Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 15, 1979:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Working Stiffs [Reg]: The Preview Presentation
Season 1, episode 1 W: Marc Sotkin D: Penny Marshall Brothers Ernie and Mike O'Rourke,. trying to make their fortune, accept jobs as janitors in their uncle's office building.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Ropers [Reg]: The Party
Season 2, episode 1 W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea With John Ritter (Jack Tripper), Joyce DeWitt (Janet Wood), Suzanne Somers (Chrissy Snow). A prudish new neighbor of the Ropers suspects the worst when he sees Janet and Chrissy giving Stanley disco lessons.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Bio-Rhythms
Season 2, episode 19 W: James Schmerer D: Don Weis With Michael Baseleon (Murray Thomas), Georgia Schmidt (Elderly Woman), Jeff Maxwell (Motorist), Bruce Kimball (Rocky), Katherine Cannon (Robbie Davis), Tige Andrews (Charlie Davis), Steve Brodie (Sam), Michael Conrad (Karl Maddox). A trucking company tries to put two independent truckers, who are friends with Ponch and Jon, out of business. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/17/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Run Down
Season 2, episode 1 W: Jeffrey Ganz, Bryan Levant D: Jeffrey Ganz With Johnny Bench (Himself), Larry Anderson (Groom), Howard Honig (Warren). The Bears challenge Coach Buttermaker to prove his claim that he knows famed catcher Johnny Bench by producing the baseball star in person for them.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: Hooray For Bulgaria
Season 2, episode 1 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Ralph Levy With Lonnie Ackerman (Mariskaya), Jan Ivan Dorin (Mikailokovich), Henry Polic II (Zarkov), Marianne McAndrew (Gruschenka). Season premiere. Nick uses his detective students to help him infiltrate a foreign embassy to rescue a kidnapped young man.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Paradise Connection (1979)
W: Brigitt Christiansen, Jon Christiansen D: Michael Preece With Buddy Ebsen, Brian Kerwin, Marj Dusay, Bonnie Ebsen, Paul Lambert, John Colicos, Zulu. A famous Chicago criminal lawyer arrives in Maui searching for his son, who has run away from a promising legal career and may be involved in drug smuggling.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Alaska Wedding Cruise
Season 3, episode 1 W: Lan O'Kun, Lee Aronsohn, Ben Joelson, Art Baer, Ray Jessel D: Roger Duchowny With Caren Kaye (Natalie), Donny Most (Marv Prine), Audra Lindley (Portia Fairchild), Mark Harmon (Doug Bradbury), Eleanor Parker (Alicia Bradbury), Ray Milland (Peter Bradbury), Lorne Greene (Buddy Bowers), Lisa Hartman (Carol Bowers), Tony Roberts (Jack Chenault), Robert Lussier (Rev. McGuffrey), Stephanie Steele (Nancy), Julia Duffy (Sandy). Julie falls in love and is contemplating marriage when the Pacific Princess is chartered for an extended cruise to Alaska.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Eiger Sanction (1975)
W: Hal Dresner, Warren Murphy, Rod Whitaker D: Clint Eastwood With Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott. A college professor who is really a professional assassin is assigned to discover who is stealing secret documents.
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