Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 8, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Dorothy [Reg]: Hard Hearted Hamlet
Season 1, episode 1 W: Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll Jr. D: John Rich Series premiere. A lively music and drama teacher (Dorothy Loudon) takes a job at a stuffy and exclusive girls' school. In the first episode, Dorothy faces being fired unless she can teach a bored, streetwise student to appreciate Shakespeare.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Horror Story
Season 3, episode 19 W: Chris Manheim, Patricia Green D: Irving J. Moore With Larry Gelman (Officer Bernstein), Peter Bromilow (Andrew Silver), Earl Montgomery (Mr. Alfred), Jim Stathis (Officer Cute), Michael Thoma (Dr. Maxwell), Daniel Selby (Brian), Larry Gilman (Norman). The Bradford children let a power failure and their imaginations turn their home into a haunted house. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
Segments include a nightclub for male strippers; the Ugly League; two people who claim there are aliens on Earth; and unique inventions.
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| [CBS 8:30] Hanging In [Reg]: New Man On Campus
Season 1, episode 1 W: Charlie Hauck, William Davenport, Arthur Julian D: Alan Rafkin Series premiere. Louis Harper, a former football hero, becomes the president of a college where he finds that his inherited staff has its own ideas about university politics and the way things should be run. Stars Bill Macy, Barbara Rhoades.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Killer Elite (1975)
W: Stirling Silliphant, Marc Norman D: Sam Peckinpah With James Caan, Robert Duvall, Arthur Hill, Bo Hopkins, Mako, Burt Young, Gig Young, Tom Clancy. Mike Locke, who works for a private security firm affiliated with the CIA, is betrayed by his partner and left apparently crippled for life.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Angels In Chains
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert Earll D: Phil Bondelli With Robert P. Lieb (Doctor), Terry Green (Elizabeth Hunter), David Huddleston (Sheriff Clint), Anthony James (Karl Stern), Christina Hart (Billie), Mary Woronov (Maxine), Kim Basinger (Linda Oliver), Neva Patterson (Warden Sorenson), Brooke Tucker (Fran), Brian Cutler (Deputy Winston). The Angels go undercover as inmates in a women's prison farm to investigate a corrupt warden who is using the prisoners in his schemes. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/20/1976)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
W: John Carpenter D: John Carpenter With Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Charles Cyphers. A distaff TV news director is the target of harrassment by an unknown tormentor.
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: Best Friends
Season 1, episode 16 W: Robert Earll D: Don Chaffey With Abbe Lane (Elizabeth Kyle), John Rubinstein (Vance Gilroy), Harold J. Stone (Mr. Hunter), Ned Glass (Erwin Levy), Margolyn Curtis (Aludra), Victoria Ann Berry (Hooker). A boyhood friend of Dan's returns to Las Vegas with orders to kill Dan and Roth. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/7/1979)
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