Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 16, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Boat People
Ed Bradley reports on the plight of the nearly 2.5 million Vietnamese who have fled their homeland; segments were filmed at various refugee camps in the Far East.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Smokin' Ain't Cool
Season 6, episode 17 W: Michael Loman D: Jerry Paris With Anna Garduno (Angela), Michael Dudikoff (Jim). Joanie decides to take up smoking in order to join a "cool" girls' club.
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| [NBC 8:00] Grandpa Goes To Washington [Reg]: The Union Boys
Season 1, episode 10 W: Paul West D: Larry Elikann With Victor Jory (Meyer Brockman), Charles Lucia (Lou Mattrella). Kelley tries to rid a union of a corrupt boss. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Who's Papa?
Season 4, episode 15 W: Al Aidekman D: Maurice Bar-David With Rance Howard (Doctor), Ed Begley Jr. Shirley concocts a scheme to find out whether she is adopted.
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| [NBC 8:30] The American Diet Test [special]
A multiple choice quiz designed to test the viewer's knowledge of diet, food and nutrition, with Dr. Frank Field.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Sky Riders (1976)
W: Jack DeWitt, Stanley Mann, Garry Michael White D: Douglas Hickox With James Coburn, Susannah York, Robert Culp, Charles Aznavour, John Beck, Harry Andrews. A man's wife and children are kidnapped by terrorists, and his wife's ex hires a team of professional hang gliders to help him rescue the hostages from the terrorists' mountaintop lair.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: The Older Woman
Season 3, episode 14 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt D: Dave Powers With Claudette Nevins (Barbara), Irene Tedrow (Martha). Janet and Chrissy are excited to learn that Jack is dating an "older" woman, until they meet the woman they believe to be his heartthrob.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Murder In Music City (1979)
W: Ernie Frankel, Jimmy Sangster D: Leo Penn With Sonny Bono, Lee Purcell, Claude Akins, Belinda Montgomery, Morgan Fairchild, Lucille Benson. A songwriter buys a detective agency as a tax shelter, but stumbles into a real case when a dead body turns up in the suite he and his new bride are staying in.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Sugar Mama
Season 1, episode 14 W: Glen Charles, Les Charles D: James Burrows With Herb Vigran (Weldon Manning), Aharon Ipale (Ramon), Ruth Gordon (Dee Wilcox). A rich little old lady uses money to buy Alex's companionship as a cure for her loneliness.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Golden Angel
Season 4, episode 13 W: George Arthur Bloom, Robert Dellinger, Joe Reb Moffly D: Sutton Roley With Ray Walston (Tommy Reese), Hilary Beane (Camille Boone), Steve Oliver (Buzzy Boone), Richard Karron (Hammerlock Grange), Paula Victor (Stella), Lynn Benesch (Candy Reese). Starsky poses as a wrestler when a mysterious person places a death threat against one of the ring warriors.
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