Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 21, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Season premiere of the news magazine. Topics: "F.B.I. Undercover Agent Probes Labor Racketeering on Miami Waterfront"; "Venice, California -- Less a Town and More a State of Mind"; "Onward Christian Voters: Evangelists in Politics".
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| [ABC 7:00] Those Amazing Animals
Burgess Meredith, Jim Stafford and Priscilla Presley are the hosts. Segments include "The Squid", one of the sea's deadliest creatures, and "Talking Chimps". Also featured are the world's largest bear and Buster the Wonder Dog.
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| [NBC 7:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Go-Cart Terror
Season 4, episode 1 W: James Schmerer D: John Florea With Ingrid Greer (Marie), Moosie Drier (Wayne), Jack Heller (Ozzie), Debra Kelly (Elizabeth), Gloria Delaney (Carol), Kevin King Cooper (Fritz), Sonny Bono (Mike), Jerry Ayres (Wells), Terri Lynn Wood (Pam), George Whiteman (Bob), Paul Tuerpe (Caspar), Larry Storch (Chub), Gammy Singer (Norma), Adam Silbar (Duffy), Juanita Merritt (Debbie). Jon and Ponch set up a go-cart track to keep young potential hoodlums off the street, and a race is arranged between a club organized by the CHP against a club organized by firefighters.
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| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: The Return Of Sammy
Season 1, episode 18 W: Richard Baer, Bill Larkin D: Dick Martin With Dean Scofield (Fred), Tanya Boyd (Secretary), Liam Gannon (Phil Farrell), Doria Cook (Olivia Belladonna), Esther Sutherland (Nurse Wilson), Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself), Danny Dayton (Hank Pivnik). Sammy Davis Jr. accepts Archie's invitation to visit the restaurant after Archie sees him on a local talk show. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/3/1980)
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| [ABC 8:00] International Guinness Book Of World Records [special]
Mike Connors and Meredith MacRae present a series of bizarre, humorous and incredible attempts to break world records.
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| [NBC 8:00] Centennial: The Yellow Apron [special]
W: Jerry Ziegman D: Paul Krasny With Robert Conrad, Richard Chamberlain, Raymond Burr, Sally Kellerman, Dennis Weaver, Barbara Carrera, Chad Everett, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, Alex Karras, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, Lynn Redgrave. Pasquinel interrupts his search for gold for a reunion with McKeag, but his bitter half-breed son attacks the Scotsman when he learns of McKeag's interest in his mother. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Back To School
Season 5, episode 1 W: Julie Kirgo, Dinah Kirgo D: Alan Rafkin With Ivor Francis (Professor Bradley), Steven Anderson (Elliot Newcombe), Karen Knotts (Lynn), Gina Russell (Carol). Season premiere. Ann decides to enroll in the same college that Barbara is attending, and Barbara is enthusiastic about it until she realizes she'll be sharing more than college with her mother. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Oh! George Burns
Season 2, episode 10 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Marc Daniels With George Burns (Himself). When George Burns stops into Mel's, Vera believes that he's actually the Deity he played in the movie "Oh, God!". (Repeat program, originally aired 1/1/1978)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Midnight Express (1978)
W: Oliver Stone D: Alan Parker With Brad Davis, John Hurt, Bo Hopkins, Randy Quaid, Irene Miracle, Mike Kellin, Norbert Weisser, Paul Smith. A young American is arrested in Turkey for drug smuggling and is sentenced to a long prison term in a torturous overseas prison.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Me And Billy Dee
Season 5, episode 7 W: Bryan Joseph D: Jack Shea With Billy Dee Williams (Himself). George connives to get Florence's idol, Billy Dee Williams, to speak at a fund-raiser, but Florence refuses to believe that the actor is really who he claims to be. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1978)
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| [CBS 10:00] Presidential Debate
Live coverage from Baltimore, Md. of presidential candidates Ronald Reagan and John Anderson in the League of Women Voters' debate.
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| [NBC 10:00] Presidential Debate
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