Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 30, 1981:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	TV Movie: A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)		TV Movie: Young Love, First Love (1979)
ABC	The Greatest American Hero: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (R)		The Manions Of America: Part 1
NBC	Real People		Diff'rent Strokes: Small Claims Court (R)	The Facts Of Life: Double Standard (R)	The Sophisticated Gents: Part 2

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] TV Movie: A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
W: Charles M. Schulz D: Bill Melendez
With Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger, Sally Dryer, Ann Altieri, Christopher DeFaria, Erin Sullivan, Andy Pforisch, Lynda Mendelson. Charlie Brown wins a spelling bee at school, which leads him to the national spelling championships.

[ABC 8:00] The Greatest American Hero [Reg]: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Season 1, episode 6
W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Arnold Laven
With Branden Williams (Kevin Hinkley), Jack Ging (Tracy Winslow), John Hart (Lone Ranger), Ferdy Mayne (Abe Figueroa), Frank McCarthy (Edward Castelli), Joseph Chapman (Tim Carson), Robert Gooden (Norm Woods), Bruce Tuthill (Sam Watson), Glenn Wilder (Pete King). Ralph is despondent after nearly wrecking a tour bus, and is seriously considering giving up the suit -- until he gets a pep talk from his childhood hero; Bill needs Ralph to stop a corrupt cop from pulling a major jewel heist. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/29/1981)

[NBC 8:00] Real People Season premiere. A psychologist who claims he can enlarge women's breasts; a school for male hula dancers; a grandmother who races cars.

[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Young Love, First Love (1979)
W: Dan Polier, Jr. D: Steven Hilliard Stern
With Valerie Bertinelli, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Brill, Fionnula Flanagan, Mike Foster, Dee Wallace. A girl from a lenient family environment and a young man from a traditional upbringing fall in love despite the complications arising from their very different backgrounds.

[ABC 9:00] The Manions Of America: Part 1 [special]
W: Rosemary Ann Sisson D: Joseph Sargent
With Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Linda Purl, Kate Mulgrew, Nicholas Hammond, Simon MacCorkindale. A six-hour, three-part miniseries about the lives of an Irish immigrant family in the 19th century. In the first installment, Irish rebel Rory O'Manion leaves the Englishwoman he loves and his famine-stricken homeland behind and emigrates to America.

[NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Small Claims Court
Season 3, episode 2
W: Ed Jurist, Gordon Mitchell, Hugh Wedlock, Ben Gershman D: Gerren Keith
With Paul Kent (Judge Briggs), Milt Kogan (Mr. Haskell), Leonard Bremen (Mr. Newhouse), Julia Calderon (Mrs. Spangler), Shirley Neal (Clerk). Arnold has his day in court when an unfortunate "train" of events puts him at odds with a less than understanding merchant. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/19/1980)

[NBC 9:30] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: Double Standard
Season 2, episode 3
W: Linda Marsh, Margie Peters D: Asaad Kelada
With Grant Wilson (Harrison Andrews). Blair learns the difference between good girls and "good time" girls when her boyfriend invites Jo to a cotillion at a country club and makes a pass at her. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/10/1980)

[NBC 10:00] The Sophisticated Gents: Part 2 [special]
W: Melvin Van Peebles D: Harry Falk
With Roosevelt Grier, Raymond St. Jacques, Melvin Van Peebles, Paul Winfield, Sonny Jim Gaines, Thalmus Rasulala, Ron O'Neal, Robert Hooks, Bernie Casey, Dick Anthony Williams, Rosalind Cash, Ja'net DuBois, Janet MacLachlan, Denise Nicholas, Beah Richards, Bibi Besch, Joanna Miles, Harry Guardino, Dennis Patrick. The gents reminisce at a dinner party, unaware that outside a detective is lying in wait for a missing member who is suspected of murder.