Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 4, 1979:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Waltons: The Diploma		Hawaii Five-O: A Lion In The Streets
ABC	Laverne & Shirley: Upstairs, Downstairs	Benson: Benson In Love	Barney Miller: The Brother	Soap: Episode 52	20/20
NBC	Buck Rogers In The 25th Century: Vegas In Space		Quincy, M.E.: By The Death Of A Child		Operating Room

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Diploma
Season 8, episode 2
W: Kathleen Hite D: Gwen Arner
With Rick Slyter (Sam), Tamar Howard (Lady), Leon Fricke (Lieutenant Eller), Madeleine Taylor Holmes (Grandma Floyd), Les Lannom (Sweet Billy), Lane Bradbury (Ronie Cotter). John tries to get his high school diploma while Mary Ellen encounters hostility from her backwoods parents.

[ABC 8:00] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Upstairs, Downstairs
Season 5, episode 4
W: Al Aidekman D: Joel Zwick
With Dick Shawn (Man). Laverne dreams of a hereafter in which she and Shirley, at the mercy of Lenny and Sqiggy, are sentenced to toast marshmallows forever.

[NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Vegas In Space
Season 1, episode 4
W: Anne Collins D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With Richard Lynch (Velosi), Ana Alicia (Falina), Juanin Clay (Marla Landers), Pamela Susan Shoop (Tangie), James Luisi (Hood), Cesar Romero (Armat), Joseph Wiseman (Morphus), Alice Frost (Rita). Buck races to an orbiting gambling paradise to rescue a kidnapped girl.

[ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Benson In Love
Season 1, episode 4
W: Bob Colleary D: Peter Baldwin
With Beverly Todd (Senator Francine Wade). Benson falls madly in love with a lady politician.

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: A Lion In The Streets
Season 12, episode 1
W: Robert Janes D: Reza Badiyi
With Harry Guardino (Johnny Mio), Ross Martin (Tony Alika), Ed Fernandez (Sam Limahelu), Bill Valentine (Benny), Jack Hisatake (Napali), Jerry Boyd (Billy Swan), Paul L. Smith (Andy Kamoku), Barbara Luna (Elena Kamoku), Paul Martin (Moki Kalii), Jahan Byrne (Andy Jr.), Varoa Tiki (Marge), Don Rockwell (Detective), Peter Kalua (Santos), Colin De Silva (Judge DeSilva), Ross Borden (District Attorney), Howard Kaohi (Reverend Akea). Season premiere. Against McGarrett's objections, a Hawaiian labor union goes on a vendetta against the underworld figures who are trying to take them over.

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Brother
Season 6, episode 4
W: Wally Dalton, Shelley Zellman D: Noam Pitlik
With John Christy Ewing (Brother Thomas Kelvin), Elise Caitlin (Denise Strauss), Gary Imhoff (Joseph Hutton). Dietrich, dressed as a woman, goes out on mugging detail while Wojo searches for a man who vanished en route to taking his final vows as a monk.

[NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: By The Death Of A Child
Season 5, episode 3
W: Robert Crais D: Alan Cooke
With Ina Balin (Dr. Pinaera), Robert Loggia (Prime Minister Harland Deville), David Opatoshu (Boutillier), Carmen Argenziano (Carvet), Jay Varela (Dominguez), William Bassett (Harris), Richard Eastham (Baine), Arthur Rosenberg (Alan Ross), Peter Brocco (Advisor). Quincy sets out for a small Latin American island to determine whether a serum made in the United States is responsible for the deaths of several young children.

[ABC 9:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 52
Season 3, episode 5
W: Susan Harris, Stu Silver D: Jay Sandrich
With Marla Pennington (Leslie Walker), Jack Gilford (Saul), Peggy Pope (Mrs. David), Candy Azzara (Millie). Billy makes a date with his teacher; Burt and Saul return to the spacecraft; Jodie becomes a single parent.

[ABC 10:00] 20/20 An interview with Frank Sinatra in Egypt; the U.S.-U.S.S.R race in developing bugging devices.

[NBC 10:00] Operating Room [special]