Everything’s coming up Ethel Merman this week...
Everything’s coming up Ethel Merman this week when she appears on two episodes of The Lucy Show (Sunday at 9 p.m. and Thursday at 11:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon).
Book ‘em Danno! TBS goes Hawaiian this week with five two-hour episodes of the classic CBS detective series Hawaii Five-O (Monday-Friday at 10:05 a.m.). Included among the guest stars are Ed Flanders, Victoria Principal, Harry Guardino and Dina Merrill. Jack Lord and James MacArthur star.
Before he was given his own NBC series, Flipper starred in two feature films. TBS repeats the first and best in the dolphin’s oeuvre, Flipper (Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.), a whale of a 1963 tale which also stars humans Chuck Connors and Luke Halpin.
Larry Hagman plays a classy con man and escape artist on Police Story (Tuesday at 2 p.m. on A&E;).
Mary shocks her friends when she starts dating Murray’s dad (Lew Ayres) on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Tuesday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon).
Helen Hunt of “Mad About You” guests as Murray’s daughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon).
WJM is sold and everyone is fired except for Ted on the last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Thursday at 10:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon). The first episode of the Emmy Award-winning comedy airs Friday at 10 p.m.
TNT dusts off two more episodes of the ‘50s series The Thin Man (Friday at 1 a.m.), starring Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk as Nick and Nora Charles.
C’mon get happy! Nick at Nite repeats the pilot episode of The Partridge Family (Friday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon).
Shirley MacLaine plays herself in Out On a Limb (Saturday at 5 p.m on Lifetime), a 1987 miniseries based on her best-selling book about her love affair with a British politician (Charles Dance) and her spiritual rebirth.
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