Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 6, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] What's Good For General Motors
Correspondent Marlene Sanders reports on Detroit's controversial plan to raze Poletown, an ethnic community, to make room for a General Motors factory and the jobs the company promises to provide for some of the city's unemployed.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork, The Swinging Single
Season 3, episode 15 W: Wendy Kout D: Howard Storm With Bill Kirchenbauer (Todd Norman Taylor), Catherine Campbell (Pepper), Wendy Hoffman (Sheri). Mindy tells Mork she thinks they should date other people. Mork then takes lessons from a swinger and turns into a party animal. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1981)
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
Jack Perkins reports on women who marry men who are in jail; David Brinkley profiles cartoonist Charles M. Schulz; Douglas Kiker looks at the dangerous bar sport of riding mechanical bulls.
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| [ABC 8:30] Barney Miller [Reg]: Lady And The Bomb
Season 7, episode 18 W: Lee H. Grant D: Noam Pitlik With Peggy Pope (Doris Carlisle), Abe Vigoda (Phil Fish), Howard Mann (Lou Carlisle), Judson Morgan (Frederick Houston), James Murtaugh (Ron Giles), Ben Freedman (Milton Corshak). The verdict in the Harris/Ripner libel suit is delivered; a woman threatens to blow up the squad room with a homemade pressure-cooker bomb; Fish pops in for a surprise visit. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/9/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Lest We Forget
Season 1, episode 10 W: Donald P. Bellisario D: Lawrence Doheny With David Palmer (Dutch Mueller), June Lockhart (Diane Westmore Pauley - 1981), Anne Lockhart (Diane Westmore - 1941), Miguel Ferrer (Bobby Wickes - 1941), Scatman Crothers (Tickler), Jose Ferrer (Judge Robert Caine), Elizabeth Lindsey (Kiki), Sonny Ching (Maku), Patricia Herman (Jessie), Remi Abellira (Moki), Reri Tava Jobe (Hostess). A man nominated to be a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court asks Magnum to find a woman he last saw on December 6, 1941, when he was a young Navy ensign and she was a hooker. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/12/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Liquidation
Season 7, episode 22 W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Noam Pitlik With Alex Henteloff (Arnold Ripner), Martin Garner (Martin Golden), James Cromwell (Jason Parrish), Walter Olkewicz (Walter Cushing). Harris is forced to liquidate his possessions to pay off his lawsuit; a mental patient sings his way into jail. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/21/1981)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Secret War Of Jackie's Girls (1980)
W: Theodore Jonas, D. Guthrie D: Gordon Hessler With Mariette Hartley, Lee Purcell, Ann Dusenberry, Sheila MacRae, Dee Wallace, Don Knight, Tracy Brooks Swope, Ben Murphy, Curt Lowens. A pilot for a prospective series about World War II female fliers on covert missions behind enemy lines.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Bobby And The Critic
Season 3, episode 17 W: Barry Kemp D: James Burrows With John Harkins (John Bowman). After reading a nasty review of a play by a powerful critic, Bobby decides to compose a letter attacking the man but comes to regret it. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/30/1981)
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| [CBS 10:00] Knots Landing [Reg]: A State Of Mind
Season 2, episode 11 W: Robert Gilmer D: Alexander Singer With Bobby Jacoby (Brian), Danny Gellis (Jason), Bernard Behrens (Michael Maddox), Chip Frye (Young Man), Barry Jenner (Jeff Cunningham). When her ex files for custody of their children by accusing her of immoral behavior and child neglect, Abby fights back with her most effective weapon: sex. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/5/1981)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20: If You Were The President
A simulated crisis management exercise with present and former government officials provides a behind-the-scenes look at decision making at the top and how the president and his advisiors might respond to a major terrorist threat.
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