Tuesday June 24, 1980
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday June 24, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The White Shadow: Albert Hodges (R) TV Movie: The Defection Of Simas Kudirka (1978)
ABC Happy Days: The Roaring Twenties (R) Laverne & Shirley: You Oughta Be In Pictures (R) Three's Company: The Love Lesson (R) Taxi: Alex Jumps Out Of An Airplane (R) Hart To Hart: The Raid (R)
NBC The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo: The Senator Votes Absentee (R) Alone At Last NBC News White Paper: If Japan Can. . . Why Can't We?


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[CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Albert Hodges
Season 2, episode 2
W: Marc Rubin   D: Bruce Paltrow

With Saundra Sharp (Paula Jenkins), Ellaraino (Mrs. Hodges), Richard Derr (Dean Sullivan), Richard Cummings Jr. (Albert Hodges), F. William Parker (Mr. Biletti). A bitter black youth returning to Carver after 18 months in prison for a crime he didn't commit convinces the basketball team that Coach Reeves is a racist.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1979)

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: The Roaring Twenties
Season 7, episode 24
W: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco   D: Jerry Paris

With Pat O'Brien (Uncle Joe). Howard's Uncle Joe, after reading Richie's report on the 1920s, tells him a story about what really happened during Prohibition.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/25/1980)

[NBC 8:00] The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo [Reg]: The Senator Votes Absentee
Season 1, episode 8
W: Robert Wolterstorff, Paul Belous   D: William P. D'Angelo

With James B. Sikking (Jack Wiley), William Mims (Senator Flowers), Lara Parker (Evelyn Flowers), James McEachin (Barnes), Arthur Batanides (Max). When a Senator up for re-election dies in Orly, his unscrupulous campign manager tries to cover up the death until after the polls close.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/4/1979)

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: You Oughta Be In Pictures
Season 5, episode 14
W: Jeff Franklin   D: Joel Zwick

With Harvey Kahn (Dickie), Gary Earle (Herbie Titlebaum), Steve Doubet (Johnny Pulse), Bruce Kimmel (Director). The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/14/1980)

[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Defection Of Simas Kudirka (1978)
W: Bruce Feldman   D: David Lowell Rich

With Alan Arkin, Richard Jordan, Donald Pleasence, John McMartin, Shirley Knight, George Dzundza, Ted Shackelford. The story of the Lithuanian seaman who, in 1970, attempted to reach freedom by leaping from a Russian trawler onto the deck of a U.S. Coast Guard cutter.

[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: The Love Lesson
Season 4, episode 17
W: Mark Tuttle   D: Dave Powers

With Joanna Kerns (Bobby Trilling), Jim Sullivan (B.J.). Furley hopes to "straighten" Jack out by giving him love lessons. But if Jack is indeed straight, he has to move out.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1980)

[NBC 9:00] Alone At Last [special]
W: Larry Tucker   D: Hy Averback

With Bill Daily, Virginia Vestoff, Michael Horton, Elaine Joyce, Howard Platt, Francine Beers, Martin Garner. The first of two unsold pilots about the Elliotts, a family of four living in California. In this episode, as Gregg Elliott and his wife, Laurie, prepare for a trip to Europe, Gregg attempts to solve his latest problem: his son Michael's announcement that he is marrying a woman twice his age.

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Alex Jumps Out Of An Airplane
Season 2, episode 21
W: Ken Estin   D: James Burrows

With Tom Castranova (Tommy), Beverly Ross (Skydiving Instructor). Following a excitement-filled ski trip, Alex decides to start living life to the fullest, which includes skydiving for the first time.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/26/1980)

[NBC 9:30] NBC News White Paper: If Japan Can. . . Why Can't We? Lloyd Dobyns examines the problems of American productivity by contrasting it to Japanese productivity in the contexts of the two countries' different cultures.

[ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: The Raid
Season 1, episode 18
W: Allyn Freeman   D: Leo Penn

With Jordan Rhodes (Philip Hampton), Laura Wallace Rhodes (Claire Hampton), Daniel Faraldo (Lorenzo), Peter MacLean (Herbert Cober), Ivor Francis (Jewlery Clerk), William Bogert (Fox), Tony Acierto (Tomas). When a researcher is kidnapped in a South American country by an old adversary of Jonathan's, he undertakes to personally deliver the ransom and ensure the safety of the researcher and his pregnant wife.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/26/1980)

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