The running characters are a crusty but benign ex-Supreme Court Justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba.

6 seconds sound clip from the Network (1976) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:23:39.402 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Did the overnight ratings come in yet?

- They're on your desk.

- Have you still got yesterday's overnights?

- Shall I bring them in?

- Yeah.

- These are those four outlines submitted by Universal for an hour series.

- You needn't bother to read them. I'll tell them to you.

- The first one is set in a large Eastern law school, presumably Harvard.

- The series is irresistibly entitled The New Lawyers.

- The running characters are a crusty but benign ex-Supreme Court Justice, presumably Oliver Wendell Holmes by way of Dr. Zorba.

- There is a beautiful girl graduate student and the local district attorney who is brilliant and sometimes cuts corners.

- Next one.

- The second one is called The Amazon Squad.

- Lady cops?

- The running characters include a crusty but benign lieutenant who's always getting heat from the commissioner...

- A hard-nosed, hard-drinking detective who thinks women belong in the kitchen...

[...]