Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 3, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: The Taking Of Dick McWilliams
Season 2, episode 9 W: Diane Frolov D: Winrich Kolbe With Irene Yah-Ling Sun (Mitsu McWilliams), John Fujioka (Nishimoto), Guy Stockwell (Dick McWilliams), Moe Keale (Kaholo), Barbara Kelly (Woman on Boat), Reri Tava Jobe (Gloria Bauer), Esmond Chung (George). Magnum is hired by an old friend's Japanese wife when her husband is kidnapped and held for $500,000 ransom. She wants Magnum to deliver the ransom without her strict father, who has never approved of their marriage, finding out.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Alienation
Season 4, episode 9 W: Wendy Kout, George Zateslo D: Don Barnhart With John Larroquette (Baba Hope), Richard Moll (Baba Gentle). After Mork and Mindy tell Mearth he's an alien, Mearth gets upset and runs away from home to join a cult.
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| [NBC 8:00] Skyward Christmas [special]
W: Craig Buck D: Vincent McEveety With Suzi Gilstrap, Ben Marley, Bibi Besch, Jack Elam, Audra Lindley, Geoffrey Lewis, Chris Connelly, Kelly Ann Conn, Justin Dana. A paraplegic teenage pilot secretly makes plans to fly to her estranged grandfather and bring him home for a Christmas reunion.
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| [ABC 8:30] Best Of The West [Reg]: The Prisoner
Season 1, episode 2 W: Michael Leeson, Earl Pomerantz D: Will Mackenzie With Slim Pickens (Sheriff Latimer), Richard Moll (Prisoner), Pat Cranshaw (Bob). Sam has to face an prisoner's outlaw brothers after the sheriff who was taking him in becomes sick on his way through town. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1981)
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| [CBS 9:00] Knots Landing [Reg]: Moving In
Season 3, episode 4 W: Ann Marcus D: Joseph B. Wallenstein With Bobby Jacoby (Brian), Barry Jenner (Jeff), James O'Sullivan (Brad Duffy), Carol Bruce (Annette Cunningham), Peter Hobbs (Judge Simpson), Michael Laurence (Steve Salt), Jane Klint (Marcia Colby), Lew Horn (Bellamy). Abby tries to find her children; against Val's wishes, her mother moves in with her and Gary.
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| [ABC 9:00] Thursday Night Football
Cleveland Browns vs. Houston Oilers.
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| [NBC 9:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Double Date
Season 4, episode 6 W: Jerry Winnick D: Gerren Keith With Shavar Ross (Dudley Ramsey), Bobby Herbeck (Waiter), Dena Crowder (Diane). Arnold's big plans for his first real "date" are quickly deflated when parental-imposed restrictions threaten to ruin his encounter before it ever gets off the ground.
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| [NBC 9:30] Gimme A Break [Reg]: A Man In Nell's Room
Season 1, episode 6 W: Booker Bradshaw, J. Stanford Parker D: Herbert Kenwith With Tony Battell (Delivery Man), Danny Glover (Bill), Alvernette Jimenez (Angie). Nell quits her job and moves out of the house when she argues with the Chief over inviting her boyfriend to stay the night.
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| [CBS 10:00] Jessica Novak [Reg]
[Episode "Mirrorful Of Gamblers" was scheduled on this date, but never aired.]
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| [NBC 10:00] Hill Street Blues [Reg]: Fruits Of The Poisonous Tree
Season 2, episode 5 W: Jeffrey Lewis D: Rod Holcomb With Jeffrey Tambor (Alan Wachtel), Barbara Babcock (Grace Gardiner), Allan Rich (Judge Schilling), Mickey Morton (Stanley Phelps), Ralph Manza (Morris), Essex Smith (Maxwell Jenkins). Night court interferes with "Monday Night Football" as LaRue and Washington are accused of entrapping a mugger; Bates and Coffey look for gang members responsible for the drive-by shooting of a child; Fay announces that she's getting married again; Sgt. Esterhaus learns that he may soon be a father.
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