Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 4, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Bugs Bunny: All American Hero [special]
W: Friz Freleng, David Detiege, John W. Dunn D: Friz Freleng, David Detiege With Mel Blanc. Bugs Bunny relates his version of American history to his nephew Clyde, who is preparing for a test at school.
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
A report on the use of lasers to detect otherwise invisible fingerprints; a look at dentists who use hypnosis; people who have died and returned from the grave tell of their experiences; a report on people who claim to have received telephone calls from the beyond.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Lost Ones (1)
Season 7, episode 21 W: Don Balluck D: Michael Landon With Ivan Bonar (Mr. Case), E.J. Andre (Jed Cooper), George McDaniel (Alvin Cooper), M.E. Loree (Sarah Cooper), Jason Bateman (James Cooper), Missy Francis (Cassandra Cooper), Elizabeth Hoffman (Miss Mason), Herb Armstrong (Halstead). Charles tries unsuccessfully to find a home for two orphaned children and is resigned to sending them to an orphanage until Albert tells him about his own experience at one.
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| [CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: No Sweat
Season 9, episode 11 W: John Rappaport D: Burt Metcalfe With Jo Ann Thompson (Nurse). Margaret develops a painful and embarrassing physical ailment, Charles prepares a mammoth tax return, B.J. is disturbed by a letter from home, and Klinger takes the P.A. system apart -- just some of the events which occur during another unbearably hot night at the 4077th. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Life You Save
Season 9, episode 20 W: John Rappaport, Alan Alda D: Alan Alda With Gwen Farrell (Gwen), G.W. Bailey (Sgt. Rizzo), Meshach Taylor (Orderly), Val Bisoglio (Cook), Jim Boeke (Sgt. Chiaverini), Jack Kearney (Soldier), Jim Knaub (Pvt. Markham), Andrew Parks (Dying Soldier), Arthur Taxier (Surgeon), Paul Ventura (Soldier). Winchester goes on a spiritual journey after a near-death experience; Hawkeye experiences the problems of being the officer in charge of food services when Potter rotates the duty roster.
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| [ABC 9:00] Sixty Years Of Seduction [special]
James Garner, Angie Dickinson, Robert Urich and Victoria Principal are hosts for a sometimes amusing look at Hollywood's changing portrayal of sex and romance over the past six decades, starting with the first screen kiss in a 1915 Thomas Edison film -- a scene considered scandalous at the time.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Murder In Texas (1981), part two
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. Joan Robinson's father hires a leading medical exmainer to investigate the death of his daughter and pushes the prosecutor for an indictment against his physician son-in-law for "murder by omission".
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| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: Nude Girl
Season 2, episode 4 W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Bruce Bilson With Jeannie Wilson (Edie), Shauna Sullivan, Adrienne Moore (Nurse Francis), Ed Call (Harris). Ann defends one of the best nurses on the staff, who is being fired by the hospital adminstrator for posing nude in a men's magazine. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/8/1980)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Stroke
Season 4, episode 20 W: April Smith D: Roger Young With Alan Fudge (Fred Hill), Philip R. Allen (Marvin Hartley), Jim Antonio (Professor Williams), Paul Sparer (Dr. Goren), Harris Kal (Rick Henshaw), Stanley Kamel (Dr. Weyland), Pat Finley (Lilly), Susan McClung (Judy Crane), Victoria Johnson (Dana Ingram). Mrs. Pynchon suffers a stroke and, as she lies near death, the Trib's editors get into a fight with her money-hungry nephew over control of the newspaper.
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