Saturday January 6, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 6, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Movie: Mr. Billion (1977) CBS Reports
ABC Welcome Back, Kotter: Don't Come Up And See Me Sometime (R) Carter Country: Owed To Billy Joe The Love Boat: Oh, Dale! / The Main Event / A Tasteful Affair (R) Fantasy Island: The Homecoming / The Sheik (R)
NBC CHiPs: Repo Man Movie: The Eiger Sanction (1975)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Movie: Mr. Billion (1977)
W: Ken Friedman, Jonathan Kaplan   D: Jonathan Kaplan

With Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason, Slim Pickens, William Redfield, Chill Wills, R.G. Armstrong. A billionaire leaves his entire estate to his nephew, a mechanic who wishes to be a cowboy.

[ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Don't Come Up And See Me Sometime
Season 4, episode 4
W: Bill Richmond, Gene Perret   D: Norman Abbott

With John Travolta (Vinnie Barbarino), Linda McCullough (Sally). Vinnie Barbarino gets his own bachelor pad, and his fellow Sweathogs get very upset when they find out the welcome mat is for girls only.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1978)

[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Repo Man
Season 2, episode 14
W: Rick Mittleman   D: John Florea

With Mills Watson (Doyle Ware), Ned Glass (Watchmaker), Anna Berger (Mary Taylor). A ruthless collection agent plots to destroy Jon's and Ponch's credit ratings after they prevent him from harassing private citizens.

[ABC 8:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Owed To Billy Joe
Season 2, episode 10
W: Michael Baser, Kim Weiskopf   D: Peter Baldwin

With Kathryn Reynolds (Denise Traynod). Roy is shocked to find out that a garage owner, who is a good friend of his, is bilking Clinton Corners tourists with false auto repair charges.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Oh, Dale! / The Main Event / A Tasteful Affair
Season 1, episode 2
W: Carl Kleinschmitt, Art Baer, Rick Callahan, Ben Joelson   D: Stuart Margolin, Richard Kinon, Alan Rafkin

With Dennis Cole (Dennis Kingsley), Tovah Feldshuh (Susan Ridley), Sherman Hemsley (Maurice Marshall), LaWanda Page (Stella Marshall), John Ritter (Dale Riley), Jaclyn Smith (Janette Bradford), Jennifer Shaw (Joanne Dressen), Mark Thomas (Peter Pringle), Jack Perkins (Drunk), Craig Littler (Carl Daggett), Tiiu Leek (Linda Daggett), David Knapp (Lucas Bradford). A guy boards the ship in drag to pursue an ex-girlfriend who can't stand him; a middle-aged couple trying to save their marriage gets trapped in an elevator; a married woman is followed by a detective who falls in love with her.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1977)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Eiger Sanction (1975)
W: Hal Dresner, Warren Murphy, Rod Whitaker   D: Clint Eastwood

With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott. A retired gunman for hire is lured back to his old profession and sent to Switzerland by the director of an espionage agency, with the perilous assignment of retrieving some stolen top-secret documents.

[CBS 10:00] CBS Reports A review of the events of the past year, with Eric Sevareid and Walter Cronkite.

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Homecoming / The Sheik
Season 2, episode 1
W: Orville H. Hampton, Ron Friedman   D: Earl Bellamy

With Georgia Engel (Yasmine/Brenda Rappaport), Lynda Day George (Nancy Harding), David Birney (Sgt. Boardman), Michael Gregory (Frank Harding), Arte Johnson (Edgar Breen), Cassandra Peterson (Ptatateetah), Ronnie Scribner (Danny), Arnold Moss (Sheik), Sid Haig (Hakeem), Tamara Elliot (Belly Dancer). A Vietnam veteran, long presumed dead, wishes to be reunited with his family; a middle-aged school teacher wishes to have a harem of beautiful women, but instead becomes the target of an assassination attempt.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1978)

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