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Thursday September 17, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday September 17, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Magnum, P.I.: Skin Deep (R) Nurse: Best Friends (R) Knots Landing: Man Of The Hour (R)
ABC Best Of The West: The Prisoner Thursday Night Football
NBC Games People Play (R) TV Movie: Jennifer: A Woman's Story (1979)
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[CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Skin Deep
Season 1, episode 6
W: Donald P. Bellisario   D: Lawrence Doheny

With Ian McShane (David Norman), Cathie Shirriff (Erin Wolfe), Ron Masak (J.J. Stein), Paul Dennis Martin (Pilot), Tommy Fujiwara (Dr. Makudo), Rodrick Martin (Young Man), Remi Abellira (Moki), Reri Tava Jobe (Hostess).
When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shotgun blast in a scenario closely resembling a scene from the script of an upcoming film, it is seemingly suicide. Magnum is hired by her former producer and lover to investigate.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/15/1981)

[ABC 8:00] Best Of The West [Reg]: The Prisoner
Season 1, episode 2
W: Michael Leeson, Earl Pomerantz   D: Will Mackenzie

With Slim Pickens (Sheriff Latimer), Richard Moll (Prisoner), Pat Cranshaw (Bob).
Sam has to face an prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes sick on his way through town.

[NBC 8:00] Games People Play [Reg]
Tug-of-war in New Orleans; an 84-year-old woman climbs Mt. Whitney; Scotland's Highland Games; the Little Britches rodeo.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] Thursday Night Football
Philadelphia Eagles vs. Buffalo Bills.

[CBS 9:00] Nurse [Reg]: Best Friends
Season 1, episode 6
W: William Parker, John Weldon   D: James Sheldon

With Michael Tolan (Dr. Shaw), Elizabeth Perry (Christine), Joe Silver (Agnello), Joan Copeland (Beverly Thompson), Jacqueline Brooks (Dr. Patman), Hillary B. Smith (Tina), Jenny Wright, Joseph Adams.
Mary feels her effectiveness as a nurse may be threatened when a close friend is admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt and then insinuates she once had an affair with Mary's late husband.

(Repeat program, originally aired 5/7/1981)

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Jennifer: A Woman's Story (1979)
W: Richard Gregson   D: Guy Green

With Elizabeth Montgomery, Bradford Dillman, Scott Hylands, James Booth, Robin Gammell, Michael Goodwin, Doris Roberts, Kate Mulgrew.
The widow of a wealthy executive battles schemes by factions of the board of directors as she fights to keep control of his shipbuilding company.

[CBS 10:00] Knots Landing [Reg]: Man Of The Hour
Season 2, episode 15
W: Sara Ann Friedman   D: Harvey Laidman

With Bobby Jacoby (Brian), Barry Jenner (Jeff), Cynthia Harris (Jana Kilman), Lisle Wilson (Dr. Sims), Susan McClurg (Cindy), Brian Part (Jaime), Eric Stoltz (Luke), Mike Darnell (Fred), June Harris (Carol), Jill Cohen (Amy).
Eric becomes the man of the hour when he saves a visiting teenage girl from drowning after she smoked some marijuana laced with "angel dust".

(Repeat program, originally aired 3/12/1981)


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