Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday October 21, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Mr. Merlin [Reg]: Starsand
Season 1, episode 3 W: Larry Tucker, Larry Rosen D: Herbert Kenwith With Tonja Walker (Jessie Taylor), Gretchen Wyler (Lillian Millman), Aron Kincaid (Noel), Tierre Turner (T.J.). Zac takes a magic powder called Starsand to a glamorous party and accidentally causes a major case of the sneezes.
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| [ABC 8:00] World Series Baseball
Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees, game two.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A mysterious California mountain; grade school kids with their own TV news program; a 92-year-old radio talk show hostess.
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| [CBS 8:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: The Union
Season 4, episode 3 W: Blake Hunter D: Linda Day With Carol Bruce (Mama Carlson), Robert Starr (Delivery Man). The staff of WKRP is encouraged to unionize after the station's ratings soar. A furious Mr. Carlson rushes to his mother for advice, while Andy tries to appear neutral in the labor-management conflict.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: A Few Days In Weasel Creek (1981)
W: Durrell Royce Crays D: Dick Lowry With Mare Winningham, John Hammond, Colleen Dewhurst, Nicholas Pryor, Tracey Gold, Richard Farnsworth, Amzie Strickland. A farm youth runs away from home and teams up with a footloose young woman bound for California.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Friendships, Secrets And Lies (1979)
W: Joanna Crawford D: Marlene Laird, Ann Zane Shanks With Cathryn Damon, Shelley Fabares, Sondra Locke, Tina Louise, Paula Prentiss, Stella Stevens, Loretta Swit. Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house in which they lived 20 years earlier.
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