Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday May 19, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Palmerstown, U.S.A. [Reg]: Dry Hole
Season 2, episode 8 W: Bud Freeman D: Georg Stanford Brown With Philip Abbott (Catter Dempsey), Rick Lenz (Tad), Sean Michael Rice (Rusty), Macon McCalman (Mayor). Convinced he'll strike it rich, W.D. risks his life savings backing oil exploration on what had been deemed a worthless plot of land.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Mother And Child Reunion
Season 8, episode 21 W: Fred Fox Jr., Babaloo Mandel D: Jerry Paris With Denis Mandel (Eugene Belvin), Harris Kal (Bobby), Janis Paige (Angela), Ray Girardin (Big Harold). Fonzie takes his auto shop class to an out-of-town junkyard and meets a waitress at a diner whom he thinks may be the mother who left him when he was a child.
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| [NBC 8:00] The Misadventures Of Sheriff Lobo [Reg]: The Girls With The Stolen Bodies
Season 2, episode 2 W: Mark Jones D: Dick Harwood With Richard Herd (Dr. Smith), Dave Madden (Sidney), Sondra Currie (Nurse), Boyd Bodwell (Harvey Myers), Deborah Benson (Candy Striper), Bill Capizzi (Mr. Makowitz). Lobo investigates when Perkins, hospitalized for a minor wound, reportedly dies on the operating table. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/6/1981)
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Sing, Sing, Sing
Season 6, episode 21 W: Ria Nepus, Deborah Raznick D: Cindy Williams Laverne asks Carmine to give her singing lessons so that she can perform on amateur night at Cowboy Bill's.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Violation Of Sarah McDavid (1981)
W: Charles Davis, Doug Wilson D: Fernando Lamas With Patty Duke, Ned Beatty, James Sloyan, Vernee Watson, Richard Venture, Ally Sheedy, James Karen, Victoria Racimo, Eric Stoltz. A schoolteacher who was assaulted in the classroom is torn between going to the police, or taking the principal's advice and keeping it quiet.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Honest Jack Tripper
Season 5, episode 22 W: Mark Tuttle D: Dave Powers With Anne Schedeen (Lisa Page), Shell Kepler (Luanne). Jack learns that honesty is not always the best policy when he agrees to tell the absolute truth.
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| [NBC 9:00] Hill Street Blues [Reg]: Rites Of Spring
Season 1, episode 14 W: Michael Kozoll, Steven Bochco, Anthony Yerkovich D: Gregory Hoblit With Tony Perez (Perez), Vincent Lucchesi (Captain Fuchs), Terry Alexander (Theo Monroe), Jim Tartan (Metzger), Charles Hallahan (Charlie Weeks), James Remar (Beau Gregory), Van Nessa Clarke (Shirret Anders), Mimi Rogers (Sandra Paully), Freddye Chapman (Denise Thompson), Jack Andreozzi (John 'Sal' Amico), Sam Scarber (Dr. Redman), Frantz Turner (Ralph Prentiss), Neil Brooks Cunningham (John Hurley), Jan Stratton (Dr. Rogatz). Furillo and Neal go out of their way to help clear an obnoxious, racist narcotics detective accused of shooting an unarmed black man; LaRue's drinking gets really out of hand; Hill and Renko try to help a young black woman accused of neglecting her children.
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| [ABC 9:30] Too Close For Comfort [Reg]: The Boy In The Band
Season 1, episode 12 W: Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Russ Petranto With Dick Gautier (Rich Holland). Rich Holland, Muriel's old drummer, is in town. Rich takes a liking to Jackie, which does not exactly thrill Muriel. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/10/1981)
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| [ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Murder Takes A Bow
Season 2, episode 19 W: Mary Ann Kasica, Michael Scheff D: Harry Winer With Wynn Irwin (Lt. Grey), Anthony Newley (Tony Vacarro), Bibi Besch (Estelle Vacarro), Lurene Tuttle (Millie), Larry Breeding (Frank Jordan), Jerry Stiller (Myron Finkle), Gino Conforti (Hy Stoner), Patti Jerome (Mrs. Perkins), Stephen Lee (Larry Anderson), Richard Minchenberg (Lew Elliott). When a playwright friend of the Harts' is killed and the Harts' copy of his last work is snatched, Jonathan is convinced something in the play motivated the murderer.
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