Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday June 11, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Prodigals
Season 8, episode 15 W: Robert Pirosh D: Stan Lathan With Lynn Hamilton (Verdie Foster), James Bond III (Josh Foster), Macon McCalman (Deputy Sheriff), Christopher Metas (Private). Josh and Jeffrey break into Ike Godsey's store, a robbery which forces him to go out of business; after being humiliated by a solider in uniform Ben decides to enlist. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/17/1980)
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork In Never Never Land
Season 3, episode 2 W: Wendy Kout D: Howard Storm With David Spielberg (Peter Pan), Virginia Capers (Nurse Tula), Dick Yarmy (Sid). Mork discovers that his pen pal is living at an insane asylum and believes that he is Peter Pan; Mindy anxiously awaits word of whether she's received a college scholarship. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1980)
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
The results of a scientist's study of long-separated twins; the Afghanistan war zone one year after the invasion by Soviet forces; efforts by the king of Tonga to lure investors to his South Seas kindgom. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:30] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: Revenge
Season 1, episode 8 W: Leonard Ripps D: John Tracy With Philip Charles MacKenzie (Walter Hardy). The girls hatch a scheme to embarass a snobby congressional aide after he dumps Amy for another woman at a costume party. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/22/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Adelaide
Season 1, episode 14 W: Robert Hamilton D: Lawrence Doheny With Christine Belford (Adelaide Malone), Cameron Mitchell (Charles Cathcart), Don Lamond (William McDonald #1), Allan Kucin (William McDonald #2), Gray Gleason (Tony), Tremaine Tamayose (Ring Attendant), Deborah Takushi (Waitress). A woman hires Magnum to protect 'Norman', but the case takes an unexpected turn when Magnum finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is a prized racehorse. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/19/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Homicide (1)
Season 7, episode 1 W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Noam Pitlik With Jack Dodson (Henry St. Martin), Harold J. Stone (Steven Haddad), Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Stratton), Tricia O'Neil (Alex Kramer), Allyn Ann McLerie (Harriet Shulton), Al Ruscio (Mr. Roth), Jack Somack (Mr. Cotterman), Johnny Silver (Kingman). When the NYPD restructures its precincts as specialty squads, Inspector Luger pulls some strings and gets the 12th assigned as a homicide squad. Business is good; a man murders his barber and a woman hires a hit man to kill her husband -- then changes her mind. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1980)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Adventures Of Nellie Bly (1981)
W: S.S. Schweitzer D: Henning Schellerup With Linda Purl, J.D. Cannon, Gene Barry, John Randolph, Ray Buktenica, Paul Sylvan, Cliff Osmond, Fran Ryan, Elayne Heilveil, Milton Selzer. Dramatization of the story of pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly, a crusading reporter in New York City in the 1800's who gets involved with her stories of human peril and corruption.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Latka's Cookies
Season 3, episode 8 W: Glen Charles, Les Charles D: James Burrows With Wally Amos (Himself). Latka's inherits his grandmother's cookie recipe upon her death. He intends to go into business with the recipe, but there's a catch -- it contains a special ingredient. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1981)
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| [CBS 10:00] Knots Landing [Reg]: Hitchhike (1)
Season 2, episode 1 W: Don Murray D: Edward Parone With Louise Vallance (Sylvie), Bobby Jacoby (Brian Cunningham), Ruth Cox (Pam Messinger), Conchata Ferrell (Mrs. Messinger), Richard Venture (Simpson), Ron Rifkin (Stan Lesser), John Hammond (Kevin), Ron Lombard (Rodney), Robert Phalen (Carlisle), Terrence Knox (Agent Smith), James Purcell (Agent Bright), Stanley Grover (Lt. Spatz), Don Starr (Judge), Matthew Faison (Professor). Sid Fairgate picks up a young hitchhiker and believes he is saving her from harassment. When she later asks him for money and he refuses, she goes to the police and accuses him of attempted rape. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/20/1980)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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