Thursday April 17, 1980
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 17, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Palmerstown, U.S.A.: Black Travelers (2) Hagen: Nightmare The Contender: Fire And Ice
ABC Mork & Mindy: Young Love (R) Benson: Don't Quote Me (R) Barney Miller: The Judge (R) The Associates: The Party 20/20
NBC Buck Rogers In The 25th Century: Unchained Woman (R) Quincy, M.E.: For The Benefit Of My Patients (R) The Rockford Files: Lions, Tigers, Monkeys And Dogs (2) (R)


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[CBS 8:00] Palmerstown, U.S.A. [Reg]: Black Travelers (2)
Season 1, episode 5
W: Ronald Rubin, Alex Haley   D: Jeffrey Hayden
To save the town's bets, and for a secret reason of his own, W.D. persuades Palmerstown's segregated baseball teams to integrate.

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Young Love
Season 1, episode 15
W: Tom Tenowich   D: Howard Storm

With Jeffrey Jacquet (Eugene), Tammy Lauren (Holly). Mork conducts an unusual wedding ceremony for young Eugene and hs girlfriend, who are trying to escape from parental persecution.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Unchained Woman
Season 1, episode 8
W: Bill Taylor   D: Dick Lowry

With Jamie Lee Curtis (Jen Burton), Michael DeLano (Malory Pantera), Bert Rosario (Serio Sanwiler), Tara Buckman (Majel), Walter Hunter (Hugo), Robert Cornthwaite (Ted Warwick), Danny Ades (Gymon), Jim B. Smith (Shuttle Captain), Charles Walker (Lt. Zimmerman). Buck and a beautiful woman match wits with an inhuman android attempting to prevent them from returning to Earth.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1979)

[ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Don't Quote Me
Season 1, episode 9
W: Tom Reeder   D: Peter Baldwin
Benson and Marcy try to discover which one of their fellow workers leaked a sensational remark of the governor's to the press. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1979)

[CBS 9:00] Hagen [Reg]: Nightmare
Season 1, episode 7
D: Joseph Pevney

With Louise Sorel (Petra), David Opatoshu (Krasic), Milton Selzer (Barris), Kim Cattrall (Carol Sawyer), Aharon Ipale (Marco). Hagen receives threats while searching for a man who disappeared eight years earlier, after a young woman believes that she saw the man -- her long-missing father -- on a television newscast.

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Judge
Season 6, episode 9
W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein, Tony Sheehan   D: Noam Pitlik

With Peggy Pope (Lois Markham), Philip Sterling (Judge Gibson). Wojo brings in a judge who used his gavel on a lawyer's head.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1979)

[NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: For The Benefit Of My Patients
Season 5, episode 10
W: Erich Collier, Phillip Edelman   D: Jeremiah Morris

With George DelHoyo (Dr. Varney), James Karen (Dr. Rawlings), Gina Alvarado (Dr. Nunez), Beverly Sanders (Nurse), John Fiedler (Health Commissioner), Gary Cervantes (Frankie), Tony Plana (Jorge), Daniel Faraldo (Mando), Ryan MacDonald (Clark). Quincy goes after the greedy head of a private hospital who had two critically ill patients transferred to a public hospital because of their inability to pay.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1979)

[ABC 9:30] The Associates [Reg]: The Party
Season 1, episode 10
W: Earl Pomerantz   D: James Burrows

With Paul Lieber (Jerry Davis), Juanin Clay (Yvonne Winslow), Ivan Saric (Thearkis Popodopolos). A romance develops between Leslie and a radical, street-wise teacher who holds a grudge against conservative lawyers. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 10:00] The Contender [Reg]: Fire And Ice
Season 1, episode 3
W: Richard Collins, Howard Berk   D: Nicholas Colasanto

With Susan Walden (Lucinda Waverly), Terrance Michos (Rick). While fighting for the heavyweight slot on the U.S. Olympic boxing team, Johnny Captor meets a lovely lady sportswriter who has professional designs on him.

[ABC 10:00] 20/20

[NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Lions, Tigers, Monkeys And Dogs (2)
Season 6, episode 3
W: Juanita Bartlett   D: William Wiard

With Dana Wynter (Princess Irene Rachevsky), Michael Lombard (Gus Fairfield), Lauren Bacall (Kendall Warren), Leo Gordon (Charlie Martell), Ed Nelson (Blake Stenlight), Michael Des Barres (Gordon Flack), Corinne Camacho (Linda Hassler), Christopher Thomas (Freddie Danzig), Carmine Caridi (Tommy Minette), Jack Garner (Capt. McEnroe), Charles Picerni (Richard Soderling), Julie Parrish (Donna Soderling), Abel Franco (Max Escobedo), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). Kendall joins Rockford in the search for her would-be murderer.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1979)

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