Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday January 3, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Baby, It's Cold Inside
Season 3, episode 8 W: Blake Hunter D: Rod Daniel With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson). On a day when the furnace has broken down, Mama Carlson pays a surprise visit to the station and catches Johnny drinking in the broadcast booth. She joins in, letting the staff see a new side of her.
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| [ABC 8:00] Breaking Away [Reg]: Rainy Night In Georgia
Season 1, episode 6 W: Jerry McNeely, Charles Rosin D: Stan Lathan With Dominique Dunne (Paulina Bornstein), Shelby Brammer (Nancy), Cynthia Leake (Carolyn), Muriel Moore (Reena Puffer), Laurens Moore (Walt Puffer), Robert Stevens Wayne (Rob). With his parents away on vacation in Florida, Dave promptly hires his pals to help run the family-owned car lot.
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| [NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Bob Hope, Marty Robbins.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Tim Conway Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 14
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| [CBS 9:00] Secrets Of Midland Heights [Reg]: Letting Go
Season 1, episode 5 W: Margaret Schibi D: Rick Rosenthal With Zohra Lampert (Mme. Zeena), Toni Sawyer (Mrs. Harris), Martin Beck (Carnie). Still grief-stricken over the loss of his mother, Danny tries to contact her spirit through a fortune teller at a carnival.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: The Frugal Pair / Doc's Dismissal / The Girl Next Door
Season 4, episode 10 W: Tony Webster, Richard Albrecht, Casey Keller, Christopher Vane, Jill Baer D: Richard Kinon With Stephen Shortridge (Rudy), Jessica Walter (Sally Welker), Alex Cord (Hank Welker), Lynda Goodfriend (Pam Madison), Janet Gaynor (Violet Hooper), Sal Viscuso (Charlie Cole), Bobby Justin (Bobby), Denise Dubarry (Heather), Lew Ayres (Carl Hooper). A retired couple squabble; Doc is accused of making advances to a married passenger and almost loses his job as a result; a man passes himself off as a CIA agent so that he can spy on his girlfriend.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Burnt Offerings (1976)
W: William F. Nolan, Dan Curtis D: Dan Curtis With Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Lee H. Montgomery, Bette Davis, Dub Taylor, Anthony James. A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.
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| [CBS 10:00] CBS Reports: Embassy
Ed Bradley looks at the changing role of the ambassador, and the security problems facing America's troubled foreign service in the light of recent events.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: My Late Lover / Sanctuary
Season 4, episode 9 W: Ron Friedman, Leigh Vance D: Leslie H. Martinson With Bobby Sherman (Thomas Henshaw), Eva Gabor (Anastasia Dexter), Gene Barry ('Dex' Dexter), Michael Cole (Falco), Morgan Brittany (Tessa Brody), John Ericson (Ellis Lathrop), Craig Stevens (Walter Blair), Sid Haig (Harlen), Russell Nype (Donald McKenzie), Georganne LaPiere (Sandra). A widow with three perspective suitors is flabbergasted by her husband's ghostly interference; Thomas Henshaw has been poisoned for an unknown reason, and with only hours to live he searches for the identity of his killer in a rest home which is a sanctuary for known criminals.
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