Saturday December 26, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 26, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Walt Disney: Escape To Witch Mountain (1975), part two (R) Kennedy Center Honors
ABC Open All Night: Buckaroo Buddies It's A Living: All My Son (R) The Love Boat: Country Cousin Blues / Daddy's Little Girl / Jackpot (R) Fantasy Island: Eagleman / Children Of Mentu (R)
NBC Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters (R) Harper Valley P.T.A.: Low Noon Lewis & Clark: Your Cheatin' Heart Television: Inside And Out


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Walt Disney: Escape To Witch Mountain (1975), part two
W: Robert Malcolm Young   D: John Hough

With Kim Richards, Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Ike Eisenmann, Walter Barnes, Reta Shaw, Denver Pyle. Two orphans with supernatural powers are pursued by an evil tycoon who wants to use their powers to his own advantage.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] Open All Night [Reg]: Buckaroo Buddies
Season 1, episode 4
W: Merrill Markoe   D: Tom Patchett

With James Gallery (Larry 'Bud' Hoffmeister), Michael Alaimo (Chinchilla Delivery Man), David Letterman (Man in Suit). Terry's real father unexpectedly surfaces, hoping that his son will come live with him.

[NBC 8:00] Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters [Reg]
With Charley Pride, Hoyt Axton.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] It's A Living [Reg]: All My Son
Season 2, episode 2
W: Greg Antonacci   D: Jay Sandrich

With Kate Zentall (Missy), Kourosh Dawoodi (Arthur). Sonny is presented with a 10-year-old son -- from a woman he hasn't seen in years and can't even remember.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1981)

[CBS 9:00] Kennedy Center Honors [special]
With Walter Cronkite, James Stewart, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leontyne Price, Meryl Streep, Mstislav Rostropovich. Count Basie, Cary Grant, Helen Hayes, Jerome Robbins and Rudolf Serkin are honored for their lifetime achievements in the performing arts in a program taped December 6 in Washington.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Country Cousin Blues / Daddy's Little Girl / Jackpot
Season 5, episode 4
W: R.S. Allen, Harvey Bullock, Joan Brooker, Alexandra Stoddart   D: Don Weis

With Florence Henderson (Annabelle Folker), James Noble (Martin 'Blinky' Corell), Randi Oakes (Marcy Crane), Mason Adams (Richard Simmons), Frank Bonner (Dr. Jonathan Hunt), Merie Earle (Mrs. Smithers), Carol Lawrence (Barbara Gosford). Gopher finds money and fantasizes about how he'll spend it; a folk singer meets an old friend who's now a politician; a man interferes in his daughter's romances.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1981)

[NBC 9:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: Low Noon
Season 2, episode 7
W: Dave Hackel, Steve Hattman   D: Alan Cooke

With Jonathan Frakes (Clutch Breath), Jill Jacobson (Twin Carbs), Gary Lee Davis (Steel Plate), Hoke Howell (Lenny). An aging motorcycle-gang leader falls for Stella and declares that his gang will not leave town unless Stella goes with them.

[NBC 9:30] Lewis & Clark [Reg]: Your Cheatin' Heart
Season 1, episode 7
W: Laura Levine
Roscoe suspects Stu and Wendy are having an affair.

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Eagleman / Children Of Mentu
Season 3, episode 23
W: Richard Fisher, Ron Friedman   D: Mike Vejar

With Jim Backus (H.H. Moran), Larry Storch (Hal Ripley), Keith Coogan (Barney Binstock), Ralph Bellamy (Dr. Arthur Gates), Vernee Watson (Rochelle McKenzie), Bob Denver (Morris Binstock), Mickey Morton (Curly). Morris Binstock attempts to win back his son's respect and admiration by becoming the comic book hero the boy worships, forgoing a possible vice-presidency with an insurance company; a young journalism student dreams of breaking the biggest news story of the decade by locating an infamous refugee from justice.
(Repeat program, originally aired 5/17/1980)

[NBC 10:00] Television: Inside And Out An interview with Barbara, Louise and Irene Mandrell.

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