Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday July 4, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Enos [Reg]: The Hostage
Season 1, episode 11 W: Ray Brenner D: Bruce Kessler With Robert Loggia (Paxton), Janet Julian (Carol), Jack O'Leary, George Caldwell, John Walter Davis (Burt Kreski). Enos and Turk become fugitives from the Secret Service in a desperate attempt to deliver engraving plates and save Lt. Broggi from the gang of counterfeiters who have taken him hostage. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1981)
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Strike
Season 5, episode 7 W: Bruce Shelly D: Seth Pinsker With James Karen (Elliott Randolph), Sandy Kenyon (Joe Jackson), Peggy Pope (Rowena), Richard Paul (Chuck), Tom Williams (Sydney Vector), James Staley (Inspector Carruthers), Ken Sansom (Byron), Freeman King (Officer), Robert Ackerman (George), Clint Young (Security Guard), Ben Kronen (Unemployment Clerk). With Tom out of work after he sides with striking typesetters at the newspaper, Nicholas suggests the family try the barter system to make ends meet. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1980)
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| [NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Ray Stevens. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1979)
W: Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna D: Fielder Cook With Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Paul Benjamin, Esther Rolle, Constance Good. Drama tracing the childhood of a bright, sensitive black girl during the Depression, who discovers poetry to ease the pain of growing up in the rural South. Based on Maya Angelou's memoirs.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Lose One, Win One / For The Record / Mind My Wife
Season 4, episode 15 W: Jill Baer, Sidney Morse, Christopher Vane D: Jack Arnold With Jill St. John (Sandy Wilson), Dorian Lopinto (Priscilla Henley / Penny Kipling), Ron Palillo (Casper Martin), Gina Hecht (Norma Kittredge), James Darren (Tony Streeter), Sam Chew Jr. (Buckstone Cooper III), Jim McKrell (Dr. Wilson). Doc is leery about entertaining his friend's amorous wife; a man tries to prove his friend holds a love-making record; a social-climbing fiancee runs into an old friend who may ruin her wedding plans. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1981)
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Woodstock (1970)
D: Michael Wadleigh Oscar-winning documentary on the outdoor concert performance and mass gathering in upstate New York in 1969.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: High Off The Hog / Reprisal
Season 4, episode 10 W: Skip Webster, Margaret Armen D: Mike Vejar With Maureen McCormick (Trudy Brown), Shecky Greene (Roger Fox), Janis Paige (Mabel Martin), Noah Beery Jr. (Otis T. Boggs), Dody Goodman (Mona Boggs), Misty Rowe (Emily Boggs), Bob Seagren (Chad), Stephen Shortridge (Hadley Boggs), Katherine Baumann (Kathi Fox), Ed Ruffalo (Frank), Lewis Arquette (Slocumb), Holly Gagnier (Janet Martin), Richard Gilliland (Bud Simmons). A hillbilly family from the Ozarks become millionaires for the weekend, and fall prey to unscrupulous con men; Trudy Brown abuses the power Mr. Roarke grants her to gain confidence and self esteem when her jealousy over her cousins' success in the Fantasy Island athletic competition nearly destroys her. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/10/1981)
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