Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 15, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Fantastic Funnies [special]
With Howard Hesseman. Host Loni Anderson and thirteen leading cartoonists and their creations salute the 85-year history of comic strips. Appearing will be Charles Schulz (Peanuts), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Hank Ketcham (Dennis the Menace), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy) and John Cullen Murphy (Prince Valiant).
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Hold That Mork
Season 2, episode 11 W: Bruce Kalish, Philip John Taylor D: Howard Storm With Linda Henning (Pam Stockhaus), James Staley (Stu Scully), Melanie Vincz (Kathy), Lorrie Mahaffey (Ann), Joyce Mandell (Peggy Black). Cheerleaders from the Denver Broncos' Pony Express encourage Mork to try out for their squad and become pro football's first male cheerleader. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/25/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: F.D.R.: The Last Year (1980)
W: Stanley Greenberg D: Anthony Page With Jason Robards, Eileen Heckart, Nehemiah Persoff, Kim Hunter, Wensley Pithey, Kenneth Welsh, Olympia Dukakis, Sylvia Sidney, Terry O'Quinn, James Karen, Michael Gross, Edward Binns. A dramatic re-creation of events at the close of Franklin Roosevelt's administration and World War II, as the President labors through a continuing time of upheaval and war, apparently unaware that his health is rapidly deteriorating.
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| [ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Susan Harris D: Jay Sandrich With David Hedison (John Taylor), Norman Bartold (Mr. Nettleson). Benson, the Tate family butler from "Soap", gets a new job taking care of a bumbling governor and his precocious daughter, and finds himself being searched by guards, attacked by dogs, and mistaken for the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the series premiere. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] Miss U.S.A. Beauty Pageant [special]
With Donny Osmond, Jayne Kennedy. The 29th annual pageant, live from Biloxi, Mississippi. Bob Barker and Helen O'Connell host.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Vacation
Season 6, episode 3 W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Noam Pitlik With Jack Bernardi (Abner Gelman), Bruce Kirby (Frank Rossman), Ben Slack (Leo Rossman). Two brothers arguing over a kidney donation, a troublesome vacation schedule, and a rash of false alarms keep Barney and his men busy. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1979)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Ropers [Reg]: Mother's Wake
Season 2, episode 22 W: George Burditt D: Jack Shea With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Lois Hamilton (Debbie Hopper), Louise Vallance (Jenny Ballinger), Darcy Pulliam (Hilda), Henry Sutton (Rev. Munson), Lucille Benson (Mother). Helen's mother decides to holds a wake for herself at the Ropers' house while she's still around to enjoy it. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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