Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 17, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Body Human: The Sexes [special]
(Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] World Series Baseball
Pittsburgh Pirates at Baltimore Orioles in game 7.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
The 25th anniversary of Playboy magazine; Byron Allen becomes the target of a knife thrower; a reunion in a ghost town in Contact, Nev.; a visit to the annual hollering contest in Spivey Corner, N.C.; a sky diving demonstration in San Bernardino, Calif. and a visit to a convention of Edsel owners.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Concrete Cowboys (1979)
W: Jimmy Sangster D: Burt Kennedy With Jerry Reed, Tom Selleck, Morgan Fairchild, Claude Akins, Gene Evans, Red West, Lucille Benson, Randy Powell. Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville and open up a detective agency, where they become involved in a hunt for a kidnapped singer. Pilot film for the 1981 series.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Better Late Than Never (1979)
W: John Carpenter, Greg Strangis D: Richard Crenna With Harold Gould, Strother Martin, Tyne Daly, Harry Morgan, Victor Buono, George Gobel, Jeanette Nolan, Donald Pleasence, Larry Storch, Lou Jacobi, Joyce Bulifant, Marjorie Bennett. A feisty senior citizen refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home, and leads a revolt.
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