Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 1, 1979:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Stockard Channing In Just Friends (R)	Good Times: The End Of The Rainbow	People's Command Performance (R)
ABC	Eight Is Enough: The Better Part Of Valor (R)		Charlie's Angels: Marathon Angels (R)		Vega$: A Way To Live (R)
NBC	Real People (R)		Butterflies	Love And Learn	The Three Wives Of David Wheeler	The Loyal Opposition

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] Stockard Channing In Just Friends [Reg]
Season 1, episode 9
With Dick Gautier. Susan gets an offer from a handsome spa owner that she can't turn down, until she learns there are strings attached. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/29/1979)

[ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: The Better Part Of Valor
Season 3, episode 23
W: Dusty Kay D: Vincent McEveety
With Joan Prather (Janet McArthur), Richard Herd (George McArthur), James Cromwell (Coach Pollard), Stephen Burns (Dixon), Brad Gorman (Gus), Talmadge Scott (Brian), Fay DeWitt (Sylvia), Kathleen Brown (Julie). Abby's relationship with Tommy is threatened when she returns to teaching and fails one of his friends. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Real People Female weightlifters; a woman who strips for God; a 97-year-old newspaper editor; the first black Navy frogman; car dealers who perform in their own commercials. (Repeat program)

[CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: The End Of The Rainbow
Season 6, episode 20
W: Mark Fink, Wayne Kline D: Gerren Keith Good fortune visits the Evans family and creates the happiest day in Florida's life. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 9:00] People's Command Performance [special]
With Carroll O'Connor, Billy Crystal, Joan Rivers, Rod Stewart, the original Broadway cast of Ain't Misbehavin'. Alan King hosts the third annual entertainment special. (Repeat program)

[ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Marathon Angels
Season 3, episode 20
W: Edward J. Lakso D: Bob Kelljan
With Sarah Purcell (Millicent Krail), Danuta Wesley (Helga), Ronnie Schell (Ernie Flack), Edward Walsh (Tolan), Eric Mason (Castor), Walter Brooke (Twilliger). Kidnappers make an attempt on a wealthy Arab's daughter during a marathon race in which the girl was competing. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/7/1979)

[NBC 9:00] Butterflies [special]
With Jennifer Warren, Jim Hutton. The boring life of a boring dentist's wife takes an upward turn when she meets a handsome stranger.

[NBC 9:30] Love And Learn [special]
With Lawrence Pressman, Candy Clark. A conservative college professor's well-ordered life turns to chaos when he marries an impulsive showgirl.

[ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: A Way To Live
Season 1, episode 21
W: Burton Armus D: Don Chaffey
With Marlyn Mason (Sarah Stanley), Tom Urich (Grant Packer), Wilfrid Hyde-White (Matt Tolan), Norman Alden (Coleman), Kenneth Tobey (Bill Woods), Robert Lussier (Fields), Jason Wingreen (Drake), Jeff Bruce (Clerk), Richard S. Calvert (Announcer). A female daredevil plans one last spectacular feat, unaware that her death will mean $1 million in insurance money for her promoter. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/2/1979)

[NBC 10:00] The Three Wives Of David Wheeler [special]
With Cathy Lee Crosby, Art Hindle. The current wife of a small business owner tries to keep tabs on her husband's two former wives, who still work for him.

[NBC 10:30] The Loyal Opposition Members of the Republican Party present their views on energy and the economy.