Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 15, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Charlotte's Web (1973), part two
W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Charles Nichols, Iwao Takamoto With Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Agnes Moorehead, Martha Scott, Dave Madden, Danny Bonaduce. A friendly spider helps a pig -- the runt of a litter -- to fend off efforts to turn him into bacon.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Do You Want To Dance?
Season 5, episode 24 W: Fred Fox Jr. D: Jerry Paris With Leslie Brown (Colleen). Fonzie recruits the gang to help out a troubled ballet school run by an attractive young teacher. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/9/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] Just For Laughs [special]
With Don Adams, Sonny Bono, Connie Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Steve Landesberg, Rhonda Bates, Jimmie Walker, Henny Youngman, Jan Murray, Lori Shannon, Red Buttons. Newcomers join stars in sketches and blackouts.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Debutante Ball
Season 3, episode 21 W: Judy Ervin, Paula Roth D: Alan Rafkin With Patricia Stich (Evelyne), Joi Staton (hostess), Kirk Duncan (Duke). Laverne goes to a ball with Lenny -- who has discovered that he is a Count and 89th in line to the Polish throne. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/9/1978)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Submarine X-1 (1969)
W: Donald Sanford, Guy Elmes D: William A. Graham With James Caan, David Sumner, William Dysart, Norman Bowler, Paul Young, Brian Grellis. After losing a submarine and fifty crew in a battle with a German ship during WWII, a Royal Navy officer gets a second chance in a daring raid with midget subs.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Bird Song
Season 2, episode 24 W: Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: Bill Hobin Jack finds himself in trouble with Stanley when he sits on a box containing Mrs. Roper's anniversary present. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/9/1978)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: My Name Is Nobody (1973)
W: Ernesto Gastaldi D: Tonino Valerii With Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, R.G. Armstrong, Geoffrey Lewis, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon, Karl Braun. An aging gunfighter teams up with a young cowboy for one last shoot-em-up before retiring.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Ballots For Burnside
Season 1, episode 17 W: Tom Moore, Jeremy Stevens D: Peter Baldwin With J.A. Preston (Jesse Haskell), Owen Bush, Earl Montgomery, Joseph G. Medalis. Chief Roy and Curtis find an unopened ballot box in the City Hall basement, indicating that Mayor Teddy might not be the rightful mayor of the town. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1978)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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