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Tuesday April 28, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday April 28, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS It's Magic, Charlie Brown Puff The Magic Dragon (R) Presidential Address TV Movie: We're Fighting Back (1981)
ABC Happy Days: Dreams Can Come True (R) Laverne & Shirley: The Road To Burbank (R) Presidential Address Three's Company: Room At The Bottom (R) Hart To Hart: The Murder Of Jonathan Hart
NBC The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo: The Roller Disco Karate Kaper Presidential Address Hill Street Blues: Up In Arms (R) Opposing Points Of View
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[CBS 8:00] It's Magic, Charlie Brown [special]
W: Charles M. Schulz   D: Phil Roman

With Michael Mandy, Rocky Reilly, Brent Hauer, Casey Carlson, Christopher Donohoe, Shannon Cohn, Sydney Penny, Cindi Reilly.
Snoopy bills himself as "The Great Houndini" and puts on a magic show for the Peanuts gang, in which he manages to rearrange Peppermint Patty, destroy Linus' security blanket and make Charlie Brown invisible.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Dreams Can Come True
Season 8, episode 3
W: Ria Nepus   D: Jerry Paris

With Lyle Waggoner (Bobby Burns), Michael Prince (Mr. Korrigan), Jean Byron (Mrs. Korrigan), Brad Blaisdell (Lou), Patricia Lentz (Emily Sitts), Kathryn Fuller (Helen Hanley).
Richie, now in the Army and stationed in Greenland, sends a letter asking Lori Beth to marry him. Marion appears on the game show "Queen For a Day" to win the money for the travel costs.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/25/1980)

[NBC 8:00] The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo [Reg]: The Roller Disco Karate Kaper
Season 2, episode 14
W: Frank Lupo, Mark Jones   D: Sidney Hayers

With Harold Sakata (Ku Long), James Saito (Steven Chiu), Pat Morita (Assistant), Helen Funai (Miss Cummings), Rosalind Chao (Leslie Chiu), Alvin Young (Soo), Ed Parker (Tanaka), Dudley Knight (George), Nathan Jung (Kahuna).
Lobo and his men face karate-trained killers when they investigate a fraudulent charity operation.

[CBS 8:30] Puff The Magic Dragon [special]
W: Romeo Muller   D: Charles Swenson, Fred Wolf

With Burgess Meredith, Philip Tanzini, Regis Cordic, Frank Nelson, Peter Yarrow, Robert Ridgely, Maitzi Morgan, Charles Woolf.
Based on Peter Yarrow's popular 1963 song, a magic dragon helps a young boy face the trials and tribulations of growing up.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: The Road To Burbank
Season 6, episode 8
W: Jeff Franklin   D: Frank Alesia

With Becky Gonzalez (Rosita), Larry Gelman (Chuck Malone), Ed Marinaro (Sonny St. Jacques).
A hotel in Nevada is suing for damages caused by Laverne and Shirley and the boys while en route to California, and everyone has a different version of what actually happened.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/13/1981)

[CBS 9:00] Presidential Address
President Reagan is scheduled to speak to the Congress and the American public in an effort to gain further support for his projected economic programs.

[ABC 9:00] Presidential Address

[NBC 9:00] Presidential Address

[CBS 9:30] TV Movie: We're Fighting Back (1981)
W: T.S. Cook   D: Lou Antonio

With Kevin Mahon, Paul McCrane, Ellen Barkin, Phylicia Allen, Brian Tochi.
Inspired by the exploits of the Guardian Angels, a group of New York City youths band together to fight crime and violence in their neighborhood. Pilot for a series.

[ABC 9:30] Three's Company [Reg]: Room At The Bottom
Season 5, episode 6
W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski   D: Dave Powers

With Michael Lombard (Lucien), Jennifer Gay (Bonnie Chamberlain), Edmund Stoiber (Customer), Frank O'Brien (Waiter).
Jack gets a job as a busboy in a fancy French restaurant, and at the same time is misrepresenting himself to his new date as the chef.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/9/1980)

[NBC 9:30] Hill Street Blues [Reg]: Up In Arms
Season 1, episode 8
W: Michael Kozoll, Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich   D: Georg Stanford Brown

With George Dickerson (Dave Swanson), Andrea Marcovicci (Cynthia Chase), Mark Metcalf (Officer Harris), Ron Feinberg (Kermit Trench), Luis Avalos (Mr. Viatoro), Kent Williams (Bernard), Jeff Seymour (Santini), Gela Jacobson (Debbie Kaplan), David Byrd (Krinsky), Juliana McCarthy (Dr. Davis), Dottie Adkins (Hooker), Paul Michael (Mr. Arcanian), Constance Caulfield (Daphne), Dharvi Darrelle (Mrs. Miles).
Furillo gets orders to deal with a neighborhood merchants association after they take things into their own hands and become vigilantes; Esterhaus goes out to meet a criminal he helped put away; Harris and Santini get into trouble with the deadly black van; Hoban's lie detector results are inconclusive.

(Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1981)

[ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: The Murder Of Jonathan Hart
Season 2, episode 16
W: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff   D: Earl Bellamy

With Wynn Irwin (Lt. Grey), Lee Wilkof (Stanley Friesen), Mimi Maynard (Deanne), Peter Mark Richman (Owen Grant), Royce D. Applegate (Billy Ray Thompson), Matthew Tobin (Matthews), John Alvin (Clark), Ken Scott (Jenks), Nicholas Hormann (Vince), Wydell Hughes (Simms).
The Harts' unscrupulous lawyer hires an assassin to eliminate Jonathan. Believing that his scheme has been successful, he plans to court and marry Jennifer and thus gain control of the sizeable estate.

[NBC 10:30] Opposing Points Of View
Opposition spokesmen reply to President Reagan's address.


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