Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 16, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Checking In [Reg]: Block's Party
Season 1, episode 2 W: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf D: Jack Shea With John Anderson (Mr. Claymore). Lyle throws a party, but his high school rival (now a pro football coach) and his team arrive to crash it.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Old Muggable Mork
Season 3, episode 18 W: John B. Collins, Deborah Raznick D: Don Barnhart With Charles Thomas Murphy (Mugger), Anthony Peck (Mugger), Ron Recasner (Policeman), Brian Cutler (Policeman), Scott Marshall (Boy Scout). When Mindy's grandmother comes to visit she is mugged, so Mork disguises himself as an old lady to catch the muggers.
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| [NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: The Dorian Secret
Season 2, episode 11 W: Stephen McPherson D: Jack Arnold With Devon Ericson (Asteria), Denny Miller (Saurus), William Kirby Cullen (Demeter), Walker Edmiston (Koldar), Michele Marsh (Cleis), Stuart Nisbet (Rand), Eldon Quick (Chronos). Buck and Hawk are sent to a space station to pick up the survivors of a planetary disaster and transport them to a new home. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 8:30] Park Place [Reg]: Benign Neglect
Season 1, episode 2 W: Tom Reeder D: Jeff Melman With Olivia Barash (Universe), Richard Libertini (Dennis), Julie Payne (Sonya). David aids a teenager seeking legal separation from her overly permissive parents.
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| [ABC 8:30] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: Kip And Sonny's Date
Season 1, episode 6 W: Chris Thompson D: John Bowab With Martina Finch (Cecily Dunbar), David Cooper (Waiter). Kip's date with Sonny turns into a disaster, thanks to his nervousness and Henry's date, Cecily -- Ruth's niece and a recent devotee of punk rock. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/8/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Beauty Knows No Pain
Season 1, episode 18 W: Robert Hamilton D: Ray Austin With Marcia Wallace (Barbara Terranova), Darby Hinton (Buddy Moran), Walt Davis (Chuck), Louise Fitch (Wanda Burton), Jim Weston (Roger), Curtis Credel (Agent Slim). A woman from Bayonne, New Jersey hires Magnum to find her fiancee in one day -- because that's all she can afford to pay him for -- and he winds up entering an Iron Man marathon in an attempt to find the missing man.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Dorsey
Season 7, episode 4 W: Tony Sheehan D: Noam Pitlik With Paul Lieber (Det. Eric Dorsey), Michael Lombard (Kenneth Pryor), Darrell Zwerling (Bill Adelson), Cal Gibson (Mr. King), Andrew Bloch (Edward Devoe). The new detective on the squad is convinced that his compatriots are on the take and asks to be dealt out. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/27/1980)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Family Plot (1976)
W: Ernest Lehman D: Alfred Hitchcock With Karen Black, Bruce Dern, William Devane, Barbara Harris, Ed Lauter, Katherine Helmond, Warren Kemmerling, Cathleen Nesbitt, William Prince, Edith Atwater, Nicholas Colasanto, Marge Redmond. Alfred Hitchcock's last film, a lighthearted suspense tale about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Louie Bumps Into An Old Lady
Season 3, episode 16 W: David Lloyd D: James Burrows With Jay Riley (Judge), Sam DeFazio (Louie's Lawyer), Joe Medalis (Edith's Lawyer), Lane Brody (Janine), Iris Korn (Edith Tremayne). After Louie injures an elderly pedestrian with his cab, she sues him and the Sunshine Cab Company for a million dollars.
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| [CBS 10:00] Nurse [Reg]: Listen To Me
Season 1, episode 3 W: Michael McGreevey, Max McClellan D: James Sheldon With John Braeden (Dr. Ransom), David Purdham (Ben), Elizabeth Quinn (Alma). An operation that could restore a deaf man's hearing also threatens his relationship with a deaf woman.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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