Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday March 15, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Dan Rather looks into the growing problem of contaminated water supplies in America; Morley Safer profiles 75-year-old sports columnist Red Smith; Mike Wallace reports on loan-packaging outfits which play to the small businessman.
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| [ABC 7:00] Those Amazing Animals
African termites fight an army of red ants to the death to save their queen; a performance by the world's funniest chimps.
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Castaway Cowboy (1)
W: Don Tait D: Vincent McEveety With James Garner, Vera Miles, Robert Culp, Eric Shea, Manu Topou, Gregory Sierra, Shug Fisher, Luis Delgado, Elizabeth Smith, Nephi Hannemann. Part one of a 1974 theatrical release. A shanghaied Texas cowboy jumps ship and winds up on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where he is persuaded to turn a potato farm into a cattle ranch. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Tough Love
Season 2, episode 16 W: Harriet Weiss, Patt Shea D: Linda Day With Edmund Stoiber (Dr. Bennett), Garrett O'Connor (Dr. Walsh). When Veronica's drinking gets out of control and interferes with her work, Archie must take drastic measures.
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| [ABC 8:00] Movie: Doctor Zhivago (1965)
W: Robert Bolt D: David Lean With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Geraldine Chaplin. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: New Guy In Town
Season 4, episode 17 W: Larry Alexander D: Arnold Laven With Melissa Prophet (Karen), Jenny O'Hara (Lina Beck), Christopher Connelly (Martin Beck), Joseph Hacker (T.C. Hunsacker), Ernest Sarracino. An annoying rookie officer working with the CHP proves his worth when he saves Jon from being killed by a man who is trying to avenge his brother's death.
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| [CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Once A Mom
Season 6, episode 16 W: David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic D: Alan Rafkin With Nanette Fabray (Katherine Romano), Elizabeth Kerr (Grandma Helen). Ann has the flu and the last thing she wants is for her mother to play nursemaid.
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: The Great Escape
Season 5, episode 17 W: Mark Egan, Mark Solomon, Vic Rauseo, Linda Morris D: Marc Daniels With Ted Gehring (Charlie), Douglas Robinson (Doug), Robert Carnegie (Burt). A lady trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to take their rig and hit the road, and Mel ends up offering her a job as a waitress.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Chicago Story (1981)
W: David Assael, Eric Bercovici D: Harvey S. Laidman, Jerry London With Vincent Baggetta, Craig T. Nelson, Dennis Franz, Kristoffer Tabori, Kene Holliday, Allan Rich, Richard Venture, Connie Foster, Jack Kehoe, Gail Youngs. A 10-year-old girl is critically wounded by a sniper's bullet and the wrong man -- a slightly retarded street vendor -- is arrested and charged with the crime. Pilot for a series.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: Not So Dearly Beloved
Season 7, episode 17 W: David Silverman, Stephen Sustarsic D: Bob Lally With Earl Billings (Wendell Thomas), Lou Rogers III (Fred), Al Fann (Funeral Director), Frances E. Nealy (Yvonne Thomas). Just as George is firing Wendell, his rude and obnoxious employee, the man drops dead. George finds that he must give the eulogy at Wendell's funeral but has a hard time coming up with something nice to say.
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| [CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: Days Of Wine And Leo
Season 2, episode 13 W: Jack Guss D: Joseph Pevney With Carl Ballantine (Clarence), Rita Moreno (Liz Boyce), Harold Russell (Leo Hopkins), Paul Brinegar (Louie), Deedee Bradley (Secretary), Alan Toy (Allan). Trapper convinces the board to fill the position of diagnosing physician with a former war buddy who is a double amputee -- and who hasn't practiced medicine in 25 years.
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