Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 8, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Billy Joe Bob
Season 2, episode 1 W: Jeff Wilhelm D: Ray Austin With James Whitmore Jr. (Billy Joe Bob Little), Marla Pennington (Carol Ann Little), Seth Sakai (Ito), Jimmy Borges (Sgt. Leong), Patrick Bishop (Keoki), Danny Kamekona (Sgt. Akama), Sam Peters (Phl), Deborah Hedquist (Judy), Leeannah Roberts (Lilly), Deborah Takushi (Mary). A hot-headed Texan comes to Hawaii and hires Magnum to find his sister, who was a nightclub singer before going missing.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Limited Engagement
Season 4, episode 1 W: Brian Levant D: Bob Claver With Pat Cranshaw (Jake Loomis). Mork proposes to Mindy, but she declines his offer. Mork asks for 24 hours to change her mind.
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| [NBC 8:00] National League Playoffs
Philadelphia Phillies at Montreal Expos, game two.
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| [ABC 8:30] Best Of The West [Reg]: The Reunion
Season 1, episode 5 W: Chip Keyes, Doug Keyes D: Ed Weinberger With Bill Hart (Dirty Jack Peckinpaugh), Eve Brent (Lilly Devereaux), Andy Griffith (Lamont Devereaux). Elvira's die-hard Confederate father stays at the Square Deal Saloon while he is in town, but still refuses to speak with his daughter because she married a Yankee.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Cagney & Lacey (1981)
W: Barbara Avedon, Barbara Corday D: Ted Post With Loretta Swit, Tyne Daly, Al Waxman, Carl Lumbly, Harvey Atkin, Ronald Hunter, Jefferson Mappin, Gerald Parkes. Two New York policewomen investigate a months-old murder case which their male counterparts have failed to solve. Pilot movie for the series.
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| [ABC 9:00] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: The Truth And Other Lies
Season 2, episode 1 W: Leonard Ripps D: Joel Zwick With Barry Diamond (Albon Degas), Robert Lesser (Byron Fitzsimmons). Kip's ill-timed decision to tell Sonny the truth about his alter-ego causes an international incident.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Jim The Psychic
Season 4, episode 1 W: Barry Kemp D: James Burrows With Bob Larkin (Bar Brawler), J.P. Bumstead (Bar Brawler), Kiva Dawson (Girl Scout). Reverend Jim's dreams foretell a bizarre catastrophe which will befall Alex.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
Sylvia Chase reports on former narcotics cop Bob Leuci; Mark Potter investigates the big business of smuggling Haitian aliens into the U.S.; Bob Brown profiles Carol Burnett.
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