Prime-time network TV listings for Monday August 9, 1982:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Private Benjamin [Reg]: Are You Sure Mike Wallace Started Like This?
Season 2, episode 15 W: Nick Arnold D: Bruce Bilson With Michael Fairman (Col. Cooper), Joel Brooks (Lt. Billy Dean), Peter Hobbs (Cunningham). The troops at Fort Bradley are ordered to stonewall a reporter. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1982)
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| [ABC 8:00] Best Of The West [Reg]: Tillman Held For Ransom
Season 1, episode 16 W: Earl Pomerantz D: Howard Storm With Robert Carnegie (Harvey), John Dennis Johnston (Curtis). Tillman's greedy scheme to open a bank backfires when he is taken hostage by robbers -- and the citizens of Copper Creek have no intention of paying the ransom. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/21/1982)
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Reincarnation Of Nellie (1)
Season 8, episode 1 W: Michael Landon D: Michael Landon With Allison Balson (Nancy), Ivan Bonar (Mr. Case), Elizabeth Hoffman (Miss Mason), Melora Hardin (Belinda Stevens), Gillian Grant (Cindy). When Nellie moves to New York, Mrs. Oleson seeks a "replacement" and so the Olesons take in a girl from the orphanage. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/5/1981)
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| [CBS 8:30] WKRP In Cincinnati [Reg]: To Err Is Human
Season 4, episode 21 W: Lissa Levin D: Linda Day With Tom Sullivan (Hester Sherman), Sue Ann Gilfillan (Ms. Beeler), James Gallery (Salesman). After Herb screws up an important advertising account, Mr. Carlson finally intends to fire him, but Jennifer takes pity on Herb and tries to help him keep his job. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/14/1982)
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| [ABC 8:30] Monday Night Baseball
New York Yankees at Detroit Tigers, or Cincinnati Reds at Los Angeles Dodgers.
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Thou Shalt Not Kill (1982)
W: I.C. Rapoport, Lonne Elder D: I.C. Rapoport With Lee Grant, Gary Graham, Michael Gwynne, Robert Culp, Scott Marlowe, James Keach, Diana Scarwid, Robert Englund, Albert Salmi. An auto mechanic is convicted of murder and sent to prison where he is accused of killing a brutal guard. A determined defense attorney tries to prove that the man is innocent of both charges, despite overwhelming evidence against him.
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| [CBS 9:30] Filthy Rich [Reg]: Pilot (1)
Season 1, episode 1 W: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason D: H. Wesley Kenney With David Healy (George Wilhoit), Slim Pickens (Big Guy Beck). Debut of a limted-run comedy series about the heirs of a Tennessee land baron. Stars Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Charles Frank and Jerry Hardin. In the opening episode, the Beck clan learns that in order to secure their inheritance from the late Big Guy, they have to live with his illegitimate son, Wild Bill Westchester.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cagney & Lacey [Reg]: Better Than Equal
Season 1, episode 6 W: Bud Freeman D: Ray Danton With Julie Adams (Helen Granger), John Walter Davis (Mike Walker), Tom Castronova (Mr. Aparicio), Sylvia Walden (Mrs. Walker), Johnny Haymer (Interviewer). When an outspoken ERA critic's life is in danger, Cagney and Lacey are placed in charge of her protection. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/29/1982)
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