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Friday August 24, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 24, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Incredible Hulk: Like A Brother (R) Dallas: The Red File (1) (R)
ABC Fantasy Island: Charlie's Cherubs / Stalag 3 (R) World Cup Track & Field Championships
NBC Diff'rent Strokes: Mrs. Garrett's Crisis (R) The Facts Of Life: Rough Housing The Rockford Files: Heartaches Of A Fool (R) The Eddie Capra Mysteries: Breakout To Murder (R)
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[CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Like A Brother
Season 2, episode 14
W: Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas Szollosi   D: Reza Badiyi

With Elisabeth Chauvet (Mother), Dale Pullum (Bobby), Jesse Dizon (Jimmy), Rana Ford (Fantine), Stuart K. Robinson (Mike), Maidie Norman, Austin Stoker (Rev. Jack Williams), Carl Anderson (Oscar), Michael D. Roberts (D.J.), Ernie Hudson (Lee), Tony Burton (Taylor George).
David Banner gets caught in the middle when a dope dealer tries to silence a refoming preacher.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1979)

[ABC 8:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Charlie's Cherubs / Stalag 3
Season 2, episode 12
W: Skip Webster, Steve Fisher   D: Cliff Bole

With Nita Talbot (Lizzie Clarke), Yvonne DeCarlo (Fifi Aprea), Melinda Naud (Amber), Nehemiah Persoff (Horst Von Stern), Bobby Troup (Johnny Fox), Cornel Wilde (Danny Ryan), Brenda Benet (Ginny), Brendon Boone (Matthews), Bond Gideon (Claudia), Joe Mantell (Eddie Hodges), Ivor Barry (David Garner), Robert Gentry (Dick), Lanna Saunders (Joyce), Patti Pivaar (Cleo), Mike Nomand (Soldier).
Three beautiful secretaries want to be detectives like their heroines -- Charlie's Angels; four World War II veterans relive their days in a German prison camp.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/9/1978)

[NBC 8:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Mrs. Garrett's Crisis
Season 1, episode 17
W: Karyl Geld Miller   D: Herbert Kenwith

When Mrs. Garrett announces her plans to quit housekeeping and move on to something better, Mr. Drummond asks her to stay on as a guest.

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1979)

[NBC 8:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: Rough Housing
Season 1, episode 1
W: Brad Rider   D: Nick Havinga

With Conrad Bain (Phillip Drummond), Todd Bridges (Willis Jackson), Gary Coleman (Arnold Jackson), Dana Plato (Kimberly Drummond).
Series premiere. Mrs. Garrett, a lovable and comic housekeeper, becomes housemother to five girls at an exclusive finishing school.

[CBS 9:00] Dallas [Reg]: The Red File (1)
Season 2, episode 17
W: Arthur Bernard Lewis   D: Leonard Katzman

With Tina Louise (Julie Grey), Sandy Ward (Jeb Aames), John Ashton (Willie Joe Garr), John Petlock (Dan Marsh), James L. Brown (Sgt. McSween), Fred Beir (Ben Maxwell), Jordan Charney (Lt. Sutton), Michael Cavanaugh (O'Neill), Charles Wilder Young (Charlie Waters).
Julie Grey decides that J.R. is using her and repays him by spilling his secrets to Cliff Barnes.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1979)

[ABC 9:00] World Cup Track & Field Championships
Athletes from around the world compete in this three-day International Amateur Athletic Federation track and field meet. Live from Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

[NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Heartaches Of A Fool
Season 5, episode 1
W: Stephen J. Cannell   D: William Wiard

With Taylor Lacher (Charlie Strayhorn), Don 'Red' Barry (Shorty McCall), Leo Gordon (Clark Streeter), Norman Alden (Roland Eddy), Joe E. Tata (Norman Abbott Kline), James Shigeta (Clement Chin), Lynne Marta (Carrie Strayhorn), James Jeter (Sheriff Milburn), John Davey (Deputy Harnsworth), Mark Roberts (Hillman Stewart), Robert Phillips (Mike Torrance), Herb Armstrong (Union Official).
A country recording artist is double-crossed by his business manager, who has involved him with rival mobs in the Chinese-American underworld.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/22/1978)

[NBC 10:00] The Eddie Capra Mysteries [Reg]: Breakout To Murder
Season 1, episode 8

With Peter Brown, Anne Lockhart, James Whitmore Jr., Peter Donat, Sam Bottoms, Floyd Levine, Caryn Richman.
An unstable young girl is held responsible for an auto accident which caused the death of an escaped convict.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/1/1978)


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