Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday May 3, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Harry Reasoner profiles George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees; Mike Wallace investigates a minister's "Home for Wayward Youths"; Morley Safer visits Orlando, Fla., a booming community which the federal government considers "economically distressed".
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| [ABC 7:00] Those Amazing Animals
Two lion cubs who have been adopted by a dog; a report on how guard dogs have increased the number of police arrests. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: Disney's Greatest Dog Stars
Season 23, episode 8 With Dean Jones (Host). A potpourri of animated and live sequences, from the early animated cartoons featuring Pluto to the recent live-action and canine comedy releases. Footage from "Lady and the Tramp", "Old Yeller", "101 Dalmations" and other features are included. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/28/1976)
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| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Death Of A Saint (1)
Season 2, episode 19 W: Patt Shea, Harriett Weiss D: Joe Gannon With Cynthia Harris (Marcie Phillips), Harvey Jason (Mr. Freeman), Lillian Adams (Mrs. Plotkin), Harlene Haigh (Mrs. Stein), Millie Baron (Mrs. Greenberg), Cheri Maugans (Molly). Murray declines when his mother asks him to visit her, and goes on a date where he proposes to his girlfriend. But Murray feels so guilty when he finds out that his mother has suddenly passed away that he calls a halt to his marriage plans.
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| [ABC 8:00] Ripley's Believe It Or Not
Jack Palance hosts the debut of a series which looks at curiosities and unexplained phenomena around the world. Tonight: the wolfman of Munich, the curious prophecies of Nostradamus and the malevolent curse of a pirate queen.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Vigilante
Season 4, episode 19 W: Stephen Lord D: Arnold Laven With Gwynne Gilford (Betty Getraer), Jack Stryker (Watson), Arthur Roberts (Doctor), Brian Libby (Millard), Karen Ericson (Helen), Bobbi Block (Vicki), Mark Thomas (Ross), Michael Cole (Gibson). A criminal whom Getraer arrested is back and is terrorizing his family; Jon and Ponch face an angry crowd of citizens who have formed a vicious and reckless vigilante committee.
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| [CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Wicked Ann
Season 6, episode 20 W: Joseph Bonaduce D: Alan Rafkin With Frank DeVol (Violinist), Harold Green (Violinist). Alex begins to resent Ann's relationship with his father and accuses her of keeping his father and mother apart.
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Baby Makes Five
Season 5, episode 20 W: Tom Whedon, Charles Isaacs D: Linda Lavin, Christine Ballard With James Murtaugh (Mr. Devlin), Irene Arranga (Julie), Nancy Jeris (Police Officer), Tom Taylor (Police Officer). Vera refuses to give up the baby girl someone left in her pile of wash at the laundromat.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Seduction Of Joe Tynan (1979)
W: Alan Alda D: Jerry Schatzberg With Alan Alda, Meryl Streep, Barbara Harris, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas. A respected liberal Senator is asked to lead the opposition to a conservative Supreme Court appointee. But it means losing an old friend and further misplacing the values which sent him to Washington, as he also becomes torn between his family in the New York suburbs and life with his mistress in the political Capital.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Murder In Texas (1981), part one
W: John McGreevey D: William Hale With Farrah Fawcett, Andy Griffith, Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, Craig T. Nelson, Philip Sterling, G.W. Bailey, Barry Corbin, Parley Baer. A Houston plastic surgeon is accused of the murder of his socialite wife, the daughter of an oil baron, after she dies under mysterious circumstances and he has her embalmed before an autopsy can be performed.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: The Jeffersons Go To Hawaii (3)
Season 7, episode 4 W: Michael Moye, Jay Moriarty, Mike Milligan D: Bob Lally With Al Harrington (Leon Kanekuulo), Fred Ball (Ken Sanders), Douglas Mossman (Andrew), Andy Bumatai (Robert), Wayne Ward (Dr. Carlson). After their boat tips over during a storm, George and Tom wash ashore on another part of the island and are are aided by some friendly islanders -- who will have to leave their homes due to the development project George might invest in. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/23/1980)
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| [CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: King Of The Road
Season 2, episode 16 W: Milt Rosen, Don Brinkley D: Bernard McEveety With Brooke Bundy (Dr. Sandra Kemp), Pat Hingle (Hub Wendover), Allyn Ann McLerie (Henrietta), Ed McCready (Mr. Carpus). A dying musician admitted to the hospital turns out to be Gonzo's father, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a small boy.
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