Tuesday May 1, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 1, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Fallout From Three Mile Island Movie: Fraternity Row (1977)
ABC Happy Days: The Magic Show (R) Laverne & Shirley: Date With Eraserhead (R) Three's Company: The Kleptomaniac (R) Taxi: High School Reunion (R) Starsky & Hutch: The Avenger (R)
NBC Cliffhangers Movie: Stay Hungry (1976)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Fallout From Three Mile Island Ed Bradley reports on the recent accident at the Pennsylvania nuclear power plant and the economic and political repercussions.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: The Magic Show
Season 6, episode 14
W: Don Safran   D: Jerry Paris

With Scott Marshall (Louie), Kathleen Marshall (Louise), George Fenneman, James Randi (The Amazing Randi). Fonzie puts his life on the line for an ailing escape artist.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/5/1978)

[NBC 8:00] Cliffhangers
Season 1, episode 10
Dracula is shot with Mary's crossbow; Jim Donner is threatened by the collapse of a burning wall; and Susan learns the identity of her brother's killer. (Last show of the series.)

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Date With Eraserhead
Season 4, episode 7
W: Judy Ervin   D: Ray DeVally Jr.

With Lynne Marie Stewart (Muriel), Paul Willson (Eraserhead), Linda Gillen (Girl in Black Wig). Shirley finds out that Carmine is running around with other girls, so Laverne arranges a blind date for her with an old high school acquaintance.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/24/1978)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Fraternity Row (1977)
W: Charles Gary Allison   D: Thomas J. Tobin

With Gregory Harrison, Stephen Shortridge, Wendy Phillips, Nancy Morgan, Robert Emhardt. Story of an upper class college in the early '50s and how a "harmless" hazing resulted in a student's death.

[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: The Kleptomaniac
Season 3, episode 11
W: Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West, Paul Wayne, George Burditt   D: Dave Powers
Jack and Janet are shocked as evidence mounts that Chrissy is a kleptomaniac. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/28/1978)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Stay Hungry (1976)
W: Charles Gaines, Bob Rafelson   D: Bob Rafelson

With Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund, Roger E. Mosley, Woodrow Parfrey, Scatman Crothers, Fannie Flagg, Ed Begley Jr., Joanna Cassidy. The offbeat son of an old and proud Southern family becomes involved in the world of professional body-building.

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: High School Reunion
Season 1, episode 7
W: Sy Rosen   D: James Burrows

With Angelo Gnazzo (George), Arlene Golonka (Sheila), Pierrino Mascarino (Stanley Tarses), Joanna Cassidy (Beverly), Sandra Holt (Woman). Louie is afraid to attend his 20th anniversary class reunion -- so Bobby goes in his place.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/24/1978)

[ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Avenger
Season 4, episode 7
W: Robert Swanson   D: Sutton Roley

With Marki Bey (Officer Minnie Kaplan), Joanna Cassidy (Monique Travers), Tim Thomerson (Phil), Michael DeLano (Roger), Hildy Brooks (Bobbie), Charles Cyphers (Medical Examiner Delaney). Starsky finds himself entangled with a swinging singles beauty whose other lovers have met bizarre deaths.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1978)

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