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Tuesday January 9, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 9, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Paper Chase: An Act Of Desperation Movie: Rio Lobo (1970)
ABC Happy Days: Sweet Sixteen (R) Laverne & Shirley (R) Three's Company: My Sister's Keeper (R) Taxi: Paper Marriage (R) Starsky & Hutch: The Game (R)
NBC Grandpa Goes To Washington: Grace Movie: Airport 1975 (1974)
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[CBS 8:00] The Paper Chase [Reg]: An Act Of Desperation
Season 1, episode 13
W: James Menzies, Marvin Kupfer   D: Carl Kugel

With John Devlin (Slaughter), Priscilla Taylor (Miss Hogden), David Drucker (Mann), Albert Sanders (Borish).
Pre-midterm jitters lead one of the law students to hire a tutor and obtain old Kingsfield exam questions.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Sweet Sixteen
Season 6, episode 7
W: Brian Levant   D: Jerry Paris

With Dan Spector (Burton Fitch), Ray Underwood (Tip Corrigan).
Joanie catches her date for her 16th birthday party running around with another girl.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1978)

[NBC 8:00] Grandpa Goes To Washington [Reg]: Grace
Season 1, episode 9
W: Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday   D: Joseph Pevney

Senator Kelley is absorbed in a fight to defeat a bill when an old friend comes to visit.

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Rio Lobo (1970)
W: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett   D: Howard Hawks

With John Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Victor French, Jorge Rivero, Mike Henry.
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: My Sister's Keeper
Season 3, episode 6
W: Franelle Silver, Paul Wayne, George Burditt   D: Dave Powers

With Devon Ericson (Jenny Wood).
Overprotective Janet goes into a rage when she finds Jack in the same bed with her attractive young sister who is visiting.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/17/1978)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Airport 1975 (1974)
W: Don Ingalls   D: Jack Smight

With Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Linda Blair, Helen Reddy, Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy.
A passenger-laden jumbo jet is crashed into by a light plane and the crew must guide the crippled airliner back home.

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Paper Marriage
Season 1, episode 8
W: Glen Charles, Les Charles   D: James Burrows

With James Randolph (INS agent), Rita Taggart (Vivian), Christopher Lloyd (Reverend Jim), Woody Eny (INS agent).
Latka Gravas faces deportation unless he marries a U.S. citizen.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1978)

[ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Game
Season 4, episode 2
W: Tim Maschler   D: Leo Penn

With Jack Ging (Ray Pardee), Suzanne Charny (Gina), Liz Torres (Anita), Joseph R. Sicari (Ernie Silvers), David Pendleton (Doctor), C.J. O'Neill (Officer Simmons), Herbert S. Braha (Officer Babcock), Raymond Allen (Merl The Earl).
A playful hide-and-seek wager that Hutch can elude Starsky for an entire weekend turns into a life-or-death search when it is learned that Hutch has 48 hours to live after contracting deadly botulism.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1978)


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