Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday June 24, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: If Your Number's Up, Get It Down
Season 3, episode 4 W: Joshua Brand D: Mark Tinker With Jimmie Walker (Himself), Elgin Baylor (Himself), Sparky Anderson (Himself), Willie Tyler (Himself), Roosevelt Grier (Himself), Red Auerbach (Himself), Chet Walker (Himself), Sandra Will (Marlene Sandler), Edmund Stoiber (Mr. Wexler), Carl Byrd (Dr. Sanders), Robin Braxton (Miss March). To get sports celebrities' help in raising funds for a community mobile health care unit, the Carver High team organizes a "memorial" dinner for Coach Reeves by spreading the word that he has died. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/16/1980)
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| [ABC 8:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Let Our Angel Live
Season 5, episode 17 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Kim Manners With Gary Wood (Joe Danworth), George Ball (Dr. Jackson), Michael Witney (Police Officer). While tracking an embezzler, Kelly is badly wounded and rushed to the hospital. Bosley and the other Angels keep a vigil for Kelly and reminisce about her adventures with the group while discussing the pros and cons of gun control. (Last show of the series.)
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A look at a squirrel that flies by hang glider; a train ride through the Alaskan wilderness; a visit to the annual Doo-Dah Parade in Pasadena, Calif.; a group of gigolos discuss themselves and their way of life; a report on a reunion in Dallas of Japanese-American World War II pilots.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Mahogany (1975)
W: John Byrum D: Berry Gordy With Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Beah Richards, Nina Foch, Jean-Pierre Aumont. A girl from a Chicago ghetto puts herself through fashion school and fulfills her fantasy as she becomes an internationally famous model and dress designer -- but the experience is fraught with problems from her lover and a wealthy man who wants a high personal price to assure her success.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: A Small Town In Texas (1976)
W: William Norton D: Jack Starrett With Timothy Bottoms, Susan George, Bo Hopkins, Morgan Woodward, John Karlen, Art Hindle. An ex-con returns to his hometown to reclaim his son and the woman he loves from the crooked sheriff who sent him away on a phony drug charge.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: The Magician
Season 3, episode 15 W: Louis Smallwood, M. Martez Thomas, Ed Jurist D: Gerren Keith With Veronica Redd (Ms. Buxton), Ed 'Too Tall' Jones (Himself). Arnold's "famous" magic disappearing act, designed to impress a magazine reporter and special guest star Dallas Cowboys' defensive end Ed "Too Tall" Jones, leaves him dangerously high and dry, with no place to go but down -- about 30 stories. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/11/1981)
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| [NBC 9:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: Bought And Sold
Season 2, episode 13 W: Linda Marsh, Margie Peters D: John Bowab With Zsa Zsa Gabor (Countess Calvet), Todd Bridges (Willis Drummond). Blair is selling Countess Calvet cosmetics, and she uses Natalie as a model. Natalie sells something of value so she can afford to impess Blair by making a large purchase. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/11/1981)
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Last Rights
Season 6, episode 1 W: Sam Egan D: Georg Fenady With Warren Stevens (Wayne Fields), Ben Hammer (Senator Kane), Clifton James (Cliff Webb), Philip Abbott (Bill Sullivan), William Daniels (Dr. Volmer), Bruce Gray (Dr. Robert Miles), Peggy Stuart (Ethel Sullivan), Buck Young (Sheriff Ivy), Christopher LeBlanc (Ned Duncan), Peg Shirley (Bea Thatcher), Shannon Farnon (Helen Volmer), Ivan Bonar (Simon Grossland). Quincy helps a medical examiner deal with a pair of political scandals involving the death of children of influential persons by tainted drugs, and the unsafe condition at a mill which is the main economic force in the small town. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1980)
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