Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 9, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Daydreams
Season 3, episode 10 W: Peter Torokvei D: Rod Daniel During Mr. Carlson's rehearsal of a dull speech, the staff daydreams about what they would most like to be: Herb as a Latin-American dictator, Jennifer as a '30s movie star, Les as a reporter covering the Blitz in 1940, Bailey as the President of the United States, Andy as a radio Mafioso, Venus as a standup comedian, and Johnny as a rock star. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1981)
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Starting Over
Season 5, episode 19 W: Stephanie Garman, Hollace White D: Harry Harris With Larry Gelman (Officer Bernstein), Dane Witherspoon (Rick), Don Matheson (Ross), Joel Brooks (Bennett), Ivan Naranjo (Chief Sun Bear), Don Dubbins (Allen), Morgan Hart (Dana), Jim Gatherum (Hobbs), Bill Calvert (Stosik). After being separated for several months, David and Janet meet and decide to give marriage another try.
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| [NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Jerry Reed.
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| [CBS 8:30] Movie: The Exorcist (1973)
W: William Peter Blatty D: William Friedkin With Max Von Sydow, Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb, Jason Miller, Kitty Wynn, Jack MacGowran. Thriller about the ancient rite performed upon a middle-class girl whose mysterious illness and violent behavior lead her mother to believe that she has been possessed by the Devil.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Maid For Each Other / Lost and Found / Then There Were Two
Season 4, episode 24 W: Henry Colman, Tony Webster D: Howard Morris With Fred Willard (Richard Henderson), Karen Grassle (Paula), Belinda Montgomery (Karen), Howard Keel (Duncan Harlow), Gary Burghoff (Eddie Martin), Joe Namath (Ted Harper), Mary Wickes (Mrs. Randolph), Jane Powell (Aunt Loretta). Gopher's aunt is afraid to tell him she is no longer wealthy and has to work as a maid for another passenger. It becomes more complicated when she meets a charming passenger; a playboy hatches a scheme to get his best friend married off so that he can claim a cash windfall; an abandoned infant is soon in need of an emergency blood transfusion.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: The Two Million Dollar Hustle
Season 3, episode 14 W: Robert McCullough, Michael Halperin, Tom Sawyer D: David G. Phinney With Edward Andrews (Uncle Barney), John Dullaghan (Nick), Bill Fletcher (Anthony Kemp), Jenny Neumann (Kate Morgan), Elizabeth Wickersham (Shelly). B.J. enlists an unlikely ally in his effort to bring down Rutherford T. Grant after the crooked captain frames a bank robbery on Samantha, Stacks and Angie. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Hard Knocks / Lady Godiva
Season 4, episode 22 W: George Schenck, Frank Cardea, Linda Elstad D: Don Weis With Michelle Phillips (Sheila Godfrey), Ken Berry (Lord Leo Pomeroy), Robert Sacchi (Humphrey Bogart), Gunilla Hutton (Lady Godiva), Martha Smith (Monica Hall), Patrick Wayne (John Apensdale), Philip Levien (Steve Pryor), Morgan Woodward (Hall), John Davis Chandler (Eddie Gunn), Michael Alldredge (Tom), Janet Brandt (Mady), Nina Axelrod (Doreen Rich). An ambitious young man gets some helpful pointers from Bogey himself as he sets out to become one of those hard-boiled private eyes of the 1940's; Sheila Godfrey wants to be an accomplished equestrienne, but gets much more than she bargained for when she becomes Lady Godiva.
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| [NBC 10:00] Walking Tall [Reg]: Deadly Impact
Season 1, episode 6 W: Gregory S. Dinallo D: Alexander Singer With Richard Herd (Philip Ballard), Gail Strickland (Lynn Hudson), Ken Swofford (Ed Morgan), James Whitmore Jr. (Tom Coleman), Ivan Bonar (Judge Hines), Richard Winterstein (Ralph Wilson), John Christy Ewing (D.A. Owens), Arthur Space (Ezra Cawley), Barbara Townsend (Mrs. Cawley), Peter Looney (Jack Toomey). When a pretty employee is murdered, Buford goes after the operators of a chemical plant that is dumping illegal quantities of hazardous by-products into the local river. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/24/1981)
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