Saturday August 15, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday August 15, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Pen 'n' Inc. NFL Preseason Football
ABC Eight Is Enough: Vows (R) The Love Boat: Lady From Sunshine Gardens / Eye Of The Beholder / Bugged (R) Fantasy Island: Also Rans / Portrait Of Solange (R)
NBC Russian Circus Kaleidoscope Greatest Heroes Of The Bible: Abraham's Sacrifice (R) Poland Today


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News
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Variety
Comedy

Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Pen 'n' Inc. [special]
W: Paul Belous, Robert Wolterstorff   D: Jack Shea

With Matt McCoy, Brianne Leary, Peter Hobbs, Fred Willard, Andra Akers, Doug Cox, Charles Thomas Murphy. Comedy pilot about a staff artist on a conservative, small-town newspaper in Connecticut who tries to convince his publisher to print his political cartoons.

[ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Vows
Season 5, episode 12
W: Gary Adelson, Gil Grant   D: Irving J. Moore

With Kari Michaelsen (Lisa), Joe Ross (Irving Katzman), Shirley Freemond (Dr. Stein), Alice Nunn (Horace's Wife), Kipp Lennon (Benson), William Callaway (Rev. Billy), John J. Fox (Horace), Tina Carlisi (Nola), Laura Saylor (Felicia). Tom and Abby prepare to renew their vows; David and Janet shock the family by announcing that they are legally separating; Jeremy finds a new girlfriend.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1981)

[NBC 8:00] Russian Circus Kaleidoscope [special] Williard Scott is emcee for a special featuring Russian circus acts, including an elephant that plays soccer with the audience, a juggler on horseback, a trained bear act and a clown on a unicycle.

[CBS 8:30] NFL Preseason Football Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Rams.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Lady From Sunshine Gardens / Eye Of The Beholder / Bugged
Season 4, episode 18
W: Sidney Morse, Tony Webster, Evelyn Marienberg   D: Harry Mastrogeorge

With Dick Martin (George Crichton), Barbi Benton (Cathy Somms), Mary Ann Mobley (Marion Vail), Lelsie Uggams (Callie Reason), Peter Haskell (Wendell Carson), Judith Chapman (Nancy Atwell), David Hedison (Allan Christensen), Thelma Carpenter (Dora). A practicing nudist gets help from an attorney when she wants to bare it all; an overly suspicious man has a surprise in store when he meets a woman who is not what she appears to be.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1981)

[NBC 9:00] Greatest Heroes Of The Bible: Abraham's Sacrifice [special]
W: Norman Lessing, Brian Russel   D: Jack Hively

With Ed Ames (Lot), Gene Barry (Abraham), Ross Martin (Zingar), Beverly Garland (Sarah), Andrew Duggan (King Herabol). The Hebrew patriarch seeks God's help in producing a son.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Also Rans / Portrait Of Solange
Season 4, episode 17
W: Judy Burns, Ron Friedman   D: Leslie H. Martinson

With Macdonald Carey (Alfred Gerrard), Arlene Dahl (Amelia Selby), Larry Linville (Jerome Pepper), David Groh (Mark Ellison), Joan Prather (Delia Latham), Don Porter (Emmett Latham), Elissa Leeds (Solange Latienne). A shy shoe salesman hopes to catch the attention of the girl he's loved from afar for seven years; Mr. Roarke grants Tattoo a birthday wish to become an artist, but Tattoo falls in love with the girl he is painting.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/28/1981)

[NBC 10:00] Poland Today An NBC News special report examining the current political and economic problems in Poland, and why they make Moscow uneasy, with Marvin Kalb and reports from various European correspondents.

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