Picks and Pans Review: The Black Bird

UPDATED 07/06/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 07/06/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

ABC (9-11 p.m. ET)

In this delightfully offbeat 1975 comedy, George Segal portrays Sam Spade Jr., the chickenhearted heir to his father's detective agency—as well as to all the social, political and sexual problems of the latter 20th century.

TUESDAY, JULY 7