Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 3, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Challenge To Be Free (1975)
W: Anne Bosworth, Chuck D. Keen, Dick North D: Tay Garnett With Mike Mazurki, Jimmy Kane, Vic Christy, Fritz Ford. After accidentally killing a ranger, a lone-wolf trapper flees across the arctic wilderness, pursued by a team of expert trackers and riflemen.
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| [ABC 8:00] Operation Petticoat [Reg]: Matters Of Honor
Season 2, episode 4 W: John Steven Owen D: Gene Nelson With Peter Kwong (Pat O'Brien). The Sea Tiger's crew almost revolts when they are ordered to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an enemy pilot. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/9/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Willis' Birthday
Season 1, episode 22 W: Michael Moye D: Herbert Kenwith With Anthony Thompkins (Vernon), Brian Salmon (Tiny), Tony Williams (Charles), LaShana Dendy (Francine), Betty A. Bridges (Mrs. Brooks), Carl M. Craig (Police Officer), Scorpio (Luther). Mr. Drummond agrees to let Willis get anything he wants for his birthday. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/13/1979)
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Barbarino's Baby
Season 4, episode 15 W: Linda Morris, Vic Rauseo D: Norman Abbott With John Travolta (Vinnie Barbarino), Jane Dulo (Nurse Bonnie), Mary Jo Catlett (Mrs. Fishbein), Henry Corden (Mr. Fishbein). Barbarino and the Sweathogs are stranded in a hospital elevator with a very pregnant woman. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1979)
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| [NBC 8:30] Hello, Larry [Reg]: Larry's Bad Back
Season 1, episode 11 W: Woody Kling, George Tibbles D: Doug Rogers A back injury puts Larry at the mercy of his well-meaning daughters and friends. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/13/1979)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Night Cries (1978)
W: Brian Taggert D: Richard Lang With Susan Saint James, Michael Parks, William Conrad, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Britt Leach. A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Return Of The Black Shadow
Season 5, episode 17 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: William Wiard With Bo Hopkins (John Cooper), Paul Koslo (Whispering Willie Green), Dennis Burkley (Animal), Laurie Jefferson (Gail Cooper), Andy Jarrel (Phil Dankus), Jerry Ayres (Robert Greis), Ken A. Anderson (Harry), Noah Keen (Dr. Greenberg), Paul Mace (Festus), Scott Walker (Hilliard), Sandra de Bruin (Nurse), Jack Garner (Gas Station Attendant). A friend of Rockford's infiltrates a motorcycle gang to avenge their attack on his sister and Jim. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1979)
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| [CBS 9:30] TV Movie: Ebony, Ivory And Jade (1979)
W: Ann Beckett, Mike Farrell, Jimmy Sangster D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Bert Convy, Debbie Allen, Martha Smith, Nina Foch, Nicolas Coster, Donald Moffat, Lucille Benson, Claude Akins, Quinn Redeker, Ted Shackelford, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Clifford David. A former tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas song-and-dance man doubles as a private eye with two female dancers.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Eddie Capra Mysteries [Reg]: The Two Million Dollar Stowaway
Season 1, episode 9 W: Robert C. Dennis With Bobby Van (Warren Custer), Pat Crowley, Julie Gregg, James McEachin, Ken Swofford (J.J. Devlin), Gloria DeHaven, Guy Stockwell, Michael Horton (Harvey Winchell), Seven Anne McDonald (Jennie Brown). The skipper of a cruise ship asks Capra to find the shipboard murderer of a fugitive stowaway -- a con man who was carrying a fortune in diamonds. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1978)
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