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Thursday October 5, 1978
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 5, 1978:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Salute To American Imagination Hawaii Five-O: Horoscope For Murder
ABC Happy Days: Casanova Cunningham Mork & Mindy: Mork In Love Three's Company: The Fast Taxi: Bobby's Acting Career Barney Miller: The Baby Broker Soap: Episode 29
NBC Project UFO: Sighting 4016: The Pipeline Incident Quincy, M.E. (R) W.E.B.: The Great Clowns
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[CBS 8:00] Salute To American Imagination [special]
With Edward Asner, Neil Armstrong, Martin Balsam, Ronee Blakley, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Sid Caesar, Ray Charles, Imogene Coca, Rita Coolidge, Henry Fonda, Aretha Franklin, Lee Grant, Wolfman Jack, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Mathis, Ethel Merman, John Ritter, Martin Sheen, Neil Simon, the UCLA Choir, Tennessee Williams.
An entertainment special presenting top stars and other distinguished personalities in a dramatic, humorous and musical celebration of Ford Motor Company's 75th anniversary. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Madeline Kahn and Telly Savalas are the hosts. Also appearing is Henry Ford II, who gives a tribute to the special's theme, imagination.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Casanova Cunningham
Season 6, episode 5
W: Bob Brunner   D: Jerry Paris

With Mary Margaret (Corrine).
Richie is caught two-timing Lori Beth for a pretty baton twirler.

[NBC 8:00] Project UFO [Reg]: Sighting 4016: The Pipeline Incident
Season 2, episode 3
W: Andrew Burke   D: Robert M. Leeds

With Randolph Mantooth (Tim Jenkins), Cameron Mitchell (Donald Worth), Donald May (Richard McLane), Brad Dexter (Lew Perrino), Melodie Johnson (Aileen Jenkins).
A cargo plane navigator mysteriously changes his story about a bizarre UFO sighting over the Yukon border.

[ABC 8:30] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork In Love
Season 1, episode 4
W: Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell   D: Harvey Medlinsky

Mork falls passionately in love with a shapely blonde -- a mannequin.

[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: The Fast
Season 3, episode 4
W: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn   D: Dave Powers

With Angel Tompkins (Grace Thompson).
Jack attempts to prove to Chrissy that he can give up women longer than she can give up food.

[NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Bobby's Acting Career
Season 1, episode 4
W: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels   D: James Burrows

With Taurean Blacque (Police Officer), Robert Phalen (Tom Jeffries), John Lehne (Hamlet's Owner).
Bobby decides to give up his dramatic aspirations if he doesn't find an acting job by midnight.

[CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Horoscope For Murder
Season 11, episode 2
W: Arthur Bernard Lewis   D: Ralph Levy

With Samantha Eggar (Agnes DuBois), Tab Hunter (Mel Burgess), Kimo Kahoano (Rick Makulu), Kerry Sherman (Cindy Rawlins), Sandi Shirai (Mrs. Wong), Steve Dulce (Medical Examiner), Merrie Lueders (Mrs. Ramsey), Donna White (Martha), Don Jacobs (Professor Kempler).
The only link in a series of seemingly unrelated killings may be a common horoscope cast by a famous astrologer.

[ABC 10:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Baby Broker
Season 5, episode 4
W: Tony Sheehan   D: Noam Pitlik

With Fredric Cook (Harold Adelman), Phoebe Dorin (Harriet Adelman), Michael Durrell (Philip Kubrick), Ivor Francis (Professor Henry McDowell), Martine Getty (Ana Schlesinger).
A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift.

[NBC 10:00] W.E.B. [Reg]: The Great Clowns
Season 1, episode 5
W: David Karp

With Sid Caesar, Gretchen Corbett.
A once-popular comedian is persuaded by network executive Ellen Cunningham to return to television as the star of his own special. (Last show of the series.)

[ABC 10:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 29
Season 2, episode 4
W: Susan Harris, Jordan Crittenden   D: Jay Sandrich

With J. Pat O'Malley (Orville).
Jessica throws a party for a convict hiding in her basement; Tim's wedding night is complicated by a call from his mother.


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