Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 4, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Dance Fever
Season 1, episode 11 W: Roy Teicher D: Lowell Ganz With Tania Johnson (Lindy), Angie McCright (Samantha), Jaime McDonald-Harkins (Derek). Ahmad is challenged to defend his reputation as the best dancer in town. (Repeat program, originally aired 6/9/1979)
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| [ABC 8:00] Battlestar Galactica [Reg]: The Man With Nine Lives
Season 1, episode 17 W: Donald P. Bellisario D: Rod Holcomb With David Greenan (Omega), Frank Parker (Zed), Anthony De Longis (Taba), Robert Feero (Bora), Anne Jeffreys (Siress Blassie), Lance LeGault (Maga), Patricia Stich (Broadcaster Zara), Bruce Wright (Corporal Lomas), Lynn Halpern (Pyramid Dealer), Pamela Susan Shoop (IFB Interviewer), Fred Astaire (Chameleon/Capt. Dmitri). Starbuck attempts to save a man he believes to be his father from bloodthirsty Borellians. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Quarantine
Season 2, episode 20 W: Rudolph Borchert D: Harvey Laidman With Carey Wong (Lee), Jody St. Michael (Wiley), Taaffe O'Connell (Crystal), Luis Moreno (Driver), William Long Jr. (Nesset), Linda Lawrence (Lori), Danny Goldman (Dr. Bosca), Tom Poston (Bill Conner). The CHP unit is put on quarantine alert after a young man interned in their headquarters falls victim to a rare illness. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/24/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] Stockard Channing In Just Friends [Reg]: Invasion Of The Body Grabber
Season 1, episode 12 W: George Arthur Bloom D: J.D. Lobue, Jay Sandrich With Allan Miller (Marvin). Susan is taken hostage by a bank robber who believes himself to be radioactive. (Repeat program, originally aired 6/17/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Thieves Like Us (1974)
W: Calder Willingham, Joan Tewkesbury, Robert Altman D: Robert Altman With Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Tom Skerritt, Louise Fletcher, Bert Remsen. Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Ages Of Man / Families / Bo & Sam
Season 2, episode 22 W: Lan O'Kun, Ben Joelson, Art Baer, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Richard Kinon With Mark Shera (Jeff Cross), Paul Burke (Walter Parrish), Arlene Dahl (Monica Cross), Patrick Labyorteaux (Billy Tryman), Leslie Nielsen (Hank Hardaway), Philip Charles MacKenzie (Bo), Michael Tucci (Sam), Ellen Bry (Diana Hardaway), James Dobson (Anderson). A 13-year-old has a crush on Julie, who falls for a man nearly twice her age; the crew's tribute to Stubing's fifth year as Captain falters when his gift is crushed during loading; a newspaper publisher and a union organizer debate labor relations. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/10/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Deadly Cargo
Season 1, episode 4 W: Michael Sloan D: Cliff Bole With Hank Brandt (Sheriff), Joe Maross (Officer Frank), William Mims (Dr. Braverman), Byron Morrow (Senator McMasters), Mary Louise Weller (Elizabeth Chambers), Peter Zapp (Jerry Drake), Hal Fredericks (Officer), Patrick Brennan (Thomas), Charlie Star (Hastings). B.J. transports a mysterous cargo to Washington, D.C. for use by a female scientist at a Senate hearing. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/17/1979)
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Yesterday's Love / Fountain Of Youth
Season 2, episode 21 W: Skip Webster, William Douglas Lansford D: George McCowan With Dennis Cole (Captain Jeff Bailey), Eleanor Parker (Peggy Atwood), Craig Stevens (Charles Atwood), Mary Louise Weller (Tina Mason), Guy Madison (Brick Howard), Lew Ayres (J.D. Pettigrew), Lou Frizzell (Willie Tucker), Eddie Little Sky (Chief), Rick Flores (Sato), Bob K. Cummings (Tama), Bert Santos (Priest). A troubled married couple hopes to recapture the period when they fell in love; a soldier of fortune tries to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/17/1979)
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| [NBC 10:00] Sword Of Justice [Reg]: Port of Entry
Season 1, episode 7 W: Christopher Crowe D: Winrich Kolbe With William Prince (Rutherford), Richard McKenzie (Berardi), Robert Hogan (Moseley), Trish Stewart (Maureen), David Buchanan (Nelson). Jack Cole, wounded by a policeman's bullet while trying to smash a dope-smuggling ring, relies on Hector to avenge the slaying of an honest cop. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/24/1978)
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