Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 28, 1979:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Incredible Hulk: Brain Child (R)		The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Rustlers (R)		American Dream, American Nightmare: The Seventies, Part 1
ABC	Nobody's Children		Gator Bowl
NBC	Shirley: Visions Of Christmas Past				Joe's World: The Initiation

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Comedy

Program details:

[CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Brain Child
Season 3, episode 3
W: Nicholas Corea D: Reza Badiyi
With Robin Dearden (Joleen Collins), Joseph Mascolo (Mr. Arnold), Henry Rowland (Dr. Bruno), June Allyson (Dr. Kate Lowell), Tonyo Melendez (Ramon Alvarez), Madeleine Taylor Holmes (La Bruja), Fred Carney (Mr. Sweeney), Jonathan Williams (Federal Agent), Lynn Carlin (Elizabeth Collins). Banner is accused of kidnapping when he tries to reunite a gifted teenager with the mother who abandoned her. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1979)

[ABC 8:00] Nobody's Children Brit Hume examines the foster care system in America, revealing scandalous abuses and widespread lack of supervision.

[NBC 8:00] Shirley [Reg]: Visions Of Christmas Past
Season 1, episode 9
W: Lance Madrid III D: Robert Birnbaum
With Peter Haskell (Jake Miller). The holiday season rekindles for Shirley memories of her late husband, after she sets out in a snowstorm to buy a Christmas tree for the family.

[CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: The Rustlers
Season 2, episode 3
W: Stephen Kandel D: Richard Moder
With Mel Tillis (Burl Tolliver), Dorothy Collier (Sherri Tolliver), Brett Halsey (Dunlap), Michael MacRae (Cowan), Sam Edwards (Track Steward), Rick Hurst (Cletus). Bo and Luke get arrested for rustling twice in one day when they try to help a neighbor win a horse race. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1979)

[ABC 9:00] Gator Bowl Michigan vs. North Carolina, live from Jacksonville, Florida.

[CBS 10:00] American Dream, American Nightmare: The Seventies, Part 1 Harry Reasoner assesses the national character and temperment of the seventies, focusing on the roles of the major events of Watergate, the war in southeast Asia and the Bicentennial celebration.

[NBC 10:00] Joe's World [Reg]: The Initiation
Season 1, episode 1
W: Larry Rhine, Mel Tolkin D: Herbert Kenwith Series debut. Joe Wabash, a housepainter, pressures his eldest son Steve to follow in his footsteps, but Steve is balking at the idea of joining the painters' union.