Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 26, 1979:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Little Orphan Abner
Season 1, episode 14 W: John Falsey D: Ernest Pintoff With Eda Reiss Merin (Abner's Grandmother), John Bleifer (Abner's Grandfather), Michael Pataki (Rabbi), Ralph Byers (Dr. Silver), Lou Tiano (Mr. Townsend). Goldstein's self-assured teammates take advantage of him during a critical period in his life.
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| [ABC 8:00] Captain & Tennille Songbook [special]
W: Toni Tennille, Allyn Warner D: Jeff Margolis With Ella Fitzgerald, Glen Campbell, B.B. King. An hour of blues, jazz and country-western music. The Captain (Daryl Dragon) and Tennille play "Sonatina Opus 36 No. 4" by Muzio Clementi on twin pianos, and they briefly discuss their respective classical training and the influence of their musical parents. Tennille then joins Fitzgerald and they chat about their love of torch songs and sing a medley duet of popular numbers. Dragon and Tennille play alongside Campbell, talking about their history playing backup for the Beach Boys.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: As Long As We're Together (1)
Season 5, episode 1 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Leon Charles (Standish), David Hooks (Mr. Ames), Don Elson (Fred), Michelle Downey (Sue), Cletus Young (Harlan), Anne Ramsey (Mrs. Schiller), Richard Fullerton (Glover), Jodean Russo (Josie), Frederic Downs (Mr. Thomas), F. William Parker (Sheriff). Season premiere. The Ingalls family reluctantly moves from Walnut Grove to the town of Winoka near the school where Mary is teaching people who, like herself, are blind. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/11/1978)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Commander Pierce
Season 7, episode 1 W: Ronny Graham D: Burt Metcalfe With James Carroll (Webster), Enid Kent (Nurse Bigelow), Jan Jorden (Nurse Baker), Andrew Masset (Hough). Season premiere. Hawkeye undergoes a drastic change when he becomes the temporary commander of the 4077th and learns the bureaucracy and accompanying headaches that Colonel Potter deals with daily. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/18/1978)
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| [ABC 9:00] All-American Woman [special]
Forty-five young women compete in the areas of athletics, appearance, disco dancing, personality and fashion coordination for a prize of $25,000.
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| [NBC 9:00] NCAA Basketball Championship
Michigan State vs. Indiana State in the tournament finals from Salt Lake City.
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| [CBS 9:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: A Commercial Break
Season 1, episode 17 W: Richard Sanders, Michael Fairman D: Rod Daniel With Fred Stuthman (Randall Ferryman). An undertaking tycoon, trying to sell his funeral package to young people, decides to advertise on WKRP.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Bomb
Season 2, episode 22 W: Seth Freeman D: Gene Reynolds With Paul Kent (Roger Winant), Dinah Manoff (Joanie Hume), Joe Spano (Jack Ridgeway), Frank Marth (Robert Oguns), Norbert Weisser (Bovic). A terrorist threatens to destroy the Trib building with a homemade atomic bomb.
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