Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 18, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Tanner's Bird
Season 1, episode 5 W: Tom Moore, Jeremy Stevens D: William Asher With Kit McDonough (Dillman). Buttermaker faces a serious emotional crisis when his broken-down racehorse sits on Tanner's pet parakeet. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/28/1979)
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| [ABC 8:00] Carol Burnett & Company [Reg]
Season 1, episode 1 With Cheryl Ladd. Summer series starring Carol Burnett, with featured performers Vicki Lawrence, Kenneth Mars and Craig Richard Nelson presenting an hour of comedy, music and variety.
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| [NBC 8:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Odyssey Of The Shady Truth
Season 1, episode 1 W: Kenneth Realman, Michael Sloan D: Christian I. Nyby II With Mills Watson (Deputy Perkins), Randi Oakes (Lisa), Jo Ann Harris (Barbara Sue), Claude Akins (Sheriff Lobo), Bill Williams (Seth McClellan), William Bryant (Willie), Susan Buckner (Renee). Series premiere. An unscrupulous sheriff, seeking revenge on trucker B.J. McKay, arrests him for hauling "white lightning". Stars Greg Evigan, Claude Akins. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/10/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] Movie: Logan's Run (1976)
W: David Zelag Goodman D: Michael Anderson With Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Michael Anderson Jr., Peter Ustinov. In the future, young residents enjoy an idyllic, hedonistic lifestyle within the protective confines of a domed city. The general belief is that when each person turns 30, they are reincarnated for another blissful life cycle. Those who know the much darker truth become "runners" and flee to a hidden sanctuary.
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| [ABC 9:00] Preseason Football
Houston Oilers at Dallas Cowboys
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| [NBC 9:30] Movie: Stunts (1977)
W: Dennis Johnson, Barney Cohen D: Mark Lester With Robert Forster, Joanna Cassidy, Ray Sharkey, Fiona Lewis, James Luisi, Malachi Throne, Bruce Glover, Candice Rialson. After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
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