Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 17, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Tim Conway Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 9 With Mel Tillis.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Critical Success / The Love Lamp Is Lit / Take My Boyfriend, Please
Season 3, episode 9 W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer, Margie Peters D: Roger Duchowny With Stephen Shortridge (Mark Scott), Bill Daily (Paul Turner), Douglas Fairbanks (Elliot Norman), John Hillerman (Fred Hartman), Larry Linville (Lou Hayman), Dina Merrill (Helen Ames), Ginger Rogers (Stella Logan), William Windom (Bill Kelly), Patsy Kelly (Mabel Higgins), Jackie Earle Haley (Teenager), Gunilla Hutton (Mrs. Hayman), Roz Kelly (Lola LaShane), Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Hartman). The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders entertain on a cruise that includes a feuding actress and critic, smugglers, and a single executive who hired a "family" to impress his boss. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/10/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Gasohol
Season 2, episode 9 W: Robert McCullough D: Charles R. Rondeau With Charles Napier (Hammer), Ford Rainey (Emmett Lumm), Robin Dearden (Sue Ann Lumm), Joshua Shelley (Bullets), Marc Alaimo (Accomplice), Bert Rosario (Manny), Karen Philipp (Emily Bartlett), Paul Brown (Jim Banner), Bruce Kimball (Deputy Gil McNaughton), M.P. Murphy (Mr. Pearson), Brian Reise (Deputy Roy McNaughton), Nataraj (Sheriff Cunningham), Jeffrey Byron (Todd). B.J. discovers that he can mix diesel fuel and moonshine liquor and get better mileage. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/24/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Wild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
W: William Bowers D: Burt Kennedy With Robert Conrad, Ross Martin, Paul Williams, Harry Morgan, Rene Auberjonois, Trisha Noble, Jeff MacKay, Wilford Brimley, Ted Hartley. Government agents James West and Artemus Gordon are brought out of retirement to investigate the possibility that clone-like impostors have been substituted for some of the world's leaders -- including President Cleveland.
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| [NBC 9:00] Sanford [Reg]: Cissy And The Nephew
Season 1, episode 10 W: Marc Sheffler D: Jim Drake Fred has two overnight guests -- his college-bound nephew and Evelyn's runaway daughter, Cissy.
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| [NBC 9:30] Joe's World [Reg]: One In The Oven
Season 1, episode 5 W: Gordon Mitchell D: Herbert Kenwith Joe and Kate are struggling enough to support five kids on a tight budget. Could there be a sixth child on the way?
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Eagleman / Children Of Mentu
Season 3, episode 23 W: Richard Fisher, Ron Friedman D: Mike Vejar With Jim Backus (H.H. Moran), Larry Storch (Hal Ripley), Keith Coogan (Barney Binstock), Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Arthur Gates), Vernee Watson (Rochelle McKenzie), Bob Denver (Morris Binstock), Mickey Morton (Curly). Morris Binstock attempts to win back his son's respect and admiration by becoming the comic book hero the boy worships, forgoing a possible vice-presidency with an insurance company; a young journalism student dreams of breaking the biggest news story of the decade by locating an infamous refugee from justice.
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| [NBC 10:00] Prime Time Saturday
A report on the millions of dollars in Social Security disability and survivor benefits paid to criminals in jail; a look at the controversy in San Francisco caused by the purchase of property in black and Hispanic areas by members of the gay community; and a profile of quarterback Terry Bradshaw.
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