Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 28, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: The Man Who Could Not Die
Season 3, episode 22 W: Anne Collins D: John Newland With John Durren (Dale Hawthorn), Robert Sampson (Dr. Akers), Bob Seagren (Bret Cassiday), John Aprea (Dupris), Hal Frederick (Professor), Brian Davies (Joseph Reichman), James Bond III (T. Burton Phipps III). Wonder Woman faces a superhuman fellow who can match her, wonder for wonder.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Mork Returns
Season 6, episode 24 W: Walter Kempley D: Jerry Paris With Lorrie Mahaffey (Jennifer), Robin Williams (Mork). Mork believes that Earthling life is making him crazy, and he goes back to 1950's Milwaukee and turns to Fonzie, Richie and the gang for help. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/6/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Runaways [Reg]: 48 Hours To Live
Season 2, episode 13 With Charles Siebert (Avery), Mark Wheeler (Harley Green), Kelly Ward (Johnny), Kath Soucie (Linda Page). Steve learns that a runaway teenager in desperate need of surgery has been picked up hitchhiking by a neurotic former mental patient. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 8:30] 240-Robert [Reg]: The Apology
Season 1, episode 1 W: John Furia Jr. D: Paul Krasny With Pamelyn Ferdin (Nikki), Karen Lamm (Donna), Christian Zika (Jimmy Kline), Janice Lynde (Mrs. Kline), Charles Lucia (Vince), Irene Tedrow (Fake Sissie), Merie Earle (Sissie), Yale Summers (Mr. Kline), Robert F. Hoy (Walter), Susan MacDonald (Sandy), Sandie Newton (Candy), Michael Toland (Phonenumber Fedderson), Joe Nicassio (Deputy Roverino), Steve Tannen (Kestenbaum), Thomas Babson (Terry). Series premiere. Members of a police rescue squad attempt to save victims of an ocean plane crash and a woman trapped on a mountain after a disastrous accident.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Breakheart Pass (1975)
W: Alistair MacLean D: Tom Gries With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter, Bill McKinney, David Huddleston, Roy Jenson, Rayford Barnes, Joe Kapp. A territorial governor, his female companion, a band of cavalrymen and a mysterious stranger are all trapped aboard a snowbound train, on which have occurred several inexplicable murders.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: To Kill A Cop (1978), part two
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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| [ABC 10:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Strange Bedfellows
Season 2, episode 4 W: Paul Wayne, George Burditt, Alan J. Levitt D: Bill Hobin With Karen Bercovici (Celise), Alan Koss (Ralph). Jack's disgruntled landlord storms upstairs loudly voicing his disapproval of Jack's rowdy get-together, but once inside he becomes the life of the party. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1977)
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| [ABC 10:30] Taxi [Reg]: Bobby's Acting Career
Season 1, episode 4 W: Ed Weinberger, Stan Daniels D: James Burrows With Taurean Blacque (Police Officer), Robert Phalen (Tom Jeffries), John Lehne (Hamlet's Owner). Bobby decides to give up his dramatic aspirations if he doesn't find an acting job by midnight. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1978)
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