Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 23, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Is Anyone Out There Learning?: A Report Card on Public Education
Part two of a three-part series attempts to determine why schools are not teaching children as well as they should.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Who's On First?
Season 2, episode 24 W: Bill Nuss, Dusty Kay D: Ray Marsh With Donegan Smith, Danny Dayton, Dan Barrows, Meeno Peluce, Karen Fredrik. The Bradfords take to the stage to in order to help out a local orphanage. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/10/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movie: Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
W: Roald Dahl D: Mel Stuart With Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Leonard Stone. The world's most famous confectioner offers to five children holding lucky candy bars a grand prize - a tour of his factory and a lifetime supply of candy - with surprising results.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Parallax View (1974)
W: David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr. D: Alan J. Pakula With Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Walter McGinn, Kelly Thordsen, Bill McKinney. Story concerning the assassination of a Senator and one reporter's efforts to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding the killing -- done by a busboy who himself is killed, and witnesses begin to die off as well.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Angels In The Backfield
Season 2, episode 17 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Georg Stanford Brown With Gary Wood (Joe Phillips), Patch Mackenzie (Julia Smyth), Nancy Fox (Amy Jarvis), L.Q. Jones (Dan Jarvis), Heidi Van Beltz (Grinelda), Saundra Sharp (Hilda), Larry Huffman (Football Announcer). The girls join a women's football team to find out who is trying to destroy the league. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1978)
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Foxy Lady
Season 3, episode 20 W: Robert Swanson D: Nicholas Sgarro With Morgan Woodward (Clay Zachary), Mark Gordon (John Carelli), Priscilla Barnes (Lisa Kendrick), John J. Fox (Detective Grover), Chris Lofton (Kevin Mackey), Maida Severn (Maggie), Ed Vasgersian (Mr. Cavanaugh), Darrell Zwerling (Stu Basset). Starsky and Hutch become the targets of panic-stricken thieves when the larcenous beauty they befriend stashes a suitcase full of bank robbery money in Starsky's apartment. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/1/1978)
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Shadow On The Sea
Season 4, episode 19 W: Jack M. Casey D: Alvin Ganzer With Catherine Bach (Eve), Ned Romero (Delgado), Stephen McNally (McManus), Forrest Tucker (O'Malley), Charles Aidman (Skow), Katherine Justice, Michael Parks (Chuck Whitfield), Paul Wexler. When a number of pleasure boat owners disappear with their craft, Pepper and Crowley suspect a lethal drug-running ring of pirating the vessels. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/8/1978)
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