Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 2, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: Group On A Hot Tin Roof
Season 6, episode 16 W: Andrew Smith D: Michael Zinberg With Lou Cutell (Petersen Character), Jerry Devine (Carlin Character), Amzie Strickland (Bakerman Character), Mary Ellen Olsen (Girl), Tyrone Wilson (Tommy), Frank Ashmore (Major Hartman), Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman), John Fiedler (Mr. Peterson), Howard Hesseman (Mr. Plager). Bob advises a patient to write a play based on his own experiences. But when Mr. Plager writes a World War I drama whose characters bear a startling resemblance to the rest of Bob's patients, the warfare really begins. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1978)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Parents Know Best / A Selfless Love / The Nubile Nurse
Season 1, episode 21 With Elaine Joyce (Dawn Delaney), Janis Paige (Phyllis Morrison), Monty Hall (Harry Morrison), Laurie Prange (Diana Lane), Leslie Nielsen (Dan Michaels), Lynda Day George (Laura Wakefield), Craig Littler (Gary), Marla Adams (Glenda Fairbanks), Joe E. Ross (Mr. Ross), Dorothy Konrad (Mrs. Martin), Mark Shera (Bruce Morrison). Parents try to break up their son's romance; an older man decides to give up his young fiancee, and the ship has a new nurse -- who used to be a Las Vegas showgirl. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/25/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Bionic Woman [Reg]: Long Live The King
Season 3, episode 20 W: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco D: Gwen Arner With John Reilly (Sam Sloan), Carmen Argenziano (King Kusari), Charles Cioffi (Colonel Mostada), Madison Arnold (John), Lou Tiano (Nick), Rene Assa (Kia), Stanley Brock (Wally), Dov Gottesfeld (Sharokah), Rachel Bard (Lynette), Elise Cattlin (Beth), Brian Burgess (Mr. Byron). Oscar assigns Jaime to protect a Middle Eastern king from assassination by his own countrymen whie visiting New York. But the would-be killers discover her true identity and move to make her a victim as well. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/25/1978)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Plant Family [special]
With Joyce Van Patten, Norman Alden. Pilot for a comedy series about an ex-taxi dancer who marries one of her best ex-customers and settles in a rundown house in a borderline neighborhood of a Southern California suburb.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Life And Times Of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
W: John Milius D: John Huston With Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Tab Hunter, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Zerbe. A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western.
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| [ABC 9:00] College Football
Nebraska vs. Alabama
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Gable And Lombard (1976)
W: Barry Sandler D: Sidney J. Furie With James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield, Red Buttons, Joanne Linville, Alice Backes, Robert Karnes. A biography of the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
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