Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 7, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Indiscretion
Season 9, episode 18 W: E.F. Wallengren D: James Sheldon With Tony Becker (Drew Cutler), Victoria Carroll (Nina Sue), Alvy Moore (Frank Sims), Dana Craig (Deputy Bull). Corabeth finds an old love letter in Ike's belongings and decides she wants a divorce, then she moves moves into the Walton home; Drew and Elizabeth celebrate their one-year anniversary.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mindy And Mork
Season 3, episode 20 W: Brian Levant D: Howard Storm With Elinor Donahue (Dr. Joni Lincoln). Mindy and Mork reverse roles when Mindy works late hours on a new TV call-in show, and Mork has to do the housework.
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
Jack Perkins reports on pending legislation that could have traumatic effects on the families of adopted children; Garrick Utley investigates fraudulent operations in the health care industry; David Brinkley presents another segment in his series "Saga of a Thoroughbred".
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| [ABC 8:30] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: Gotta Dance
Season 1, episode 10 W: David Lerner, Bruce Ferber D: Will Mackenzie With Frank Birney (Mr. Gregory), Al Eisenmann (Mikey), Nyla Rogers (Audrey), Tommy Peel (Chad). Kip uses the public library commercial he's directing as an excuse to hire Sonny as a dancer, hoping to kick-start her career and keep her from returning home to Michigan. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: The Curse Of The King Kamehameha Club
Season 1, episode 11 W: Babs Greyhosky D: Winrich Kolbe With Gretchen Corbett (Christine Richards), Lew Ayres (Sidney Dollinger), Manu Tupou (Charlie Kalo), Herman Wedemeyer (Coroner), Sol Bright (Makua), Elizabeth Smith (Mrs. Macao), Jo Pruden (Doctor), Robert Oldt (Henry Lewis), Remi Abellira (Moki). Just as Rick is organizing a surf-ski competition to be held at the King Kamehameha Club, an elderly Kahuna appears and places a "curse" on the club and all who use it. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/19/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Vests
Season 7, episode 20 W: Nat Mauldin D: Noam Pitlik With Don Calfa (Arthur Thompson), Alice Hirson (Dorothy St. Clair), Warren Munson (John Norvis). The detectives are reluctant to wear their new bulletproof vests; Luger interviews them in case of the need for a quick obituary.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), part one
W: George Lefferts D: George Schaefer With Ellen Burstyn, Martin Balsam, Richard Dysart, Peter Coyote, Al Ruscio, Priscilla Morrill, Milton Selzer, Alan Manson. Dramatization of the recent trial of the girls' school headmistress who was convicted of the murder of her longtime lover, the famed Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: On The Job (1)
Season 3, episode 18 W: Dennis Danziger, Ellen Sandler D: James Burrows With Tom Castranova (Tommy), Alice Hirson (Housewife), Bill Wiley (George Givens), Carmine Caridi (Lou-Lou), John O'Leary (Priest), John Petlock (Chairman of the Board), Robert Balderson (Mr. Barrett). A layoff causes the gang to scatter and find other employment, and they meet at Mario's a month later to tell stories about their new jobs.
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| [CBS 10:00] Nurse [Reg]: Best Friends
Season 1, episode 6 W: William Parker, John Weldon D: James Sheldon With Michael Tolan (Dr. Shaw), Elizabeth Perry (Christine), Joe Silver (Agnello), Joan Copeland (Beverly Thompson), Jacqueline Brooks (Dr. Patman), Hillary B. Smith (Tina), Jenny Wright, Joseph Adams. Mary feels her effectiveness as a nurse may be threatened when a close friend is admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt and then insinuates she once had an affair with Mary's late husband.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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