Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 2, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] CBS Reports
What civil service costs the taxpayer; Rep. Otis Pike of New York discusses why he's leaving Congress; the South Bronx revisited.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Joanie's First Kiss
Season 5, episode 16 W: Barbara Fredrika O'Keefe D: Jerry Paris With Tim Dial (David), Terry Porter (Wendy), Shirley Kirkes (Blossom). Howard is finally persuaded to allow Joanie to go on a date, and it turns into a memorable event when she receives her first kiss. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] Man From Atlantis [Reg]: The Siren
Season 1, episode 16 W: Michael Wagner D: Edward M. Abroms With Carol Miyaoka (Siren), Lisa Richards (Jenny), Timothy Scott (Caine), Laurette Spang (Amanda), Michael Strong (Hugh Trevanian), Neville Brand (Stringer), Colleen Camp (Amanda #2). The siren song of a sea nymph, held captive by two men as part of their plot to kidnap the man responsible for America's defense system, captivates Mark Harris.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Horse Show
Season 3, episode 14 W: Judy Ervin D: Alan Rafkin With Bob McClurg (Man), Robert Casper (Max Gruber). Shirley rescues a horse from the glue factory by bringing it home to the apartment. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1978)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Rita Moreno Show [special]
Situation comedy pilot about the owner of a Poconos resort.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Janet's High School Sweetheart
Season 2, episode 11 W: Dixie Brown Grossman D: Bill Hobin With John Elerick (Peter Van Horn). Janet loses her cool when the groovy campus Adonis of her high school days shows up for a date, and Jack and Chrissy conspire to leave them alone in the apartment. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Killing Stone (1978)
W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Gil Gerard, J.D. Cannon, Corrine Michaels, Matthew Labyorteaux, Jim Davis, Joshua Bryant, Nehemiah Persoff, Laurence Haddon. Sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, a man is freed ten years later, and must begin to rebuild his life.
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Home To Stay (1978)
W: Suzanne Clauser D: Delbert Mann With Henry Fonda, Pixie Bigelow, Michael McGuire, Frances Hyland, David Stambaugh, David Hughes, Judy Sinclair. A teenage girl sets off on an odyssey from her Illinois farming community with her free-spirited but frail grandfather to thwart her uncle's plans to put him in a home for the aged.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Beating The Pounds
Season 1, episode 2 W: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn D: Peter Baldwin With Barney McFadden (Crowley), Susan Pratt (Beth), Harry Basch (Harris). Trying to diet, Chief Roy's easygoing temperament seems to be getting thinner when he is accused of police brutality by a prisoner. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: Fear Of Shadows
Season 3, episode 21 W: Paul Huson D: Georg Stanford Brown With Olivia Cole (Frances Rossmore), Sam Weisman (Dr. Kelly), Alice Hirson (Ruth Green), Sherry Hussey (Sherry Wilson). Kate becomes disturbed as events keep pace with her dream that she has run down a child with her car.
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