Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 27, 1979:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The White Shadow: Airball		Movie: Fighting Mad (1976)
ABC	Delta House: The Shortest Yard	The Love Boat: Like Father, Like Son / Don't Push Me / Second Chance		Fantasy Island: Photographs / Royal Flush		Republican Party Response To The State Of The Union Address
NBC	CHiPs: The Matchmakers		Movie: The Sentinel (1977)

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Airball
Season 1, episode 9
W: Marc Rubin D: Jackie Cooper
With Jonelle Allen (Shelley), Jenny Sullivan (Stewardess), Paul Tuerpe (Co-Pilot), Penelope Willis (Counter Girl), Georgie Paul (Inspector). The plane carrying Coach Reeves' basketball team to a tournament is forced to make an emergency landing.

[ABC 8:00] Delta House [Reg]: The Shortest Yard
Season 1, episode 2
W: John Hughes D: Don Weis Dean Wormer threatens to expel the Delta animals unless they can convince the mild-mannered but hulklike Blotto to play on the school's football team.

[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: The Matchmakers
Season 2, episode 17
W: L. Ford Neale, John Huff D: Harvey Laidman
With Danny Wells (Phil Davies), Gregory Walcott (Derk), Judy Penrod (Doreen Evans), Hal Frederick (Animal Control Officer), Jerry Boyd (Trucker), Marc Baxley (Paramedic), Jenny O'Hara (Cora Gilford). Jon and Ponch help a 30-year veteran of the highway patrol face the idea of retirement.

[ABC 8:30] The Love Boat [Reg]: Like Father, Like Son / Don't Push Me / Second Chance
Season 2, episode 16
W: Lee Aronsohn, Barbara Evans, Jerry Winnick D: Allen Baron
With Robert Mandan (Woody Billingsley), Randolph Mantooth (Alan Billingsley), Cathy Lee Crosby (Libby Hall), Roddy McDowall (Fred Berry), Tammy Grimes (Christine Bery), Debbi Morgan (Stephanie Jackson). A father takes too much of a liking to his son's new girlfriend; a bachelor is terrified at the idea of marrying his gung-ho girlfriend; the crew gives a troubled teen a chance at rehabilitation.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Fighting Mad (1976)
W: Jonathan Demme D: Jonathan Demme
With Peter Fonda, Noble Willingham, Harry Northup, Philip Carey, Gino Franco, John Doucette, Scott Glenn, Lynn Lowry. An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Sentinel (1977)
W: Michael Winner D: Michael Winner
With Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, Jose Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith. Not ready for marriage, a fashion model moves into an unbelievably nice Brooklyn Heights apartment, where scary occurrences turn into a much more frightening turn of events.

[ABC 9:30] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Photographs / Royal Flush
Season 2, episode 16
W: James W. Hayes, Skip Webster D: Cliff Bole
With Michele Lee (Nancy Weston), John McIntire (Victor Holly), John Rubinstein (Johnny Cort), Ronne Troup (Emily Holly), Diana Muldaur (Mrs. Castle), Elizabeth Cheshire (Alison Castle), Hank Brandt (Arthur Castle), Paul Picerni (Nick Lago), Hal Needham (Orville), Kathy McCullen (Debbie), Scott Atlas (Adam Weston), Ed Kenney (Mike), Larry Duran (Art). A photographer wants to meet the little girl who mysteriously appears in her pictures; a man dreams of being in a million-dollar poker game.

[ABC 10:30] Republican Party Response To The State Of The Union Address