Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday October 15, 1981:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Magnum, P.I.: Dead Man's Channel		TV Movie: Margin For Murder (1981)
ABC	Mork & Mindy: The Wedding	Best Of The West: They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)	Bosom Buddies: There's No Business	Taxi: Vienna Waits	20/20
NBC	American League Playoffs

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[CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Dead Man's Channel
Season 2, episode 2
W: Diane Frolov D: Ray Austin
With Wendy Girard (Marion Hammond), Ina Balin (Professor Martinez), Mamaluna (Tehani), Curtis Malia (Keone). After her archaeologist father's boat is found deserted at sea in the Nehoa Channel, a young marine biology student hires Magnum to find out what happened to him. Ancient superstitions say that the channel is "cursed".

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: The Wedding
Season 4, episode 2
W: Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz D: Bob Claver
With James Staley (Reverend), Stephanie Dizon (Stephanie), Shelley Fabares (Cathy McConnell). Against direct orders from Orson, Mork intends to go ahead with his plan to marry Mindy so Orson turns the errant Orkan into a dog.

[NBC 8:00] American League Playoffs New York Yankees at Oakland Athletics, game three.

[ABC 8:30] Best Of The West [Reg]: They're Hanging Parker Tillman (1)
Season 1, episode 6
W: Earl Pomerantz D: Jeff Chambers
With Frank Marth (Kincaid), Al Lewis (Judge). Sam goes out on a limb to save Tillman from a lynch mob after he is accused of cattle rustling. However at the trial, Sam's mixed up testimony has Tillman back at the end of a rope.

[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Margin For Murder (1981)
W: Calvin Clements Jr. D: Daniel Haller
With Kevin Dobson, Charles Hallahan, Cindy Pickett, Donna Dixon, John Considine, Renata Vanni, Asher Brauner, Floyd Levine, Aarika Wells. Private eye Mike Hammer, the character created by Mickey Spillane, investigates the "accidental" death of a friend.

[ABC 9:00] Bosom Buddies [Reg]: There's No Business
Season 2, episode 2
W: Chris Thompson D: Joel Zwick
With John C. Becher (Uncle Mort), Joe Regalbuto (Victor). Henry impulsively buys a TV commercial production house and later learns it's heavily in debt to a loan shark.

[ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Vienna Waits
Season 4, episode 2
W: Ken Estin D: Howard Storm
With Gary Phillips (Todd Bentley), Warwick Sims (James), Reuven Bar-Yotam (Oumas), Cassandra Gava (Desiree), Rob Hughes (Waiter), Patch Mackenzie (Woman on Plane). Louie is jealous when Elaine and Alex travel to Europe together, but Elaine is the only one who ends up having fun.

[ABC 10:00] 20/20 A report on medical workers called neo-natologists who may have gone too far; a nostalgic look at baseball's Bobby Thomson; profile of Pat Benatar; a look at the polyglot that is Spain.