharine Hepburn. A
Society girl who yearns for a
down-to-earth romance, has to
contend with her ex-husband, a
reporter who tails in love with
her. (2 hrs.)
tB CONSUMER SURVIVAL KIT
'Detergents-Cars-Tots' On this
program, consumers may see a
comparison of nationally ad
vertised and store-brand
detergents, a used car buyer's
checklist, and how learning
disabled children can get care.
11:00 p TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE
WEEK Pete 'N' Tillie' Stars:
Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett. A
sarcastic love-starved woman
has an affair with and marries a
philandering practical joker.
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P CBS LATE MOVIE " Kiss
Me, Kill Me' Stars: Stella
Stevens, Claude Akins. A police
investigator looks into the death
of a young school teacher
although her superiors think they
already have the criminal. 'Kojak:
Monkey On A String' Stars: Telly
Savalas, Kevin Dobson. (R)
ORIGINALS: THE WRITER IN
ERICA 'Eudora Weltv' Part. I.
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This profile of short story writer
and novelist Eudora Welty visits
her at home in Mississippi.
11:30 tB ABC CAPTIONED NEWS
12:00 p p TOMORROW Host: Tom
Snyder. Guest: Truman Capote.
(60 min.)
P PTL PROGRAM
P NEWS
12:30 p NEWS
12:45 p LOVE AMERICAN STYLE
P FOCUS
1:00 p MOVIE -(ADVENTURE)
"Fighter Squardon" 1946 Ed
mond O'Brien, Robert Stack. A
former flying tiger pilot faces
combat mission after combat
mission. (090 mins.)
1.50 p THAT GIRL
2:00 CD NEWS
2:30 P LOVE AMERICAN STYLE
3:00 p DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
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