Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 24, 1980:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Palmerstown, U.S.A.: Kidnapped		Hagen: More Deadly Poison		The Contender: Close Call
ABC	Mork & Mindy: Mork's Seduction (R)	Benson: Taylor's Bid (R)	Baryshnikov On Broadway		20/20
NBC	Buck Rogers In The 25th Century: Escape From Wedded Bliss (R)		The Six O'Clock Follies: Welcome, Robby		The Rockford Files: Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (1) (R)

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[CBS 8:00] Palmerstown, U.S.A. [Reg]: Kidnapped
Season 1, episode 6
W: Alex Haley, Ronald Rubin D: Gilbert Moses A good deed makes hostages out of Booker T. and David when the youngsters are seized by members of a prison work gang who demand money and a getaway car in exchange for the boys' lives.

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork's Seduction
Season 1, episode 5
W: Neil Lebowitz D: Harvey Medlinsky
With Morgan Fairchild (Susan Taylor), Bruce M. Fischer (The Big Man). Mindy's old rival sets her sights on Mork as revenge for Mindy stealing her boyfriend back in high school. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1978)

[NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Escape From Wedded Bliss
Season 1, episode 11
W: Cory Applebaum, Michael Bryant D: David Moessinger
With Pamela Hensley (Princess Ardala), Michael Ansara (Kane), Alfred Ryder (Garedon), H.B. Haggerty (Tigerman). A princess, determined to have Buck for herself, blackmails Earth's leaders into turning the suave hero over. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/29/1979)

[ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Taylor's Bid
Season 1, episode 12
W: Rick McCurdy, Jeff Levin D: John Bowab Benson runs in the other direction when Taylor makes an attempt at running for office. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1979)

[CBS 9:00] Hagen [Reg]: More Deadly Poison
Season 1, episode 8
D: Michael Caffey
With Mercedes McCambridge (Rosemary), Andrew Duggan (George), Dawn Wells (Lily), Robert Sampson (Dr. Grant). Hagen is wounded by an escaped mental patient accused of poisoning her stepmother and roommate the same way she did her stepson 12 years before. (Last show of the series.)

[ABC 9:00] Baryshnikov On Broadway [special] Ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov salutes the American musical theater in a program featuring Liza Minnelli, Nell Carter and the national company of "A Chorus Line".

[NBC 9:00] The Six O'Clock Follies [Reg]: Welcome, Robby
Season 1, episode 1 A special hour-long premiere of a comedy/drama series about a servicemen's television station in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Stars Randall Carver and Aarika Wells.

[CBS 10:00] The Contender [Reg]: Close Call
Season 1, episode 4
W: Richard Collins D: James Sheldon
With Alan Stock (Brian Captor), Louise Latham (Alma Captor). Johnny Captor decides to quit the Olympic boxing team and turn professional in order to earn the money to pay for his mother's heart operation.

[ABC 10:00] 20/20

[NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (1)
Season 6, episode 4
W: David Chase D: William Wiard
With Lenny Baker (Ronny Martz), Marcia Strassman (Whitney Cox), Kristoffer Tabori (Tim Ritchie), George Loros (Eddie Lopresti), Stanley Brock (Bernie Seldon), Leigh Christian (Diane Bjornstrom), Jean-Paul Vignon (Alain Florio), Alan Chappuis (Honore Florio), Jack Garner (Capt. McEnroe), Jesse Dizon (Jerry Ito), Michael Champion (Dwight Deleau), Fred Carney (Mitchell Robinson). A popular rock star, being sued for half his album profits by his ex-girlfriend, hires Rockford to find his missing producer. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/19/1979)