Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 9, 1980:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] TV Movie: The Children Of An Lac (1980)
W: Blanche Hanalis D: John Llewellyn Moxey With Ina Balin, Shirley Jones, Beulah Quo, Alan Fudge, Ben Piazza, Lee Paul. Based on a true story, three courageous women ignore government red tape and try to evacuate hundreds of orphans out of Vietnam during the raging final days of the war in 1975.
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[ABC 8:00] American League Playoffs
Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees, game two.
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[NBC 8:00] TV Movie: The Castaways On Gilligan's Island (1979), part one
W: Sherwood Schwartz, Elroy Schwartz, Al Schwartz D: Earl Bellamy With Bob Denver, Alan Hale Jr., Jim Backus, Natalie Schafer, Russell Johnson, Dawn Wells, Tom Bosley, Marcia Wallace. The crew and passengers of a small oceangoing boat who spent several years as castaways are once again shipwrecked and end up on the same deserted isle.
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[NBC 9:00] Beulah Land: Part 3 [special]
W: J.P. Miller D: Harry Falk, Virgil Vogel With Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Meredith Baxter, Dorian Harewood, Ruth Cox, Taylor Lacher. Conclusion of the miniseries. Sarah comes out of the Civil War, her husband's suicide and the destruction of Beulah Land with an even fiercer resolve to rebuild the plantation. She finds her efforts distracted by the presence of Casey Troy, now an Army officer, as pressure mounts for a reconciliation.
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[CBS 10:00] The Home Front [special]
W: Rita Lakin D: Harry Harris With Jean Simmons, Craig Stevens, Delta Burke, Joe Penny, Ivor Francis, Nicholas Hammond. Two families living in New England in December of 1941 find their lives drastically changed by the outbreak of World War II and also the bitter feud between them.
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