Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 9, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Young Maverick [Reg]: Makin' Tracks
Season 1, episode 6 W: Norm Liebmann D: Ralph Senensky With Miriam Byrd-Nethery, John Hillerman (McBurney), Andrew Robinson (Sangree), Regis Cordic, Vernon Weddle, Victor Jory (Pony That Waits), Morgan Fairchild (Selene), Ray Tracey (Russell Two Eagles). Ben is hired by a railroad tycoon to be the one-man poker team in a match against an 80-year-old Indian chief.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: My Son, The Prom Queen
Season 4, episode 14 W: Bruce Shelly D: Irving J. Moore With Michael Goodrow (Ernie), James Karen (Elliott Randolph), Nicholas Pryor (Jeffrey Trout), Michael Griswold (Mr. Gillette), Colin Hamilton (Rankin Manheim), Amy Gibson (Charlotte), Heather Totten (Blythe), Lachelle Chamberlain (Anne), Tony O'Dell (Jeff), Brian Henskovitz (Scott), Kimberly Cameron (Cindy). When Tommy and Ernie's band is beaten out by an all-girl rock group to play for the senior prom, the guys plan a counterattack by nominating Tommy for prom queen.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
Camel racing in Virginia City, Nev.; a man who uses his body as a drum; a visit to a night club which features female impersonators; a talk with canoeist Joy Unright in Haines, Alaska, and a tour of a California factory where horseradish is produced.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Seizure: The Story Of Kathy Morris (1980)
W: Robet Lewin, Jack Willis, Mary Willis D: Gerald Isenberg With Leonard Nimoy, Penelope Milford, Christopher Allport, Fredric Lehne. The true-life story of a gifted music student struck down by a brain tumor, who struggles to overcome her impaired speech, eyesight and language abilities to resume her career.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Angel's Child
Season 4, episode 15 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Dennis Donnelly With Rick Casorla (Burke), Simon Oakland (Sgt. Shanks), Michael Whitney (Stone), Michael Hershewe (Greg Shanks), Michael Allen Harris (Joe Willow), John Zaremba (Judge Towers). Kelly and a young boy are taken hostage by desperate cop-killers who plan to use their prisoners as bait to lure the slain officer's partner into a death trap.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: The Election
Season 2, episode 13 W: Ed Jurist D: Gerren Keith With Nedra Volz (Adelaide Brubaker), David Sheehan (Roger Murdock), Charles Thomas Murphy (Jerry Fuller), Jesse Goins (Cameraman). Drummond puts his convictions on the line to run for city council, but ignores a sly politician's scheme to use Arnold, Willis and Kimberly to get votes.
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| [NBC 9:30] Live From Studio 8H [special]
Zubin Mehta conducts and soprano Leontyne Price and Itzhak Perlman perform with the New York Philharmonic in a tribute to the late maestro Arturo Toscanini.
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: Lost Monday
Season 2, episode 12 W: Martin Roth D: Phil Bondelli With Tige Andrews (Benson), Mary Ann Mobley (Paula Conway), Dick Sargent (Farley), Mary Louise Weller (Jamie Randall), Phil Morris (Calvin Tate), Garry Marshall (Dr. Middleton). Dan races against time when a hypnotist programs Binzer into a human bomb set to explode at the final buzzer of a basketball game in a crowded arena.
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