Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 15, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Bugs Bunny Mystery Special [special]
W: Jack Enyart, Hal Geer D: Gerry Chiniquy With Mel Blanc. Bugs Bunny becomes Public Rabbit #1 when a series of mistaken identities involves him in a bank robbery, a hijacking, a kidnapping and a prison escape.
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| [ABC 8:00] Friendly Fire [special]
W: Fay Kanin D: David Greene With Carol Burnett, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston, Timothy Hutton, Dennis Erdman, Vernon Weddle, Hilly Hicks, William Jordan. Emmy Award-winning television film about parents of a young soldier who was killed in Vietnam. They encounter government red tape and indifference -- and find their own views about the war changing -- as they try to find out how their son really died. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] 1980 World Series
Kansas City Royals at Philadelphia Phillies in game two.
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| [CBS 8:30] Puff The Magic Dragon [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf With Burgess Meredith, Philip Tanzini, Regis Cordic, Frank Nelson, Peter Yarrow, Robert Ridgely, Maitzi Morgan, Charles Woolf. Based on Peter Yarrow's classic song, this animated program explains how Puff helps a frightened little boy to face the trials and tribulations of growing up. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: . . . And Your Name Is Jonah (1979)
W: Michael Bortman D: Richard Michaels With Sally Struthers, James Woods, Jeffrey Bravin, Titos Vandis, Randee Heller, Penny Santon, Ruth Manning. A couple, whose 7-year-old son had been diagnosed as retarded and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is deaf.
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