Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 7, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Half Nelson
Season 4, episode 16 W: Andrew Schneider D: Barry Crane With Cecelia Holman (Tina), Jimmy Briscoe (Jack), Luis Cortes (Pete), Charles Sweigart (Jimmy), Wesley Thompson (Bill), Sandy Dryfoos (Marsha), Elaine Joyce (Mitzi), Joey Forman (Promoter), David Himes (Kelly), Paul Henry Itkin (Channing), H.B. Haggerty (Gregor), Tommy Madden (Steven 'Buster' Caldwell). David travels to Baltimore and meets Buster Caldwell, a midget wrestler with a big mouth that gets both of them in trouble. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/17/1981)
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Masquerade
Season 2, episode 4 W: Rick McCurdy, Jeff Levin D: John Rich With Luis Avalos (Alonzo), Julio Medina (Ambassador Corzo), James Martinez (Lou), Carlos Rivas (Howard). The Governor is hosting a dinner to raise money for a hospital in a third world country, and Clayton requires the entire staff to attend in costume. During the dinner, a group of revolutionaries seeks to steal a golden statue from the mansion. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1980)
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| [NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: To Dunk Or Not To Dunk
Season 1, episode 1 W: Lloyd Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz D: Bruce Bilson With Enid Kent (Mrs. Crowley), Matthew Ansara (Teenager), Vic Dunlop (George Kelly), Robert Gray (Cliff Willoughby). Premiere of a new series starring Barbara Eden. A misunderstanding leads to Stella being kicked off the school carnival commitee for allegedly having an affair with the mayor, but she cooks up a plot with Cassie to get even with the snobbish PTA members. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1981)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Krypton Factor [Reg]
The first of a five-part series in which four Americans pit their mental and physical prowess against each other. Tests for the competitors include electronic home video games, brianteasers, obstacle courses and short-term memory challenges. Dick Clark is the host.
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| [NBC 8:30] Movie: The Slipper And The Rose (1976)
W: Bryan Forbes, Robert Sherman, Richard Sherman D: Bryan Forbes With Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Edith Evans, Kenneth More. In this musical retelling of Cinderella, the king of Euphrania is determined to find his son a wife who will provide a political alliance to prevent war, but Prince Edward wants to marry for love.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: The Legacy
Season 3, episode 11 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Hollingsworth Morse With Jan Clayton (Lucinda Meadows), Gregory Walcott (Hatcher), Jack Garner (Blaine), Jay Ripley (Deputy Wilbur Fudge). Uncle Jesse's old flame visits Hazzard in search of the legacy left by her late moonshining husband -- and to settle an old score with Boss Hogg. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: The Posession Of Joel Delaney (1972)
W: Matt Robinson, Irene Kemp D: Waris Hussein With Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, David Elliott, Lisa Kohane. A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: The Quest
Season 4, episode 15 W: Robert J. Shaw D: Gunnar Hellstrom With Susan Flannery (Leslie Stewart), Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Joel Fabiani (Alex Ward), Ron Hayes (Hank Johnson), Jeff Cooper (Dr. Simon Elby), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Monte Markham (Clint Ogden), Len Birman (Claude Brown), Woody Eney (Appleton), Martin West (Phil McKenna), Anne Francis (Arliss Cooper), John Lehne (Kyle Bennett). J.R. uses his influence to make sure that Cliff Barnes does not get chosen for public office; Sue Ellen can't get anyone -- including J.R. -- to believe that she is being followed, so she takes matters into her own hands. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/13/1981)
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