Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday March 8, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Torch
Season 7, episode 21 W: Rod Peterson D: David Wheeler With Christopher Carroll (Sergeant), Daniel Zippi (Soldier #2), Dorothy Tristan (Callie), Wyatt Knight (Soldier #1). With Olivia absent, the children are upset by the arrival in town of an old girlfriend of their father's.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork's Night Out
Season 1, episode 20 W: Dale McRaven, Bruce Johnson D: Howard Storm With Ruta Lee (Lisa), Robin Eisenman (Penny), Linda Ewen (Waitress). Two stunning girls give Mork and Mr. Bickley the surprise of their lives after picking them up at a singles bar.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little Women
Season 1, episode 4 A romance develops between Jo's ailing Aunt March and her next-door neighbor.
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| [ABC 8:30] John Denver And The Ladies [special]
W: Digby Wolfe, George Schlatter D: Don Mischer With Valerie Harper, Cheryl Tiegs, Tina Turner, Erma Bombeck, Cheryl Ladd. The program features John Denver talking, singing, and dancing with five popular female celebrities. Highlights include a video montage of Denver spending the day with model Cheryl Tiegs; actress Cheryl Ladd singing "Good Lovin"; Denver and humorist Erma Bombeck viewing "home movies" of her visiting sites around Beverly Hills; a recreation of a scene from the film "Oh God!" with Valerie Harper in the role of God (played in the film by George Burns), and singer Tina Turner performing "Big Spender".
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| [CBS 9:00] People's Choice Awards [special]
Dick Van Dyke and Army Archerd host the fifth annual presentation of the awards honoring America's favorite entertainers in the television, motion picture and music industries.
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| [NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Snake Eyes
Season 2, episode 1 W: Joel Oliansky, Michael Sloan, Lou Shaw D: Joel Oliansky With Lynette Mettey (Lee), Vince Howard (Hardee), Val Avery (Rawley Dinehart), Frank Converse (Larry Pines), Buddy Hackett (Ronnie Fletcher), Jo Ann Pflug (Mrs. Pines), Van Johnson (Al Ringerman), Frank Maxwell (Michaels), William Mims (DeGroot), John Clavin (Hansen), Michele Roman (Angie), Sharon Cintron (Stormy), Joey Forman (Harv Bracken), Milt Kamen (Leo Burke). The mysterious deaths of several patrons at a resort hotel where Quincy is attending a pathologists' convention involve the medical examiner in a desperate effort to prevent the story from leaking out and causing panic. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/4/1977)
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| [ABC 9:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 46
Season 2, episode 21 W: Susan Harris, Stu Silver D: Jay Sandrich With John Byner (Detective George Donahue), Tim McIntire (The Devil's Voice), Ruth Cox (Lisa), Maurice Marsac (The Waiter), Charles Lucia (Larry), Kit McDonough (Maxine), Scott Mulhern (The Sunnie). Corinne's baby begins telling Tim off in Latin and Greek and bouncing him off walls; Mary doesn't beleive Burt's flying saucer story.
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| [ABC 10:00] Family [Reg]: The Competition
Season 4, episode 16 W: Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman D: Richard Kinon With Louise Foley (Audrey Pfeiffer), Nancy Malone (Marsha Kalisher), Mare Winningham (Merilee Kalisher), Richard McKenzie (Mr. McKinley), Eddie Frescas (Tony Sanchez), Laurie Jefferson (Miss Higgins), Bradford English (Mr. Bremmer). Buddy blames herself for the suicide of a fellow student she defeated in a scholastic competition.
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