Prime-time network TV listings for Monday September 18, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Pilot (1)
Season 1, episode 1 W: Hugh Wilson D: Jay Sandrich With Sylvia Sidney (Mama Carlson). Debut of a comedy series starring Gary Sandy and Gordon Jump, along with Loni Anderson, Richard Sanders, Tim Reid, Frank Bonner, Jan Smithers and Howard Hesseman. WKRP, a foundering radio station, is transformed from a format of musical nostalgia to hard-driving rock 'n' roll when Andy Travis, an ambitious young man with strong convictions, is hired as the new program director.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Beau's Jest
Season 4, episode 3 W: Richard Hawkins, Liz Sage, Earl Barret D: Norman Abbott With Richard Moll (Big Thug), Judy Young (Doris). Buchanan High School greets a new type of sweathog who may rival Vinnie Barbarino for the affections of the girls, when Beau De Labarre, a smooth-talking southerner, strolls down the hallways for the first time and causes all kinds of commotion.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: As Long As We're Together (2)
Season 5, episode 2 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Leon Charles (Standish), David Hooks (Mr. Ames), Don Elson (Fred), Michelle Downey (Sue), Cletus Young (Harlan), Jodean Russo (Josie), Richard Fullerton (Glover), Adam Gunn (Jeb Standish), John Joseph Thomas (Spence), Charles Alvin Bell (Mr. Davis). The Ingalls and their former neighbors, the Olesons and Garveys, settle into new jobs and a new way of life in the town of Winoka.
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| [CBS 8:30] People
Premiere of an entertainment series starring Phyllis George, with Mark Shaw as regular contributor. Tonight's guests: Willie Nelson, king of country music; Tami Luchow, a handicapped child; and Suzanne Somers. A visit to Studio 54, New York's most popular discotheque, also will be presented.
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| [ABC 8:30] Operation Petticoat [Reg]: Operation Spleen
Season 2, episode 1 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Hollingsworth Morse With Walter Matthews (Chief Petty Officer), Peter Mamakos (Dr. Kostos). Season premiere. When Lt. Cmdr. Haller needs emergency surgery, the nurses have to play doctor and the lives of the Sea Tiger's crew are also placed in jeopardy as command is transferred to the bumbling Lt. Bender.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Commander Pierce
Season 7, episode 1 W: Ronny Graham D: Burt Metcalfe With James Carroll (Webster), Enid Kent (Nurse Bigelow), Jan Jorden (Nurse Baker), Andrew Masset (Hough). Season premiere. Hawkeye undergoes a drastic change when he becomes the temporary commander of the 4077th and learns the bureaucracy and accompanying headaches that Colonel Potter deals with daily.
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| [ABC 9:00] Monday Night Football
Baltimore Colts vs. New England Patriots.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Audrey Rose (1977)
W: Frank De Felitta D: Robert Wise With Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, John Hillerman, Robert Walden, Philip Sterling. A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Father, Dear Father (1)
Season 4, episode 1 W: Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield D: Alan Rafkin With Joseph Campanella (Ed Cooper), Camilla Carr (Waitress), Sean Kelly (Norman), Mark Montgomery (Jack). Ann is shocked when her ex-husband announces that he can no longer make child support payments.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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