Prime-time network TV listings for Friday September 22, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: My Teenage Idol Is Missing
Season 3, episode 1 W: Anne Collins D: Seymour Robbie With David Ellis (Ludwig), Herman Poppe (Body Guard), Leif Garrett (Lane / Michael), Albert Paulsen (Crichton), Dawn Lyn (Whitney), Michael Baseleon (Morley), obert Patten (Benjamin Springfield), Michael Lerner (Ashton Ripley), Suzanne Crough (Girl #2), Abbie Wolfson (Girl #1), David Ellis (Ludwig), Tony Brubaker (Sampson), Michele Laurita (Girl #3). Season premiere. On the eve of a huge arena concert date, a kidnapper nabs a teenage singing star and demands $2 million ransom.
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 4, episode 1 With Bob Hope, Olivia Newton-John, K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Season premiere. The guests join Donny and Marie for an hour of music and comedy.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Waverly Wonders [Reg]: Pied Piper
Season 1, episode 2 W: Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford D: Dick Martin
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| [NBC 8:30] Who's Watching The Kids [Reg]: The Odd Family
Season 1, episode 2 W: Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: John Lennox With Shirley Kirkes (Venus), Elaine Bolton (Bridget), Marv Dennis (Billy Joe Bob), Ed Cree (Bubba). Series premiere. Angie and Stacy, two Las Vegas showgirls, invite their new neighbor Larry over for dinner, hoping he will tutor Angie's tough-talking teenage brother, Frankie. Lynda Goodfriend, Caren Kaye, Scott Baio and Larry Breeding star.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Married (1)
Season 2, episode 1 W: Kenneth Johnson D: Kenneth Johnson With Mariette Hartley (Dr. Carolyn Fields), Brian Cutler (Brad), Diane Markoff (The Girl), Duncan Gamble (Mark), Meeno Peluce (The Boy), Rosalind Chao (Receptionist). Season premiere. David Banner finds romance and marriage with a lovely psychiatrist who tries to cure the affliction that turns him into the Hulk whenever he gets agitated, while Banner tries to help her with her own burden.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Bad News Bears (1976)
W: Bill Lancaster D: Michael Ritchie With Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Vic Morrow, Jackie Earle Haley, Joyce Van Patten, Ben Piazza, Brandon Cruz, Timothy Blake. An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Heartaches Of A Fool
Season 5, episode 1 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: William Wiard With Taylor Lacher (Charlie Strayhorn), Don 'Red' Barry (Shorty McCall), Leo Gordon (Clark Streeter), Norman Alden (Roland Eddy), Joe E. Tata (Norman Abbott Kline), James Shigeta (Clement Chin), Lynne Marta (Carrie Strayhorn), James Jeter (Sheriff Milburn), John Davey (Deputy Harnsworth), Mark Roberts (Hillman Stewart), Robert Phillips (Mike Torrance), Herb Armstrong (Union Official). A country recording artist is double-crossed by his business manager, who has involved him with rival mobs in the Chinese-American underworld.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Eddie Capra Mysteries [Reg]: Where There's Smoke
Season 1, episode 1 D: Ron Satlof With Robin Mattson (Jill Turnbull), Patti D'Arbanville (Nancy Sinclair), Zitto Kazann, Wallace Rooney, Randy Powell (Calvin), Patrick Reynolds (Wilmer), Bernard Barrow, Tom Drake, Lola Albright, Jim Antonio. Series premiere. Eddie Capra offers his legal services for free to clear a young woman caught in a homicide, bribery and arson. Vincent Baggetta stars.
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