Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday January 20, 1981:
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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. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1980)
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[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]
[Episode "Potsie On His Own" pre-empted, aired March 17, 1981.]
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[NBC 8:00] The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo [Reg]: The Fastest Women Around
Season 2, episode 3 W: Bill Dial D: Nicholas Colasanto With Jeannie Wilson (Car Thief), George Loros (Mr. Logan), Peter Mark Richman (Mr. Sherman), Jenny Sherman (Car Thief), Al Stevenson (Bartender), Stack Pierce (Bartender), Cathey Paine (Mary). Lobo and his deputies try to infiltrate a ring of car thieves who bait their victims with beautiful women.
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[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Welcome To Burbank
Season 6, episode 2 W: Jeff Franklin D: John Tracy With Ed Marinaro (Sonny St. Jacques). The girls settle into their Burbank apartment and are quickly unsettled by an earthquake -- and by Lenny and Squiggy renting the apartment next door. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/25/1980)
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[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: When The Circus Came To Town (1981)
W: Larry Grusin D: Boris Sagal With Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Brennan, Anne Shropshire, Gretchen Wyler. After the death of her ailing father, whom she has long been forced to care for, a lonely Southern spinster leaves her home and joins a ragtag travelling circus.
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[ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Jack's Other Mother
Season 5, episode 10 W: Mark Tuttle D: Dave Powers With Amzie Strickland (Gladys Moore), Bob Sherman (Katy's Brother), George Dickerson (Boss), Maida Severn (Woman Patron), Lois Hamilton (Katy Williams). A little old lady adopts Jack as her "son" but becomes more trouble than she is help when she starts interfering in Jack's love life.
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[NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: The Fast And The Furious (1)
Season 3, episode 2 W: Robert McCullough D: Christian I. Nyby II With William Smith (John Cooley), Jock Mahoney (Jason Willard), Pamela Susan Shoop (Dolly Reed), Susan Woollen (Stacy), Steven Reisch (Deke). Captain Grant and Trans Cal Trucking's new strongman Cooley conspire to put Bear Enterprises out of business, aided and abetted by a sexy saboteur who plants drugs in B.J.'s truck.
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[ABC 9:30] Too Close For Comfort [Reg]
[Episode "The Boy In The Band" pre-empted, aired February 10, 1981.]
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[ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Ex-Wives Can Be Murder
Season 2, episode 8 W: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff D: Alex March With Lee Wilkof (Stanley Friesen), Allyn Ann McLerie (Pearl Danko), Dana Wynter (Sylvia Van Upton), Joshua Shelley (Katzenbach), Jason Evers (Harrison), Ray Stewart (Seymour Newgarten), Tom Castronova (Beal), James Reynolds (Doctor). Max's ex-wife, presumed dead for over 10 years, arrives in Los Angeles looking to solve the murder of her friend. She calls Max for help and he ends up being kidnapped.
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[NBC 10:00] Flamingo Road [Reg]: The Titus Tapes
Season 1, episode 3 W: Ann Ellis, Ellis Marcus D: Don Weis With Michael DeLano (Frank Coyne), John Shearin (Deputy Tyler), Royce D. Applegate (Tiny), Karen Rushmore (Candy). Titus bugs the rooms above Lute-Mae's bar for the purpose of blackmailing various people, including Lane Ballou; Lane runs into an old acquaintance familiar with her unsavory past.
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