Prime-time network TV listings for Monday March 24, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz D: Phil Roman With Dylan Beach, Gail Davis, Sarah Beach, Liam Martin, Stuart Brotman, Michelle Muller, Greg Felton. Charlie Brown's troubles grow when a conservation project turns his baseball field into a garden plot. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
Nine adventurers plunge off a 1,000 foot bridge attached to pairs of the world's longest suspenders; a lady who claims the spirit of a long-dead Indian haunts her bedroom; pigeons who are used to save the lives of disaster victims; and a man who tries to catch flying arrows in his bare hands.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The King Is Dead
Season 6, episode 9 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Ray Walston (Jimmy Hart), Nora Meerbaum (Anna Stavroupolis), John Rupert Yates (Hans Mueller), Charles Julian (Bookie), Jennifer Rhodes (Nurse), Leo Gordon (Milo Stavroupolis). A con man attempts to bilk money from the Walnut Grove residents by persuading them to bet on the new "white hope", Jonathan Garvey, in a wrestling match. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/12/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Stockard Channing Show [Reg]: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Unemployment Office
Season 1, episode 1 W: Aaron Ruben D: Jeff Bleckner With Leonard Stone (Dr. Monroe Goslin), Diane Cary (Waitress). A new comedy starring Stockard Channing as a researcher for a television consumer-advocate. For her first assignment she goes undercover as an Argentinian socialite to expose a corrupt dentist.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: April Fools
Season 8, episode 25 W: Dennis Koenig D: Charles S. Dubin With Jennifer Davis (Nurse), G.W. Bailey (Sgt. Rizzo), Pat Hingle (Colonel Tucker). A no-nonsense Colonel, who is notorious as a hard-nosed disciplinarian, visits the 4077th during an outbreak of April Fools' Day pranksterism.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Doctor Zhivago (1965), part two
W: Robert Bolt D: David Lean With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Geraldine Chaplin. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
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| [NBC 9:00] College Basketball
The NCAA championship game between U.C.L.A. and Louisville is presented live from Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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| [CBS 9:30] Flo [Reg]: Homecoming
Season 1, episode 1 W: Dick Clair, Jenna McMahon D: Marc Daniels With George 'Buck' Flower (Roy), Gordon Hurst (Tyler), James Cromwell (Leon), Terry Wills (Wendell Tubbs), Mickey Jones (Chester), David Hollister (Flo's Grandson). On her way to a new job in Houston, Flo stops off in her hometown -- Cowtown, Texas -- and ends up buying an old roadhouse on a dare which she renames "Flo's Yellow Rose" and sets out to make it the hottest spot in town.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Hazard
Season 3, episode 24 W: Michele Gallery D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Tom Rosqui (Kramer), Phillip R. Allen (David Marcus), Ed Harris (Rick Reiner), Clete Keith (Kid), Edward Bell (Talbot), Elizabeth Berger (Mary Gianni), Carl Lumbly (Beutel), Barbara Jane Edelman (Betty Gurlan). In an example of "checkbook journalism", Rossi can't get the facts about a dangerous scandal involving motorbikes unless he pays his informant.
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