Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 29, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: A Silent Cheer
Season 2, episode 5 W: Steve Kline D: Victor Lobl With Larry Farmer (Selridge), Robert DoQui (Carl Simpson), Kim Hamilton (Carol Simpson), Glenn-Michael Jones (Jeff Simpson), Taylor Lacher (Don Foster). Reeves is given a very unexpected chance to return to pro basketball as a substitute forward with the Portland Trail Blazers. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1979)
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Burlesque
Season 7, episode 8 W: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco D: Jerry Paris With Irving Benson (Irv Hanson). Fonzie is asked to fill the need for girls when a burlesque troupe performing for Howard's lodge show fails to appear. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] Speak Up, America [Reg]
Sen. William Proxmire (D., Wisc.) discusses his Golden Fleece awards; interviews on the saving of seals; a look at the proposed registration for the draft.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Take Two, They're Small
Season 5, episode 10 W: Judy Pioli, Paula Roth D: Ray DeVally Jr. With Deborah White, Bruce Kimmel, Jimmy Briscoe. While on a date with two "little men", Laverne and Shirley become involved in a roller derby battle with two snobbish sisters. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/22/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Gauguin The Savage (1980)
W: J.P. Miller D: Fielder Cook With David Carradine, Lynn Redgrave, Barrie Houghton, Ian Richardson, Flora Robson, Bernard Fox, Christopher Cary, Alan Caillou. A dramatization of the life of the French painter who spent much of his life in the South Pacific depicting native life there.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Chrissy's Hospitality
Season 4, episode 9 W: Mark Tuttle D: Dave Powers With Keene Curtis (Dr. Hutchins), Ruth Manning (Nurse Engel). Furley becomes confused when he overhears Jack and Chrissy laughing in the bathtub. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/13/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] The Big Show [Reg]: Episode 8
Season 1, episode 8 W: David Axelrod, George Bloom, Stan Burns, Ted Lang With Dorothy Hamill, Count Basie, Buck Owens, The Manhattan Transfer, Nell Carter, The Shanghai Acrobatic Theater, Bruce Schwartz. Barbara Eden and Dennis Weaver are the hosts.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Louie Meets The Folks
Season 2, episode 13 W: Barry Kemp D: James Burrows With Rhea Perlman (Zena Sherman), Camila Ashland (Mrs. Sherman), John C. Becher (Reverend Sherman). Louie's romance with Zena takes an unusual twist when she brings him home to meet her parents. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/11/1979)
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| [ABC 10:00] News Closeup: The Investigators
A report on the decline of personal privacy in America, with particular attention to the use of sophisticated equipment by big business and local police to investigate employees and citizens.
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| [NBC 10:30] United States [Reg]: Josh
Season 1, episode 9 W: Larry Gelbart, Everett Greenbaum D: Will Mackenzie With John Lawlor (Josh). Richard's friend announces he has found the right woman, though he had been homosexual until recent therapy. (Last show of the series.)
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