Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday March 11, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
One segment offers a behind-the-scenes look at the "The Muppet Show" and examines the elements that make this children's program an international success. Correspondent Morley Safer interviews the creative team, led by Jim Henson, and puppeteers Jerry Juhl, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt and Dave Goelz perform while being interviewed.
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| [ABC 7:00] The Osmond Family Hour
With Ruth Buzzi, Ron Palillo, Debbie Reynolds.
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| [NBC 7:00] Movie: Airport '77 (1977)
W: Michael Scheff, David Spector D: Jerry Jameson With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, James Stewart, Darren McGavin, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland. Art thieves hijack a 747 but crash into the ocean, trapping the passengers underwater. The jet is finally located by the authorities, but the only possible rescue operation proves to be of immense risk to the survivors.
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| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]
[Episode "The Family Next Door" pre-empted, aired March 18, 1979.]
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| [ABC 8:00] Battlestar Galactica [Reg]: Baltar's Escape
Season 1, episode 21 W: Donald P. Bellisario D: Winrich Kolbe With David Greenan (Omega), Sarah Rush (Rigel), Lloyd Bochner (Commander Leiter), Ina Balin (Siress Tinia), Anthony De Longis (Taba), Robert Feero (Bora), Lance LeGault (Maga), John Dullaghan (Dr. Wilker), Ron Kelly (Security Officer Reese), John Hoyt (Sire Domra). Apollo and Starbuck attempt to rescue Adama and other council members from the clutches of Baltar and his cohorts.
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| [CBS 8:30] Mr. Dugan [special]
W: Rod Parker, Charles Hauck D: Jeff Bleckner With Cleavon Little, John Amos, Barbara Rhoades, Dennis Burkley, Nedra Volz. A freshman Congressman finds himself caught between his own idealism and his politically pragmatic staff. (This was the pilot episode for a heavily-promoted series, but it never aired and the series was scrapped.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: The Last Stow It
Season 3, episode 20 W: Arthur Marx, Robert Fisher D: William Asher With Dave Madden (Earl Hicks), Duane R. Campbell (Chuck), Hans Conried (Randolph Briggs), Don Chastain (Ted), Bob Hastings (George). Alice, Flo and Vera's jobs are jeopardized when Mel sells the diner to the fastidious and crotchety Randolph Briggs.
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| [ABC 9:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Targets Without A Badge (2)
Season 4, episode 19 W: Joe Reb Moffly D: Earl Bellamy With William Prince (James Marshall Gunther), LaWanda Page (Mrs. Swayder), Gino Conforti (Blaze), Hilary Thompson (Laura Anderson), Bert Remsen (Franklin Anderson), Richard Herd (Smithers). After leaving the force, Starsky and Hutch learn that an influential judge is involved in a million-dollar loan shark operation.
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| [CBS 9:30] Stockard Channing In Just Friends [Reg]: Last Of The Red Hot Tubbers
Season 1, episode 2 W: George Arthur Bloom D: Joan Darling, Bob Lahendro With Samantha Harper (Miss Yarnell), Rhonda Fox (Mrs. Blanchard), Joan Tolentino (Mrs. Fischer), Kate Zentall (Credit Manager). Susan discovers that because of her marital status she is considered a bad credit risk, so she buys a hot tub from Leonard.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2 W: Stan Burns, David Axelrod With Bea Arthur, Howard Morris. Mary has two guests on her show -- the militant Beatrice Arthur and Benny Baxter (Howard Morris), a washed-up vaudevillian comic. During rehearsals, Bea takes over Mary's dressing room and orders everyone about, including Benny and Mary, by assuming the same bustling, take-charge type character she portrayed in her CBS sitcom Maude.
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| [NBC 10:00] Weekend
Big business's recruiting of business school graduates from "name" schools; a profile of Jim Davidson, who is trying to organize a Constitutional Convention.
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