Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 9, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Checking In [Reg]: Boo Who?
Season 1, episode 1 W: Bob Bendetson, Howard Bendetson D: Jack Shea With Michael DeLano (Leo), Ruth Brown (Betty). A comedy spinoff of "The Jeffersons", featuring Marla Gibbs, who leaves her job as the Jeffersons' maid to become chief housekeeper at an elegant New York hotel. In the opening episode, Florence and Elena suspect that a ghost is roaming the building, and Florence decides to spend the night alone in a room to prove that it's not haunted.
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| [ABC 8:00] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: Best Friends
Season 1, episode 18 W: Chris Thompson D: Chris Thompson, Don VanAtta With Arnie Moore (Roadie), Adrian Zmed (Joey Midnight), Debi Richter (Melissa). Henry feels left out when Kip renews his friendship with a flamboyant rock and roll star.
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| [NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: Testimony Of A Traitor
Season 2, episode 10 W: Stephen McPherson D: Bernard McEveety With Ramon Bieri (Commissioner Bergstrom), William Sylvester (General Myers), David Hooks (General Artheim), Walter Brooke (President), John Milford (Official), John O'Connell (Major Peterson), Thomas Bellin (Crawford), Buck Young (General Biles). The crew returns to Earth, where Buck is put on trial for helping a group that may have had a hand in the nuclear war that devastated Earth in the 20th century.
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| [CBS 8:30] Park Place [Reg]: Revenge
Season 1, episode 1 W: Reinhold Weege D: Peter Bonerz With Florence Stanley. The premiere of a limited-run comedy series featuring Harold Gould as the head of a New York City free legal-aid clinic, whose young attorneys are sometimes overeager. Tonight, a woman confesses to having murdered her husband because he didn't want chicken for dinner.
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| [ABC 8:30] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork And The Family Reunion
Season 3, episode 17 W: April Kelly D: Howard Storm With Jonathan Winters (Dave McConnell), Beverly Sanders (Caroline McConnell). Fred's estranged brother comes into town for a family reunion, but something strange happens when Mindy eats an Orkan dessert the night of the party.
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| [CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: J. Digger Doyle
Season 1, episode 17 W: Donald P. Bellisario D: Winrich Kolbe With Erin Gray (Digger Doyle), Stewart Moss (David Clark), Jacqueline Ray (Lisa), Orson Welles (Robin Masters' Voice), Rick Marlow (Rene), Dean Wein (Ticket Agent), Philip Bancel (Charles), Patrick Bishop (Pat), Diane Crowley (Mrs. Blaisdell), J.D. Jones (Pilot). Thieves are attempting to steal tapes of Robin Masters' new book, so Magnum joins forces with a beautiful security expert to beef up the system designed by Higgins.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Lady And The Bomb
Season 7, episode 18 W: Lee H. Grant D: Noam Pitlik With Peggy Pope (Doris Carlisle), Abe Vigoda (Phil Fish), Howard Mann (Lou Carlisle), Judson Morgan (Frederick Houston), James Murtaugh (Ron Giles), Ben Freedman (Milton Corshak). The verdict in the Harris/Ripner libel suit is delivered; a woman threatens to blow up the squad room with a homemade pressure-cooker bomb; Fish pops in for a surprise visit.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Dial M For Murder (1981)
W: John Gay D: Boris Sagal With Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, Michael Parks, Ron Moody, Dwight Schultz, Gerry Gibson. A London businessman discovers his wife is having an affair wth a famous mystery writer and devises an intricate plot to murder her.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Bobby's Roommate
Season 3, episode 15 W: Earl Pomerantz D: James Burrows Elaine can't afford her apartment and temporarily moves in with Bobby, much to the chagrin of Alex and Tony.
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| [CBS 10:00] Nurse [Reg]: The Gifts
Season 1, episode 2 W: Tom Egan, Max McClellan D: Virgil W. Vogel With Lisa Goodman (Rose), Clarice Taylor (Nurse Bailey), Theresa Saldana (Rita), Gloria Irizarry (Mrs. Lopez), Peter Coffield, Jon DeVries (Arthur), Christopher Marcantel (Chip Benjamin). An anonymous person upsets Mary with sexually suggestive gifts that are delivered to her apartment; an anorexic patient continues to starve herself.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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