Friday July 17, 1981
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Friday July 17, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Incredible Hulk: Wax Museum (R) The Dukes Of Hazzard: Granny Annie (R) Dallas: End Of The Road (2) (R)
ABC Benson: Rivals (R) I'm A Big Girl Now: Let's Give Ben A Hand (R) Movie: Drive-In (1976)
NBC Harper Valley P.T.A.: Mayor Bobby (R) Dear Teacher Movie: The Other Side Of The Mountain, Part II (1978)


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Wax Museum
Season 4, episode 10
W: Carol Baxter   D: Dick Harwood

With Christine Belford (Leigh Gamble), Ben Hammer (Mr. Kelleher), Max Showalter (Walter Gamble), Kiki Castillo (Andy), Natalie Masters (Woman), Michael Horsley (News Vendor). David takes a job at a wax museum, assisting a woman who has been suffering from hallucinations ever since her father died in a fire.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/13/1981)

[ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Rivals
Season 2, episode 14
W: Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman   D: John Rich

With Marian Mercer (Trudi). Kraus' childhood rival in Germany, whose boasting she has endured for years, is on her way to America and expects to find the cook married to the Governor.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1981)

[NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: Mayor Bobby
Season 1, episode 11
W: Jordan Moffet   D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

With Bill Smillie (Inspector), Kevin Scannell (Coach Powell), Vic Dunlop (George Kelly). Stella becomes Mayor Harper's campaign manager when Flora, angered by the granting of an entertainment license to Kelly's Bar, decides to run her son-in-law against the kindly old mayor.
(Repeat program, originally aired 4/3/1981)

[ABC 8:30] I'm A Big Girl Now [Reg]: Let's Give Ben A Hand
Season 1, episode 10
W: Marc Sotkin   D: Doug Rogers

With Kip Gilman (Dr. Wilson), Barry Gordon (Jerry). Ben becomes even more ornery after Walter smashes his hand with a tennis racket, leaving Ben fearful that he will no longer be able to practice dentistry.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/23/1981)

[NBC 8:30] Dear Teacher [special]
W: John Baskin, Roger Shulman   D: Herbert Kenwith

With Melinda Culea, Rebecca York, Ted Danson, Nan Martin, John Welsh, David Hollander. Pilot for a comedy series. A fifth grade teacher learns that the man of her dreams is the father of her most precocious student.

[CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: Granny Annie
Season 2, episode 10
W: Bruce Howard   D: Dick Moder

With Lurene Tuttle (Granny Annie Coggins), Mickey Jones (B.B. Davenport), George Murdock (Big Jim Downey), George James (Vic), Pamela Bryant (Holly Mae), The Oak Ridge Boys. Eccentric local artist Granny Annie pays Bo and Luke for some chores with funny money, and when Boss Hogg learns that there is a counterfeiter in Hazzard he schemes to get possession of the engraving plates.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/23/1979)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: Drive-In (1976)
W: Bob Peete   D: Rod Amateau

With Glenn Morshower, Lisa Lemole, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Billy Milliken, Reagan Kee, Trey Wilson. The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.

[NBC 9:00] Movie: The Other Side Of The Mountain, Part II (1978)
W: Douglas Day Stewart   D: Larry Peerce

With Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Nan Martin, Belinda Montgomery, Gretchen Corbett, William Bryant, June Dayton, Charles Frank, George Petrie. Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend the summer in their hometown of Bishop, California.

[CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: End Of The Road (2)
Season 4, episode 12
W: Leonard Katzman   D: Irving J. Moore

With Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Joel Fabiani (Alex Ward), Barbara Babcock (Liz Craig), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Monte Markham (Clint Ogden), William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell), Jeanna Michaels (Connie), Karlene Crockett (Muriel Gillis), Ted Gehring (Brady York), Robert Rockwell (Minister), Anne Francis (Arliss Cooper). At the wedding of Lucy and Mitch, Sue Ellen makes a play for an old boyfriend to get even for J.R.'s "interest" in Mitch's sister; Bobby resigns as president of Ewing Oil; Miss Ellie accuses Jock of behavior for which she can never forgive him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/23/1981)

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