Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday February 22, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] TV Movie: Special Olympics (1978)
W: John Sacret Young D: Lee Philips With Irene Tedrow, Debra Winger, Mare Winningham, Philip Brown, George Parry, Herb Edelman, Charles Durning. A single father with three teenaged children struggles to keep his family together. One of them is mentally retarded. The father enrolls him in a special state-run school, where the boy develops a love for sports.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Great Expectations
Season 2, episode 20 W: Bruce Shelly D: Arnold Laven With Marc Vahanian, David Hollander, Natasha Ryan. Tommy cheats in order to meet his father's expectations of excellence in English class.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams [Reg]: The Runaway
Season 2, episode 16 W: Jack Jacobs, Malvin Wald D: Jack B. Hively With Roger E. Mosley. A slave, injured during his wanderings in the wilderness after a daring escape from bondage, is befriended by Adams.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Little Angels Of The Night
Season 2, episode 21 W: Mickey Rose D: Georg Stanford Brown With Paul Cavonis (Roman Vail), Jeffrey Druce (Freddie), Denise Galik-Furey (Bonnie), Tara Tyson (Mary Thomas), Grayce Spence (Dolly Smith), Michael Warren (Lt. Mathews), James Mitchell (Jim Walker). The Angels move into an apartment house to investigate the mysterious deaths of two of the building's most popular tenants.
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| [NBC 9:00] Black Sheep Squadron [Reg]: Forbidden Fruit
Season 2, episode 7 W: Stephen J. Cannell, Donald P. Bellisario D: Robert Conrad With Phillip R. Allen (Commander of Squadron 367), Jon Van Ness, Denise DuBarry (Nurse Greene). Pappy doesn't realize that a newly-arrived former flame is General Moore's daughter.
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| [CBS 10:00] Mary Tyler Moore Special: How To Survive The 70s And Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness [special]
With Harvey Korman, John Ritter, Bill Bixby. A musical-comedy look at the current decade.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Hutchinson: Murder One
Season 3, episode 19 W: Robert Swanson D: Bob Kelljan With Veronica Hamel (Vanessa Hutchinson), Floyd Levine (Boyle), Alex Courtney (Officer Simonetti), Bill Duke (Officer Dryden), Dan Vadis (Cardwell), Severn Darden (Mr. Wheeler), Joanne Strauss (Dr. Morgan). Starsky races fellow officers and jewel thieves in a desperate search for Hutch, whose ex-wife's visit left him with a million dollar uncut diamond and a murder warrant for his arrest.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Murder With Pretty People
Season 4, episode 17 W: Max Hodge D: John Newland With Dennis Cole (Jon Paul), Morgan Fairchild (Cheryl), Liam Sullivan (Tony Mann), John Crawford (Chief Parks), Anne Francis (Liz Adams), Julie Adams (Eleanor Simpson), Allan Carr (Greg Peters), Suzanne Edwards, Geoff Edwards, Henry Olek, Kirsten Baker. Pepper, posing as a model, and Crowley probe beneath the surface of the outwardly glamorous but treacherous world of high fashion.
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