Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 4, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Milestone
Season 6, episode 11 W: Kathleen Hite D: Philip Leacock With Louise Latham (Aunt Kate), Jim Henaghan (Mr. Clinton). The Waltons fear something is drastically wrong when Olivia suddenly sinks into a depression, becomes extremely short-tempered and abruptly decides to take a trip alone. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1977)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Phenomenon Of Benji [special]
With Charlie Rich, Meredith MacRae, Edgar Buchanan, Jesse Davis. The success story of the movie canine.
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| [NBC 8:00] Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour
With Robert Conrad, Melissa Sue Anderson, Linda Lavin, Peter Lupus, Yogi Bear and the Dancin' Machine.
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Rerun Gets Married
Season 2, episode 1 W: Bruce Howard D: Mark Warren With Debbi Morgan (Diane), Bryan O'Dell (Marvin), Irene Cara (Maria), Earl Boen (Judge Barnes). Season premiere. The new girl in school infatuates Raj and Dwayne, but Rerun suddenly finds himself a reluctant bridegroom when she asks him to marry her. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1977)
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: A Death In The Family
Season 10, episode 24 W: Robert Janes D: Don Weis With Reni Santoni (Jimmy Rego), Manu Tupou (Cappy Pahoa), Rod Aiu (Kimo Napali), Elissa Dulce Hoopai (Kini Pahoa), Gary Kau (Yung Sen), Danny Kamekona (Chief Nick), Jean Marie Hon (Suzy Kelly), Vic Malo (Billy Swan), Maria Manville (Rose), Peter Kalua (Brian Liu), John Barry (Nelson). Chin Ho Kelly goes undercover, and is killed gangland-style. McGarrett's grief over Chin Ho's murder is transformed into determination to find his friend's killer.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Evaluation
Season 4, episode 21 W: Larry Balmagia, Reinhold Weege D: Noam Pitlik With Mari Gorman (Officer Rosslyn Licori), Richard Libertini (Mr. 1223), Eugene Elman (Eddie Schuman), Kay Medford (Irene Schuman), Larry Block (Russell Schuman), Garn Stephens (Susan Schuman-Edwards). In order to look good in the individual proficiency reports which Captain Miller is filing, the detectives of the 12th Precinct go on a crime-hunting spree.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Runaways [Reg]: Melinda And The Pinball Wizard
Season 1, episode 2 W: Gerald Sanford With Robin Mattson (Melinda), Julie Adams (Mother), Patirck Culliton (Highway Patrolman). Two youngsters, resentful when their widowed mother remarries, run away and fall into bad company.
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| [ABC 9:30] Fish [Reg]: A Pinch Of Class
Season 2, episode 18 W: Norman Barasch, Roy Kammerman D: John Tracy With Bonnie Kammerman (Miss Nelson). Diane is hospitalized with appendicitis while the house is being redecorated.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Yesterday's Terror
Season 6, episode 4 W: Robert Heverly D: Kenneth C. Gilbert With Granville Van Dusen (Ed Dunslay), Susan Howard (Frances Dunslay), Michael Baseleon (Rudy Markham), Charles Macaulay (Lawrence Ordway), David Darlow (Calvin Timothy Green), Lanna Saunders (Sandy Wright), David Mauro (Howie Spiller), Teris Wyss (Mary Jo), Danny Sue Nolan (Sister Mary). A beautiful woman, who had once been a prostitute, resorts to the theft of bonds and, eventually, to a hired killing to keep the secret of her shady past from her wealthy husband. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Dream
Season 4, episode 22 W: E. Nick Alexander D: Reza Badiyi With Kathryn Leigh Scott (Margaret), Bernard Behrens (Jason), Nicolas Coster, Quinn Cummings. When Baretta realizes he is running out of time in saving a kidnapped friend's life, he enlists the aid of a pint-sized psychic.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Screams
Season 4, episode 5 W: David Moessinger D: David Moessinger With Maidie Norman, John Megna (Wes), Ralph Meeker (Bellwood), Audrey Landers (Nancy), Sandy Kenyon (Fowler), Rich Little (Howard Mills), Catherine Bach, Jason Ronard. A businessman, thought to be a model of respectability, secretly stalks the highways for female hitchhikers to punish. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1977)
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