Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 30, 1979:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] News Special
The Republican Party's response to President Carter's State of the Union Address.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]
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| [NBC 8:00] Mark Twain's America: Abe Lincoln: Freedom Fighter [special]
D: Jack Hively With Allen Williams, Andrew Prine, Brock Peters, Charlie LeSueur, William Kezele. A turning point in the life of Abraham Lincoln, who, in his first-ever case, serves as defense lawyer for a black man accused of stealing.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Third Annual Shotz Talent Show
Season 4, episode 16 W: Stephen Nathan, Paul Price D: Joel Zwick Laverne and Shirley discover they have been replaced as directors of the annual Shotz Brewery talent show by Lenny and Squiggy.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Big Jake (1971)
W: Harry Julian Fink, Rita M. Fink D: George Sherman, John Wayne With John Wayne, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne, Chris Mitchum, Bobby Vinton, Bruce Cabot. An aging, determined cowboy sets out to rescue his grandson who has been kidnapped.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Stanley's Hotline
Season 3, episode 15 W: Sam Greenbaum D: Dave Powers With Anne Schedeen (Linda). Stanley's habit of eavesdropping lands Chrissy in trouble when he thinks he overhears information that she is pregnant.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal (1979)
W: Mel Brez, Ethel Brez D: Mel Stuart With David Dukes, Tovah Feldshuh, Tom Bosley, Janet Margolin, Ted Wass, Stephanie Zimbalist, Charlotte Rae. The story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Friends
Season 1, episode 15 W: Earl Pomerantz D: James Burrows With Liz Miller (Dominique). A friendship heads for the rocks when Tony returns from out of town to discover that Bobby has let his prized goldfish die.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Birds Of A Feather
Season 4, episode 15 W: Rick Edelstein, Amanda Green D: Charlie Picerni With Marki Bey (Officer Minnie Kaplan), Anne Ramsey (Evon / Gertrude), Edmund Stoiber (Det. Henderson), Charles Cyphers (Det. Webster), Martin Kove (Jimmy Lucas), Allan Arbus (Anthony Reuben), Barbara Stuart (Doris Huntley), John P. Ryan (Det. Huntley). Hutch learns that a policeman friend of his agreed to exchange the life of an informer for the cancellation of gambling debts.
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