Thursday April 2, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 2, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Threshold Magnum, P.I.: The Black Orchid Nurse: A Little Rain
ABC Bosom Buddies: The Hospital Mork & Mindy: Mork And The Bum Rap (R) Barney Miller: The Delegate (R) Taxi: Elaine's Strange Triangle (R) 20/20
NBC Project Peacock: My Father The Circus King Flamingo Road: Bad Chemistry Flamingo Road: Hurricane


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Threshold
Season 9, episode 17
W: Scott Hamner   D: Herbert Hirschman

With Pearl Shear (Zuleika Dunbar), Ivor Francis (Dean Burke), William Schallert (Stanley Perkins). John-Boy comes home to ponder his future and ends up creating a television show for Boatwright University; Rose is given a run for her money by Zuleika Dunbar over the affection of Stanley.

[ABC 8:00] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: The Hospital
Season 1, episode 17
W: Jack Carrerow, David Chambers   D: Will Mackenzie

With Joe Alfasa (Joachin Carrero), Keith Langsdale (Jim), Joan Leizman (Ruby), Elizabeth Jaye Shaw (Dr. Lawler). A blind hospital patient who can see right through Kip falls for Sonny. Meanwhile Lily is hospitalized for mono, and Buffy and Hildy work at the hospital as candy stripers.

[NBC 8:00] Project Peacock: My Father The Circus King [special] A look at the relationship between Ringling Bros. circus superstar Gunther Gebel-Williams and his 10-year-old son Buffy, an aspiring circus performer.

[ABC 8:30] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork And The Bum Rap
Season 3, episode 9
W: Deborah Raznick, John B. Collins   D: Howard Storm

With Ross Martin (Godfrey), John Miranda (Man #1), Ed Greenberg (Man #2), Raymond Fitzpatrick (Ticket Agent). Mork becomes a bum in order to help Mindy open a children's hospital.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/15/1981)

[CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: The Black Orchid
Season 1, episode 16
W: Robert Hamilton   D: Ray Austin

With Robert F. Hoy (Bart), John Ireland (Wyndom Jackson), Judith Chapman (Louise DeBolt Jackson), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Christie DeBolt), Robert Apisa (Kimo), Rich Johnson (Leon), Ray Austin (Philippe). A bored woman, married to one of the richest men in Hawaii, hires Magnum to act out some of her "games," but then the games become a dangerous reality.

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Delegate
Season 7, episode 3
W: Jim Tisdale   D: Noam Pitlik

With Phil Leeds (Officer Nash), Bob Dishy (Richard Milford), Bonnie Bartlett (Ellen Milford), Don Sherman (Mr. Turner), Tom Henschel (Edmund Lasky). A drunk-and-disorderly turns out to be a leftover delegate from the 1976 Democratic convention; Barney discovers a problem with the newly assigned Officer Nash -- the fact that he's not actually a cop.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/13/1980)

[NBC 9:00] Flamingo Road [Reg]: Bad Chemistry
Season 1, episode 13
W: Jeff Freilich   D: Paul Stanley

With Denise Galik-Furey (Christie Kovacs), Marcia Rodd (Alice Kovacs), Michael Baseleon (Slade), Joel Bailey (Tony), Sandra Kerns (Beth MacDonald). A chemical leak threatens to close down the mill and could impoverish the town unless Field persuades the state Senate to allow them more time for a clean-up.

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Elaine's Strange Triangle
Season 3, episode 4
W: David Lloyd   D: James Burrows

With Michael Pritchard (Kenny), John David Carson (Kirk Bradshaw). Alex and Tony's plan to arrange a date for Elaine backfires when the date prefers another cabbie over Elaine.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/10/1980)

[CBS 10:00] Nurse [Reg]: A Little Rain
Season 1, episode 1
W: Chris Abbott, Max McClellan   D: James Sheldon

With Anne Shropshire (Mildred Ray), Julie Bovasso (Mrs. Mazzelli), Judith Bancroft (Mrs. Lundy), Christopher Marcantel (Chip Benjamin), Anne Kerry (Joanna), Earl Hindman. Premiere of a dramatic series about a recently widowed mother who returns to work as head nurse in a New York City hospital. Stars Michael Learned and Robert Reed. Tonight, a friend of Mary's son may be supplying him with diet pills; hospital routines are interrupted by two disagreeable persons.

[ABC 10:00] 20/20 Geraldo Rivera examines terrorism in the Middle East, and possible links between the USSR and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

[NBC 10:00] Flamingo Road [Reg]: Hurricane
Season 1, episode 14
W: Margaret Armen   D: Edward H. Feldman

With Denise Galik-Furey (Christie Kovacs), Marcia Rodd (Alice Kovacs), Michael Baseleon (Slade), Joel Bailey (Tony), Sandra Kerns (Beth MacDonald). The killers tracking Lane seek refuge from a hurricane in Lute-Mae's place.

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