Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday October 13, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: Lifeguard (1976)
W: Ron Koslow D: Daniel Petrie With Sam Elliott, Ann Archer, Parker Stevenson, Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Young, Lenka Peterson, George D. Wallace, Beatrice Colen. Character study of an aging lifeguard at a critical turning point in his life.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Ropers [Reg]: Two For The Road
Season 2, episode 5 W: Wayne Kline, Joseph Staretski, Martin Rips D: Jack Shea With Dick Christie (Officer Hibbs), Fred Pinkard (Desk Sergeant), Alan Koss (Officer Slade), Art Koustik (Bartender). Stanley and Jeffrey, driven to the same bar by marital tiffs, begin a friendship that ends shortly afterwards in jail.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Death Watch
Season 3, episode 5 W: Larry Alexander D: Barry Crane With Melinda Dillon, Gwen Humble (Cheryl). The death of a fellow officer following a hit-and-run chase puts Jon and Ponch on the trail of a stunt driver who is instigating auto accidents.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: The Jewel Heist
Season 2, episode 5 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Bob Lahendro With Alan Manson (Torgeson), Bibi Osterwald (Dr. Dressler), Arthur Adams (Dr. Brigham). After the class accidentally steals a briefcase full of cash, Charlene is forced to use all her powers of seduction to distract the victim.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Gopher's Greatest Hits / The Vacation / One Rose A Day
Season 3, episode 5 W: Lee Aronsohn, Henry Colman, Ann Gibbs, Joel Kimmel D: Alan Rafkin With Don Ameche (Henry Dobson), Joanna Cassidy (Joan Horner), Conrad Janis (Byron Horner), Martha Scott (Janet Latham), Jaye P. Morgan (Olivia Brinkley), Patty Davis (Woman), Andrew Masset (Roger). A widow is wooed by the florist who delivered roses from her late husband; Gopher substitutes for an absentee singer; two sisters and a tag-along husband embark on their annual cruise.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Cain's Cruiser
Season 2, episode 3 W: Robert McCullough D: Christian I. Nyby II With Erin Gray (Dr. Evans), Vernon Weddle (Delwood P. Manners), J.D. Cannon (Gorley), Joshua Shelley, Janet Julian (Tommie), Ed Lauter (Sheriff Cain), Otto Felix (Deputy Higgins), Tim O'Keefe (Officer), Wyatt Johnson (Cooper), Lee Paul. Sheriff Cain decides that the best way to pay for his expensive new police cruiser is to arrest B.J. and fine him for transporting illegal aliens through the county.
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| [CBS 10:00] Paris [Reg]: Pawn
Season 1, episode 3 W: Edward DeBlasio D: Georg Stanford Brown With Joan Darling (Laura DeSantis), Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Perth), Stephen Pearlman (Deputy D.A.), David James Carroll (Donald Perth), Wendy Phillips (Dina Novotny). A series of rapes ending in savage murders incites the newspapers and an angry female politician to demand immediate action by the police.
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| [ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Death In The Slow Lane
Season 1, episode 5 W: Donald Ross, David Solomon D: Sam Wanamaker With Jeremy Brett (Mason Parks), Andra Akers (Louisa Clement), Murray Matheson (Martin Hyde-Jones), John Chappell (Larry Dobson), James Booth (Mallicent), Jack Rader (Marsden). Jonathan, Jennifer and their antique car become the target of another couple who will stop at nothing to get the auto.
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| [NBC 10:00] A Man Called Sloane [Reg]: Masquerade Of Terror
Season 1, episode 4 W: B.W. Sandefur D: Michael Preece With Richard Lynch (Jeremy Mason), LaVelda Fann (Linda), Len Birman (Forbes), Martin Cassidy (Blake), Tiiu Leek, John Dullaghan, Herb Armstrong. Sloane tangles with an old enemy who has been hired to steal a top-secret laser satellite weapon to be used against Sloane and his agency.
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