Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 8, 1981:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	TV Movie: Rendezvous Hotel (1979)			Movie: Nunzio (1978)
ABC	Eight Is Enough: David's Rib (R)		The Love Boat: Maid For Each Other / Lost and Found / Then There Were Two (R)		Fantasy Island: Chorus Girl / Surrogate Father (R)
NBC	Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters (R)		Steve Allen Comedy Hour (R)		Games People Play (R)

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] TV Movie: Rendezvous Hotel (1979)
W: Clayton Baxter, Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: Peter Roger Hunt
With Bill Daily, Jeff Redford, Edward Winter, Dolph Sweet, Teddy Wilson, Severn Darden, Nellie Bellflower, Jeff Donnell, Carole Cook, Bruce French. High-strung resort hotel manager Walter Grainger hopes to ingratiate himself with a nationally renowned hotel critic while his irreverent staff are experiencing romantic angst.

[ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: David's Rib
Season 5, episode 11
W: Bruce Shelly D: Jack Bender
With Ivan Bonar (Professor Semenza), Ken Smolka (Animal Control Officer), Jack Griffin (Teamster). David and Janet oppose each other in court when David's construction firm is hired to restore an old building that Janet's law firm has been retained to have destroyed; Nicholas receives a horse as a present; Merle gets a surprise when he comes home to spend an evening with Susan. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/4/1981)

[NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Bobby Goldsboro, The Bellamy Brothers.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Maid For Each Other / Lost and Found / Then There Were Two
Season 4, episode 24
W: Henry Colman, Tony Webster D: Howard Morris
With Fred Willard (Richard Henderson), Karen Grassle (Paula), Belinda Montgomery (Karen), Howard Keel (Duncan Harlow), Gary Burghoff (Eddie Martin), Joe Namath (Ted Harper), Mary Wickes (Mrs. Randolph), Jane Powell (Aunt Loretta). Gopher's aunt is afraid to tell him she is no longer wealthy and has to work as a maid for another passenger. It becomes more complicated when she meets a charming passenger; a playboy hatches a scheme to get his best friend married off so that he can claim a cash windfall; an abandoned infant is soon in need of an emergency blood transfusion. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/9/1981)

[NBC 9:00] Steve Allen Comedy Hour [special]
With Larry Wilcox, Steve Lawrence.
(Repeat program)

[CBS 9:30] Movie: Nunzio (1978)
W: James Andronica D: P.W. Williams
With David Proval, Morgana King, Tovah Feldshuh, James Andronica, Joe Spinell, Glenn Scarpelli. A mentally retarded grocery deliveryman daydreams about being a superhero who can right the wrongs in his neighborhood.

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Chorus Girl / Surrogate Father
Season 4, episode 16
W: Ron Friedman, Skip Webster D: Richard Benedict
With Lisa Hartman (Sheila Richards), John Saxon (Evan Watkins), Stuart Whitman (Franklin Adams), Rosemary Forsyth (Margo Glenn), Nicole Eggert (Amy Watkins), Jason Evers (Ben), Joe Bennett (Maxim Leonard), Charles Picerni (Donovan), Nita DiGiampaolo (Elena). When a dance teacher gives his deaf pupil the gift of hearing, he runs the risk of losing her forever; if the loving father of a precocious 8-year-old girl fails to conquer his addiction to gambling, his daughter will be taken away. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1981)

[NBC 10:00] Games People Play [Reg] A custard pie throwing contest; tug-of-war between steelworkers and teamsters; a wheelchair athlete. (Repeat program)