Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 16, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Collegiate Cheerleading Championships [special]
With Suzanne Somers, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Lola Falana. Joe Namath hosts the second annual competition, as five college squads vie for $25,000 in scholarship money.
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| [ABC 8:00] Salvage 1 [Reg]: Mermadon
Season 1, episode 10 W: Mike Lloyd Ross D: Ron Satlof With Ed Nelson (General Macklin), Philip Abbott (Dr. Marvin), David Cole (Max). The Salvage crew works to restore a U.S. Army robot without realizing that it is programmed to kill anyone who tampers with it.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Man Inside
Season 5, episode 4 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With David Hooks (Mr. Ames), Sam Edwards (Postman), Michelle Downey (Sue), Ivan Wideman (Thomas), Cliff Emmich (John Bevins), Katherine Woodville (Bess Bevins), Julie Anne Haddock (Amelia), Walker Edmiston (Dr. Moore), Hap Lawrence (Smitty). Laura's seemingly innocent joke about a fat man has consequences when the man in question turns out to be the father of her best friend. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1978)
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| [ABC 9:00] How The West Was Won [Reg]: China Girl
Season 3, episode 10 W: Calvin Clements Jr. D: Joseph Pevney With Rosalind Chao (Li Sin), Chao-Li Chi (Storekeeper), Bill Fletcher (Boatswain), Jerry Fujikawa (Immigrant), John Fujioka (Song), J.D. Hall (Black Man), Tad Horino (Chang), Robert Ito (Chuk), Joseph Kim (Doctor), Richard Lee Sung (Sentinel), Keye Luke (Leong Chung Hua), Soon-Teck Oh (Kee), Beulah Quo (Ah Kam), Dennis Sakamoto (Ho), Bill Zuckert (Ship's Doctor). The immigrant father of a Chinese girl who was raped orders her illegitimate child to be destroyed.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Prisoner Of Second Avenue (1975)
W: Neil Simon D: Melvin Frank With Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks, Elizabeth Wilson, Florence Stanley, Ed Peck, Ivor Francis, M. Emmet Walsh, Gene Blakley, Maxine Stuart. A neurotic middle-aged New York man is fired from his advertising job, forcing his wife to become the couple's sole breadwinner, and begins to fall into depression.
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| [CBS 9:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: An Eye For A Tooth
Season 7, episode 13 W: Ronny Graham D: Charles S. Dubin With Peter Palmer (Capt. Hill). Father Mulcahy takes being passed over for promotion philosophically until he hears of the rapid advancement of a helicopter pilot. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/11/1978)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Prisoner
Season 2, episode 2 W: Seth Freeman D: Gene Reynolds With Silvana Gallardo (Amanda Baroja), Peggy McCay (Marian Hume), Frank Ramirez (Bazan), Jorge Cervera Jr. (Blanco), Enrique Novi (Flores). Lou tries to find out why his friend and boss, Charlie Hume, behaves irrationally when the Trib runs an expose of political torture. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1978)
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