Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 25, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Fielder's Choice
Season 1, episode 12 W: Jeff Franklin D: William Asher Coach Buttermaker's dream of a championship playoff for the Bears depends on his ability to change Lupus' negative self-image. (Repeat program, originally aired 6/16/1979)
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| [ABC 8:00] Carol Burnett & Company [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2 With Alan Arkin.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Rally 'Round The Bank
Season 2, episode 18 W: Lee H. Grant D: Barry Crane With Linda McCullough (Janice), Ron Hajek (Richard Moore), Denise Dubarry (Sue), Gloria Delaney (Pam Benson), K.C. Winkler (Marie Stockwood), Karen Specht (Jessica Bond), Markie Post (Roberta), Anna Navarro (Mrs. Poncherello), Frank Ashmore (Larry Fletcher). Jon and Ponch search for two bank robbers who mysteriously disappear before they can be captured. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] The 416th [special]
Comedy pilot starring Richard Lewis. A bureaucratic blunder creates a purposeless but hilarious Army unit composed of a talent agent, a mechanic, a college dropout and an accountant.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Rio Lobo (1970)
W: Burton Wohl, Leigh Brackett D: Howard Hawks With John Wayne, Christopher Mitchum, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Victor French, Jorge Rivero, Mike Henry. After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.
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| [ABC 9:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Hart To Hart
Season 1, episode 1 W: Tom Mankiewicz D: Tom Mankiewicz With Michael Lerner (Poker Player), Art Kassul (Artie), Roddy McDowall (Dr. Peterson), Paul Napier (Sam Roberts), Clifton James (Highway Cop), Tara Buckman (Sandy), Lina Raymond (Jane), Jill St. John (Sylvia Maxwell), James Noble (Dr. Metz), George Skaff (Arab Sheik), Lee Bryant (Dorothy Roberts), Eugene Roche (Business Manager). Series premiere. A man and a woman, who are unknown to one another, arrive at an exclusive health spa to investigate the mysterious death of a mutual friend.
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| [NBC 9:00] NFL Football
Pittsburgh Steelers at Dallas Cowboys.
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