Prime-time network TV listings for Friday September 8, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: The Man Who Wouldn't Tell
Season 2, episode 20 W: Anne Collins D: Alan Crosland With Jane Actman (Meg), Philip Michael Thomas (Furst), Michael Cole (Ted), Millie Slavin (B.W.), Gary Burghoff (Alan), Tony Brubaker (Tom). A college student, moonlighting as a janitor, accidentally finds the key ingredient in the top-secret formula for a dangerous new explosive, then has to run for his life from industrial spies. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/31/1978)
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Our Gang
Season 5, episode 21 W: Brian Levant D: Jerry Paris With Derrel Maury (Monk), David Rini (Iggy). Fonzie's life as a gang leader is recalled to convince Chachi that it's not so cool to be a member of a street gang. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Bay City Rollers Meet The Saturday Superstars [special]
With Joe Namath, Scott Baio, Erik Estrada. The Scottish rock group, which will headline the new Saturday morning series, "Krofft Superstar Hour", hosts an hour-long special introducing the new NBC Saturday morning programs.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Something For Joey (1977)
W: Jerry McNeely D: Lou Antonio With Marc Singer, Geraldine Page, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Lynas, Linda Kelsey, Steve Guttenberg, Paul Picerni, James Karen. The story of the loving relationship between Heisman football trophy winner John Cappelletti and his younger brother Joey, stricken with lukemia.
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| [ABC 9:00] Roots: Part 4 [special]
W: James Lee D: Marvin Chomsky With LeVar Burton, John Amos, Lorne Greene, Louis Gossett Jr., Leslie Uggams, Scatman Crothers, Chuck Connors, Sandy Duncan, George Hamilton, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Carolyn Jones, Richard Roundtree, John Schuck, Ben Vereen, Roxie Roker, Robert Reed, Madge Sinclair. Kizzy rejects a marriage proposal in 1824 to remain with her son, Chicken George. Later, with slave rebellions all around, Chicken George is sent to England with the promise that he can return a free man. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] The Eddie Capra Mysteries [Reg]: Who Killed Charles Pendragon?
Season 0, episode 1 W: Peter S. Fischer D: James Frawley With Ken Swofford (J.J.), Michael Horton (Harvey Winchell), Seven Anne McDonald (Jennie), John Considine, George Hamilton, Robert Hogan, Lois Nettleton, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Stella Stevens, Robert Vaughn, Janet Margolin. Series preview. An unorthodox lawyer is faced with a multitude of odd clues and suspects in his investigation of a sadistic publsher.
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