Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 24, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] John Schneider -- Back Home [special]
With Ray Charles, Barbara Mandrell. Guests join the "Dukes of Hazzard" actor for a musical-variety tribute to Schneider's home state of Georgia.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Fathers And Other Strangers
Season 4, episode 8 W: Gil Grant D: Harry Harris With Janis Paige (Auntie V), David Wayne (Matt), Richard Molinare (Nick), Gary Imhoff (Dennis), Lloyd Alan (Dave), Robert Donner (Man on Bus), Casey King (Messenger). Wealthy Aunt Vivian flies the entire Bradford clan to Hawaii where she hopes to reunite Tom with the father who deserted him 30 years before. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/7/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A look at a man whose hobby is going through celebrities' garbage; a profile of the "scaffold lady" -- a woman who repairs windows on the Empire State Building; a visit to the annual "crow-off" for roosters in Rogue River, Ore.
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| [CBS 9:00] A Rumor Of War: Part One [special]
W: John Sacret Young D: Richard T. Heffron With Brad Davis, Keith Carradine, Michael O'Keefe, Richard Bradford, Brian Dennehy, Christopher Mitchum, Steve Forrest, Stacy Keach, Phillip R. Allen, Gail Youngs, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Cavanaugh. A dramatization of Philip Caputo's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of his Vietnam experiences. An idealistic college student joins the Marines, becomes an officer and is sent to southeast Asia, but returns a bitter and troubled man, charged with the murder of two Vietnamese civilians.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Act Of Love (1980)
W: Michael De Guzman D: Jud Taylor With Ron Howard, Robert Foxworth, David Spielberg, Mickey Rourke, Mary Kay Place, Peter Hobbs, Gail Youngs, Sondra West, Jacqueline Brookes. A young man is tried for first-degree murder after shooting and killing his brother -- who had become paralyzed in a motorcycle accident and was confined to a hospital bed -- according to the brother's own wishes.
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: Runaway
Season 2, episode 4 W: Leo Garen D: Cliff Bole With Terri Nunn (Ally), John Quade (Dominic), Pat Hingle (Caleb Tucker), Pamela Susan Shoop (Maryann), Walter Brooke (Dr. Faber), Cynthia Harrison (Elaine), Sandy Freeman (Dr. Beck), Cynthia Woll (Imogene), Larry Duran (Chui), Michael Stearns (Pete). The syndicate uses Dan as bait to flush out a young woman who knows potentially destructive information about their operation. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/24/1979)
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