Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday October 24, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Walt Disney: The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Season 28, episode 5 W: Washington Irving, Bill Peet D: James Algar With John Dehner (Washington Irving), Bing Crosby (Ichabod Crane). The animated Disney tale of Icabod Crane's fateful night where he is chased through the woods by the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Features songs by Bing Crosby. Originally telecast in 1955.
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| [ABC 8:00] Maggie [Reg]: The School Conference
Season 1, episode 1 W: Erma Bombeck D: John Tracy With Helen Page Camp (Miss Turley). Series premiere about the everyday life of a housewife in Dayton, Ohio. In the opening episode, Maggie receives a note from school accusing her 8-year-old son of "borderline obscenity."
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| [NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With John Schneider, Terry Gibbs.
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| [ABC 8:30] It's A Living [Reg]: Boys Of Summer
Season 2, episode 1 W: Sheldon Bull D: John Bowab With Luis Avalos (Skippy), Rod McCary (Charlie), Larry Breeding (Stan), Warren Berlinger (Duke Blakely), Joyce Cohen (Kathy). A minor-league team infects the staff with baseball fever when the players decide to hang out at the restaurant during their playoff series.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Dark Night Of The Scarecrow (1981)
W: J.D. Feigelson D: Frank De Felitta With Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith, Jocelyn Brando, Richard McKenzie. In a small Southern town, vigilantes who killed an innocent retarded man are plagued by a series of inexplicable events.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: The Incredible Hunk / Isaac, The Marriage Counselor / Jewels & Jim
Season 5, episode 3 W: Tony Webster, Haskell Barkin, Ray Jessel D: Howard Morris With Jim Backus (Mr. Landers), Henny Backus (Mrs. Landers), Flip Wilson (Frank Dalton), Christopher Norris (Shelley), Marla Gibbs (Janet Dalton), Joan Van Ark (Lila Chandler), Brian Kerwin (Hank Austin), Michael Zaslow (Jim Pickett). A schoolteacher who doubles as the ship's new entertainer -- as an exotic dancer -- tries to keep a PTA member from catching his act; two jewel thieves team up professionally and romantically; Isaac discovers that a previous passenger has misunderstood his advice.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Nashville Palace [Reg]
With Tanya Tucker, Jerry Reed, Grady Nutt, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd. Season premiere of the country music series. Roy Clark is the host.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Cyrano / The Magician
Season 5, episode 3 W: Leigh Vance, Larry Forrester D: Don Chaffey With Carol Lynley (Marjorie Denton), John Saxon (Cyrano de Bergerac / Berandt Sabatier), Simon MacCorkindale (Gaston du Brielle), Judy Landers (Suva), Bart Braverman (Timothy Potter), Lloyd Bochner (Marquis de Sade), Carmine Caridi (Pierre), Shani Wallis (Monique). A woman travels back in time to the days of Cyrano de Bergerac in order to find the world's most chivalrous and romantic man; a likable amateur magician learns his craft the hard way when he accidentally makes the girl he loves vanish into thin air.
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| [NBC 10:00] Fitz And Bones [Reg]: Terror At Newsline 3
Season 1, episode 1 With Tony Burton (Sid), Judith Chapman (Clementine), Michael Cavanaugh (Joe), Janet Prescott, Paul Henry Itkin, Tom Stern. Premiere of the weekly comedy-adventure series starring Tom and Dick Smothers as a pair of television newsmen. Tonight, the duo is taken hostage at the station by terrorists.
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