Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday September 19, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Paper Chase [Reg]: A Day In The Life Of . . .
Season 1, episode 2 W: John Jay Osborn Jr. D: Philip Leacock With Darleen Carr (Leanne Laski), Jerome Guardino (Judge), Thomas Babson (Policeman), Buck Young (Policeman), Philip Levien (Randazzo). Series premiere. John Houseman recreates his Academy Award-winning role as the awe-inspiring Prof. Charles W. Kingsfield, Jr., whose contract law class provides a major stumbling block for first-year law students. In the first episode, James Hart runs into an older student who teaches him how to deal with the stern professor.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Westward Ho (3)
Season 6, episode 3 W: Fred Fox Jr. D: Jerry Paris With Jason Evers (H.R. Buchanan), Ruth Cox (Thunder), Brad Wilkin (Phil), Jerry Young (Hank), Jeannie G. Allyson (Donna). The intense rivalry between Richie and Fonzie over the affections of wrangler girl Thunder continues, and Fonzie attempts to be the first human ever to ride Diablo, a devil Brahma bull.
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| [NBC 8:00] Grandpa Goes To Washington [Reg]: Birthday Party
Season 1, episode 1 W: Richard Freiman D: Michael Caffey Sen. Joe Kelley learns something about Senate procedures and rules of behavior when he introduces a motion to investigate a proposed $27,000 White House birthday party for the President's daughter, and is ruled out of order.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Playing The Roxy
Season 4, episode 3 W: Stephen Nathan, Paul Price D: Joel Zwick With Timothy Jerome (Dr. Schoenbroom), Howard Mann (The Grand Bass). After a fall causes a change in her personality, Shirley believes she's an exotic dancer and Lenny and Sqiggy recruit her to play a "benefit" at their men's club.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Shootist (1976)
W: Miles Hood Swarthout, Scott Hale D: Don Siegel With John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian, Bill McKinney, Harry Morgan, John Carradine, Sheree North, Scatman Crothers. A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Good Old Reliable Janet
Season 3, episode 2 W: Roger Shulman, John Baskin D: Dave Powers With Ellen Sherman (Cindy), Nadia Caillou (Belly Dancer). The women in Jack's life go to a nude beach protest and end up being arrested.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Airport '77 (1977), part one
W: Michael Scheff, David Spector D: Jerry Jameson With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Darren McGavin, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland. A private jumbo jet carrying friends of a millionaire art collector to a party crashes into the sea and sinks.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: One-Punch Banta
Season 1, episode 2 W: Earl Pomerantz D: James Burrows With Dwight Woody (Frankie Wallace), Carlos Palomino (Carlos Navarone), Ron Rich (Attendant), Allan Arbus (Jerry Martin). The taxi gang unites to support the dream of a fellow cabbie who gets a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get into the ring with a world champion.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Game
Season 4, episode 2 W: Tim Maschler D: Leo Penn With Jack Ging (Ray Pardee), Suzanne Charny (Gina), Liz Torres (Anita), Joseph R. Sicari (Ernie Silvers), David Pendleton (Doctor), C.J. O'Neill (Officer Simmons), Herbert S. Braha (Officer Babcock), Raymond Allen (Merl The Earl). A playful hide-and-seek wager that Hutch can elude Starsky for an entire weekend turns into a life-or-death search when it is learned that Hutch has 48 hours to live after contracting deadly botulism.
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