Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday July 24, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Blacks In America: With All Deliberate Speed?
Part one of a report on the status of blacks in America, focusing on jobs, housing, education and politics, 25 years after the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case outlawing segregation in public facilities.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Ralph vs. Potsie
Season 6, episode 18 W: Michael Loman D: Jerry Paris Fonzie steps in to repair a rift between Ralph and Potsie caused by Richie's advice to the lovelorn column. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/23/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Runaways [Reg]: They'll Never Forgive Me
Season 2, episode 8 With Shelly Juttner (Cindy Adams), L.Q. Jones (Matthew Turner), Bill McKinney (Frank Bedsole). An adopted girl searches for her biological parents to learn why they gave her up.
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| [ABC 8:30] America 2100 [special]
Two would-be comics wake up to learn they froze in a cheap hotel 120 years earler and are now in the year 2100.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Hawaiians (1970)
W: James R. Webb D: Tom Gries With Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Tina Chen, Mako, Don Knight, Alec McCowen, Harry Townes, Khigh Dhiegh, Naomi Stevens. James A. Michener's story of an adventurous sea captain who, with his family, are among the first white settlers in the islands.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]
Janet and an eye-catching fellow employee compete for the manager's job in the florist shop where they work. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Billy: Portrait Of A Street Kid (1977)
W: Steve Gethers D: Steve Gethers With LeVar Burton, Ossie Davis, Dolph Sweet, Roxie Roker, Michael Constantine, Tina Andrews, Chick Vennera, T.K. Carter. A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Alex Tastes Death And Finds A Nice Restaurant
Season 1, episode 20 W: Michael Leeson D: James Burrows With James Staley (Priest), Byron Webster (Maitre D'), John Petlock (Waiter), Charles Thomas Murphy (Patron), Mavis Palmer (Patron). After being shot at in a holdup attempt, Alex quits his cabbie job and becomes a waiter in a snobbish restaurant. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/6/1979)
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| [ABC 10:00] 13 Queens Boulevard [Reg]: Like Mother, Like Son
Season 1, episode 8 W: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein D: Kim Friedman With Frances Lee McCain (Lois), Charles Thomas Murphy (Jack). Jack's fear that his son is not masculine sends him to his ex-wife Lois with a drastic plan. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 10:30] Second Time Around [special]
A marriage counselor and his ex-wife decide to try living together again.
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