Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 31, 1981:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Magnum, P.I.: Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii (1) (R)		Magnum, P.I.: Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii (2) (R)		Nurse: A Question Of Dignity
ABC	Mork & Mindy: I Heard It Through The Morkvine (R)	Best Of The West: They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2) (R)	Barney Miller: Advancement (R)	Taxi: Vienna Waits (R)	Japan: Myths Behind The Miracle
NBC	King Orange Jamboree Parade		Movie: Silver Bears (1977)

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[CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii (1)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson D: Roger Young
With Clyde Kusatsu (Medical Examiner), Pamela Susan Shoop (Alice Cook), W.K. Stratton (Ensign Healy), Allen Williams (Lt. Dan Cook), Robert Loggia (Trusseau), Fritz Weaver (Capt. J. Cooly), Dorit Stevens (Inge), Lillian Muller (Greta), Jeff MacKay (Ski), Judge Reinhold (Seaman Wolfe). Debut of a detective drama series set in Hawaii, starring Tom Selleck as a Vietnam veteran turned private investigator. In the series premiere, when Thomas Magnum's childhood friend and Navy comrade turns up dead, Magnum is adamant that the official cause of death, a burst bag of smuggled cocaine in his stomach, is bogus. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/11/1980)

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: I Heard It Through The Morkvine
Season 3, episode 19
W: Jeff Reno, Ron Osborn D: Howard Storm
With Foster Brooks (Miles Sternhagen), Pat Cranshaw (Jake Loomis). Mork takes Mindy's place on a TV newscast and turns into a gossip columnist, revealing some tasty but hurtful rumors about his friends. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/30/1981)

[NBC 8:00] King Orange Jamboree Parade [special] Live coverage of the 48th annual New Year's Eve procession from Miami. Barbara Eden and Joe Garagiola are the hosts.

[ABC 8:30] Best Of The West [Reg]: They're Hanging Parker Tillman (2)
Season 1, episode 7
W: Earl Pomerantz D: Jeff Chambers
With Frank Marth (Kincaid), Jonathan Banks (Hombre), Macon McCalman (Mayor Fletcher). Sam infiltrates an outlaw band to try to prove Tillman is innocent of cattle rustling. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1981)

[CBS 9:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii (2)
Season 1, episode 2
W: Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson D: Roger Young
With Clyde Kusatsu (Medical Examiner), Pamela Susan Shoop (Alice Cook), W.K. Stratton (Ensign Healy), Allen Williams (Lt. Dan Cook), Robert Loggia (Trusseau), Fritz Weaver (Capt. J. Cooly), Dorit Stevens (Inge), Lillian Muller (Greta), Jeff MacKay (Ski), Judge Reinhold (Seaman Wolfe). Magnum and Alice continue in their quest to find the truth behind Lt. Dan Cook's death, and uncover a case of gold smuggling and a criminal mastermind whom Magnum and Dan once knew in Vietnam. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/11/1980)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Advancement
Season 8, episode 2
W: Frank Dungan, Jeff Stein D: Danny Arnold
With Mario Roccuzzo (Ed Brotsky), Martin Garner (Ira Buckman), Anna Berger (Miriam Buckman), Howard Honig (Mr. Yager), Phil Simms (Mr. Brotsky). Luger wants Barney to pen a letter for his mail-order bride; a lottery winner seeks revenge when the ticket seller loses his winning entry; Harris gets a new book deal. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/5/1981)

[NBC 9:00] Movie: Silver Bears (1977)
W: Peter Stone D: Ivan Passer
With Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan, Martin Balsam, David Warner, Tom Smothers, Jay Leno, Charles Gray, Stephane Audran. An accounting genius working for a Las Vegas syndicate in a Swiss bank becomes involved in an intricate plot to swindle some of the world's top financiers.

[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. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1981)

[CBS 10:00] Nurse [Reg]: A Question Of Dignity
Season 2, episode 6
W: Lionel Siegel D: Philip Leacock
With John Cunningham (Frank Martin), Victoria Racimo (Carmen Sanchez). A woman, pregnant with her seventh child, accuses Mary of encouraging her to sign a sterilization consent form.

[ABC 10:00] Japan: Myths Behind The Miracle An ABC News Closeup look at Japan's rapid post-war growth and how the boom is being threatened today. Jim Laurie is the correspondent.