Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 16, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Good Times [Reg]: Florida's Homecoming
Season 6, episode 1 W: Kim Weiskopf, Michael S. Baser D: Gerren Keith With Teddy Wilson (Sweet Daddy Williams), Robert Kya-Hill (Mr. Patterson), Taunya Reed (Secretary), Eugene Lee (Man). Season premiere. Florida, after a long separation from her children, returns home for the impending marriage of her daughter Thelma to a handsome all-American football player.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Marooned
Season 2, episode 1 W: Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Lee Aronsohn, Michael Norell D: Paul Stanley With Barbi Benton (Kiki Atwood), Audra Lindley (Mature Lady), Dick Martin (Deputy Captain Cunningham), Donna Mills (Beautiful Young Woman), Edie Adams (Sharp Tongued Wife), John Astin (Dave the Hermit), David Birney (Mike), Norm Crosby (Wally), Laraine Day (Beautiful Young Woman's Mother), Lola Falana (Foxy Lady), Avery Schreiber (Henpecked Husband), Chris Capen (Radio Operator), Gordon Connell (Chauffeur). Season premiere. The captain and crew of the S.S. Princess are held captive on an island while "The Love Boat" drifts under control of a bumbling naval officer.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Peaks And Valleys
Season 2, episode 1 W: Rudolph Borchert D: Phil Bondelli With Pamela Norman (Melanie), Paul Mace (Bernie), Peter Looney (Rogers), Rick Gates (Stan Bosca), Martin West (Lundsford), Kaye Stevens (Karen Niles), Jack Rader (Carl), Troy Donahue (Bob Niles). Jon and Ponch consider quitting the California Highway Patrol because of an unjust civil suit filed against them by an injured motorist.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Islander (1978)
W: Glen A. Larson D: Paul Krasny With Dennis Weaver, Sharon Gless, Peter Mark Richman, Bernadette Peters, Robert Vaughn, John S. Ragin, Sheldon Leonard, George Wyner. A retired lawyer buys a small hotel in Honolulu only to get caught up in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a reckless mobster, and a racket-busting U.S. Senator.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: King Kong (1976), part one
W: Lorenzo Semple Jr. D: John Guillermin With Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, John Randolph, Rene Auberjonois, Ed Lauter, Dennis Fimple, Julius Harris, Garry Walberg, Jack O'Halloran. A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Homecoming / The Sheik
Season 2, episode 1 W: Orville H. Hampton, Ron Friedman D: Earl Bellamy With Georgia Engel (Yasmine/Brenda Rappaport), Lynda Day George (Nancy Harding), David Birney (Sgt. Boardman), Michael Gregory (Frank Harding), Arte Johnson (Edgar Breen), Cassandra Peterson (Ptatateetah), Ronnie Scribner (Danny), Arnold Moss (Sheik), Sid Haig (Hakeem), Tamara Elliot (Belly Dancer). A Vietnam veteran, long presumed dead, wishes to be reunited with his family; a middle-aged school teacher wishes to have a harem of beautiful women, but instead becomes the target of an assassination attempt.
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