Friday October 24, 1980
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Friday October 24, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Life Is A Circus, Charlie Brown It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (R) The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough (R) Dallas: Call Girl (R)
ABC Benson: Takin' It To The Streets (R) Movie: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
NBC Centennial: The Winds Of Death (R) NBC Magazine


Sports
Movie
Drama
News
Special
Variety
Comedy

Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Life Is A Circus, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schultz   D: Phil Roman

With Michael Mandy, Brent Hauer, Rocky Reilly, Kristen Fullerton, Casey Carlson, Shannon Cohn, Christopher Donohoe. A new Peanuts animated special in which Snoopy is smitten by a performing dog and runs off to join her in the circus.

[ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Takin' It To The Streets
Season 1, episode 22
W: Wally Dalton, Shelley Zellman   D: Tony Mordente

With Kene Holliday (Jake), Ralph Manza (Crazy), George Pentecost (Wesley Corbett), Les Lannom (Bulldog), G.W. Bailey (Bartender). Wanting to know how the "little people" really feel about politics, Governor Gatling and Benson visit a seedy bar to listen to the constituents.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/27/1980)

[NBC 8:00] Centennial: The Winds Of Death [special]
W: Jerry Ziegman   D: Bernard McEveety

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. Father Brumbaugh's prophecies come true as a drought follows a devastating windstorm; Charlotte and Jim Lloyd continue to run the Venneford ranch, with Charlotte taking an active role in defending Mexican immigrants from local bigots.
(Repeat program)

[CBS 8:30] It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz   D: Bill Melendez

With Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Kathy Steinberg. While the rest of the Peanuts crew are out collecting goodies, Linus takes up his yearly vigil in the pumpkin patch to await the arrival of the "Great Pumpkin".
(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] Movie: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
W: W.D. Richter   D: Philip Kaufman

With Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Kevin McCarthy, Art Hindle, Leila Goldoni. In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with mindless zombie-like clones that are devoid of emotion.

[CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: The Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough
Season 2, episode 7
W: Bruce Howard, William Raynor, Myles Wilder, Ron Friedman   D: Ernest Pintoff

With Raymond Guth (Amos Stigger), Cale Yarborough (Himself), Harrison Page (Chet Garvey), William Watson (Simon Jethro), Tom McFadden (Rowby Jethro). Bo and Luke get a chance to help their idol, stock car racer Cale Yarborough, test some new equipment in Hazzard County.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/2/1979)

[CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Call Girl
Season 2, episode 20
W: Rena Down   D: Leslie H. Martinson

With Barbara Babcock (Liz Craig), Claude Earl Jones (Matt Henderson), Paul Sorenson (Andy Bradley), Robert Ackerman (Wade Luce), Veronica Hamel (Leanne Rees), Fred Beir (Ben Maxwell), Mark Wheeler (Kit Mainwaring). A new friend of Pam's unwittingly gives J.R. the opportunity to ruin both Pam and her brother Cliff.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1979)

[NBC 10:00] NBC Magazine Garrick Utley reports on Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's national security adviser; Jack Perkins profiles 76-year-old James Cagney; Betsy Aaron looks at the strain placed on young children when they participate in organized sports.



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