Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 23, 1982:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Magnum, P.I. [Reg]: Memories Are Forever
Season 2, episode 5 W: Donald P. Bellisario D: Ray Austin With Soon-Teck Oh (General Nguyen Hue), Marta DuBois (Michelle Hue), Clyde Kusatsu (Colonel Ki), Paul Burke (Admiral Kitchner), Lance LeGault (Buck Greene). Magnum thinks he's spotted his one true love, Michelle, the woman he married six years earlier during his last tour in Vietnam and thought to have been lost in a bombing raid. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/5/1981)
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| [ABC 8:00] Joanie Loves Chachi [Reg]: Fonzie's Visit
Season 2, episode 1 W: Dana Olsen D: Joel Zwick With Susan Cotton (Linda), Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Grant Heslov (Mark). Fonzie visits Chicago unexpectedly just as the band is looking for a gimmick to hype a TV show audition. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1982)
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| [NBC 8:00] Fame [Reg]: Beginnings
Season 2, episode 6 W: Ralph Farquhar, Kevin Sullivan D: Robert Scheerer With Marge Champion (Ann Carlton), Sydney Penny (Susan Marshall), Ann Nelson (Mrs. Berg), Richard McGonagle (Simon Marshall). Students cry racism when a hard-nosed ballet teacher won't let Leroy's girlfriend have a solo part; Bruno develops some biased attitudes toward a child prodigy. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/4/1982)
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| [ABC 8:30] Star Of The Family [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Stu Silver With Robert Clotworthy (Bigelow), Evonne Kezios (Cindy). Series premiere. A fire company captain finds his organized life thrown into chaos when the signing talents of his teenage daughter catapult her into a career in show business. In the opening episode, Jennie's choice of a song for her TV debut has her dad sizzling. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1982)
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| [ABC 9:00] Too Close For Comfort [Reg]: Guess Who's Coming Forever?
Season 3, episode 2 W: Laurie Gelman D: Russ Petranto With Leigh Scarritt (Sylvia), Audrey Meadows (Iris Martin), Brad Maule (Phil), Dennis Robertson (TV Anchorman). Muriel's mother decides to move in; Sara makes a disastrous debut as a weathercaster. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1982)
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| [NBC 9:00] Cheers [Reg]: Give Me A Ring Sometime
Season 1, episode 1 W: Glen Charles, Les Charles D: James Burrows With Michael McGuire (Sumner Sloane), John P. Navin Jr. (Teenager), Ron Frazier (Ron), Erik Holland (Swedish Customer). A stuffy and sophisticated bride-to-be is dumped by her fiancee in a blue collar Boston bar, where she meets its colorful customers -- and its handsome baseball star-turned-bar owner. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1982)
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| [ABC 9:30] It Takes Two [Reg]: Sam And Molly
Season 1, episode 1 W: Susan Harris D: Jay Sandrich Series premiere. Sam can't cope with his wife's demanding new job as an attorney and insists that she choose between her career and the family. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1982)
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| [NBC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: Cooking For Two
Season 4, episode 22 W: Ken Estin, Sam Simon D: James Burrows After Reverend Jim's building is condemned and destroyed, he moves in with Louie; unfortunately for Louie he asks Jim to cook something for dinner. (Repeat program, originally aired 4/8/1982)
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| [CBS 10:00] Don't Touch That Dial!
An examination of the big business considerations of prime-time television, following two shows from their early development to their network premieres. Morley Safer is the correspondent.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
Tom Jarriel reports on the controversial renaissance of the mighty battleship; Tom Hoving takes a light-hearted look at the most festive libation of all -- champagne; Dick Schaap profiles comedian Sid Caesar.
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| [NBC 10:00] Hill Street Blues [Reg]: The World According To Freedom
Season 2, episode 8 W: Michael Wagner D: Jeff Bleckner With Trinidad Silva (Jesus Martinez), Jesse D. Goins (Cookie), Bobby F. Ellerbee (Blood), Tony Perez (Perez), Troy Curvey (Dudley R. Hicks), Victor Campos (Investigator), Richard Foronjy (Murray the Torch), Dennis Dugan (Captain Freedom), Julia Calderon (Alice), Fritz Turner (Monroe), Andy Winner (Wallace Parks), Leonard Lightfoot (Ellis), John Dewey-Caret (Investigator), Dan Chambers (Investigator). Belker meets an eccentric calling himself "Captain Freedom" while on a stakeout; LaRue gets more than he bargained for as a cell plant when he overhears an arson suspect taunting an accused child molester; Furillo issues an ultimatum to the gangs after a savage massacre in a local tavern. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/7/1982)
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