Saturday August 16, 1980
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 16, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS That's My Line TV Movie: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
ABC 240-Robert: Models (R) The Love Boat: Invisible Maniac / September Song / Peekaboo (R) Fantasy Island: Playgirl / Smith's Valhalla (R)
NBC Buck Rogers In The 25th Century: Planet Of The Slave Girls (1) (R) From Here To Eternity (R)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] That's My Line [Reg] A visit to the world's most expensive clothing store; a profile of the Ballet Trockadero; a man who milks venom from tarantulas and scorpions; and a look at a New York City street vendor and a modern-day sharpshooter in Florida.

[ABC 8:00] 240-Robert [Reg]: Models
Season 1, episode 4
W: John Huff, L. Ford Neale   D: Phil Bondelli

With Gordon Zimmerman (Dan), Eric Lawson (Biker), Dan Magiera (Digger), Jeffrey Bannister (Deputy Price), Buddy Joe Hooker (Dune Buggy Driver), Alexis Adams (Victoria), Dorit Stevens (Model), James R. Parker (Father), Brian Andrews (Brian), Tessa Richarde (Penny), Lee Bryant (Mother), Penelope Willis (Gwen), Dana Gladstone (Turk), William Mims (Whitney), Kay Stevens (Valerie Barnes). The rescue team is called in when a scaffolding breaks, leaving two window washers dangling 40 stories up a skyscraper.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Planet Of The Slave Girls (1)
Season 1, episode 2
W: Steve Greenberg, Aubrey Solomon, Cory Applebaum   D: Michael Caffey

With David Groh (Duke Danton), Roddy McDowall (Governor Saroyan), Brianne Leary (Ryma), Macdonald Carey (Dr. Mallory), Karen Carlson (Stella Warden), Michael Mullins (Regis Saroyan), Buster Crabbe (Brigadier Gordan), Jack Palance (Kaleel), Sheila DeWindt (Major Fields), Robert Dowdell (Galen), Don Marshall (Julio). Buck and Wilma join forces with an aging fighter pilot and a doctor to help save Earth from a massive attack involving a poisoned food supply.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/27/1979)

[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
W: John Groves, Guerdon Trueblood   D: Stuart Hagmann

With Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Pat Hingle, Tom Atkins, Sandy McPeak, Bert Remsen, Deborah Winters, Howard Hesseman, Charles Siebert. A horde of deadly tarantulas, unleashed in the crash of a cargo plane, move into a southwestern town.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Invisible Maniac / September Song / Peekaboo
Season 3, episode 24
W: Harvey Bullock, R.S. Allen   D: George Tyne

With David Hasselhoff (Tom Bell), BernNadette Stanis (Janet Reeves), Peggy Cass (Faye Piermont), Ann B. Davis (Agnes), Clifton Davis (Mr. Reeves), Shelley Fabares (Kathy), Gordon Jump (Bill Piermont), Jane Withers (Gladys), Byron Morrow (Mr. Burrows). A model uses Isaac to make her husband jealous; a lawyer wants to marry a colleague who's afraid of commitments; a woman thinks a carefree attitude will save her marriage from boredom.
(Repeat program, originally aired 4/19/1980)

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Playgirl / Smith's Valhalla
Season 3, episode 17
W: Don Ingalls, Ron Friedman   D: Mike Vejar

With Hugh O'Brian (Jason Smith), Barbi Benton (Erica Clark), Sean Garrison (Captain Tanner), Heather McAdam (Dinah Wilde), Charles Dierkop (Harry Forbes), Janet Blair (Jackie Flynn), Denny Miller (Big Earl Sanderson), Fabian (Walter Wilde), Leslie Nielsen (Emile Bouvier), Suzanne Charney (Marlene McQueen), Emily Banks (Linda Smith). Beautiful former centerfold model Erica Clark wishes to turn the tables and treat men as sexual objects; Jason Smith wishes to become a war hero and lead a team of soldiers on a daring commando raid.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1980)

[NBC 10:00] From Here To Eternity [special]
W: Harold Gast, Don McGuire   D: Buzz Kulik

With William Devane, Natalie Wood, Roy Thinnes, Kim Basinger, Peter Boyle, Andy Griffith, Will Sampson, Salome Jens, Andrew Robinson, David Spielberg. Major Holmes' attempt on the life of Sgt. Warden, the former lover of Holmes' philandering wife, Karen, leads to the long-awaited life-or-death confrontation between the two bitter enemies.
(Repeat program)

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