Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday March 24, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Here Comes The Coach
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bob Brunner, Arthur Silver D: Bruce Bilson With Richard Roat (Mr. Shanley). Series premiere. Morris Buttermaker, in trouble with the law, is given the option of a jail sentence or coaching a baseball team at a school for troubled children. Stars Jack Warden.
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| [ABC 8:00] Delta House [Reg]: The Fall Of Dean Wormer
Season 1, episode 9 W: Elias Davis D: Joshua White With Elaine Joyce (Gloria), Charles Macaulay (Buster Niedermeyer), Gloria De Haven (Marion). The Deltas take some embarrassing photos of Dean Wormer in a tight embrace with a co-ed.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] Billy [Reg]: Computer Dating
Season 1, episode 4 With Melody Thomas Scott (Shirley), Melissa Sherman (Louise), Debbie Thureson (Gloria). Billy convinces Arthur, who is filling out a computer dating form, to stretch the truth a little.
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: No Other Love (1979)
W: Ed Kaplan D: Richard Pearce With Richard Thomas, Julie Kavner, Norman Alden, Frances Lee McCain, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Allen, Scott Jacoby. A drama about a young, marginally retarded girl and boy who meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- despite the attempts by the girl's parents to separate them.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: The Kissing Bandit / Mike & Ike / The Witness
Season 2, episode 5 W: Fred Grandy, Arnold Grossman, Bernie Kopell D: Allen Baron, Roger Duchowny With Robert Reed (Frank McLean), Nancy Kulp (Gert), Billy Davis Jr. (Michael Sr.), Billy Crystal (Newton Weems), Todd Bridges (Michael Jr.), Toni Tennille (Suzanne Henderson), Marilyn McCoo (Lenore), Sharon Acker (Evelyn), Pat Carroll (Muriel), Laurie Walters (Roberta Potter). A shy young man becomes a completely different person at night; a businessman who doesn't have time for his family learns a valuable lesson; a man who believes his chances of survival are better at sea than as a witness in a gangland trial receives loving sympathy from a fellow passenger. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/21/1978)
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Never Give A Trucker An Even Break
Season 1, episode 5 W: Frank Lupo D: Christian I. Nyby II With Cassie Yates (Tara Strong), Angela Aames (Charisse), Michael Baseleon (Murph), Bob Corso (Officer Billings), Derek Murcott (Congressman Abernathy), Mitchell Reta (Gary Stone), Beau Kayser (Aaron Wainwright). B.J. tries to help a beautiful cyclist and winds up taking a spectacular leap off a high cliff on a souped-up motorcycle.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Best Seller / The Tomb
Season 2, episode 4 W: Skip Webster, Dan Ullman D: George McCowan With Maureen McCormick (Angela Brennan), Barry Sullivan (Professor Neville Marlowe), Shelley Fabares (Jill Marlowe), David Opatoshu (Abdul Kameel), Gloria DeHaven (Mrs. Brennan), Desi Arnaz Jr. (Barney Hunter), Janice Heiden (Audrey), Jeannie Wilson (Janice), Mark Savage (Aki), Alice Frost (Carlotta), Tamar Cooper (Lucretia), Shauna Sullivan (Tina). Sex-starved females kidnap a clerk who dreams of being a best-selling author; an archeologist gets the opportunity to investigate the tomb of King Tut's twin brother. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1978)
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| [NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Rosendahl And Gilda Stern Are Dead
Season 5, episode 2 W: Juanita Bartlett D: William Wiard With Rita Moreno (Rita Capkovic), Abe Vigoda (Phil Gabriel), Robert Loggia (Dr. Russell Nevitt), Sharon Acker (Edie Nevitt), Robin Gammell (Donald Pilmer), John Karlen (Leo), Clint Young (Harry), Ron Gilbert (Freddie), Jo Anne Meredith (Ceil), William Joyce (Dr. Rosendahl), George Planko (Sgt. Curcio), Jason Wingreen (Earl Stagen), Rod Masterson (Oscar Weinberg), Jack Garner (Bartender), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). Rita seeks Jim's protection after she witnesses an underworld assassination and is accused of the murder. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1978)
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