Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 24, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Till Debt Do Us Part
Season 3, episode 21 W: Howard Hesseman, Steven Kampmann D: Frank Bonner With Ruth Silveira (Paula), Hamilton Camp (Buddy Gravers), Naomi Serotoff (Abdul's Wife). When Johnny learns that his first ex-wife is planning to remarry, he is overjoyed at the thought of not having to pay alimony and celebrates by inviting Bailey to take a trip with him. But he feels less happy about the situation when he meets the obnoxious womanizer his ex-wife is going to marry. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/4/1981)
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| [ABC 8:00] Nuts & Bolts [special]
W: Rudy DeLuca, Jim Evering, Gilbert Lee D: Peter Hunt With Rich Little, Tammy Lauren, Justin Dana, Eve Arden, Jo Ann Pflug, Warren Berlinger. Comedy pilot. A computer engineer uses some of his inventions to help him raise his children.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Goodbye, Mrs. Wilder
Season 7, episode 16 W: Don Balluck D: William F. Claxton With Walker Edmiston (Mr. Stohler), Cletus Young (Cole Parker), Dennis Dimster (Ralph). When Mrs. Oleson demands that art and French be added to the school curriculum, Laura resents the interference and quits, leaving Mrs. Oleson to cover the subjects herself. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/2/1981)
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| [CBS 8:30] The Tim Conway Show [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:30] In Trouble [special]
W: Bernie Kukoff D: Jeff Harris With Deena Freeman, Lisa Freeman, Tim Thomerson, Doris Roberts, Nancy Cartwright, Charles Bloom, Cathy Cutler, Peter Michael Goetz. Comedy pilot. Three fun-loving teenage girls disrupt the decorum and the academic life at their high school.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: The Foresight Saga
Season 9, episode 19 W: David Pollock, Elias Davis D: Charles S. Dubin With Rummel Mor (Park Sung), Philip Sterling (Dr. Bud Herzog). Klinger accidentally breaks Potter's eyeglasses, requiring a visit from a traveling optometrist; the 4077th is given a gift of fresh-grown vegetables by a grateful Korean; Potter questions the veracity of an upbeat letter from Radar. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/13/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: When She Was Bad. . . (1979)
W: Carmen Culver D: Peter Hunt With Cheryl Ladd, Robert Urich, Eileen Brennan, Dabney Coleman, Ramon Bieri, Marcia Lewis, Nicole Eggert. A young wife and mother with an ambitious, often-absent, husband becomes unhappy, and her growing loneliness leads to frustrations which she takes out on her pre-school daughter.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Death Penalty (1980)
W: Edward Adler D: Waris Hussein With Colleen Dewhurst, David Labiosa, Dana Elcar, Joe Morton, Ted Ross, Dan Hedaya, David Harris, Thomas Hill. A concerned female psychologist fights for fairness in the trial of an inner-city street gang member accused of the murders of two youths, despite apathy from his family and the young man himself.
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| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: Bye, Bye American Spy
Season 2, episode 15 W: Wayne Rogers D: Fernando Lamas With William Bogert (Harold Jordy), Kenneth Kimmins (John Doe), Melanie Vincz (Linda Fuller). A man claiming to be from various government agencies descends on Kensington Hospital and insists on seeing one of Dr. Michaels' seriously ill patients. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/2/1981)
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Business
Season 4, episode 17 W: Steve Kline D: Alan Cooke With Paul Kent (Glen Maris), Edward Winter (Russell Davidson), David Spielberg (Rick Havens), Richard Erdman (Hal Hennecker), Philip Abbott (Lester Sorenson), Kenneth Tigar (Gary Hall), Austin Stoker (Lt. Richardson), David Bowman (Kirkland). The Trib wages a war of words with a firm that refuses to be candid about its financial situation; Lou goes on the defensive when the Trib is accused of being anti-business in its coverage of a factory fire -- while ignoring labor problems of its own. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/23/1981)
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