Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday January 20, 1982:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: Pills
Season 4, episode 12 W: Steve Marshall D: Asaad Kelada With Robert Ridgely (Dave Wickerman), Max Wright (Frank Bartman). WKRP accepts ads from a seller of "diet pills". Even after it turns out that the pills are just a legal way of selling speed to teenagers, the station can't get out of running the ads.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Greatest American Hero [Reg]: Now You See It. . .
Season 2, episode 10 W: Patrick Burke Hasburgh D: Robert C. Thompson With Joe Mantegna (Juan), Jon Cypher (Richard Beller), Chris Lofton (Senator Henderson), Richard Beauchamp (Phillips), Matthew Faison (Oliver), Laurence Haddon (Burke), Charles Bateman (Col. Cullen), Robert Covarrubias (DeJesus). Ralph discovers a new power -- the ability to see the future -- so he can see that the plane on which Pam is traveling will crash.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
A drive-in funeral parlor; a photographer who is paid to take pictures of bathing beauties; an 82-year-old bicyclist.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Two Of Us [Reg]: Gabby's Birthday Party
Season 2, episode 13 W: Katherine Green D: Peter Bonerz With Leo Surprenant (Leo). Brentwood volunteers to arrange a birthday party for Gabby.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Prime Suspect (1982)
W: Douglas Graham D: Noel Black With Teri Garr, Mike Farrell, Veronica Cartwright, Charles Aidman, Lane Smith, Barry Corbin, James Sloyan, Nan Martin. A happily married law-abiding citizen's life changes dramatically when he is suspected by the police of being a sex murderer.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Fall Guy [Reg]: License To Kill (2)
Season 1, episode 10 W: Glen A. Larson D: Russ Mayberry With Monte Markham (Ryker), Erin Gray (Bonnie Carlson), William Smith (Salem), Bennett Ohta (Fong), Tony Young (Dunning), Ken Swofford (Agent Bradshaw), Gary Epper (Dirk), Steve Vandeman (Seth). When Ryker is killed by a rogue agent, Colt takes to the air to expose the killer.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Facts Of Life [Reg]: The Americanization Of Miko
Season 3, episode 13 W: Stephen Spears, Bill Shinkai D: Asaad Kelada With Lauren Tom (Miko), Mako (Mr. Wakamatsu). A Japanese student's father objects to his daughter's adoption of Western cultural values.
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| [NBC 9:30] Love, Sidney [Reg]: The Price Of Security
Season 1, episode 11 W: Sylvia Alan D: Tony Mordente With Don Porter, Steve Elmore. Sidney comes to regret his new position with an ad agency when his obnoxious new boss becomes involved in his personal life.
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| [ABC 10:00] Dynasty [Reg]: Sammy Jo And Steven Marry
Season 2, episode 10 W: Edward DeBlasio D: Jerome Courtland With Hank Brandt (Morgan Hess), Lance LeGault (Ray Bonning), Peter Mark Richman (Andrew Laird), Owen Bush (Justice of the Peace), Viveca Lindfors (Adriana). Steven and Sammy Jo elope; Krystle nearly goes to bed with Nick; Jeff tells Blake that Fallon is about to have an abortion.
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| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: When Luck Ran Out
Season 7, episode 11 W: Paul Haggard Jr., Jo Lynne Michael D: Georg Fenady With Craig Stevens (Nelson Spencer), Katherine Justice (Annie O'Connor), George Petrie (Gabe Steinhart), Don Keefer (Dr. Matson), William Wintersole (Winthrop), Ken Scott (Bob Wright), Chris McCarron (Tommy Canfield). A prized racehorse owned by a friend of Quincy's dies suddenly after a race. The expert investigator sent by the insurance company happens to be Quincy's latest girlfriend, and she suspects the owner of killing his own horse in order to get the insurance money.
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