Prime-time network TV listings for Monday September 22, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back [special]
Mark Hamill is host for a salute to special effects technology, featuring clips from science fiction films including the "Star Wars" series, and an appearance by "droid" R2D2. Other film clips include "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "King Kong", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and the grandaddy of them all -- the 1902 silent film "Trip to the Moon".
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
A fiery crash of four cars stacked on top of one another; a look at a new solar process which runs cars and airplanes without gasoline; a dog that rides motorcycles with his owner; the capture of a ghost that haunts a toy store.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Laura Ingalls Wilder (1)
Season 7, episode 1 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Lucy Lee Flippin (Eliza Jane Wilder), James Cromwell (Harv Miller), Chris Shaffer (Matt Gray). Almanzo buys land on which he and Laura are set to begin their life together, but Laura is upset over his refusal to allow her to teach after they are married. Then the couple are shaken when the unscrupulous former owner of the property cheats them out of all their money.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Life Time
Season 8, episode 11 W: Alan Alda, Walter D. Dishell D: Alan Alda With Kevin Brophy (Roberts), J.J. Johnston (Pilot), Jo Ann Thompson (Nurse Jo Ann). The doctors learn they have 20 minutes to perform major surgery on a severely wounded soldier who is facing permanent paralysis or death. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/26/1979)
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| [ABC 9:00] Monday Night Football
New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles.
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| [NBC 9:00] Centennial: The Wagon And The Elephant [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, Cristina Raines, Andy Griffith, Robert Vaughn, Gregory Harrison, Timothy Dalton. Levi Zendt, a spirited young Mennonite, leaves Pennsylvania with his bride and goes to St. Louis, where he meets up with a diverse group of westward-bound travelers. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Most Improved Station
Season 2, episode 24 W: Michael Fairman, Richard Sanders D: Rod Daniel With Colleen Kelly (Celeste). Everyone starts jealously bickering after the station loses a broadcasting award, but Johnny wins one. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/31/1980)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Nightside
Season 4, episode 1 W: Michele Gallery D: Gene Reynolds With Richard Erdman (Hal Hennecker), David Paymer (Roy), Millie Slavin (Corinne), Charles Bloom (Scotty), Alexandra Johnson (Kim), John Furey (Geoffrey McAdams), Robert Rockwell (Monty). Lou decides to work a double shift and has an eye-opening encounter with the eccentric night staff of the Tribune.
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