Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 22, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: A Decade Of The Waltons
Season 8, episode 25 W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Philip Leacock, Harry Harris With Earl Hamner Jr. (Narrator). Earl Hamner, creator of this series, is host for a 200th-hour special featuring highlights of shows from the past eight years and a visit to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia to meet with Hamner's own family, the real-life models for the Waltons.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: It's A Wonderful Mork
Season 1, episode 23 W: Ed Scharlach, Tom Tenowich D: Howard Storm With Sam Freed (Cliff), Linda Henning (Margaret). Mork, convinced he is a misfit, decides to leave Earth until Orson shows him what Mindy's life would have been like without him. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/3/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: The Plot To Kill A City (1)
Season 1, episode 5 W: Alan Brennert D: Dick Lowry With Frank Gorshin (Kellogg), James Sloyan (Barney), Robert Tessier (Marcos), Markie Post (Joella Cameron), Nancy DeCarl (Sherese), Anthony James (Varek), John Quade (Quince), Victor Argo (Raphael Argus). Buck poses as a criminal to prevent a band of desperadoes from obliterating a major city. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1979)
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| [ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: The Layoff
Season 1, episode 6 W: Bob Colleary D: Peter Baldwin With Meg Wyllie (Miss Ellie), Larry Hankin (Electrician). Ordered by the governor to cut the staff, Benson discovers he won't win any popularity contests when he's forced to fire the beloved pastry chef. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1979)
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Brother
Season 6, episode 4 W: Wally Dalton, Shelley Zellman D: Noam Pitlik With John Christy Ewing (Brother Thomas Kelvin), Elise Caitlin (Denise Strauss), Gary Imhoff (Joseph Hutton). Dietrich, dressed as a woman, goes out on mugging detail while Wojo searches for a man who vanished en route to taking his final vows as a monk. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1979)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Ropers [Reg]: Odd Couples
Season 2, episode 8 W: Mark Fink D: Jack Shea With Carleton Carpenter (Roland Calvert). After Stanley accidentally sets fire to his kitchen, he and Helen move in with the Brookes for the night. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1979)
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| [NBC 9:30] Movie: Encounter With Disaster (1979)
D: Charles Sellier With Brad Crandall. A documentary containing footage of some of the calamities of the century, including the 1933 earthquake at the San Andreas fault, the fiery crash of the Hindenberg, the sinking of the Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket in 1958, and the tragedy at the 1955 LeMans road race.
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| [CBS 10:00] Shirley MacLaine: Every Little Movement [special]
With Kurt Thomas, Dean Martin. A salute to movement in its various forms, focusing on dance and sports.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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