Prime-time network TV listings for Friday August 21, 1981:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Good Evening, Captain [special]
With Jean Stapleton, Barbara Mandrell, Mike Farrell. A salute to the long-running children's series "Captain Kangaroo" and its star, Bob Keeshan.
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Homework
Season 2, episode 18 W: Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman D: John Rich Katie recalls several funny experiences while writing a school essay about her father, Benson, and other members of the staff. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/3/1981)
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| [NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: Mail And Female
Season 1, episode 3 W: Jerry Ross D: Alan Myerson With Enid Kent (Mrs. Crowley), Jerry Anderson (Jessie Crowdy), Robert Gray (Cliff Willoughby). Flora and the PTA members keep tabs on Stella by monitoring her mail, but Stella gets even by planting a phony letter from an imaginary middle eastern princess who just happens to be visiting Harper Valley. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/30/1981)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Krypton Factor [Reg]
An obstacle course race with dune buggies; an electronic shoot-out game.
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| [NBC 8:30] Why Us? [special]
W: Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming D: John Bowab With Joanna Gleason, John Lawlor, Kim Richards, Lauri Hendler, Lance Guest. Comedy pilot. The teenage daughters of a recently married couple -- a female auto mechanic and a professor at U.C.L.A. -- vie for the attentions of a handsome college student.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: R.I.P. Henry Flatt
Season 2, episode 22 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Denver Pyle With Hal Smith (Henry Flatt), Audrey Landers (Gail Flatt), Jim English (Morgue Attendant), Mallie Jackson (Peggy). Hogg's plan to plow up a cemetery rattles a con man who's supposedly dead and buried there. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/14/1980)
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| [ABC 9:00] NFL Preseason Football
Los Angeles Rams vs. San Diego Chargers.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Fast Friends (1979)
W: Sandra Harmon D: Steven Hilliard Stern With Carrie Snodgress, Dick Shawn, David Letterman, Mackenzie Phillips, Edie Adams, Michael Parks, Jed Allan, Elayne Heilveil, Tom Hallick, Denise DeBarry. A young divorced woman struggles to raise her young son and to succeed at her new job on the staff of a TV talk show, where she becomes close to the show's head writer.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: The New Mrs. Ewing
Season 4, episode 17 W: Linda Elstad D: Patrick Duffy With Susan Flannery (Leslie Stewart), Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Joel Fabiani (Alex Ward), Morgan Woodward (Punk Anderson), Jeff Cooper (Dr. Simon Elby), Monte Markham (Clint Ogden), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Fern Fitzgerald (Marilee Stone), Robert Sampson (Justin Carlisle). Donna and Ray are married, however the cold war between Jock and Miss Ellie escalates; Bobby forms a new business alliance with Cliff Barnes, but his growing jealousy over Pam forces a confrontation with Alex Ward. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/27/1981)
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