Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday July 12, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Universe [Reg]
Premiere of a limited-run CBS News science magazine program with Walter Cronkite and Charles Osgood which presents stories on the ever changing world around us.
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| [ABC 8:00] 240-Robert [Reg]: Stuntman
Season 1, episode 2 W: Lew Hunter D: Ric Rondell With Bill Williams (Harry Phillips), Michael Griswold (Mr. Corliss), Bettye Ackerman (Eileen Phillips), Larry Garrison (Reporter), Jenilee Harrison (College Girl), Phil Montgomery (Sergeant), Matthew Faison (Newsman), William Bronder (Ranger). The rescue squad is forced into action after a famous retired stuntman makes a comeback by attempting the most dangerous stunt of his career. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/3/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Silent Night, Unholy Night
Season 2, episode 12 W: Michael Sloan D: Vince Edwards With Ted Danson (Tom Spencer), Ed Lauter (Capt. Cain), Otto Felix, Bert Rosario, Tom Jackman (Deputy Karlen), Hank Garrett (Officer Rosen), Marc Alaimo, Janet Julian (Tommie), Susan Powell (Jill Cummings), Tyler Darling (Debbie), Patrick Brennan (Jim), John Lawrence (McIntire), Joshua Shelley (Bullets), Pamela Susan Shoop (Allison Spencer), Dana Elcar (Sheriff MacCandles), Pat Studstill (Officer). In a race against the clock to deliver a cargo of holiday turkeys to its destination on time, B.J. stops to help a pregnant woman in trouble. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/15/1979)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Old Timers' Day
Season 2, episode 9 W: Allen Goldstein, Levi Taylor D: William Asher With Irvin Mosley Jr. (Grandpa Henry), Christopher St. John (Father). Buttermaker sets up a game between the Bears and some old-timers, hoping to reconcile Ahmad and his grandfather.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Ski Lift To Death (1978)
W: Laurence Heath D: William Wiard With Deborah Raffin, Charles Frank, Gail Strickland, Don Johnson, Veronica Hamel, Howard Duff, Clu Gulager, Don Galloway. Several people are trapped in two derailed ski lift gondolas and face possible sudden death from falling -- or from a professional hit man who is aboard.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: The Spider Serenade / Next Door Wife / The Harder They Fall
Season 3, episode 13 W: Carmen Finestra, Fred Grandy, Tony Webster D: Richard Kinon With Milton Berle (Ed Taylor), James MacArthur (Chet Hanson), Nancy Kulp (Sylvia McTigue), Susan Buckner (Kim Patterson), Alan Hale Jr. (Jack McTigue), Sheila MacRae (Helen Taylor), Joanna Pettet (Carol Hanson), Jill St. John (Claire Dalrymple), Robert Sampson (Nelson Finner). While Gopher is involved in a passionate affair with a woman who has a "tainted" past, Captain Stubing referees a rematch between two aging boxers, and a man on board with his girlfriend is surprised to find his soon-to-be ex-wife in the next cabin. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] Sanford [Reg]: The Meeting (1)
Season 1, episode 1 W: Ted Bergman, Sy Rosen D: Jim Drake Fred suckers a young hayseed into becoming his business partner, and strikes up a romance with a wealthy widow. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/15/1980)
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| [NBC 9:30] Joe's World [Reg]: To Catch A Cheater
Season 1, episode 11 W: Larry Rhine, Mel Tolkin D: Herbert Kenwith With Lisa Constanza (Laurie). Joe puts undue pressure on Maggie to perform well in school. When Maggie struggles with a test, she resorts to cheating, hoping to make her father happy. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Inventor / On The Other Side
Season 3, episode 13 W: Sam Orr, Skip Webster D: Earl Bellamy With Stefan Gierasch (Maximillian Zoltan), Ike Eisenmann (Keith), Macdonald Carey (Hobart Gideon), Brigid O'Brien (Ruth Singleton), Alex Rodine (Andre), Lewis Arquette (Fred Waters), Barney Phillips (Mr. Mason), Lurene Tuttle (Ethel Small), Marcia Wallace (Martha Meeks), Arte Johnson (Professor Clebe), Jeanette Nolan (Irma Gideon). An absent-minded professor with a top-secret invention becomes the target of enemy agents, while a woman tries to communicate with her dead husband. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/15/1979)
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| [NBC 10:00] Convention Preview
John Chancellor and David Brinkley preview the Republican National Convention, which will open July 14 in Detroit, and look at possible vice-presidential nominees.
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