Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 12, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Billy [Reg]: Billy Liar
Season 1, episode 3 With Merv Griffin (Himself). Billy's fantasies take him into the exciting worlds of show biz and glamour.
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| [ABC 8:00] Salvage 1 [Reg]: The Golden Orbit (1)
Season 1, episode 7 W: Robert Swanson D: Ron Satlof With Barry Nelson (Dr. Singleton), Gary Swanson (Jim Webster), Edward Winter (Buck Fulton), Ellen Bry (Vanessa Ashley), Lee de Broux (Hank Beddoes). A dangerous liquid nitrogen leak traps Skip and his fellow NASA crew members in their space station.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Mortal Mission
Season 5, episode 23 W: John T. Dugan D: William F. Claxton With Ketty Lester (Hester-Sue), Ruth Foster (Mrs. Foster), Matt Clark (Seth Berwick), Jerry Hardin (Slade), Charles Parks (Virgil Fenton), Peter Kilman (Garth Fenton), Carolyn Conwell (Bess), Bradley Greene (Nate Berwick), Richard Lockmiller (Rawlings), David Rode (Ethan), Vince Tortell (Thomas). Charles Ingalls and Jonathan Garvey set out on a desperate search for medicine after members of their families are stricken by a dreaded disease.
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| [CBS 8:30] Flatbush [Reg]: The Heist
Season 1, episode 3 W: David Epstein With John Quade (Clean Otto), Gary Wood (Duane Critters). A hoodlum named Clean Otto uses Presto's taxi as the getaway vehicle in a bank robbery.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Party
Season 7, episode 25 W: Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda D: Burt Metcalfe With Burt Metcalfe (Driver). B.J. carries plans for a postwar reunion one step further and promotes a present-day, stateside gathering of 4077th families.
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| [ABC 9:00] How The West Was Won [Reg]: The Scavengers
Season 3, episode 7 W: Calvin Clements Jr. D: Ralph Senensky With John Beck (Clay Wesley), Alan Caillou (Captain Ian), Mitch Carter (Beard), Jerry Gatlin (Mo), Katy Kurtzman (Nettie), Lance LeGault (Zachary), Miki McKenzie (Young Wife), Dorothy Meyer (Hattie), Davis Roberts (Douglas), Jack Stauffer (David), Carol Vogel (Chastity), Lee De Broux (Larch). Molly and Laura are held for ransom and Zeb is left for dead after the riverboat they are traveling on is attacked by pirates.
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| [NBC 9:00] Too Far To Go [special]
W: William Hanley D: Fielder Cook With Michael Moriarty, Blythe Danner, Glenn Close, Ken Kercheval. Infidelities, skirmishes and reconciliations are recalled at the impending breakup of a 20-year marriage, in a program based on 10 of John Updike's stories.
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| [CBS 9:30] AFI Salute To Alfred Hitchcock [special]
D: Marty Pasetta With Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, Tippi Hedren, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Rod Taylor, Teresa Wright. The American Film Institute pays tribute to the film director's long career with the presentation of the Life Achievement Award and a retrospective look at his works.
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