Sunday October 28, 1979
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday October 28, 1979:


7:00 PM 7:30 PM 8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS 60 Minutes Archie Bunker's Place: Building The Restaurant One Day At A Time: Home Again, Home Again Alice: Flo's Chili Reception The Jeffersons: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2) Trapper John, M.D.: The Shattered Image
ABC Halloween Is Grinch Night (R) The Halloween That Almost Wasn't Mork & Mindy: A Morkville Horror The Associates: Eliot's Deadly Serve TV Movie: Disaster On The Coastliner (1979)
NBC Wonderful World Of Disney: Gus, The Pigskin Mule (2) (R) Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)


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[CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes The marijuana-smoking Coptic Church of Miami; a profile of the founder of Mary Kay cosmetics; a look at the Great Depression.

[ABC 7:00] Halloween Is Grinch Night [special]
W: Dr. Seuss   D: Gerard Baldwin

With Hans Conried, Hal Smith, Irene Tedrow, Jack DeLeon, Henry Gibson, Gary Shapiro. A small boy is blown away from Whoville and finds himself face-to-face with the dreaded Grinch in this Dr. Seuss holiday feature.
(Repeat program)

[NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: Gus, The Pigskin Mule (2)
W: Don Nelson, Arthur Alsberg   D: Vincent McEveety

With Edward Asner, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Gary Grimes, Dick Van Patten, Ronnie Schell, Bob Crane, Louise Williams, Harold Gould, Tom Bosley, Titos Vandis, Liam Dunn, Dick Butkus, Johnny Unitas. A Yugoslavian mule, hired by a losing football coach, helps the team begin a remarkable winning streak.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] The Halloween That Almost Wasn't [special]
W: Coleman Jacoby   D: Bruce Bilson

With Mariette Hartley, Judd Hirsch, Henry Gibson, Jack Riley, John Schuck. The Halloween Witch refuses to fly and may cause the annual holiday of spooks and goblins to be cancelled.

[CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Building The Restaurant
Season 1, episode 7
W: Bill Larkin, Jerry Ross   D: Bob Lahendro

With Danny Dayton (Hank Pivnik), Jack Carter (Louie the Loan Shark), Andy Garcia (Hay-Soos), Ron Feinberg (Swenson), Mike Robelo (Morales). Archie finally begins work on the restaurant addition to his bar, only to have construction halted by a shortage of money.

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: A Morkville Horror
Season 2, episode 7
W: Tom Tenowich, Ed Scharlach   D: Howard Storm
On the eve of Halloween, spooky spirits from Mindy's past invade the apartment, causing furniture to topple and rooms to change color.

[NBC 8:00] Movie: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
W: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman   D: Milos Forman

With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito, Scatman Crothers, Sydney Lassick, Marya Small, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif. Upon admittance to a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive head nurse, a woman he views as more dictator than nurse.

[CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Home Again, Home Again
Season 5, episode 5
W: Bud Wiser   D: Alan Rafkin
Newlyweds Julie and Max return from their honeymoon to an apartment they can't afford because Max has been laid off from his job.

[ABC 8:30] The Associates [Reg]: Eliot's Deadly Serve
Season 1, episode 6
W: John Steven Owen   D: Tony Mordente

With William Prince (Mr. Milestone), Maxine Stuart (Mrs. Milestone). Elliot decides to risk his career and take on the firm's powerful new senior partner in a game of racquetball.

[CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Flo's Chili Reception
Season 4, episode 5
W: Arthur Marx, Robert Fisher   D: Marc Daniels

With Michael Alldredge (Ralph), Ted Gehring (Charlie), Richard B. Shull (Barney), Med Flory (Brad), Claude Stroud (Happy Schuster). When Mel insinuates that his top competitor asked Flo out only to get Mel's secret chili recipe, Flo gets mad and quits.

[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Disaster On The Coastliner (1979)
W: David Ambrose   D: Richard Sarafian

With Lloyd Bridges, William Shatner, Raymond Burr, E.G. Marshall, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle. A vengeful employee of a computer-controlled railway arranges a head-on collision of passenger trains. Can it be stopped?

[CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2)
Season 6, episode 5
W: Peter Casey, David Lee   D: Bob Lally

With Danny Wells (Charlie), Patrick Collins (Killer Rabbit), Charles Walker (Policeman Rabbit), Billy Stevenson (Roger), Mimi Cozzens (Mother), Neal Kaz (Sultan). While in the apartment, Louise is cornered by the "killer rabbit".

[CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: The Shattered Image
Season 1, episode 5
W: Shimon Wincelberg   D: Corey Allen

With Patricia Smith (Alma), Celeste Holm (Claudia), Shelley Long (Lauren), Christian Juttner (Teenage Boy), Maxine Stuart (Ms. Langley), Paul Sorensen (Security Guard). A seemingly confident socialite who is confronting a serious injury proves to be frightened and lonely; a competent nurse turns out to have a prison record.

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