Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 11, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Sam [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 W: James Doherty, Ian Bernard D: Robert Wynn With Robbie Rist (Kenny Scott), Teri Ralston (Mrs. Scott). Sam and his master offiicer, Mike Breen, search for the endangered thief who stole a diseased monkey from a medical research lab.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Fonzie And Leather Tuscadero (1)
Season 5, episode 8 W: Bob Brunner D: Jerry Paris With Suzi Quatro (Leather Tuscadero), Ed Peck (Officer Kirk), Donna Fein (Bertie), Kathy Hilton (Gertie). Joanie shocks her parents when she insists on going on tour with Leather Tuscadero and the Suedes, a new rock group. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/8/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] Chuck Barris Rah Rah Show
With Tex Benecke, Paula Kelly, The Modernaires, The Four Coasters, Marquis Chimps, Susan Alvernaz, Fred Travalena, Alan Petersen, Wet Willie Band, The Unknown Comic, Henny Youngman, Jaye P. Morgan, Carl Ballantine, Fiddle Stix.
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| [CBS 8:30] Big City Boys [special]
W: Robert De Laurentis D: Bill Persky With Austin Pendleton, Christopher Barnes, Laurie Heineman, David Yanez, Francesca Bill. Pilot comedy about a carefree New York bachelor who suddenly becomes tasked with caring for his precocious nephew.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Take My Plants, Please
Season 3, episode 11 W: Marc Sotkin D: Alan Rafkin With Cissy Colpitts (Dolores), Virginia Peters (Hilda), Ralph James (Man), Janice Carroll (Mrs. Lasanga). When the girls are laid off at Shotz Brewery, they decide to try to earn money by starting a business of their own selling houseplants. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1977)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Happy Ending (1969)
W: Richard Brooks D: Richard Brooks With Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn, Nanette Fabray, Bobby Darin, Tina Louise. A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: The Rivals
Season 2, episode 16 W: Bernie Kahn, Chuck Stewart D: Bill Hobin With John Fink (Barry Gates). Jack becomes entangled in a feud between his two roommates when Janet accuses Chrissy of stealing a handsome young executive from her. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1978)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: To Kill A Cop (1978), part two
W: Ernest Tidyman D: Gary Nelson With Joe Don Baker, Alan Oppenheimer, Joyce Van Patten, George DiCenzo, Desi Arnaz Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Robert Hooks, Ken Swofford, Patrick O'Neal, Scott Brady, Roosevelt Grier, Diana Muldaur, Christine Belford. Police action drama dealing with a maverick chief of detectives with two cop killings and a rash of bank robberies on his hands, who is forced to wage war against a back-stabbing police commissioner with political ambitions and a black revolutionary leader plotting a police massacre. Pilot movie for the Eischied series.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Harvey Korman Show [Reg]: The One Where Harvey Won't Change
Season 1, episode 3 W: Hal Dresner, Garry Shandling With Richard Bull (Judge Lutz), Don Sparks (Parker), Owen Bush (Bailiff), Colby Chester (Peck). Harvey is reduced to hitchhiking and even gets arrested when Maggie and his acting students conspire to get him to learn to drive.
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| [ABC 10:00] Having Babies [Reg]: Captive
Season 1, episode 5 With Stephanie Zimbalist, Sid Caesar, Lane Smith (Ken), Alice Hirson (Emily), Joann Strauss (Mrs. Walker), Vincent Caristi (Michael). Julie discovers that a 22-year-old girl who has been confined since infancy is not retarded, and an old vaudeville comic comes to the hospital to die, but Dr. Danvers refuses to let him give up on life.
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