Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday April 15, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Enos [Reg]: Pistol Packing Enos
Season 1, episode 17 W: Elroy Schwartz D: Dennis Donnelly With Scott Brady (Greg Foster), Roz McHenry (Mrs. Adams), Mary Angela Shea, Tim Donnelly (Frank), Paul Gale, John Korkes (George). Enos enters the state pistol shooting championship as part of his plan to expose a corrupt officer who is secretly pulling inside heroin thefts.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Greatest American Hero [Reg]: Reseda Rose
Season 1, episode 5 W: Juanita Bartlett D: Gabrielle Beaumont With Branden Williams (Kevin Hinkley), E.J. Peaker (Rose Harris), Simone Griffeth (Alicia Hinkley), Peter White (Yuri Semenenko/Simpson), Dave Shelley (Manny), Nicholas Worth (Leonard), Stephen Kahan (Merv), Kurt Grayson (Vladimir Zorin), Jens Nowak (Submarine Seaman), Don Dolan (Technitron Guard), George Ganchev (Submarine Captain). Ralph and Bill try to unravel a case involving secret military plans, a Russian submarine and the kidnapping of Rhonda's mother.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A professional roller skating team teaches Sarah Purcell to skate; a man whose hobby is going through celebrities' garbage; the "scaffold lady", who cleans and repairs windows on the Empire State Building.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Last Tycoon (1976)
W: Harold Pinter D: Elia Kazan With Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Ingrid Boulting, Jeanne Moreau, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Peter Strauss. A 1930s studio executive makes big-money deals, calms nervous stars and carries on an affair. Adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel presumed to be based on MGM mogul Irving Thalberg.
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| [ABC 9:00] Aloha Paradise [Reg]: Love Teacher / The Actress / Prodigy
Season 1, episode 6 W: Lew Gallo D: Bob Sweeney With Joanna Pettet (Fiona), Dick Sargent (Jim), Joan Fontaine (Herself), Ralph Bellamy (Horace), Brad Savage (Scott), Karen Montgomery (Miss Abel), Olivia Barash (Fredi). Curtis learns well Fran's lessons on dating when he falls for a woman he intends to marry; Richard comes to the assistance of an actress afraid of losing her movie star image; Scott, a prodigy child, feels out of place when he must compete for his lady's love.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Substitute Mother
Season 3, episode 3 W: Debra Frank, Scott Rubinstein D: Gerren Keith With Nedra Volz (Adelaide Brubaker), Denise Nicholas (Sondra Williams). Arnold falls head-over-heels for a temporary housekeeper and embarks on a romantic scheme he hopes will make her a permanent member of the Drummond household. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/26/1980)
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| [NBC 9:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: The New Girl (1)
Season 2, episode 1 W: Jerry Mayer D: Bob Claver With Gary Coleman (Arnold Jackson), Peter Fox (Officer Shuler), Reb Brown (I.D. Checker). Mrs. Garrett comes to the rescue when a joyride in a stolen van ends at the police station for some of the girls. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/19/1980)
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| [ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: The Killing
Season 3, episode 17 W: Richard Kenneth Wells D: Don Chaffey With Paul Burke (Raymond Green), Pamela Franklin (Ann Reese), Michael Cavanaugh (Vance), Spencer Milligan (Kenny Braden), Victor Buono (Diamond Jim), Jerry Ayres (Phil Reese), Tony Ballen (Gary Tinsley). Ten persons are gunned down in a restaurant, and Dan is hired by a victim's widow to find the killers.
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: A Matter Of Principle
Season 6, episode 2 W: Aubrey Solomon, Steve Greenberg D: Ron Satlof With Allan Miller (D.A. Clark), Walter Brooke (Dr. Forbes), Bob Hackman (Dr. Schulman), Raymond Mayo (Hank Barton), John Dullaghan (Mr. Glen), Wallace Rooney (Dr. Winter), John O'Connell (Arnold), Robert F. Lyons (Bob Denbo). When an ex-convict is arrested for a series of rapes, Sam uses a new lab technique for bite marks that he's developed, which casts doubt on the defendant's guilt and causes his acquittal. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/12/1980)
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