Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 21, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Son Of Ex-Con Job
Season 6, episode 15 W: Emily Purdum Marshall D: Michael Zinberg With Taurean Blacque (Arthur Tatum), Ric Mancini (Al Brolio), Wyatt Johnson (Mr. Hawkins), Allen Case (Steve Kopelson), Bert Rosario (Mr. Ortiz). Bob counsels a quintet of jovial ex-convicts to help them find honest employment.
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| [ABC 8:00] What's Happening [Reg]: Dee's First Date
Season 2, episode 15 W: Joe Neustein D: Mark Warren With Fay Hauser (Melanie), Noniece Williams (Robin), Erin Blunt (Luther). Dee embarks on her first date with Luther Lassiter, hampered only by older brother Raj, who has flipped over Luther's sister Melanie.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Bionic Woman [Reg]: The Antidote
Season 3, episode 14 W: Arthur Rowe, Tom August, Helen August D: Don McDougall With Hari Rhodes (Waiter/Doctor), Jennifer Darling (Peggy Callahan), Suzanne Charney (Waitress/Nurse), Brett Halsey (Dr. Hamilton), James Blendick (Chief Inspector Ball), John Myhers (Dmitri Zhukov), John Milford (Henderson), Danny Wells (Yanos), Linda Wiser (Sarah). A deadly poison will kill Jaime unless she reveals the location of a secret conference in exchange for the antidote.
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| [CBS 8:30] Annie Flynn [special]
W: Coleman Mitchell, Geoffrey Neigher D: Robert Moore With Barrie Youngfellow, Charles Frank, Jack Fletcher, Lisa Loring, Louis Guss, Renee Lippin. On registration day, medical student Annie meets a handsome young man, ostensibly a classmate, at a faculty-student reception but later learns he is her anatomy instructor.
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| [ABC 8:30] Operation Petticoat [Reg]: Down To The Sea In Slips
Season 1, episode 15 W: Gil Grant, Jennie Elford, Bryan Joseph, Leonard Stern D: Hollingsworth Morse The nurses take over key jobs on a combat mission after a birthday cake sends most of the Sea Tiger crew to the infirmary.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: The Blackout
Season 4, episode 18 W: Richard Eckhaus D: Jack Shea With Ernest Harden Jr. (Marcus Henderson), Gerald Castillo (Policeman), Wendell Wright (Walker), Le Tari (Jackson). George blows a fuse when a power blackout hits the city and looters do the same to his store.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Hollywood Royalty / The Caper / The Eyes Of Love / Masquerade
Season 1, episode 15 With Juliet Mills (Barbara Danver), Michele Lee (Roz Rogers), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Steve Hollis), Adrienne Barbeau (Cathy Randall), Harold Gould (Mr. Crowler), Fernando Lamas (Bill Klieg), Dan Rowan (Alan Danver), John Schuck (Ox), Larry Storch (Elwood), Karen Valentine (Taffy Martino), Stephanie Zimbalist (Jenny Lang). Superstars Roz and Bill have remarried and are celebrating their homeymoon aboard the Pacific Princess; a quartet of thieves are out to steal Roz's $1 million diamond ring; two young adults meet for the first time since they were students at a school for blind children; a man becomes concerned when his wife becomes friends with his mistress.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Standing Tall (1978)
W: Franklin Thompson D: Harvey Hart With Robert Forster, Will Sampson, L.Q. Jones, Robert Donner, Linda Evans, Chuck Connors. Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend their land, life and dignity.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Tony Randall Show [Reg]: I Live To Dance
Season 2, episode 15 W: Hugh Wilson D: Tony Mordente The unlikely duo of Jack Terwilliger and Miss Reubner enter a dance contest with hopes of capturing the thousand dollar prize.
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| [CBS 10:00] Kojak [Reg]: Mouse
Season 5, episode 14 W: Art Eisenson D: Harvey Laidman With Michael Witney (Billy Dunvalo), Laura Campbell (Edith Leverkune), Bob Burke (Officer Gerber), Sam Freed (Dr. Bernstein), Ben Piazza (Irving Abernathy), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Todd Flynn), Peter Brandon (Dr. Shane), Maria Smith (Cecilia Quinones). An infuriated man refuses to pay a doctor's surgery bills, as he holds the man responsible for his mother's death on the operating table.
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