Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday January 10, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Idol
Season 8, episode 14 W: Juliet Packer D: Gwen Arner With Susan Krebs (Hazel Lamphere). An outspoken new schoolteacher comes to Walton's Mountain and creates a controversy when she introduces the subject of sex education to her class.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: The Night They Raided Mind-skis
Season 2, episode 16 W: Ed Scharlach, Tom Tenowich D: Howard Storm With Ed Peck (Jim Blake), Nancy Steen (Helen Anderson), Tom Kindle (Lloyd Prescott). Mindy is targeted by a hooded fanatical group which plans to "clean up" Boulder.
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| [NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Happy Birthday, Buck
Season 1, episode 14 W: Martin Pasko D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr. With Morgan Brittany (Raylyn Derren), Tamara Dobson (Dr. Bayliss), Peter MacLean (Colonel Traeger), Eric Mason (Lt. Garth). On Buck's 534th birthday, Wilma and Dr. Huer plan a surprise party to cheer up the homesick astronaut, while Buck works against time to prevent a man with strange powers from killing Dr. Huer by turning him into a marble staute.
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| [ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Chain Of Command
Season 1, episode 15 W: Tom Reeder D: Asaad Kelada With David Ruprecht (Ed Sherman). When Governor Gatling is sick in bed, the Lieutenant Governor opportunistically tries to advance a bill that Gatlling opposes, and it's up to Benson to put a stop to the scheme.
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| [CBS 9:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: The Price Of Anger
Season 8, episode 13 W: Albert Aley D: Larry Elikann With Laurence Haddon (Howard Millikin), Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs (Wes Carter), Allan Miller (George Anderson), Lara Parker (Christine Lennox), Pat Corley (Sam Powell), Percy Rodriguez (Joe Frazee), Albert Popwell (Jacklin), John Davey (Harry Towler), Michael Irving (Senator Stewart). Wes Carter, J.R.'s friend and fellow law student, flees the scene of a murder because he fears being accused of the crime because he is black.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Vanished (1)
Season 6, episode 13 W: Tony Sheehan, Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Noam Pitlik With John Dullaghan (Ray Brewer), Elaine Giftos (Laura Kirgo). Vagrant Ray returns to report his fellow bums' disappearances; a woman wishes to have a child with a surrogate father and is considering Dietrich and Wojo.
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| [NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Honor Thy Elders
Season 5, episode 12 W: Sam Egan D: Ray Danton With Julie Adams (Sharon Ross), Joby Baker (Tm Morgan), Susan French (Mrs. Morgan), Barbara Tarbuck (Claire Morgan), Estelle Winwood (Muriel Prentiss), Garnett Smith (Roger Prentiss), Leonard Stone (Charlie Walters), Jessamine Milner (Edna Prentiss), Vernon Weddle (Peter Harper), Elvia Allman (Mrs. Oglesby), Anne Curry (Mrs. Harper), Richard Fredricks (Jim Schafer), Pat Cranshaw (Mr. Coogan). After Quincy traces an old man's death to his son's physical abuse, he is faced with a similar case involving the exploitation of two elderly women by their unscrupulous nephew.
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| [ABC 9:30] Soap [Reg]: Episode 60
Season 3, episode 13 W: Stu Silver, Susan Harris D: J.D. Lobue With Lynne Moody (Polly Dawson), Marla Pennington (Leslie Walker). Burt can't bring himself to tell Mary he won't live to see their baby born; Danny and Polly declare their love for one another; Billy loses his virginity to Leslie; Danny is torn by his feelings for Polly and his fears about the racial issue; Mary wonders whether Real Burt or Alien Burt fathered her baby.
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| [CBS 10:00] Knots Landing [Reg]: Let Me Count The Ways
Season 1, episode 3 W: William Hopkins D: Henry Levin With David James Carroll (David Crane), Sherri Stoner (Mary Ann), Jennifer Rhodes (Chairwoman), Fran Bennett (Bev Talner). Karen is attracted to a high-school teacher known for liberal views on birth control.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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| [NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Deadlock In Parma
Season 6, episode 12 W: Donald Gold, Lester Wm. Burke, Rudolph Borchert D: Winrich Kolbe With Jerry Hardin (Mayor Sindell), Joseph Sirola (Henry Gersh), Henry Beckman (Sheriff Neal), Sandra Kerns (Carrie Osgood), Ben Piazza (Stan Belding), Michael Cavanaugh (John Traynor), Gary Grubbs (Deputy Murray), Virgil Frye (Perry), J. Edward McKinley (Lee Melvin). When Jim agrees to be a proxy for his friend, a small-town councilman, he is caught between two sinister factions vying for control of the village. (Last show of the series.)
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