Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 27, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bruce Paltrow D: Jackie Cooper With Gerry Black (Store Manager), Marilyn Coleman (Mrs. Hayward), Bethel Leslie (Mrs. Lawrence), Al Stellone (Policeman), Jonathan Ian (Jackie Hayward), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue). Series premiere. Ken Reeves, a former pro basketball player, takes over as coach at a racially mixed high school. In the first episode, a player who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless, may have to drop out of school to go to work. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/27/1978)
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| [ABC 8:00] Monday Night Baseball
Houston Astros at Montreal Expos.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Lake Kezia Monster
Season 5, episode 19 W: John T. Dugan D: Michael Landon With Hermione Baddeley (Kezia), John Miranda (Flint). The children set out to create a "monster" to scare Mrs. Oleson from foreclosing on an elderly woman's home. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/12/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Party
Season 7, episode 25 W: Burt Metcalfe, Alan Alda D: Burt Metcalfe With Burt Metcalfe (Driver). B.J. carries plans for a postwar reunion one step further and promotes a present-day, stateside gathering of 4077th families. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: To Kill A Cop (1978), part one
W: Ernest Tidyman D: Gary Nelson With Joe Don Baker, Alan Oppenheimer, Joyce Van Patten, George DiCenzo, Desi Arnaz Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Robert Hooks, Ken Swofford, Patrick O'Neal, Scott Brady, Roosevelt Grier, Diana Muldaur, Christine Belford. Police action drama dealing with a maverick chief of detectives with two cop killings and a rash of bank robberies on his hands, who is forced to wage war against a back-stabbing police commissioner with political ambitions and a black revolutionary leader plotting a police massacre. Pilot movie for the Eischied series.
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| [CBS 9:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Goodbye, Johnny (1)
Season 1, episode 13 W: Blake Hunter D: Asaad Kelada With Janet Meshad (Waitress), Edie McClurg (Lucille Tarlek). Dr. Johnny Fever is offered a job in California at three times his present salary, but Arthur Carlson comes up with a sneaky plan to dissuade Johnny from taking the job. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/19/1979)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Home
Season 2, episode 19 W: Gary David Goldberg D: Alexander Singer With Jack Gilford (Fred Horton), Ed Grover (John Berrtram), Patricia Smith (Dr. Kalman), Lee Kessler (Leslie), Jessamine Milner (Mrs. Keaton). Billie and Lou become involved in an expose of shoddy nursing home practices. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/26/1979)
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