Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 11, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Lynda Carter's Celebration [special]
With Ray Charles, Jerry Reed, Chris Evert. A variety special featuring the actress and her guests in mirth and song.
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
A profile of a gifted psychic who assists police in finding missing persons; a report on a device that helps control pain; a visit with a group of amputee skydivers.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Lost Ones (2)
Season 7, episode 22 W: Don Balluck D: Michael Landon With Len Wayland (Isaiah Tompkins), Jason Bateman (James Cooper), Missy Francis (Cassandra Cooper), Barbara Tarbuck (Beth Tompkins), Randy Norton (Seth Tompkins). Charles and Caroline find adoptive parents for Cassandra and James, but are forced to act when they learn of the cruel punishment which the children are suffering in their new home.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Letters
Season 9, episode 2 W: Dennis Koenig D: Charles S. Dubin With Shari Saba (Nurse), Eileen Saki (Rosie), Larry Cedar (Soldier), Michael Currie (Dr. Brewer), Richard Paul (Capt. Bainbridge). The staff of the 4077th reflect on their wartime experiences when they answer letters from schoolchildren in Hawkeye's home town of Crabapple Cove. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/24/1980)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Best Little Girl In The World (1981)
W: David Moessinger D: Sam O'Steen With Charles Durning, Eva Marie Saint, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Viveca Lindfors, Jason Miller, David Spielberg, Richard Venture, Melanie Mayron, Lisa Pelikan. A variety of pressures build on a seemingly perfect teenager, and she begins to display symptoms of anorexia nervosa -- the obsession with dieting that sometimes results in starvation.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Star Maker (1981), part one
W: William Bast D: Lou Antonio With Rock Hudson, Suzanne Pleshette, Brenda Vaccaro, Melanie Griffith, Jeffrey Tambor, Fred Dryer, Fred Sadoff, Jim Antonio, Ed McMahon, Titos Vandis. The story of a Hollywood director with a knack for transforming ingenues into international startlets -- and then turning the starlets into his wives.
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| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: In Case Of Emergency
Season 2, episode 8 W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer, Julie Friedgen D: Allen Baron With Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler). Charley discovers that he is supposed to be on duty in the emergency room on the night of his planned date with Ann. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/12/1981)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Pack
Season 4, episode 3 W: Steve Kline D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Eileen Heckart (Flo Meredith), Ed Nelson (Jim Carlisle), John Hillerman (Sturbridge), James Callahan (Stephens), Ivor Francis (Haywood), Joe Regalbuto (Benson), Jorge Cervera Jr. (Sheriff Nunez), Buck Young (Mayor). Billie tours with a senatorial candidate to conduct an investigation, and finds that the politics of the press corps is the toughest part of the assignment. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1980)
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