Thursday August 3, 1978
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 3, 1978:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Long Night (R) Hawaii Five-O: My Friend, The Enemy (R) Barnaby Jones: Deadly Homecoming (R)
ABC Welcome Back, Kotter: The Kiss (R) What's Happening: Give Me Odds (R) Barney Miller: The Sighting (R) The Harvey Korman Show: The One Where Harvey Goes On A Kids' Show (R) Arson: Fire For Hire
NBC Tut, The Boy King (R) The Rockford Files: The House On Willis Avenue (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Long Night
Season 5, episode 22
W: Rod Peterson, Claire Whitaker   D: Harry Harris

With Rachel Longaker (Aimee Godsey), Lynne Wood (Hospital Receptionist). Grandpa Walton cannot bear to be separated from his beloved wife, even when she is stricken and confined to a hospital bed, and he creates a scene at the hospital.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/24/1977)

[ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: The Kiss
Season 3, episode 25
D: Bob Claver

With Helaine Lembeck (Judy Borden), Demetre Phillips (Baby Stevens), Sally Hightower (Laura Stevens), Ernest Harada (Mr. Jan). After Gabe gives mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a girl who fainted, he is accused of assault by Mr. Woodman, who misinterprets the act.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/9/1978)

[NBC 8:00] Tut, The Boy King [special] Orson Welles is the narrator for this special showing the ancient Egyptian treasures found in the tomb of King Tut. (Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Give Me Odds
Season 2, episode 8
W: Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz   D: Mark Warren

With Nathaniel Taylor (Ike), Chip Hurd (Donna), Lion-L (Big Al). Rerun gets his tough brother-in-law to bet his Hawaiian vacation money according to Dwayne's foolproof system, then discovers the plan is no better than tossing a coin.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1977)

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: My Friend, The Enemy
Season 10, episode 22
W: Gerry Day   D: Noel Black

With Wisa D'Orso (Eleanor), Terry Plunkett (Pete Kalua), Bruce Wilson (Paul Roberts), Darrah Lau (Princess Amina), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Jemilla), Luciana Paluzzi (Liana Labella), Geoffrey Heise (Derek Franklin), Colin da Silva (Omar), Keo Hughes (Judge Maggie Parker), Jalaleddin Takash (Ali), Lloyd Kino (Captain Matsua). The life of a distaff journalist is in jeopardy because of pictures she unwittingly took while a kidnapping was underway.
(Repeat program, originally aired 4/13/1978)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Sighting
Season 4, episode 22
W: Tony Sheehan   D: Alex March

With Peter Hobbs (Phillip Brauer), Doris Roberts (Harriet Brauer), Jack Bannon (Capt. Donnelly). A man liquidates all of his assets into gold, much to his wife's dismay; Wojo claims he saw a UFO over Staten Island.
(Repeat program, originally aired 5/11/1978)

[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The House On Willis Avenue
Season 4, episode 21
W: Stephen J. Cannell   D: Hy Averback

With Dennis Dugan (Richie Brockelman), Jackie Cooper (Garth McGregor), Howard Hesseman (Albert Steever), Philip Sterling (Tom Nardoni), Simon Oakland (Vern St. Cloud), Paul Fix (Joseph Tooley), Pernell Roberts (B.J. Anderson), Irene Tedrow (Mary Tooley), Robert Hogan (Ted Coopersmith), Brett Hadley (Computer Operator), Lou Krugman (Sam Detonis). Jim is joined by neophyte detective Richie Brockelman to probe the suspicious traffic death of a semi-retired private eye, and the trail leads to a conglomerate executive and a plot to gain international power through an elaborate computer system.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/24/1978)

[ABC 9:30] The Harvey Korman Show [Reg]: The One Where Harvey Goes On A Kids' Show
Season 1, episode 5
W: Burt Prelutsky

With Marian Mercer, Peggy Rea. Harvey's bragging about his success as an actor leads him into a cameo appearance on a TV for kids as a carrot. (Last show of the series.)
(Repeat program)

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Deadly Homecoming
Season 6, episode 13
W: Arthur Bernard Lewis   D: Joe Manduke

With James Carroll Jordan (Michael Sandell), A Martinez (Tomas Aguilar), Cynthia Avila (Linda Aguilar), Taylor Lacher (Sheriff Simmons), Ford Rainey (Carmine Sandell), Russell Thorson (Dr. Sloane), Roberta Leighton (Donna Morgan), Richard Doughty (Nick Sandell), Stephen Johnson (Joe Sandell), Abel Franco (Victor Cortez). When a girl who triggered a family feud reappears after a three year absence, Barnaby is caught in the middle of the feud -- and murder.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/22/1977)

[ABC 10:00] Arson: Fire For Hire Brit Hume and Mike Connor report on the rapidly growing but little prosecuted crime of arson.

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