Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 23, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Rhoda [Reg]: Martin Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Season 5, episode 1 W: Charlotte Brown D: Tony Mordente With Nancy Lane (Tina Molinari), Wil Albert (Gus). Ida carries out an elaborate plot to hide the news from Rhoda and Brenda that their father has left her.
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| [ABC 8:00] Carter Country [Reg]: One Of Our Chiefs Is Missing
Season 2, episode 1 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Peter Baldwin With Rod McCary (Keeter), Victoria Carroll (Jo Ellen). Season premiere. Chief Roy, handcuffed to a prisoner, gets lost in a storm on his way to Atlanta and involves the police department in a zany manhunt.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: The Volunteers
Season 2, episode 2 W: Arthur Marx D: John Florea With James Crittenden (Leo), Paul Comi (Councilman), Anna Upstrom, Paul Sorenson (Superintendent), Richard Collier (Prisoner), Mark Carlton (Pete), Lee Paul (Police Chief), Bill McLaughlin (Gabe), Maxine Elliott (Elderly Woman), Rana Ford (Jane Turner), Steve Brodie (Sam), Warren Berlinger (Market Owner), Tige Andrews (Charlie Davis), Katherine Cannon (Robbie Davis). Baker and Poncharello escort a truck loaded with volatile chemicals over remote mountain roads because the citizens of the towns along the direct route will not allow the dangerous convoy to pass through.
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| [CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: Florida's Homecoming: The Wedding
Season 6, episode 2 W: Sid Dorfman, Wayne Kline D: Gerren Keith With Teddy Wilson (Sweet Daddy Williams), Helen Martin (Wanda), Irv Burton (Freddie), Al Fann (Minister), Rai Tasco (Caterer). J.J. may have trouble paying the loan sharks for Thelma's wedding -- he just lost his job.
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| [ABC 8:30] Apple Pie [Reg]: Fast Eddie Slows Down
Season 1, episode 1 W: Charlie Hauck D: Peter Bonerz Series premiere. The Hollyhocks -- a happy, somewhat zany, but typical American family except that they got together not by the stork but by the want ads -- have advertised for a father but may have wound up with a dangerous bank robber.
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| [CBS 9:00] The American Girls [Reg]: The Cancelled Czech
Season 1, episode 1 W: Simon Muntner D: Rod Holcomb With Ross Martin (Ivar Kuzak), Dana Andrews (Phillips), Ion Teodorescu (Dubek), David Lee Rawlings (Slave Trader). Series premiere. Two female reporters team up as researchers for a television network magazine-format news show, In the first program, the girls meet in Reno and attempt to interview a performing magician who is a political defector from an Iron Curtain country and a possible target for assassination. Priscilla Barnes, Debra Clinger and David Spielberg star.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Julie's Dilemma / Rocky / Who's Who?
Season 2, episode 2 D: Roger Duchowny, Allen Baron With Norman Fell (Mr. McCoy), Betty Garrett (Mrs. McCoy), Melissa Gilbert (Rocky), Jimmy Baio (Norman), Ellen Travolta (Norman's Mother), Edward Winter (Rocky's Father), Marla Adams (Arlene Simpson), James Coco (Marion Atkins), Dody Goodman (Patricia Seldon). Julie is stunned when her parents announce in mid-cruise that they're getting a divorce; a 13-year-old tomboy meets a boy and experiences the initial joy of love; a pair of mature prudes fall madly in love while sharing the same cabin.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Burnt Offerings (1976)
W: William F. Nolan, Dan Curtis D: Dan Curtis With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee H. Montgomery, Bette Davis, Dub Taylor, Anthony James. A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Reunion (1)
Season 2, episode 1 W: David Jacobs D: Irving J. Moore With David Ackroyd (Gary Ewing), Joan Van Ark (Valene Clements Ewing), Philip Levine (Jimmy Barnes), Tony Frank (Pete). Season premiere. Bobby runs into his missing brother, Gary, in Las Vegas and convinces him to return to the family ranch in Texas.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Big Dipper / The Pirate
Season 2, episode 2 W: Arthur Rowe, Worley Thorne D: Earl Bellamy With Sonny Bono (Ed Cavanaugh), Vivian Blaine (Mrs. Deverse), Rory Calhoun (Mr. Watson), Diana Canova (Mary), H.B. Haggerty (Benton), James Luisi (Arbogast), Cameron Mitchell (Sgt. Broylan), Dan Rowan (Petey Raymond / Reverend Pete Hollister), Jill Whelan (Harmony), Richard Roat (Donald Gidding), Fred Slyter (Minister), Danny Wells (Brutus). A young girl tries to find a normal life with her pick-pocketing father; an eccentric man hopes to win back the love of his ex-wife.
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