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Season 9 (ABC Late Night)(1974-75)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox,
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
NYT and Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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ABC Late Night series every 2nd or 3rd Thursday 90min 11:30pm
11 episodes (05Sep1974 to 01Jan1975)
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[--] NFL Pre-Season Football Game.
02Sep1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Murder By Proxy".
03Sep1974
[--] Wide World Special "Las Vegas Celebrity Secrets" Hosted by Dick Clark.
04Sep1974
9.01 [1053] The Dick Cavett Show
05Sep1974 ABC Thu [Press Telegram]
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
singer-songwriter Paul Simon
poet-playwright Anthony Burgess
actress Barbara Howar
novelist Jerzy Kosinski
and The Jessy Dixon Singers.
Highlights:
Paul Simon performs "Loves Me Like a Rock"
[--] Wide World Special "Alan King's Primetime Revue".
06Sep1974
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[--] NCAA Football
09Sep1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are".
10Sep1974
[--] Wide World Special "Miss American Teenager" hosted by Bert Convy and Vonda
Van Dyke.
11Sep1974
[--] Geraldo Rivera Goodnight America "World of Hells Angels" with Melba Moore.
12Sep1974
[--] In Concert with Bad Company, Blue Magic, PFM and Rufus.
13Sep1974
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[--] NFL Football
16Sep1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Special "On Location Ali-Forman Training Camps hosted by Jim
Brown.
17Sep1974
[--] Wide World Special: "O.J. Simpson is Alive and Well and Getting Roasted
Tonight"
hosted by Howard Cosell.
18Sep1974
9.02 [1054] The Dick Cavett Show
19Sep1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
Bette Davis
*Note: This program was rescheduled from August 8th, 1974
due to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.
[--] Wide World Special "Walt Disney A Golden Anniversary
Salute" (R).
20Sep1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
23Sep1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Special "20th Century Fox Presents" with Richard Chamberlain
(R).
24Sep1974
[--] Wide World Special "Golden Anniversary of MGM (R).
25Sep1974
[--] Wide World Special "Paramount Presents" (R).
26Sep1974
[--] In Concert with Cat Stevens, Linda Ronstadt and Dr. John.
27Sep1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
30Sep1974 ABC Mon
[--] ABC TV movie "The Stranger Within".
01Oct1974
[--] Miss World USA Pageant From New York Hosted by Bob Hope and Meredith
MacRae.
02Oct1974
9.03 [1055] The Dick Cavett Show
03Oct1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
illusionist David Henning
[--] Wide World Mystery "House of Evil" (R)
04Oct1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
07Oct1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Lady Killer".
08Oct1974
[--] Wide World Special "Bachelor of the Year".
09Oct1974
[--] Geraldo Rivera Goodnight America with John Denver, Shirley MacLaine and
Harry Chapin.
10Oct1974
[--] In Concert with Anne Murray, Suzie Quatro and The Spinners.
11Oct1974
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[--] NFL Football game
14Oct1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "The Haunting of Penthouse D".
15Oct1974
[--] Wide World Special "Candid Camera 25th Anniversary Salute"
with Allen Funt, Durward Kirby, Dorothy Collins and Fannie Flagg.
16Oct1974
9.04 [1056] The Dick Cavett Show
17Oct1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
Walter Cronkite
Summary
Dick Cavett interviews Walter Cronkite at Cronkite's home on Martha's Vineyard,
Mass.
"Viewers rarely recall and relish a Cronkite statement. They believe it
instead",
is how one critic described the newsman's delivery. Cronkite discusses how he
prepares for his
news show and offers his opinions on Watergate; what he sees as attempts to
suppress the media.
[--] Wide World Special "American Song Festival" hosted by
Helen Reddy and Paul Williams.
18Oct1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
21Oct1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Possession" (R).
22Oct1974
[--] Wide World Special "20 Years of Playboy: A Comedy Salute" hosted by Bill
Cosby.
23Oct1974
[--] Wide World of Entertainment "Fred Astaire Salutes Fox Musicals".
24Oct1974
[--] In Concert David Bowie.
25Oct1974
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[--] NFL Football Game.
28Oct1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Dying Room Only".
29Oct1974
[--] Wide World Special "David Hartman: Birth and Babies".
30Oct1974
[--] Wide World Special "The Dream Girls of Hollywood"
hosted by Joe Namath.
31Oct1974
[--] Wide World Mystery "The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer".
01Nov1974
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[--] NFL Football Game.
04Nov1974 ABC Mon
[--] The Dick Cavett Show
05Nov1974
pre-empted by Election Coverage
[--] Wide World Special "The Guinness Book of World Records"
hosted by David Frost and Soupy Sales.
06Nov1974
[--] Wide World Special "Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy".
07Nov1974
[--] In Concert Keith Moon of The Who hosts. Chuck Berry, Jim Croce, Rod
Stewart,
Allman Brothers, Seals and Crofts.
08Nov1974
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[--] NFL Football Game.
11Nov1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Screamer"
12Nov1974
[--] Wide World Special "Memories of a Gentle Rebel".
13Nov1974
9.05 [1057] Dick Cavett Show
14Nov1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
actor Dick Van Dyke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUKV_q-J0Ds
[--] TV movie Wonder Woman (R).
15Nov1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
18Nov1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "A Killing in Every Corner".
19Nov1974
[--] Wide World Special "Milton Berle: Mad, Mad World of Comedy".
20Nov1974
[--] Wide World Special "J.F.K. - A Time to Remember" (R).
21Nov1974
[--] In Concert with Rick Wakeman, New World Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
22Nov1974
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[--] NFL Football Game
25Nov1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Event "California Jam" Part 1 Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Deep
Purple,
Rare Earth, Black Oak Arkansas, Black Sabbath (R).
26Nov1974
[--] Wide World Event "California Jam" Part 2 (R)
27Nov1974
[--] Wide World Event "California Jam" Part 3 (R)
28Nov1974
[--] Wide World Event "California Jam" with Seals & Crofts, The Eagles, Earth,
Wind and Fire. (R)
29Nov1974
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[--] Monday Night Football
02Dec1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Movie "Killer with Two Faces"
03Dec1974
[--] Wide World Event Salute to Redd Foxx (R)
04Dec1974
9.07 [1058] The Dick Cavett Show
05Dec1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
Roy Dotrice
David Bowie
David performed "1984" and "Young Americans."
This was followed by an interview with Dick Cavett
and then David performed "Footstompin'."
The other number - "Can You Hear Me" - was not televised.
Roy Dotrice presents portions of his one-man show "Brief Lives"
in which he portrays 17th century diarist John Aubrey.
[--] ABC Wide World of Entertainment "In Concert"
06Dec1974
Sly and the Family Stone.
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[--] Monday Night Football
09Dec1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Movie "Book of Murder"
10Dec1974
[--] Wide World Event "Miss World 1974"
11Dec1974
9.08 [1059] The Dick Cavett Show
12Dec1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
novelist Gore Vidal who talks about "Myron", Vidal's sequel to "Myra
Breckenridge".
Jean Marsh, a co-creator and cast member of the EMMY winning series "Upstairs,
Downstairs"
and Rabbi Baruch Korff, a defender of former President Nixon.
[--] Wide World "In Concert"
13Dec1974
Elton John and Bernie Taupin "Say Goodbye Norma Jean and Other Things."
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[--] Monday Night Football
16Dec1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World Mystery "Gift of Terror"
17Dec1974
[--] Wide World Special "Monte Hall at Gamblers Anonymous"
18Dec1974
9.09 [1060] The Dick Cavett Show
19Dec1974 ABC Thu [Miami News]
Host Dick Cavett
Guest
"Your Money and Where Did It Go?"
George Meany president of the AFL-CIO discusses the spiraling economy.
[--] Wide World "In Concert"
20Dec1974
James Brown, Linda Ronstadt and Dan Fogelberg.
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[--] Monday Night Football
23Dec1974 ABC Mon
[--] ABC Wide World Special "Christmas in New York"
24Dec1974 ABC Tue Christmas Eve
former Mayor John V. Lindsay, Diahann Carroll at Rockefeller Center.
[--] Wide World Special "Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
25Dec1974 ABC Wed Christmas Day
9.10 [1061] The Dick Cavett Show
26Dec1974 ABC Thu
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
comedienne Lily Tomlin
and singer Richie Havens join Dick Cavett in this show taped at the University
of Maryland.
Lily does a spoof of sorority girls of the 1950's.
[--] Wide World Special Telly Savalas hosts "World Professional Karate
Championships (R)
27Dec1974
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[--] The Gator Bowl
30Dec1974 ABC Mon
[--] Wide World of Entertainment "Chicago's New Year's Rockin Eve 1975"
31Dec1974
9.11 [1062] The Dick Cavett Show [Final show on ABC]
01Jan1975 ABC Wed
Host Dick Cavett
Guests
British comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
singer Lotte Lenya famed for her interpretations of the songs of her late
husband composer Kurt Weill.
Highlights:
Dick and Lotte sing "Bilbao-Song".
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