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Monday April 27, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Monday April 27, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Private Benjamin: Captain's Helper The Two Of Us: Weekend Away M*A*S*H: Your Retention Please (R) House Calls: Muggers And Other Strangers (R) Lou Grant: Harassment (R)
ABC That's Incredible (R) American Dream: Crossing Patterns The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons In The Mideast
NBC Little House On The Prairie: Sweet Sixteen (R) Live From Studio 8H: 100 Years Of America's Popular Music
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[CBS 8:00] Private Benjamin [Reg]: Captain's Helper
Season 1, episode 4
W: Judith D. Allison   D: Bob Sweeney

With Craig T. Nelson (Capt. Braddock), Joan Roberts (Pvt. Barbara Ann Glass), Joyce Little (Pvt. Rayleen White).
Captain Lewis can barely cope when an experimental aide program is launched in the outfit and she finds herself with Private Benjamin as her personal aide for three days.

[ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
A motorcycle stuntman challenges a speeding car to a daring duel; a severely handicapped young man displays his amazing musical gifts; a victim of spontaneous human combustion relives his terrifying experience; an expert magician does astounding things with his hands.

(Repeat program)

[NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Sweet Sixteen
Season 6, episode 25
W: John Dugan   D: Michael Landon

With Lucille Benson (Miss Trimble), Parley Baer (Mr. Williams), Tim Maier (Chad Brewster), Kimberly Woodward (Ruby Dobkins), Elizabeth Howell (Martha).
Laura gets the opportunity to be a temporary teacher for a nearby town and is drawn closer to Almanzo, her driver, when he realizes that she is no longer just a little girl.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/25/1980)

[CBS 8:30] The Two Of Us [Reg]: Weekend Away
Season 1, episode 4
W: Arthur Julian   D: Asaad Kelada

With Richard Schaal (Stu), Joan Goodfellow (Bee Bee).
Nan and Brentwood are surprised when, each thinking that the other is out of town, they both return home for a weekend rendezvous with their respective sweethearts.

[CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Your Retention Please
Season 9, episode 7
W: Erik Tarloff   D: Charles S. Dubin

With Barry Corbin (Sgt. Vickers), Sam Weisman (Sgt. Hutchinson).
Everyone else balks at a pep talk encouraging re-enlistment, but Klinger is so depressed by the news that his ex-wife plans to remarry, that he signs on for an additional six-year hitch.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1981)

[ABC 9:00] American Dream [Reg]: Crossing Patterns
Season 1, episode 2
W: William Blinn   D: Ray Danton

With Dirk Blocker (McDonald), Charles Penland (Jerome), John Karlen (Coach Ritter).
Danny's stint as a substitute coach is complicated by an undercover narcotics officer on the team, and Danny inadvertently causes his son Casey to be accused of "snitching" on student drug users.

[NBC 9:00] Live From Studio 8H: 100 Years Of America's Popular Music [special]
With Sarah Vaughan, Henry Mancini, Paul Simon, George Burns, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Gregory Hines, Jack Elliott and the New American Orchestra.
A two-hour special, originating live from the NBC studio, surveying the works of American composers ranging from Scott Joplin and George Gershwin through Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan.

[CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: Muggers And Other Strangers
Season 2, episode 3
W: Laurie Gelman   D: Ray Austin

With Edd Byrnes, Diane Lander (Nurse Bowman).
Ann has her hands full with an amorous auditor -- and a mugger who lurks in the dark corners of Kensington Hospital and has made victims out of several women on the staff.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/1/1980)

[CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Harassment
Season 4, episode 2
W: April Smith   D: Roger Young

With David Spielberg (Lloyd Bracken), Lynn Carlin (Catherine Marks), Marilyn Jones (Karen), Michael Talbott (Warren), Candy Ann Brown (Yvette), Brenda Hillhouse (Lorraine).
When the paper decides to do a story on sexual harassment in the workplace, Billie finds that harassment is prevalent at the Tribune and uses that as the angle for her story.

(Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1980)

[ABC 10:00] The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons In The Mideast
An examination of the efforts by such countries as Libya, Israel and Pakistan to improve their nuclear arms capability, and the threat this buildup presents to the prospects of world peace and economic stability. Marshall Frady is the correspondent.


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