Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 4, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Homecoming (2)
Season 5, episode 3 W: Paul M. Belous, Robert Wolterstorff, Jay Moriarty, Mike Milligan D: Jack Shea With T.K. Carter (Richard), Gordon Connell (Jenkins), Margaret Wheeler (Alice). Allan Willis sees through George's scheme to con him out of his newly inherited warehouse, so George directs his flim-flammery at an alternate target -- Louise.
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| [ABC 8:00] Major League Baseball
National League Championship Series, game 1.
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| [NBC 8:00] Dick Clark's Live Wednesday
With Billy Crystal, Paul Williams, the Village People, Jimmie Walker. Highlights include an assortment of Elvis impressionists and stuntman Steve Baker, who attempts "the race for life" in which an automobile races at 65 mph toward a box in which Baker is handcuffed, giving him only seven seconds to escape.
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| [CBS 8:30] In The Beginning [Reg]: Father Cleary's Crisis
Season 1, episode 3 W: Leonora Thuna D: Doug Rogers Sister Aggie and Father Cleary engage in a hot dispute over how to teach the neighborhood girls sex education.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Network (1976)
W: Paddy Chayefsky D: Sidney Lumet With Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Wesley Addy. A television network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for its own profit.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: The Foundlings (1)
W: Glen A. Larson, Christopher Crowe D: Bruce Bilson A group is kidnapping women so that they can sell them into slavery.
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