Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday January 11, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Morley Safer looks into a team of seventh-grade football players held back in school to give them a competitive edge; Dan Rather investigates prison goon squads, allegedly encouraged by officials as a means of controlling inmates; Harry Reasoner reports on California's biggest cash crop -- marijuana.
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| [ABC 7:00] Those Amazing Animals
Jacques Cousteau examines the world of the squid; some amazing talking chimps; the world's largest bear; a profile of Buster the Wonder Dog.
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:00] NFL Football
AFC championship game, Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers.
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| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Custody (2)
Season 2, episode 11 W: Harriet Weiss, Patt Shea D: Joe Gannon With Celeste Holm (Estelle Harris), Lloyd Nolan (Judge McGuire), Bob Duggan (Bailiff), Colin Drake (Witness), Barbara Meek (Ellen Canby), Howard Witt (Sol Rabinowitz), Jeff Altman (Gary Bernstein). Archie fights for, and wins, legal custody of Stephanie following a challenge by her wealthy grandmother.
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| [ABC 8:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Hula Angels
Season 5, episode 7 W: Robert George D: Kim Manners With Gene Barry (Steve Moss), Patch Mackenzie (Amy), Shawn Hoskins (Donna), Branscombe Richmond (Bob Ahuna), Pat Crowley (Marion Moss), Joanna Cassidy (Stacy Parrish), Soon-Teck Oh (Lt. Torres), William Bryant (Lamont Burns). When Steve Moss, the hated owner of the Tropicana nightclub, is kidnapped and held for $1 million ransom, the Angels are called in to find him.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Forty Tons Of Trouble
Season 4, episode 10 W: James Schmerer D: Gordon Hessler With Chris Mulkey (Dave), Taylor Lacher (Sarge), Michael Huddleston (Scotty), Robert Englund (Zack), Gene Davis (Harry), Mary Louise Weller (Paula), Elliott Street (Rice). Jon, Ponch and the gang try to stop a group of thieves that are stealing heavy equipment from an independent contruction company owner. The patrol is also participating in a drag race and have their dragster ripped off by an opposing team consisting of a gang of thieves looking for spare parts.
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| [CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Sunday Father
Season 6, episode 9 W: Annie Caroline Schuler D: Alan Rafkin With K.C. Martel (Jason), Patrick Cronin (Mr. Pierson), Bobbi Jordan (Joyce), Wendell Baker (Teen Boy). Alex is fed up with Nick's plans for their father-and-son weekends, and tells Nick that he'd rather spend the time with friends his own age instead of him.
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Alice Locks Belle Out
Season 5, episode 10 W: Arthur Marx, Robert Fisher D: Nick Havinga With John Sylvester White (Mr. Swanson). As the new manager of her apartment building, Alice has the unenviable task of locking out a delinquent fellow tenant, Belle.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: High Plains Drifter (1973)
W: Ernest Tidyman D: Clint Eastwood With Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Mitchell Ryan, Marianna Hill, Geoffrey Lewis, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Paul Brinegar, Robert Donner. A quiet but deadly wanderer rides into a Southwestern town filled with people who are living in fear at the thought of three gunmen who are returning to avenge their imprisonment.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Magic (1978)
W: William Goldman D: Richard Attenborough With Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter, E.J. Andre, Jerry Houser, David Ogden Stiers, Lillian Randolph. A soft-spoken ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy -- which "orders" him to kill people -- as he is trying to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: As Florence Turns
Season 7, episode 9 W: Peter Casey, David Lee D: Bob Lally Florence writes a soap opera spoof centering on a ruthless dry cleaning tycoon a la J.R. Ewing of "Dallas", who mistreats everyone in his orbit and even goads someone into doing him an injury.
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| [CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: Straight And Narrow
Season 2, episode 6 W: Barbara Avedon, Christopher Haun D: Seymour Robbie With Joseph Cali (Officer Joey Santori), Charles Hallahan (Sam), Paula Kelly (Betty Simons), Frank Marth (Timothy Calvin), Stewart Moss (Jake), Craig Russell (Judy), Harold J. Stone (Mr. Santori), Tony Lucas (Philip Todman), Barney Phillips (Dr. Baker), Janet Brandt (Mrs. Gelgood), Stepfanie Kramer (Cheryl). The near-fatal shooting of a homosexual cop at a gay rally leaves an important question -- was the gunman a demonstrator, or a police officer?
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