Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday October 14, 1978:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Rhoda [Reg]: Brenda Gets Engaged
Season 5, episode 4 W: David Lloyd D: Tony Mordente Brenda's new happiness is marred when her mother refuses to give approval to her engagement, so she and Benny decide to live together anyway.
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[ABC 8:00] Carter Country [Reg]
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[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Neighborhood Watch
Season 2, episode 5 W: L. Ford Neale D: Phil Bondelli With Gabriel Melgar (Donnie), Samantha Caulfield (Karen Wilkins), K.C. Martel (Scott), Lauri Hendler (Robin), Charlie Brill (Tow Truck Driver), Mary Betten (Waitress), Shelley Berman, Stephen Young (Billings), Alan Sues (Florist), Shirley O'Hara (Elderly Woman), Robbie Rist (Brian). A trio of skateboard wizards and a reckless driver with a good lawyer drive the CHP team up a wall.
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[CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: Stomach Mumps
Season 6, episode 5 W: Michael Moye D: Gerren Keith Willona becomes frantic when she learns that a young friend of Penny's is pregnant.
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[ABC 8:30] Apple Pie [Reg]
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[CBS 9:00] The American Girls [Reg]: Firefly
Season 1, episode 4 W: Mike Lloyd Ross D: Rod Holcomb With Christopher Stone, Marc Alaimo, Clete Roberts, Lonny Chapman, Dan Barton, Hank Brandt. Rebecca and Amy save a boy from a burning warehouse and stumble onto a red-hot story -- professional arson.
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[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Where Is It Written? / Julie's Aunt / The Big Deal
Season 2, episode 4 W: Barry Blitzer, James F. Henry, Lan O'Kun D: Allen Baron With Red Buttons (Mr. Foster), Hope Lange (Sandra Newberry), Richard Mulligan (Mark Little John), Mackenzie Phillips (Allison), Erik Estrada (Jim), Sam Groom (Brad Collins), Gene Barry (Al Newberry), Allen Ludden (Businessman #1). The Captain's lecherous uncle stalks Julie; a businessman has his daughter romance a client; a publisher's wife drifts into the arms of a writer.
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[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Rescue From Gilligan's Island (1978), part one
W: Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz, Al Schwartz, David Harmon D: Leslie H. Martinson With Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Judith Baldwin, Vincent Schiavelli, Norman Bartold, Art LaFleur. The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.
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[CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Bypass
Season 2, episode 4 W: Arthur Bernard Lewis D: Corey Allen With Barbara Babcock (Liz Craig), John Ashton (Willie Joe Garr), Ed Nelson (Jeb Ames), Lisa Lemole (Susan). Bobby threatens to leave the Ewing Oil Company because of J.R., but both he and J.R. feel guilty when Jock suffers a heart attack after one of their brotherly conflicts.
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[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Best Seller / The Tomb
Season 2, episode 4 W: Skip Webster, Dan Ullman D: George McCowan With Maureen McCormick (Angela Brennan), Barry Sullivan (Professor Neville Marlowe), Shelley Fabares (Jill Marlowe), David Opatoshu (Abdul Kameel), Gloria DeHaven (Mrs. Brennan), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Barney Hunter), Janice Heiden (Audrey), Jeannie Wilson (Janice), Mark Savage (Aki), Alice Frost (Carlotta), Tamar Cooper (Lucretia), Shauna Sullivan (Tina). Sex-starved females kidnap a clerk who dreams of being a best-selling author; an archeologist gets the opportunity to investigate the tomb of King Tut's twin brother.
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[NBC 10:00] Sword Of Justice [Reg]: The Destructors
Season 1, episode 2 W: Herman Groves D: Curtis Harrington With Len Birman (Nicholi), Richard Narita (Michael), Marion Yue (Nancy), Colby Chester (Buckner), John Lone (Richard Soo), Dennis Holahan (Hanson). Jack and Hector try to prevent a well-meaning Chinese-American gang that kidnapped a mobster from being ambushed by other czars at an agreed-upon exchange site.
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