Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 9, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] U.S. Open Tennis
Live coverage of the finals of the U.S. Open Tennis Championships from Flushing Meadow Park.
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| [ABC 7:00] Out Of The Blue [Reg]: Random's Arrival
Season 1, episode 1 With Robin Williams (Mork), Basil Hoffman (Herman Donaldson). Series premiere. An angel named Random is assigned to help a harried aunt cope with her four orphaned nieces and nephews. Stars Dixie Carter.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Absent-Minded Professor (1)
Season 26, episode 1 W: Bill Walsh D: Robert Stevenson With Fred MacMurray (Professor Brainard), Nancy Olson (Betsy), Keenan Wynn (Alonzo Hawk). A college science teacher accidentally discovers a substance that defies gravity, and uses it to make a flying car.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Season 1, episode 18 W: April Kelly D: Jeff Chambers With Don Galloway (FBI Man), Susan Lawrence (Sally), Will Porter (Sleazy). Mork innocently arranges to buy a baby for $10,000 as a surprise for Mindy. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/15/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: The Ghost Of Flight 401 (1978)
W: Robert M. Young D: Steven Hilliard Stern With Ernest Borgnine, Gary Lockwood, Kim Basinger, Tina Chen, Howard Hesseman, Alan Oppenheimer, Carol Rossen, Byron Morrow, Russell Johnson. An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft, and passengers on those flights report seeing ghosts.
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| [ABC 8:30] Emmy Awards [special]
Cheryl Ladd and Henry Winkler host the 31st edition of the annual awards presentation honoring excellence in the television industry.
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| [CBS 9:00] 60 Minutes
Corruption in a federally-funded poverty agency, solar power, and the Thornwall case (where an Army private was given LSD without his knowledge) are explored.
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| [CBS 10:00] All In The Family [Reg]: The Return Of Stephanie's Father
Season 9, episode 23 W: Larry Rhine, Mel Tolkin D: Paul Bogart With Victor Kilian (Clerk), Hugh McPhillips (Derelict), Charles Wagenheim (Bum), Rick Plastina (Seaman), Ben Slack (Floyd Mills). Stephanie's derelict father returns and uses blackmail to try to get his daughter back. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/25/1979)
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| [NBC 10:00] Prime Time Sunday
A profile of former cowboy star Gene Autry and his vast financial empire.
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