Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 29, 1980:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Freebie And The Bean [Reg]: Flying Aces
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert W. Lenski D: Michael Preece With Jon Cypher (Dwight Rollins), Sharon Spelman (Stella Wickham), Patricia Pivaar (Gwen Brown). A flying school and two female pilots are keys to a cocaine-smuggling operation that the D.A. can't seem to crack. Freebie takes his first, inadvertent, flying lesson -- a solo flight at 3,000 feet -- after he and the Bean track the dealer to a small airport.
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
A daredevil dog who soars through the skies like a bird; a housewife who takes musical dictation from Chopin, Beethoven and Lizst; a medical discovery that uses powdered freeze-dried human glands to speed growth in abnormally short children.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Fight Team Fight!
Season 7, episode 4 W: Don Balluck D: Michael Landon With William Traylor (Pete Ellerbee), Terrence O'Connor (Sandra Ellerbee), James Jarnagin (Dan Ellerbee), Ron Doyle (Referee), Josh Davis (Clyde). Walnut Grove's obsessive new football coach pressures his players to win at any cost, locking horns with Laura over homework assignments, ignoring dangerous injuries and alienating his family. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1980)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: A War For All Seasons
Season 9, episode 6 W: Dan Wilcox, Thad Mumford D: Burt Metcalfe With Carl Freed (Patient), Laurie Bates (Nurse). On New Year's Eve, the staff looks back on the highlights of 1951 -- the doctors invent an artificial kidney machine; Mulcahy plants a garden; Margaret takes up knitting; Klinger and Winchester bet on which baseball team will win the pennant.
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| [ABC 9:00] Gator Bowl
Pittsburgh vs. South Carolina, live from Jacksonville, Florida.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Flamingo Road (1980)
W: Rita Lakin D: Gus Trikonis With Howard Duff, Cristina Raines, Mark Harmon, Morgan Fairchild, Kevin McCarthy, Barbara Rush, John Beck, Stella Stevens, Mason Adams. The corruption of a treacherous sheriff in a small Southern town affects the town's most prominent family as well as less influential people in the community. Pilot movie for the series.
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| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: The Dead Beat
Season 2, episode 6 W: Bill Greer, Kathy Greer D: Allen Baron With Deedy Peters (Mrs. Phipps), Jerry Van Dyke (Dr. Kellogg), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan). An old friend of Charley's comes to visit -- a doctor who loves to play practical jokes -- and almost out-does himself.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Lou
Season 3, episode 19 W: Michele Gallery D: Roger Young With Richard B. Shull (Jack Towne), Elta Blake (Regina Kelly), Michael Bond (Sam Huntington), Ray Oliver (Wayne Burroughs), Rae Dawn Chong (Adrienne), Daniel Chodos (Jayson), Barbara Jane Edelman (Linda). The pressure piles up on Lou as he tries to handle crank calls, libel problems and a feuding staff, causing concern for his health among his co-workers. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/11/1980)
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