Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 30, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Georgia On My Mind
Season 3, episode 3 W: Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl With Roosevelt Grier (Himself), Melinda Cordell (Ms. Hansen), Ken Sansom (Mr. Hyde), The Harlem Globetrotters. Coolidge feels he is too good for high school basketball, so Coach Reeves arranges a tryout for him with the Harlem Globetrotters.
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| [ABC 8:00] Halloween Is Grinch Night [special]
W: Dr. Seuss D: Gerard Baldwin With Hans Conried, Hal Smith, Irene Tedrow, Jack DeLeon, Henry Gibson, Gary Shapiro. A small boy is blown away from Whoville and finds himself face-to-face with the dreaded Grinch in this Dr. Seuss holiday feature. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] Games People Play [Reg]
A tug-of-war between machinists and firemen in New Orleans; an 84-year-old woman prepares to make her 19th climb to the top of Mt. Whitney; the "Little Britches" rodeo competition in Colorado Springs; and canal pole vaulting in Holland.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Halloween That Almost Wasn't [special]
W: Coleman Jacoby D: Bruce Bilson With Mariette Hartley, Judd Hirsch, Henry Gibson, Jack Riley, John Schuck. The Halloween Witch refuses to fly and may cause the annual holiday of spooks and goblins to be cancelled.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Rape And Marriage: The Rideout Case (1980)
W: Hesper Anderson D: Peter Levin With Linda Hamilton, Mickey Rourke, Rip Torn, Eugene Roche, Gail Strickland, Richard Venture, Paul Koslo, Alley Mills, Conchata Ferrell, Gerald McRaney. Based on the real-life Oregon 1978 criminal case which dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Homicide (1)
Season 7, episode 1 W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Noam Pitlik With Jack Dodson (Henry St. Martin), Harold J. Stone (Steven Haddad), Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Stratton), Tricia O'Neil (Alex Kramer), Allyn Ann McLerie (Harriet Shulton), Al Ruscio (Mr. Roth), Jack Somack (Mr. Cotterman), Johnny Silver (Kingman). When the NYPD restructures its precincts as specialty squads, Inspector Luger pulls some strings and gets the 12th assigned as a homicide squad. Business is good; a man murders his barber and a woman hires a hit man to kill her husband -- then changes her mind.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Damien: Omen II (1978)
W: Stanley Mann, Mike Hodges D: Don Taylor With William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Nicholas Pryor, Lew Ayres, Robert Foxworth, Sylvia Sidney, Lance Henriksen, Allan Arbus, Meshach Taylor. Damien the Antichrist, now thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
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| [ABC 9:30] It's A Living [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Stu Silver D: John Tracy Debut of a comedy series about five attractive waitresses in a posh club. In the series premiere, innocent Vicky falls for a dashing pilot, and would-be actress Dot loses a spot in a commercial -- to a puppy.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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