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Monday May 5, 1980
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 5, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS You're The Greatest, Charlie Brown (R) WKRP In Cincinnati: Baseball (R) M*A*S*H: Bottle Fatigue (R) The Stockard Channing Show Lou Grant: Inheritance (R)
ABC That's Incredible TV Movie: Off The Minnesota Strip (1980)
NBC Little House On The Prairie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (1) Movie: Breaking Away (1979)
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[CBS 8:00] You're The Greatest, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schultz   D: Phil Roman

With Arrin Skelley, Patricia Patts, Casey Carlson, Michelle Muller, Daniel Anderson, Bill Melendez.
Charlie Brown gives himself ten chances at failure when he volunteers as a decathlon contestant in his school's Junior Olympics competition.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
Jim Lewis and Jim Springer, identical twins reunited 39 years after being given up for separate adoptions; daredevils who ski while on fire; a skydiver who jumps out of airplanes while handcuffed and in a straitjacket; the "cockroach lady" and some of her pets.

[NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (1)
Season 6, episode 26
W: Michael Landon   D: Michael Landon

With Steve Tracy (Percival Dalton), Dub Taylor (Houston), Michael Prince (Mr. Carter), Dee Croxton (Secretary), Dean D'Annibale (Butcher Boy).
Laura accepts Almanzo's marriage proposal, but is heartbroken after her father rules that she is too young and insists they wait two years to wed.

[CBS 8:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Baseball
Season 2, episode 3
W: Hugh Wilson   D: Hugh Wilson

With Bill Dial (Bucky Dornster), Ross Bickell (Clark Callahan), Wyatt Johnson (Umpire).
Les challenges rival radio station WPIG to a winner-take-all baseball game against the WKRP staff, but finds his own team less than enthusiastic about the prospect.

(Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1979)

[CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Bottle Fatigue
Season 8, episode 16
W: Thad Mumford, Dan Wilcox   D: Burt Metcalfe

With Shari Saba (Nurse), Jeff Maxwell (Igor), Shelley Long (Lt. Mendenhall), David Hirokane (Chinese Soldier).
Horrified by the size of his monthly bar tab, Hawkeye vows to give up booze for a week; Winchester desperately tries to halt his sister's impending marriage to a man he considers unworthy.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/7/1980)

[ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Off The Minnesota Strip (1980)
W: David Chase   D: Lamont Johnson

With Hal Holbrook, Michael Learned, Mare Winingham, James Murtaugh, Richard Venture, Heather McAdam, Ronald Hunter, Ben Marley.
A teenage runaway returns home and attempts to readjust to family life in Minnesota after years of working on the streets of New York City as a hooker, but encounters misunderstanding from her parents and a lack of sympathy from her peers.

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Breaking Away (1979)
W: Steve Tesich   D: Peter Yates

With Dennis Christopher, Randy Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, Hart Bochner, Amy Wright, P.J. Soles, Robyn Douglass.
A recent high school graduate takes up the sport of bicycling in the hopes of competing against an Italian team visiting his Midwestern hometown and winning the affections of a college girl.

[CBS 9:30] The Stockard Channing Show [Reg]

[CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Inheritance
Season 3, episode 17
W: April Smith   D: Roger Young

With Allyn Ann McLerie (Betty Newman), Marshall Thompson (Paul Newman), Sands Hall (Jessica Downey), Carol Bagdasarian (Sarah Hartounian), Buck Kartalian (Leon Hartounian), Keene Curtis (Doctor), Arthur Space (Dr. Bradley), Madga Harout (Lavenia Hartounian).
As Billie investigates claims that drug companies manufactured a drug that caused cancer, she finds out that her mother may have taken that drug several years ago.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/28/1980)


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