Prime-time network TV listings for Monday May 25, 1981:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back [special]
Examines the technology behind cinematic special effects, with clips from "The Empire Strikes Back", "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Mark Hamill is the host.
(Repeat program)
|
| [ABC 8:00] Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band [special]
With Johnny Cash, Roger Miller, Dottie West. A country music and comedy special.
|
| [NBC 8:00] Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Birthday Party [special]
With George C. Scott, Mickey Rooney, Mary Martin, Glen Campbell, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Bush, Robert Urich, Elizabeth Taylor, Brooke Shields. Stars join Mr. Hope at West Point for his 78th birthday celebration.
|
| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Taking The Fifth
Season 9, episode 9 W: Elias Davis, David Pollock D: Charles S. Dubin With Judy Farrell (Nurse Able), Jan Jorden (Baker), Charles Hallahan (Colin Turnbull), Susan Berger (Nurse), Margie Impert (Lt. Palmer). Hawkeye tries to break out of his dating slump by using a bottle of vintage wine to lure unsuspecting nurses into his lair; Potter tries to secure a different sort of anesthetic when the Army threatens to ban a painkiller. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/19/1981)
|
| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Jericho Mile (1979)
W: Patrick J. Nolan, Michael Mann D: Michael Mann With Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Brian Dennehy, Geoffrey Lewis, Roger E. Mosley, Ed Lauter, William Prince, Billy Green Bush, Beverly Todd, Richard Moll. An prison inmate serving a life sentence is offered a chance to start a new life if he is williing to train and become an Olympic runner.
|
| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: My Son, The Anarchist
Season 2, episode 13 W: Laurie Gelman D: Ray Austin With Jerry Douglas (Sgt. Fox), Martin Garner (Sam Gerber), Stanley Kamel (Lenny), Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan). Ann and Charley help a wanted man sneak into the hospital to visit his dying father. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/16/1981)
|
| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Catch
Season 4, episode 8 W: Michele Gallery D: Roger Young With Cliff Potts (Ted McCovey), Jordan Charney (Karl Buckner), Robert Hirschfeld (Vern Eggly), Eve McVeagh (Claire), Erin Donovan (Laurel Gough). Billie has trouble separating business from pleasure after she interviews a professional baseball player and falls in love with him. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/5/1981)
|
| [NBC 10:00] Women Who Rate A '10' [special]
With Victoria Principal, Raquel Welch, Jacqueline Bisset, Ursula Andress, Britt Ekland, Gil Gerard, Wilfrid Hyde-White. Morgan Fairchild, Erik Estrada and Howard Hesseman are hosts for a look at the many forms of female beauty, from Mae West and Marilyn Monroe to Dolly Parton and Miss Piggy. (Repeat program)
|