Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 14, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Sunday Morning Tonight [special]
A compilation of stories from the Sunday news program, hosted by Charles Kuralt. Deng Xiao Ping's February visit to America; fighting the Mississippi floods of April; school for violin-makers; the musical "Sweeney Todd".
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Chachi's Incredo-Wax
Season 6, episode 26 W: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco D: Jerry Paris With Al Alu (Becket), Diana Markworth (Leilani). A smooth talker who conned Chachi into selling a phony product soon finds himself dealing with Chachi's upset uncle, Fonzie. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/8/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Runaways [Reg]: Street Of Terror (2)
Season 2, episode 11 With Barry Sullivan, Lynette Mettey (Barbara Mardsen), Mary Jackson (Martha Hendrix), Roy Poole (Bill Hawkins), Kario Salem (Henry Lewis), Milton Selzer (Benson), Aneta Corsaut (Shirley Grady). An elderly man's use of vigilante tactics to clear the juvenile hoods out of his neighborhood triggers further problems.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: Lucy In The Sky With Pizza
Season 1, episode 3 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff With Michael Baseleon (Fargis), Kenneth White (Ox), John C. Becher (Frankie). Nick and his class at detective school use a pizza factory as a front to catch a jewel thief.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: . . .And Millions Die! (1973)
W: Mende Brown, Michael Fisher D: Leslie H. Martinson With Richard Basehart, Susan Strasberg, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Summer, Joseph Furst. A Nazi war criminal living in Hong Kong provides terrorists them with a lethal gas.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Triangle Troubles
Season 3, episode 22 W: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn D: Dave Powers With Peter Mark Richman (Rev. Snow), Barrie Youngfellow (Debbie), Terence Goodman (Roger), Robert Machray (Doug), Alan McRae (Phil), Daniel Trent (Elliot). Jack falls for an old-fashioned girl, unaware that she is not quite so conservative as she appears to be. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/15/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Return To Macon County (1975)
W: Richard Compton D: Richard Compton With Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Robin Mattson. A race car driver encounters hostility traveling through rural America.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Substitute Father
Season 1, episode 22 W: Barry Kemp D: James Burrows With Carl Byrd (Crista's father), Tan Adams (Crista), David Knapp (Moderator), Michael Herschewe (Jason Nardo), Suzanne Carney (Marilu Hartman). The cabbies reluctanly agree to babysit for Elaine's young son while she is temporarily out of town. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/15/1979)
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: The Groupie
Season 4, episode 10 W: Robert Dellinger D: Nicholas Colasanto With Caren Kaye (Melinda Rogers), John Ashton (Roy Sears), David Knapp (Bill Walters), Arthur Roberts (Agent Ohlin), Marianne Bunch (Barbara Wilson), Gerald Hiken (Mr. Marks), Robert Loggia (Jack Parker / Tony Zucker). When investigating organized crime in the high fashion world, Starsky and Hutch encounter a beautiful model who collects cops as trophies. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/28/1978)
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