Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 18, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: A Mile In My Shoes
Season 3, episode 6 W: Dan Guntzelman D: Rod Daniel With Noble Willingham (Smilin' Al), Walter Janowitz (Old Man), Jessica Nelson (Young Lady), Joseph Reale (Young Man). When Herb is called for jury duty, Andy takes over as sales manager and soon discovers just how tough it is trying to sell advertising time or collect from deadbeat clients; Les plans to disguise himself as a black man so that he can do a series of reports based on the book 'Black Like Me'. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/6/1980)
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: The Idolbreaker (2)
Season 5, episode 18 W: Gary Adelson, Karen Hall D: Jack Bender With Michael Griswold (Mr. Koppel), Laura Johnson (Melanie), Bonnie Bartlett (Mrs. Gregory), David Haskell (Curtis Watkins), Tarah Nutter (Ellen), Barry Pea (Bruce), David Boyle (Minister). Tommy moves into Ellen's apartment and makes plans as their wedding day nears; Joannie resents a competitive newswoman at the TV station.
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| [NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Bob Hope, Marty Robbins. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 8:30] Flo [Reg]: Flo's Encounter Of The Third Kind
Season 2, episode 20 With James Staley (Major Spencer). Flo claims she saw a flying saucer in the desert, and takes a skeptical Earl and Les there to camp out and wait for the UFO to return.
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| [CBS 9:00] American Film Institute Salute To Fred Astaire [special]
With James Stewart, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly. The actor, singer and dancer is honored by luminaries of the film world and presented with the AFI Life Achievement Award. David Niven hosts.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Captain's Triangle / Boomerang / Out Of This World
Season 4, episode 8 W: Christopher Vane, Jill Baer, Ken Hecht, Lou Patrick D: Richard Kinon With Sue Ane Langdon (Monica Wells), Guich Koock (Lance Michaels), Monte Markham (Brad Wells), Tom Smothers (Martin Fallow), Barry Van Dyke (Scott Hanson), Pamela Sue Martin (Donna Dayton), Helen Reddy (Eleanor Green). Gopher puts his job in jeopardy when he tries to prove that a woman passenger is from outer space; Capt. Stubing becomes a candidate for seduction by a former girlfriend; a beautiful model learns a lesson from two bachelors. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1980)
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. & The Bear [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Don Quixote / The Sex Symbol
Season 4, episode 4 W: Pat Dunlop, Don Ingalls D: Mike Vejar With Paul Williams (Donald Quick/Don Quixote), David Doyle (Sam Woolf/Sancho Panza), Phyllis Davis (Helen Hendrix), Michael Callan (Sterling), Mary Louise Weller (Dulcinea), Don Stroud (Orville Weems), Edd Byrnes (Ron Barker), Robert F. Lyons (Carl). A texas millionaire wishes to become the heroic Don Quixote and save a beautiful maiden; a young lady's fantasy to become the world's most desired woman turns into terror when she is kidnapped by three depserate men. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/15/1980)
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| [NBC 10:00] Walking Tall [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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