Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday June 25, 1980:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Movie: Charlotte's Web (1973), part one
W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Charles Nichols, Iwao Takamoto With Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Agnes Moorehead, Martha Scott, Dave Madden, Danny Bonaduce. Animated special based on the novel by E.B. White. A pig named Wilbur turns to Charlotte the Spider and Templeton the Rat for help when he learns he is about to become a slab of bacon.
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[ABC 8:00] Family [Reg]: Letting Go
Season 5, episode 13 W: Edward Zwick D: James Broderick With Kraig Cassity (Steven), Dana Plato (Debbie), Tim Maier (Howard Also), Tony O'Dell (Howard). With Buddy departing soon for college, Doug has difficulty letting go, while she secretly fears leaving. (Last show of the series.)
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[NBC 8:00] Real People
A demonstration of how a walrus is taught to perform; a look at a school for female wrestlers; a man who paints his navel to look like a mouth; a visit to Black Forest, Colo., for a look at the downhill outhouse races.
(Repeat program)
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[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Last Giraffe (1979)
W: Sherman Yellen D: Jack Couffer With Susan Anspach, Simon Ward, Gordon Jackson. The true story of a young couple's efforts to save an endangered Rothschild giraffe of Kenya, after its mother has been killed by poachers.
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[ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: An Angel's Trail
Season 4, episode 21 W: Wayne Cruseturner D: Dennis Donnelly With Farrah Fawcett (Jill Munroe), L.Q. Jones (Sam Mason), Tracey Walter (Clint Mason), John Dennis Johnston (Harley Mason), John Lupton (Sheriff Hunt), Cis Rundle (Lee Thomas). Jill is taken hostage by an escaped convict and his sons when she accidentally stumbles into a gas station robbery. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1980)
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[NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: The Fight
Season 1, episode 9 W: Sandy Veith D: Herbert Kenwith Arnold is faced with either angering Mr. Drummond by fighting the local bully, or angering Willis by not fighting. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1979)
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[NBC 9:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: I.Q.
Season 1, episode 4 W: Jane Gould, Shelly Landau D: Jim Drake The girls see ther IQ scores and become worried about their abilities, until Mrs. Garrett shows them that IQ isn't that important when she reveals that the brightest girl in school actually had the lowest score. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1979)
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[ABC 10:00] The Shooters [special]
David Hartman profiels five award-winning photojournalists -- Eddie Adams, Douglas Kirkland, David Kennerly, Neil Leifer and Mary Ellen Mark -- and looks at how they work.
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[NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Riot
Season 5, episode 14 W: Allan Cole, Chris Bunch D: Rod Holcomb With John Milford (Warden Tompkins), Al White (Lenny Wood), Taylor Lacher (Capt. Stewart), Marc Alaimo (Ed Burly), Bob Delegall (Ray Stone), James Ingersoll (Duane), Dean Brooks (Dave), Allen Joseph (Jonah), Raymond Mayo (Charley), Bill Fletcher (Captain). Quincy and Sam are called to a prison to help investigate the murder of one of the inmates. Once there they find themselves held hostage by the prisoners who begin to riot. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1980)
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