Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 12, 1979:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Chisholms [Reg]: Chapter Three
Season 1, episode 3 W: Evan Hunter D: Mel Stuart With Sandra Griego (Keewedinok), Jerry Hardin (Jonah Comyns), David Hayward (Timothy Oates), Billy Drago (Teetonkah), Geno Silva (Ferocious Storm). The Chisholms encounter hostile Indians and a wagon train decimated by fever while traveling across the prairie alone.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork Runs Down
Season 1, episode 22 W: Ben Starr D: Howard Storm With Henry Polic II (Dr. Phillips), Susan Elliot (Rainbow), Michael Danahy (Customer). Mork's hours are numbered unless he can get a power recharge from his egg-shaped "gleek" before his birthday arrives.
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| [NBC 8:00] Whodunnit?
Mystery game show hosted by Ed McMahon.
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| [ABC 8:30] Angie [Reg]: The Opportunity
Season 1, episode 8 W: Richard Eckhaus D: Howard Storm Angie gets her bungling sister a receptionist job in Brad's office.
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| [NBC 8:30] Highcliffe Manor [Reg]: The Blacke Death
Season 1, episode 1 W: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner D: Nick Havinga Series premiere. A widow inherits a "think tank" castle full of scientists and philosophers determined to solve world problems -- and get rid of her.
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| [CBS 9:00] A Special Kenny Rogers [special]
With Ray Charles, Dottie West, The Oak Ridge Boys. From the Grand Ole Opry.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Baby Broker
Season 5, episode 4 W: Tony Sheehan D: Noam Pitlik With Fredric Cook (Harold Adelman), Phoebe Dorin (Harriet Adelman), Michael Durrell (Philip Kubrick), Ivor Francis (Professor Henry McDowell), Martine Getty (Ana Schlesinger). A German girl attempts to flee the country rather than surrender her baby to a broker's clients; Levitt turns to stimulants to aid in his self-imposed thirty-six hour shift. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1978)
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| [NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: A Test For Living
Season 4, episode 4 W: Jack Klugman D: Ron Satlof With Jonathan Segal (Jeff Sellers), Lloyd Nolan (Dr. Schumann), Philip Abbott (Elliot Phillips), Kelly Jean Peters (Mary Carson), Henry Jones (Austin Barnes), Sam Groom (David Carson), Susan Powell (Dr. Laura Green), David Hollander (Timmy Carson), Michelle Stacy (Cindy), William Mims (Dr. Blenham), Tracey Gold (Lisa Carson). Quincy fights a determined doctor to prevent a boy that he knows is autistic from being confined to an institution for the mentally retarded. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/19/1978)
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: New Kid In Town
Season 2, episode 14 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Peter Baldwin With Amzie Strickland (Julia Mobey), Don Fenwick (Curry), Kyle Richards. A runaway orphan arrives in Clinton Corners and claims Chief Roy as her father.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Target For A Wedding
Season 7, episode 24 W: Robert Sherman D: Robert Sherman With Bonnie Ebsen (Laurie), Greg Evigan (Blue Simpson), Ron Hayes (Sheriff Oscar Hamlin), Bibi Osterwald (Grace Claymer), Ric Carrott (Lester Deverill), Don Keefer (Tully Kupper), Fred Downs (Louis P. Mosley). Barnaby's goddaughter falls prey to a fortune hunter who frames her fiancee for murder.
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| [ABC 10:00] Doctors' Private Lives: Part 2 [special]
Dr. Michael Wise is forced to confront his feelings for his ex-wife when he learns that she and her lover have separated; Dr. Jeffrey Latimer has to step in when a nurse in the hospital falls in love with a patient.
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: The Eye Of The Needle
Season 4, episode 22 W: Robert Crais, A. L. Christopher D: Ron Satlof With William Sylvester (John Burnett), Frances Lee McCain (Dr. Stoddard), Anthony James (Drifter), Sally Kemp (Mrs. Burnett), Robert Webber (Dr. Chase), John Clavin (Heffron), Thomas Bellin (Police Doctor), Gilbert Green (Dr. Benson), Karen Philipp (Secretary). An ailing woman's accidental death outrages Quincy when he discovers that she had been seeing a holistic doctor and had been treated with natural medicines rather than scientific ones.
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