Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday March 3, 1979:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Movie: Across The Great Divide (1976)
W: Stewart Raffill D: Stewart Raffill With Robert Logan, Heather Rattray, Mark Edward Hall. Two orphaned children try to cross the Rocky Mountains to claim a farm in Oregon which they have inherited.
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[ABC 8:00] Delta House [Reg]: The Draft
Season 1, episode 6 W: Matty Simmons, Tod Carroll D: Hollingsworth Morse With Ronnie McMillan (Van Pelt), David Cohn (Zaslow), Barry Silver (Heitzer). The Deltas concoct a mad scheme to prevent the draft board from getting D-Day.
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[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: CHP-BMX
Season 2, episode 21 W: Rick Mittleman D: John Florea With Henry Olek (Dutch), Kirk Calloway (Danny), Jackie Vernon (Man), Marc Gilpin (Timmy Getraer). After his son is injured in a motorbike accident, Sgt. Getraer gets to know and work with some of the troubled neighborhood kids.
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[ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: The Sweat Smell Of Success
Season 4, episode 18 W: Earl Barret, George Bloom D: Norman Abbott With Charles Fleischer (Carvelli), Bob Harcum (Murray), Irene Arranga (Mary Johnson). Epstein, assigned to work on the school paper, quickly turns it into a scandal sheet.
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[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Funny Valentine / The Wallflower / A Home Is Not A Home
Season 2, episode 21 W: Art Baer, Fred Grandy, Tom Dagenais, Ben Joelson, Bernie Kopell et al D: George Tyne With Warren Berlinger (Francis), Elinor Donahue (Rowena), Patty Dworkin (Sylvia), Samantha Eggar (Mary-Louise Murphy), Arthur Godfrey (Ned), Zane Lasky (Monroe), Minnie Pearl (Molly). A wallflower is secretly followed by a shy milquetoast; Stubing is charmed by a free-spirited young fortuneteller; two honeymooning retirees are unexpectedly joined by their overprotective children.
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[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Never Send A Boy King To Do A Man's Job
Season 5, episode 19 W: Juanita Bartlett D: William Wiard With Pepper Martin (Harry Steel), Robert Webber (Harold Jack Coombs), Gary Crosby (Larry Litrell), Jack Collins (Dr. Wetherford), Harold Gould (Mr. Brockelman), Trisha Noble (Odette Lependieu), Dennis Dugan (Richie Brockelman), Todd Martin (Robert Wendkos), Salt Walther (Vern), Stanley Brock (Mickey Martell), Kim Hunter (Mrs. Brockelman). Rockford and his pal Richie Brockelman devise an elaborate scheme to get Richie's father's business back from the hands of gangsters.
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[CBS 10:00] The Chinese Typewriter [special]
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Lou Antonio With Tom Selleck, James Whitmore Jr., Lane Bradbury, William Daniels, Don Ameche, Elizabeth Halliday, Mike Brick, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Kathryn Leigh Scott. In Hawaii, two freewheeling private detectives are hired to recover a stolen jetliner being used by a Latin American president. Pilot for an unsold series.
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[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Birthday Party / Ghostbreaker
Season 2, episode 20 W: Steve Fisher, Ron Friedman D: Cliff Bole With Ken Berry (Elliott Fielding), Janet Leigh (Carol Gates), Annette Funicello (Edna Camberley), Larry Storch (Alain Leblanc), Christopher Stone (Tom Dearborn), Skye Aubrey (Tracy Miller), Pamela Toll (Jo Dearborn), Marc Bentley (Jamie Dearborn), Ray Malavasi (Coach), Jim Youngblood (L.A. Ram), Frank Corral (L.A. Ram), Anthony Davis (L.A. Ram), Douglas Fowley (Old Jacoby), Monica Gayle (Donna), Elaine Borden (Susan), Elisa Carnahan (Lani). A timid man wants to prove that ghosts exist; a woman dreams of seeing the twins she gave up for adoption years earlier.
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