Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday April 1, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
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| [ABC 7:00] Friends [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 2 Pete, Randy and Nancy run into communication problems while trying to deal with their parents.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: Born To Run (2)
Season 25, episode 19 W: Ed Jurist D: Don Chaffey With Tom Farley (Matthew Boyd), Robert Bettles (Tedy Boyd), Andrew McFarlane (Doone Boyd), Mary Ward (Aunt Marian), Julieanne Newbould (Cathy Castle). All of the dreams and money of an Australian racehorse owner and his grandson ride on their colt's ability to beat a champion.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe: Part 1 [special]
W: David D. Connell, Bill Melendez D: Bill Melendez Animated version of the C.S. Lewis fairytale. Four children step by chance through a closet wardrobe into Narnia, a strange and wintry fantasy land ruled by an ice-hearted witch.
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| [ABC 8:00] Battlestar Galactica [Reg]: Take The Celestra
Season 1, episode 23 W: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell D: Daniel Haller With Ana Alicia (Aurora), Paul Fix (Kronus), Nick Holt (Charka), Randy Stumpf (Damon), Robert Murvin (Duty Officer), Richard Styles (Hermes). Starbuck's former girlfriend leads a mutiny aboard a vessel.
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| [NBC 8:00] Jesus Of Nazareth: Part 1 [special]
Franco Zeffirelli's film on the life of Jesus Christ begins with the wedding of Mary and Joseph, the birth and childhood of Christ, and the conflict between Herod and John the Baptist. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Flo Finds Her Father
Season 3, episode 24 W: Marion C. Freeman, Dawn Aldredge D: William Asher With Forrest Tucker (Edsel Jarvis Castleberry), Hamilton Camp (Clem). Sparks fly when Edsel Castleberry show up looking for hs little girl, Flo, whom he hasn't seen in years.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: From Russia With Love (1963)
W: Richard Maibaum, Berkely Mather D: Terence Young With Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendariz, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell. The second film made from Ian Fleming's novels. Agent 007 is sent to help a Russian spy defect to the West. What neither of them knows is that the beautiful girl is a pawn in a Soviet plot to destroy him.
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| [CBS 9:30] Stockard Channing In Just Friends [Reg]: Health May Be Hazardous To Your Health
Season 1, episode 5 W: Nick Arnold D: Joan Darling With Samantha Harper (Ingrid), Rhonda Fox (Mrs. Blanchard), Joan Tolentino (Mrs. Fischer), George Gaynes (Rock LaRue), Judy Kerr, Barry Bartle (Director). Mike is persuaded to advertise his health spa on TV, but decides to give up the spa when one of his clients dies.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 5 W: Stan Burns, David Axelrod D: Robert Scheerer With Gene Kelly. Mary is nervous about performing with her upcoming guest, Gene Kelly. During rehearsals, Mary injures her back and is unable to continue.
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| [NBC 10:00] Weekend
A report on Mexico's potential as a major oil producing nation; the clinical ecology movement.
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