Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday March 14, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Sam [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 W: Robert I. Holt D: Robert M. Leeds With Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Foster), Buck Young (Smith), John Berwick (Tom), Michael Margotta (Suspect). Series premiere. A man-and-dog police patrol unit is created to take on assignments too tricky for regular teams. In the opener, Sam, a specially trained Labrador retriever, and Officer Breen (Mark Harmon) are to be evicted from their apartment. In the meantime, they must locate a deaf mute boy trapped in a cave and disarm a bank robber who is carrying a bomb.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Hard Cover
Season 5, episode 4 W: Brian Levant D: Jerry Paris With Marcia Lewis (Mother Dunbar), Teris Wyss (Christy), Susan Cotton (Librarian), Harvey L. Kahn (Disc Jockey). Richie and Fonzie are caught in a girls' dorm after curfew, and have to resort to drastic measures to escape the house mother. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show
With Anson Williams, Bobby Vinton, Chita Rivera, The Oak Ridge Boys, Rose Royce, Tavares, Gary Mule Deer.
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| [CBS 8:30] Shields & Yarnell
With Spike Jones Jr.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Laverne's Arranged Marriage
Season 3, episode 5 W: Emily Purdum Marshall D: Alan Rafkin With Johnny Desmond (Nick Martino). Laverne and Shirley have to come up with some fast action when Laverne's dad arranges a marriage for hs daughter with the son of the mozzarella king. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1977)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Perfect Gentlemen (1978)
W: Nora Ephron D: Jackie Cooper With Lauren Bacall, Ruth Gordon, Sandy Dennis, Robert Alda, Lisa Pelikan, Stephen Pearlman, Dick O'Neill, Steve Allie Collura. Four women whose husbands are in prison come together at first for emotional support. Later, they devise a scheme to rob a bank.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Cyrano de Tripper
Season 2, episode 8 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt D: Bill Hobin, Michael Ross With Jess Nadelman (Michael Wintrop), Sarah Smith (Girl). Chrissy invites a gourmet to the apartment to share a home cooked meal, and then pleads with Jack to be her secret stand-in chef. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Big Jake (1971)
W: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink D: George Sherman, John Wayne With John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot. An aging, determined cowboy sets out to rescue his grandson who has been kidnapped.
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| [ABC 9:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 23
Season 1, episode 23 W: Susan Harris D: Jay Sandrich With Howard Hesseman (Mr. Franklin), Gordon Jump (Chief of Police Tinkler), Charles Lane (Judge Petrillo), Eugene Roche (E. Ronald Mallu), Inga Swenson (Ingrid Swenson), Edward Winter (Congressman Walter McCallam), Nita Talbot (Sheila Fine), Doris Roberts (Flo Flotsky), Judith-Marie Bergan (Marilyn McCallam), Luis Avalos (Doctor). Jessica Tate may be at the end of her rope when a surprise witness is brought into the courtroom to present startling and intriguing evidence against her.
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| [ABC 10:00] Having Babies [Reg]: Alien, Virgin, Workaholic
Season 1, episode 1 With John Schuck, Joan Van Ark (Joyce), Penny Peyser, Rose Portillo, Gary Tomlin (Bobby). A pregnant woman suffering from malaria illegally enters the U.S. to join her husband, and a businessman discovers that his success is killing him.
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