Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 21, 1979:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: The Kelly Story
Season 1, episode 4 W: Tom Moore, Jeremy Stevens D: Norman Abbott With Charles Nunez (Miguel), Christopher Holloway (Joey Turner). Coach Buttermaker tries to talk a macho, motorcycle-riding whiz kid with natural batting ability into playing for the Bears.
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| [ABC 8:00] What's Happening [Reg]: Dwayne's Debate
Season 3, episode 21 W: Sally Wade D: Mark Warren With Greg Morris (Lawrence Nelson), Douglas Grant (Lester Williams), Betty A. Bridges (Mrs. Nelson), LaNette Hardiman (Lisa), Elaine Hobson (Cindy). Dwayne is pressured by friends and family to enter the presidential race at Jefferson High.
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| [NBC 8:00] Olympathon '79 [special]
With Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Jerry Lewis, Ed McMahon, Angie Dickinson, O.J. Simpson, Jimmy Connors, Ben Vereen, Dick Clark. A 6½ hour telecast that will launch the U.S. Olympic Committee's national fundraising campaign. From the Desert Inn in Las Vegas.
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| [CBS 8:30] Billy [Reg]: Brief Encounter
Season 1, episode 6 With Larry Csonka (Himself). Billy and his best friend Arthur unwittingly romance the same girl.
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| [ABC 8:30] Delta House [Reg]: The Matriculation Of Kent Dorfman
Season 1, episode 13 W: John Hughes, David Pollack, Elias Davis D: Joshua White Flounder's parents yank him out of school and enroll him in a strict, all-female university. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
W: Richard Wesley D: Sidney Poitier With Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Roscoe Lee Browne. Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's, a high-class but illegal nightclub where they get robbed of a winning lottery ticket and try to get it back.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Double Wedding / The Ventriloquists / Julie Falls Hard
Season 2, episode 13 W: Ray Jessel, Michael Norrell, Lan O'Kun D: Bob Claver With Cyb Barnstable (Judy Barrett), Trish Barnstable (Joanie Barrett), David Nelson (Gary Gage), Fred Travalena (Ted Ashton), Ruth Buzzi (Patti Harmon), Sid Caesar (Michael Harmon), Tony Roberts (Jack Chenault), Melora Hardin (Courtney Chenault), Annrae Walterhouse (Ashley Chenault). A separated couple are assigned to the same cabin; twins and their fiancees prepare for their double wedding; Julie falls for a widower traveling with his daughters. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1978)
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| [ABC 10:00] Men Under Siege: Life With The Liberated Woman
A look at contemporary American men, focusing on their reaction to the new roles of women both on and off the job.
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