TV listing for ABC Special - Tribune TV Week

Specials are easy as ABC

ABC has cleared its primetime schedule Wednesday for a trio of specials featuring light entertainment.

Ice champion Dorothy Hamill glides into the spotlight at 7 p.m. to launch the evening. (Details of her show are on page 24.)

The next hour is John Denver's, featuring the composer-singer accompanied by the Starland Vocal Band. His guests are Dennis Weaver, Joanne Wood-ward and the shark from Jaws.

The country theme continues at 9p.m. when Australia's Olivia Newton-John climaxes the evening with an hour of her country and western songs on A Special Olivia Newton-John.

Born in Cambridge, England, and reared in Australia, Ms. Newton-John, the granddaughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born, began singing in her early teens. She started her career in England and, after a series of hits, toured Europe. Worldwide prominence came in 1973 when she won her first Grammy Award as Best Country Vocalist with the song,Let Me Be There

More from Olivia's 1976 TV special - A Special Olivia Newton-John.