Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday March 11, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Enos [Reg]: Once And Fur All
Season 1, episode 13 W: Jim Rogers D: Bruce Kessler With Lou Jacobi (Bernard Kramer), Terry Kiser (Barlow), Greta Blackburn, Eddie Marquez (Hobie), Maidie Norman, Tanya Boyd (Beverly), James Bond III, Richard Reicheg. Enos acquires a hostile black boy as a "little brother"; recent fur thefts all seem to be inside jobs.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: If The Glass Slipper Fits
Season 5, episode 14 W: Karen Hall D: Stan Lathan With Michael Shannon (Ben Catron), Steve Doubet (Alan Alderson), Pamela Norman (Valerie), Arlene Banas (Connie Langston), Lisa Cori (Librarian), Karen Fredrik (Maureen), Rick Rossovich (Fred), Charles Parks (Apartment Manager). Nancy's new modeling assignment in Los Angeles involves a request to pose topless; Elizabeth wants her platonic friend to get romantic; David hires Nicholas to to find him a new apartment.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A family named Nielsen offers its own television ratings; a look at the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders; a visit to a convention of bald people. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Killing Of Randy Webster (1981)
W: Scott Swanton D: Sam Wanamaker With Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, James Whitmore Jr., Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Gary McCleery, Dennis Redfield, Sean Penn, Jim Antonio, John Dennis Johnston, Nancy Malone. Television film based on a true-life incident involving a police cover-up of the circumstances surrounding a Houston officer's shooting of a 17-year-old Louisiana boy.
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| [ABC 9:00] Aloha Paradise [Reg]: Sidney's First Love / The Swingers / The King Of Gardens
Season 1, episode 3 D: Bruce Bilson With Leslie Nielsen (Grant Culbertson), Donny Most (Lurp), Audrey Landers (Heather Dawson), Dori Brenner, Bob Seagren, Pat Crowley (Sondra Culbertson), Leslie Easterbrook, Hermione Baddeley. Sidney's former flame arrives in Paradise with his lovely wife, and both Sidney and her ex-boyfriend fear a re-encounter; two couples meet and find that it's more interesting if they swap partners; a gardener earns the title of "Employee of the Month" and is treated like a king.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: The Magician
Season 3, episode 15 W: Louis Smallwood, M. Martez Thomas, Ed Jurist D: Gerren Keith With Veronica Redd (Ms. Buxton), Ed 'Too Tall' Jones (Himself). Arnold's "famous" magic disappearing act, designed to impress a magazine reporter and special guest star Dallas Cowboys' defensive end Ed "Too Tall" Jones, leaves him dangerously high and dry, with no place to go but down -- about 30 stories.
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| [NBC 9:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: Bought And Sold
Season 2, episode 13 W: Linda Marsh, Margie Peters D: John Bowab With Zsa Zsa Gabor (Countess Calvet), Todd Bridges (Willis Drummond). Blair is selling Countess Calvet cosmetics, and she uses Natalie as a model. Natalie sells something of value so she can afford to impess Blair by making a large purchase.
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: Time Bomb
Season 3, episode 14 W: Robert Earll D: Cliff Bole With Denny Miller (Art Cochran), Linda Thompson (Sylvia), Michael Constantine (Arnie Moss), Dick Butkus (Vinnie Trancas), Cindy Morgan (Margie Jenkins). Two ex-cons strong-arm Binzer for the loot from a robbery he helped them commit, after kidnapping Dan to help ensure Binzer's cooperation.
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Of All Sad Words
Season 6, episode 15 W: Jeri Taylor D: Bob Bender With Val Avery (Aaron Zacharian), Joseph DiSante (Fire Chief), William Wintersole (Morris Gilmour), Joyce Gittlin (Sonja), John Garrett (Alex), Borah Silver (Lou Chesler), Darleen Carr (Elizabeth Chesler). Quincy falls in love with a woman who may have killed her husband, oblivious to the indications that she is merely using him to try to prove her innocence, while a tenacious insurance investigator pursues her.
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