Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 2, 1981:
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.
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| [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.
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| [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.
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| [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)
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| [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.
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| [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)
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| [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.
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| [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)
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| [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.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
Geraldo Rivera examines terrorism in the Middle East, and possible links between the USSR and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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| [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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