Thursday May 24, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 24, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Illusion (R) Hawaii Five-O: A Long Time Ago (R) Barnaby Jones: Memory Of A Nightmare (R)
ABC Mork & Mindy: Mork The Tolerant (R) Young Guy Christian Barney Miller: The Harris Incident (R) Carter Country: The Big Move (3) Alan King's Third Annual Final Warning
NBC Hizzonner: Nails Gets Kidnapped Car Wash Quincy, M.E.: Walk Softly Through The Night (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Illusion
Season 7, episode 8
W: John McGreevey   D: Walter Alzmann

With Lynn Hamilton (Verdie Foster), Lewis Arquette (J.D. Pickett), Joan Pringle (Esther), Todd Bridges (Josh). Embittered by her lack of success in New York City, a college-educated black woman returns home.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/16/1978)

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork The Tolerant
Season 1, episode 14
W: Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell   D: Howard Storm

With Ed Greenberg (Jack). Mindy is irritated by her grouchy new neighbor, Mr. Bickley, but Mork is determined to be friends and invites him to dinner -- with disastrous results.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/18/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Hizzonner [Reg]: Nails Gets Kidnapped
Season 1, episode 3

With Michael Huddleston (Billy Jim), Geoffrey Lewis (Phil). Two criminals, out to free their brother from jail, plot to kidnap Mayor Cooper -- but bungle the job when they get the wrong man.

[ABC 8:30] Young Guy Christian [special] Defender-of-justice Guy Christian joins his gang of zany confidants in an inept attempt to stop the evil plots of Dr. Gasss.

[NBC 8:30] Car Wash [special]
With Danny Aiello, Hilary Beane, Stuart Pankin. In this comedy based on the movie of the same name, the owner of a car wash doubles his trouble -- not his money -- when he asks his employees for ideas on how to make ends meet.

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: A Long Time Ago
Season 11, episode 9
W: Arthur Bernard Lewis   D: Robert L. Morrison

With Katherine Cannon (Melissa Cole), Burr DeBenning (Roy Crawford), Christerpher Neddels (George Finn), Walter Chotzen (Aka). Danny falls in love again with his high school sweetheart, who turns up in Hawaii, but faces complications when the woman is linked with a neurotic killer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1978)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Harris Incident
Season 5, episode 9
W: Wally Dalton, Shelley Zellman, Reinhold Weege   D: Noam Pitlik

With Ed Peck (Officer Slater), Michael Lombard (Stanford Whitney), Marilyn Chris (Ruth Whitney), Rick Waln (Officer Darvec). Detective Harris is outraged when he is mistaken for a robber by two uniformed policemen who fire at him and arrest him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1978)

[NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Walk Softly Through The Night
Season 4, episode 15
W: David Moessinger   D: Paul Krasny

With Michael Constantine (Brock Campbell), Charles Aidman (Dr. Colella), Spencer Milligan (Cliff Hanna), Peggy Walton-Walker (Lisa Fielding), Alan Manson (Pharmacist), Morgan Paull, Dimitra Arliss (Dr. Kershner), James A. Watson Jr. (District Attorney), William Prince (Prosecutor), A Martinez (Marty Herrera). When the son of a friend dies of a drug overdose, Quincy teams up with a pre-med student to find the source of the illegal narcotics.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/1/1979)

[ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: The Big Move (3)
Season 2, episode 19
W: Richard Powell   D: Peter Baldwin

With Owen Bush (Elmer), DeForest Covan (Minister), Denis Lybe (Bank Manager), Candy Mobley. Baker, Chief Roy and Mayor Teddy become locked in a bank vault just before Baker's wedding to Lucille.

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Memory Of A Nightmare
Season 7, episode 10
W: Shirley Leeds   D: Walter Grauman

With Lisa Loring (Lois), Granville Van Dusen (Joe Bannock), Alan Rosenberg (Ray Reed), Ivor Barry (Dr. Kirby), Ryan MacDonald (Larry Reed), Lindsay Bloom (Jean Turner), Sondra Theodore (Mary Lee), Buck Young (Lt. Griffin), Peggy Pope (Mrs. West), Sean Michael Rice (Archie), Michael Fairman (Gerald Laslo). Betty's new romance turns to tragedy when she is forced into a car accident that kills her boyfriend.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1978)

[ABC 10:00] Alan King's Third Annual Final Warning [special]
With Rita Moreno, Hal Linden, Gavin MacLeod. Comedy special.

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