Prime-time network TV listings for Friday November 23, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] TV Movie: Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979), part oe
W: Wilton Schiller, Patricia Payne D: Ivan Nagy With Reb Brown, Connie Selleca, Christopher Lee, Katherine Justice, Len Birman, Lana Wood. The star spangled hero must battle a villain's plan to poison America with a chemical that horrifically accelerates the aging process.
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| [ABC 8:00] Movie: Birth Of The Beatles (1979)
W: John Kurland, Jacob Eskendar D: Richard Marquand With Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman, Ray Ashcroft, Ryan Michael. An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.
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| [NBC 8:00] Shirley [Reg]: Things Your Mother Forgot To Tell You
Season 1, episode 4 W: Greg Strangis, Gwen Bagni, Pavel Dubov D: Mel Ferber
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: Granny Annie
Season 2, episode 10 W: Bruce Howard D: Dick Moder With Lurene Tuttle (Granny Annie Coggins), Mickey Jones (B.B. Davenport), George Murdock (Big Jim Downey), George James (Vic), Pamela Bryant (Holly Mae), The Oak Ridge Boys. Eccentric local artist Granny Annie pays Bo and Luke for some chores with funny money, and when Boss Hogg learns that there is a counterfeiter in Hazzard he schemes to get possession of the engraving plates.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Hawaiian Headache
Season 6, episode 8 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: William Wiard With W.K. Stratton (Dwight Whipple), Ken Swofford (Colonel 'Howling Mad' Smith), James Murtaugh (Agent Lyle), Christopher Cary (Dutch Ingram), Danny Kamekona (Sgt. Okamoto), Jimmy Borges (Marshal Mingus), Esmond Chung (Shawn Kimotto), Jake Hoopai (Benny Kimotto), Julie Blisett (Mrs. Ingram), Jack Garner (Capt. McEnroe), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). Jim and his father win a Hawaiian vacation, where Rockford is dragooned into a "routine" intelligence errand by his old Army commander, "Howling Mad" Smith.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: The Heiress
Season 3, episode 11 W: Loraine Despres D: Leslie H. Martinson With Jeff Cooper (Dr. Simon Elby), George Petrie (Harve Smithfield), Karlene Crockett (Muriel Gillis), Joan Lancaster (Linda Bradley), Laura Johnson (Betty Lou), Walker Edmiston (Roy Tate). Alan uses Lucy to further his ambitions after he stages a fight in which he impresses her by standing up to J.R.
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| [ABC 10:00] Playboy Roller-Disco Pajama Party [special]
With Chuck Mangione, The Village People. Richard Dawson and Hugh Hefner host.
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| [NBC 10:00] Eischied [Reg]: The Dancer
Season 1, episode 7 W: Sean Baine D: Harvey Laidman With Christopher Connelly (Jimmy), Bibi Besch, Jonathan Lippe, Howard Honig (Psychologist), Michael Pataki, Penelope Willis. Eischied's investigation into a politician's death is hampered by the deceased's family, and by the police brass who want to bury the fact that he died while entertaining his mistress.
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