Prime-time network TV listings for Monday October 22, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz D: Bill Melendez With Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Kathy Steinberg. While the rest of the gang is collecting Halloween goodies, Linus takes up his yearly vigil in the "most sincere" pumpkin patch to await the arrival of the Great Pumpkin. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] 240-Robert [Reg]: Time Bomb
Season 1, episode 8 W: Patrick Mathews D: Christian I. Nyby II With Robert Dunlap (Irving), William Giorgio (Melvin), Rick Garcia (Lenny), Bob Corff (The Bomber), Don 'Red' Barry (Lion Tamer), Jay Varela (Lt. Vetter), Peter Tomarken (Director), Stephen Parr (Sgt. Wainwright), Greta Blackburn (Carmen), Ron Burke (Tommy). Morgan prepares to become the unit's first female sergeant, while Trap and Thib have only seconds to disarm a time bomb hidden aboard an oil tanker.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Preacher Takes A Wife
Season 6, episode 6 W: John T. Dugan D: Maury Dexter With Jon Lormer (Jeremy Tyler), Iris Korn (Anna (Mrs. Craig), William Schallert (Dean Harmon). Reverend Alden falls in love with a widow and proposes marriage -- and Mrs. Oleson tries to have him thrown out of his church.
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| [CBS 8:30] Fat Albert Halloween Special [special]
W: Bill Danch, Jim Ryan D: Hal Sutherland With Bill Cosby, Jan Crawford, Gerald Edwards, Eric Suter. Fat Albert and his friends plot their creepiest Halloween ever. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Period Of Adjustment
Season 8, episode 6 W: Jim Mulligan, John Rappaport D: Charles S. Dubin With Gwen Farrell (Nurse Able), Eileen Saki (Rosie), Jan Jorden (Nurse Baker). Radar's departure brings on pangs of homesickness to B.J., and complaints of inefficiency to Klinger, the new company clerk.
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| [ABC 9:00] Monday Night Football
Denver Broncos vs. Pittsburgh Steelers.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: And Baby Makes Six (1979)
W: Shelley List D: Waris Hussein With Colleen Dewhurst, Warren Oates, Timothy Hutton, Allyn Ann McLerie, Mason Adams, Maggie Cooper, Al Corley, Mildred Dunnock. A couple faces a dilemma when the 46-year-old wife unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She wants to have the baby, but her husband has plans for the future that do not involve raising another child.
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| [CBS 9:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Bad Risk
Season 2, episode 4 W: Gene Fournier, Tom Joachim D: Will Mackenzie With William Glover (J. Garrett Hopkins), Helena Carroll (Tiffany Hopkins). Just after Herb, who is moonlighting as an insurance salesman, sells Les a huge policy, Les becomes involved in a bizarre accident.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Frame-Up
Season 3, episode 5 W: Steve Kline D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Paul Kent (Councilman Naughton), Stephen McHattie (Curtis Folger), Wendy Phillips (Nell Wheeler), Edward Marshall (Supervisor), Bill Smillie (Shirley Hagen). Billie's story questioning the validity of a major company's clean-air standards opens the Trib to a costly lawsuit.
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