Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 12, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Lynda Carter Special [special]
W: Saul Ilson D: Stan Harris With Kenny Rogers, Leo Sayer. Lynda Carter stars in a musical variety program.
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| [ABC 8:00] Winter Olympics '80: The World Comes To America
Jim McKay is host for an advance look at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. Featured artists include Chuck Mangione, Peggy Fleming and the brother-sister speed skating team of Eric and Beth Heiden.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Jailbirds
Season 3, episode 16 W: James Schmerer D: Bruce Kessler With Edward Grover (Sam Weber), Ray Duke (Nick Ferris), Don 'Red' Barry (Marty Ballard), Andy Romano (Ron Simon), Allan Rich (Judge Towers). Jon and Ponch are found guilty of contempt when they refuse to name an informant in court. While in jail, they encounter vengeful criminals who they arrested.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Outlaw Blues (1977)
W: Bill Norton D: Richard Heffron With Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford, James Callahan, Michael Lerner, Matt Clark. A woman shelters a fugitive and attempts to exploit his musical talent as they go after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: April's Love / Happy Ending / We Three
Season 3, episode 15 W: Tony Webster, Ben Joelson, Art Baer D: George Tyne With Don Adams (Bill Robinson), Juliet Mills (Betty Robinson), Charo (April Lopez), Ross Martin (Tom Thornton), Marjorie Lord (Martha Rogers), Forrest Tucker (Honest Tex), Laurie Walters (Laura Rogers). A married writing team find their professional and personal relationships strained; an adopted daughter wants to learn the identity of her birth father; a singer chooses a wheeler-dealer for her manager -- and fiancee.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Fire In The Hole
Season 2, episode 13 W: Sidney Ellis D: Bruce Kessler With Anne Lockhart (Lillian Pogovich), Harry Carey Jr. (Joe Pogovich), Bruce Glover (Mr. Cummings), John Quade (Taker), Brian Farrell (Andrew Holmes). B.J. brokers a reconciliation between Lil and her estranged father while also assisting Lil in fending off a crooked mining executive and his goons who are determined to lay claim to her gold mine.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Unholy Wedlock / Elizabeth
Season 3, episode 15 W: Skip Webster, Steve Fisher D: Rod Holcomb With David Cassidy (Danny Collier), Tina Louise (Lisa Corday), Michael Ansara (Marco), Eddie Mekka (Ken Jason), Misty Rowe (Christine Collier), Jesse Doran (Turner), John Colton (Hal). A man finds himself in a true pickle when the woman he marries turns out to be the girl from his bachelor party cake and not his fiancee; a woman is possessed by the spirit of a woman dead 300 years -- a woman from Mr. Roarke's past.
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| [NBC 10:00] Prime Time Saturday
An interview with psychologist Arthur Jensen, who claims that intelligence is determined by race; a report on the events of the last year in Cambodia; and a profile of tennis pro Vic Braden, who began teaching Tracy Austin when she was two years old.
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