Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 31, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Celebrity Challenge Of The Sexes
Premiere of a series which features top movie and television stars in high-spirited head-to-head sports competition.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Richie Almost Dies
Season 5, episode 18 W: Marty Nadler D: Jerry Paris With Suzi Quatro (Leather), Robert Patten (Doctor). Fonzie prays for his best friend to pull through when Richie cracks up his new motorcycle and lies near death.
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| [NBC 8:00] Black Beauty: Part One [special]
With Martin Milner, Edward Albert, Eileen Brennan, William Devane, Warren Oates, Clu Gulager. First of a five-part adaptation of the 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, with the locale changed from England to 19th-century Maryland. In the opening episode, farmer Tom Gray is paralyzed by a stroke and his wife Annie sells both the farm and the family's beloved Beauty.
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| [CBS 8:30] Shields & Yarnell
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Second Almost Annual Shotz Talent Show
Season 3, episode 16 W: Paula A. Roth D: Alan Rafkin With Ed Greenberg (Max Shotz Jr.), Marvin Braverman (Marvin). Mr. Shotz wants the girls to find a spot in the talent show for his no-talent nephew. The real-life mothers of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams join the girls in staging the production.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Chinatown (1974)
W: Robert Towne D: Roman Polanski With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, John Hillerman, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Richard Bakalyan, Perry Lopez, Darrell Zwerling. A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Jack In The Flower Shop
Season 2, episode 19 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt, Ziggy Steinberg D: Bill Hobin With Mickey Deems (Mr. Harwood), Natalie Schafer (Impatient Woman), J.J. Barry (Mr. Compton). All work and no play makes Jack an angry boy when Janet hires him to work for her and acts like a martinet.
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| [NBC 9:00] NBC: The First 50 Years - A Closer Look [special]
Part two of a retrospective of the network's programming, narrated by Orson Welles and hosted by Peter Falk, James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Harvey Korman Show [Reg]: The One Where Harvey Gets A Job As An Escort
Season 1, episode 1 W: Harry Cauley, Mike Kagan With Marian Mercer (Grace), Peggy Rea (Bella). Harvey answers an ad for a leading man only to land a job with an escort service.
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| [ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: Lifeline
Season 3, episode 16 W: Hindi Brooks D: Richard Kinon With Vincent Baggetta (Dave Robinson), Ken Kercheval (Mark Adams), Jennifer Salt (Susie Robinson), Lisa Blake Richards (Joan Robinson), Raymond Guth (Mr. Lewis), Quinn Cummings (Marcy Willis). Nancy searches frantically for a friend she believes to be suicidal -- while Buddy seeks ways of avoiding an overly attached 10-year-old.
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