Prime-time network TV listings for Monday January 4, 1982:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Private Benjamin [Reg]: Man On The Floor
Season 2, episode 11 W: Marc Tuttle D: Marc Daniels With Leo Burmester (Weldon), Huck Liggett (CQ). Pvt. Hubble's boyfriend comes to visit and hides out in the girls' room.
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| [ABC 8:00] That's Incredible
An attempt by tornado chasers to put a recording device in the path of a storm; a legally blind person identifies playing cards.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: No Beast So Fierce
Season 8, episode 12 W: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella D: Michael Landon With Dennis Howard (Braden Hale), Peter Billingsley (Gideon Hale), Jennifer Rhodes (Mrs. Hale), John Miranda (Farmer #1), Brandon Goldstein (Jimmy), Dick Lilley (Townsperson), Robert Boon (Sven Johanssen), Robert F. Hoy (Morgan). James makes friends with Gideon Hale, a young boy who stutters. However, the budding friendship is damaged when Gideon overhears James making fun of him; Charles and James encounter a fierce dog who appears to hate Charles as much as he adores James.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Two Of Us [Reg]: Basketball Gabby
Season 2, episode 11 W: Eric Cohen D: Peter Bonerz Brentwood objects to Gabby's playing for the school basketball team, but becomes incensed when she only makes second string.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Follies Of The Living - Concerns Of The Dead
Season 10, episode 10 W: Alan Alda D: Alan Alda With Kario Salem (Pvt. James Weston), Randall Patrick (Frank Hicks), Jeff Tyler (Soldier). While suffering with a severe fever which seems to have no cause or cure, Klinger communicates with the spirit of a dead soldier, who stays on to witness his own last rites.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Elephant Man (1982)
W: Steve Lawson D: Jack Hofsiss With Philip Anglim, Kevin Conway, Penny Fuller, Glenn Close, Richard Clarke, Christopher Hewett. A taped version of the Broadway stage play about a grotesquely deformed 19th-century Englishman, also known as the "Elephant Man", and the surgeon who took him under his care and became his friend.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Kid From Nowhere (1982)
W: Judy Farrell D: Beau Bridges With Susan Saint James, Loretta Swit, Beau Bridges, Ricky Wittman, Janet MacLachlan, Fred Dryer, Rene Auberjonois, Nicholas Pryor, Lynn Carlin. The troubled lives of a retarded youngster and his mother are given a new meaning when his energies are channeled into the Special Olympics games.
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| [CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: Fun With Doc & Jane
Season 3, episode 10 W: Kathy Greer, Bill Greer D: Allen Baron With Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler). The woman replacing Ann as Conrad Peckler's assistant turns out to be one of Charley's old girlfriends.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Jazz
Season 5, episode 9 W: Rogers Turrentine D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Todd Susman (Jed Crosley), Richard Erdman (Gary Banks), Joe Williams (Sonny Goodman), Med Flory (Ron Rickell), Louis Bellson (Johnny Albert), Ray Brown (Cliff Richardson), Danny Wells (Vince). Rossi runs into a bass player that used to be in the famous Sonny Goodwin Quartet and sets about reuniting the four of them, while Lou tries to cope with the unexpected breakup of a team of reporters.
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