Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday February 14, 1978:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Celebrity Challenge Of The Sexes
William Shatner vs. Kristy McNichol in go-karts; Reggie Jackson vs. Barbi Benton on bicycles; Suzanne Somers vs. Clifton Davis in swimming.
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[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Be My Valentine
Season 5, episode 20 W: Fred Maio D: Jerry Paris With Lorrie Mahaffey (Jennifer), Christopher Knight (Binky Hodges), Sally Hightower (Melissa). Joanie, thrilled to be headed for her first annual dance at Arnold's with a boyfriend, is crushed when her date cancels at the last minute.
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[NBC 8:00] I Love You [special]
With Tony Orlando, Paul Anka, Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Telly Savalas, Edgar Bergen, Angie Dickinson, Jack Albertson, Don Rickles, Kristy McNichol, Phyllis Diller. A music and comedy program celebrating Valentine's Day, featuring celebrities and members of their famillies.
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[CBS 8:30] Shields & Yarnell
Robert Shields battles the plights of the elderly in "Grey Power". Lorene Yarnell is "Baby On the Loose". The duo perform as the disastrously unsynchronized robot couple, the Clinkers.
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[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Bus Stop
Season 3, episode 18 W: Barry Rubinowitz D: Alan Rafkin With Christopher Guest (Greg), Thomas Leopold (Larry), Peter Elbling (Bum), Carl Gottlieb (Station Master), Harry Shearer (Interviewer). Laverne and Shirley plan to spend an exciting evening in Oshkosh when they meet and make dates with two medical student dreamboats while being interviewed by a roving TV reporter.
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[CBS 9:00] Movie: Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
W: Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch D: Robert Aldrich With Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Widmark, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Leif Erickson. A dedicated and patriotic, if misguided, Air Force general seizes control of a nuclear missile base in Montana to blackmail the U.S. government.
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[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Will The Real Jack Tripper . . .
Season 2, episode 21 W: Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: Bill Hobin, Michael Ross With Anne Schedeen (Linda), Susan Blu (Sandra), Ted Gehring (Sandra's Father). Jack's in a panic and in the doghouse with Janet and Chrissy when a young pregnant woman arrives at their house and names him as the father.
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[NBC 9:00] King: Part 3 [special]
With Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lonny Chapman, Ossie Davis, Cliff De Young, Clu Gulager, Warren Kemmerling, William Jordan, Kenneth McMillan. The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister up to his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
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[ABC 9:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 20
Season 1, episode 20 W: Susan Harris D: Jay Sandrich With Howard Hesseman (Mr. Franklin), Charles Lane (Judge Petrillo), Eugene Roche (E. Ronald Mallu), Edward Winter (Congressman Walter McCallam), Sorrell Booke (Charles Lefkowitz), Marvin Braverman (Messenger). Chester and Jessica Tate are in for assorted surprises when they go to the judge's chambers with their lawyer to discuss Jessica's upcoming murder trial.
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[ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: Crossing Over
Season 3, episode 18 W: David Jacobs D: Edward Parone With Shera Danese (Bambi), Richard Masur (Producer), James Canning (Delivery Boy). Willie thwarts plans for hs 21st birthday party and goes out alone -- later to be joined by his father and a sentimental "working girl".
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