Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday July 4, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Where The Lilies Bloom (1974), part two
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]: Nose For News
Season 5, episode 13 W: Walter Kempley D: Jerry Paris With Henry Beckman (Professor Garrity), Tita Bell (Harriet), Laura Fromer (Millie), H.B. Haggerty (Bruno). Richie takes his investigative reporter assignment seriously, and with the help of Fonzie's girlfriend, who works at city hall, exposes something rotten in the sanitation department. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1977)
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| [NBC 8:00] Man From Atlantis [Reg]: Giant
Season 1, episode 8 W: Michael Wagner D: Richard Benedict With Ted Neeley (Jack Muldoon), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Thark), Gene LeBell (Ditcher), John Dennis (Bartender). A 9-foot tall mineral prospector from another world threatens to drain off the Earth's oceans. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1977)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Second Almost Annual Shotz Talent Show
Season 3, episode 16 W: Paula A. Roth D: Alan Rafkin With Ed Greenberg (Max Shotz Jr.), Marvin Braverman (Marvin). Mr. Shotz wants the girls to find a spot in the talent show for his no-talent nephew. The real-life mothers of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams join the girls in staging the production. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1978)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Pocket Money (1972)
W: Terrence Malick D: Stuart Rosenberg With Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Wayne Rogers, Hector Elizondo, Christine Belford. Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy gets mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked rancher.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Helen's Job
Season 2, episode 13 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt D: Bill Hobin Upset with Stanley's refusal to increase her allowance, Helen takes a cafeteria job to teach her husband a lesson. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1977)
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| [NBC 9:00] Once An Eagle, part 3 [special]
With Cliff Potts, Darleen Carr, Amy Irving, Glenn Ford, Sam Elliott. The story of two Army officers, one a ruthless, career-obsessed schemer, the other his exact opposite, and their personal and professional lives from the end of World War I to the beginning of Vietnam. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Senior CItizen Siege
Season 1, episode 8 W: Kevin Hartigan, David Garber D: Peter Baldwin With Elizabeth Kerr (Fanny), Fred Stuthman (Byron). Mayor Burnside is forced to listen to the grievances of two irate senior citizens who hold him at gunpoint to get his attention. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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