Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday June 27, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Where The Lilies Bloom (1974), part one
W: Earl Hamner, Jr. D: William A. Graham With Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Rance Howard. A true-to-life story of orphan children who live a lie to keep themselves together as a family.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Grandpa's Visit
Season 5, episode 14 W: George F. Slavin D: Jerry Paris With Danny Thomas (Sean Cunningham). Grandpa Cunningham, a dynamic go-getter who's been forced to retire, arrives at the Cunningham home determined to find a new life. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/3/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] Man From Atlantis [Reg]: The Mudworm
Season 1, episode 6 W: Alan Caillou D: Virgil Vogel With Richard Williams (Jomo), Robert Lussier (Brent), Victor Buono (Mr. Schubert), Duncan Gamble, Jack Somack, Brandyn Artise, Jean Marie Hon (Jane), J. Victor Lopez (Chuey). Mark Harris' nemesis, Mr. Schubert, has lost control of his latest devious invention -- a deadly mechanical device with a mind of its own which threatens to destroy all underwater life. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1977)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Driving Test
Season 3, episode 19 W: Chris Thompson D: Alan Rafkin Laverne and Shirley's oddball neighbor and co-worker, Sqiggy, may get the heave-ho as a truck driver at the Shotz Brewery unless he passes a written test. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1978)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
W: Stirling Silliphant D: Norman Jewison With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, William Schallert, Beah Richards, Larry Gates, Matt Clark, Larry D. Mann, Arthur Malet. The five Academy Awards-winning film about a black police detective visiting a small Mississippi town who is picked up by a bigoted sheriff and charged with murder.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Jack's Uncle
Season 2, episode 12 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt, Mike Marmer D: Bill Hobin With Don Porter (Uncle Fremont), Shirley Mitchell (Mona Carmichael). Roper's on the rampage for the rent, so Jack's visiting uncle gives him a check -- a bad one. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Big Bob Johnson And His Fantastic Speed Circus (1978)
W: Bob Comfort, Rick Kellard D: Jack Starrett With Charles Napier, Maud Adams, William Daniels, Constance Forslund, Rick Hurst, Burton Gilliam, Robert Stoneman. The leader of a ragtag auto racing team that helps an heir to gain the inheritance his uncle is trying to snatch from him.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: A-Hunting We Will Go
Season 1, episode 12 W: Guy Thomas D: Peter Baldwin Roy and the gang go looking for "Big Buck," a legendary local deer. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/15/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
Hugh Downs hosts a broadcast edition of a news magazine featuring four major stories done by various correspondents.
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