Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 3, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Riding For The Pony Express [special]
W: James Menzies D: Don Chaffey With John Hammond, Harry Crosby, Victor French, Byron Morrow, Glenn Withrow, Richard Lineback, Susan Myers. Two teenage pony express riders get caught in the middle of a small-town war caused by a water shortage. Pilot for a series.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Memories
Season 4, episode 22 W: Channing Gibson D: Vincent McEveety With Michael Thoma (Dr. Maxwell), Christopher Connelly (Paul), Elizabeth Hoy (Corrine), Tammy Taylor (Connie). Abby is visited by painful memories when a Vietnam veteran who was with her husband when he died shows up at the Bradford home. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/5/1980)
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A man who plays music on a pocket calculator; a rope-jumping contest; a man who lives on the boat he is building in his front yard. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: See How She Runs (1978)
W: Marvin A. Gluck D: Richard T. Heffron With Joanne Woodward, John Considine, Barnard Hughes, Mary-Beth Manning, Barbara Meek. A 40-year-old divorced woman decides to radically change her predictable middle-aged existence and attempts to complete the grueling 26-mile Boston Marathon.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Of Ghosts And Angels
Season 4, episode 14 W: Katharyn Powers D: Cliff Bole With Robin Mattson (Erica), Paul Burke (Clifford Burke), Virginia Gregg (Mrs. Craig), R.G. Armstrong (Sebastian Craig), Frank Christi (George Harper). Tiffany is having psychic premonitions about history repeating itself during a costume party at the mansion of a recently married friend of hers. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/2/1980)
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Mrs. Garrett's Romance
Season 2, episode 3 W: Jerry Winnick D: Gerren Keith With Philip Charles MacKenzie (Leon). Arnold, Willis and the Drummonds are shocked to discover that Mrs. Garrett has a new and very young boyfriend. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1979)
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| [NBC 9:30] The Castro Connection
Marvin Kalb examines the successes and failures of Fidel Castro and his particular brand of Soviet-supported communism, 21 years after his rise to power.
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: The Hunter Hunted
Season 2, episode 18 W: E. Nick Alexander D: Cliff Bole With Robert Loggia (Simon Webster), Vernee Watson (Annabel Nelson), Johnny Seven (Johnny Blue), Beah Richards (Mom), Rodney Allen Rippy (Boy), Carl Crudup (Tug), Michael Stearns (Pete), Virginia Hawkins (Mrs. Webster), James Carrington (Paramedic), James Bond III (Joey). While investigating a young man's murder, Lt. Nelson is terrorized by the victim's vengeful father. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/5/1980)
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