Prime-time network TV listings for Friday October 2, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: The Phenom
Season 5, episode 1 W: Reuben Leder D: Bernard McEveety With Robert Donner (Bernard Devlin), Dick O'Neill (Cyrus T. McCormack), Anne Lockhart (Audrey), Ken Swofford (Charlie), Brett Cullen (Joe Dumming). David befriends a farm boy baseball player who has the potential to be a star, but who is being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous sports agent.
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Lifesaver
Season 2, episode 22 W: Rich Reinhart D: John Rich With Rob Dames (Waiter). Benson saves Kraus' life but wonders if he did the right thing when Kraus' appreciation goes too far. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/22/1981)
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| [NBC 8:00] NBC Magazine
Douglas Kiker reports on the controversy over circumcision; Betsy Aaron profiles Slim Whitman.
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| [ABC 8:30] It's A Living [Reg]: Cassie's Punctured Romance
Season 1, episode 7 W: Sheldon Bull, Mark Rothman D: Joel Zwick With Aharon Ipale (Ricardo), Martin Azarow (Man). Cassie refuses to get serious about her latest -- and eminently eligible -- admirer because she's afraid to reveal to him that she can't cook. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/1/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: By-Line, Daisy Duke
Season 3, episode 16 W: Martin Roth D: Hollingsworth Morse With Richard Paul (Clyde Amos), Michael Greene (Vic), Alex Kubik (Corey), Kevin Hagen (Farmer Perkins), Dottie West (Herself). Daisy moonlights as a reporter for the Hazzard Gazette, and is assigned to cover an investigation into the thefts of tractors from farms across the county. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/20/1981)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Manions Of America: Part 3 [special]
W: Rosemary Ann Sisson D: Charles S. Dubin With Kathleen Beller, Pierce Brosnan, Linda Purl, Kate Mulgrew, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Parkins, Nicholas Hammond. Despite his failing business and his wife's pregnancy, Rory journeys back to Ireland to keep a promise he made when he left.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Jet Pilot (1957)
W: Jules Furthman D: Josef von Sternberg With John Wayne, Janet Leigh, Hans Conried, Paul Fix, Jay C. Flippen, Roland Winters, Richard Rober. An Air Force colonel falls in love with a woman Russian pilot who is scheming to lure him to the Soviets. This Howard Hughes-produced film was made in 1950 but not released theatrically until 1957.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Ewing-Gate
Season 4, episode 23 W: Leonard Katzman D: Leonard Katzman With Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Morgan Woodward (Marvin Anderson), David Healey (Senator Harbin), James L. Brown (Harry McSween), Tom Fuccello (Dave Culver), Joseph Warren (Senator), Jared Martin (Dusty Farlow), William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell), Fern Fitzgerald (Marilee Stone), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Susan Flannery (Leslie Stewart), Len Birman (Claude Brown), Jay Varella (Senator), William Boyett, Byron Morrow (Defense Attorney), James Hong (Ambassador). Sue Ellen leaves J.R. but he prevents her taking John Ross with her; J.R. faces the possible loss of Ewing Oil and a jail sentence for his role in the Asian oil scandal; Cliff finds a dead woman in the Southfork pool. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/1/1981)
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