Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 31, 1982:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: Coy Meets Girl
Season 5, episode 4 W: Martin Roth D: James Sheldon With Michele Greene (Bobbie Lee Jordan), George McDaniel (Clooney), Robert Gray (Potter), Conlan Carter (Truck Dispatcher). Truck drivers Coy and Vance are hijacked while delivering a friend's priceless antiques -- and a runaway teenager -- to Hazzard. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1982)
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: Pen Pal
Season 4, episode 10 W: Rob Dames, Bob Fraser D: Bill Foster With Julius Carry (Zeke Webster), Bruce Glover (Jack Reynolds), Roger Til (Monsieur Arnaud). Kraus is nervous when her pen pal, just released from prison, visits her hoping to receive the job she had promised in a letter.
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| [NBC 8:00] King Orange Jamboree Parade [special]
Live coverage from Miami of the 49th annual New Year's Eve procession. Joe Garagiola and Shelley Long are the hosts.
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| [ABC 8:30] The New Odd Couple [Reg]: Opening Night
Season 1, episode 9 W: Kurt Taylor, Mary Cary Miller D: John Tracy With Bart Braverman (Roy), Billy Van Zandt (Fred), Carmen Argenziano (Tony S.), Leslie Caldwell, Melanie Caldwell. Felix helps Oscar review a Broadway play whose backer insists on a favorable notice -- or else.
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| [CBS 9:00] Dallas [Reg]: Mama Dearest
Season 6, episode 13 W: Arthur Bernard Lewis D: Patrick Duffy With Priscilla Pointer (Rebecca Wentworth), Lois Chiles (Holly Harwood), Morgan Woodward (Punk Anderson), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), George Petrie (Harve Smithfield), Paul Sorenson (Andy Bradley), Danone Simpson (Kendall), Karlene Crockett (Muriel Gillis), Arlen Dean Snyder (George Hicks), Timothy Patrick Murphy (Mickey Trotter), Donald Moffat (Brooks Oliver), Paul Carr (Ted Prince), James Karen (Elton Lawrence), Julio Medina (Henry Figueroa). Having decided to contest Jock's will, Miss Ellie meets with resistance from J.R, Bobby, and Harve Smithfield, who must defend the will.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Ivory Ape (1980)
W: Arthur Rankin Jr., William Overgard D: Tom Kotani With Jack Palance, Steven Keats, Cindy Pickett. An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save it, but the local authorities hire a big-game hunter to track it down and kill it.
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| [NBC 9:00] Knight Rider [Reg]: Good Day At White Rock
Season 1, episode 3 W: Deborah Davis D: Daniel Haller With Keith Coogan (Davey Benson), Anne Lockhart (Sherry), Michael Champion (Monk), Don Stroud (Hilly), James Callahan (Sheriff Bruckner), Robert Dryer (The Priest), Gregory Clemens (Sneaker), Alex Daniels (Big Lonny), George Fisher (Boss), Kyle Oliver (Big Donny). Michael and K.I.T.T. head to a small town for a vacation, but they find that the town is being terrorized by a rowdy motorcycle gang preparing to do battle with a rival club of bikers. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1982)
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| [CBS 10:00] Falcon Crest [Reg]: . . .Divided We Fall
Season 2, episode 12 W: Stephen Black, Henry Stern D: Stan Lathan With Roy Thinnes (Nick Hogan), Lana Turner (Jacqueline Perrault), Bradford Dillman (Darryl Clayton), Shannon Tweed (Diana Hunter), Chao-Li Chi (Chao Li), Katherine Justice (Sheila Hogan), Harry Basch (Vince Caproni), Joseph Lambie (Sheriff Robbins), Mary Kate McGeehan (Linda Caproni), Pamela Brnll (Brenda). Richard tries to use Jacqueline's revelation to swing the shareholder's vote and give him control of the Globe; Angela's Founder's Day bash brings more revelations.
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| [NBC 10:00] Secrets Of The Bermuda Triangle [special]
W: Alan Landsburg D: Donald Brittain, Laurin Render With Pierrino Mascarino. Repeat of a 1978 documentary exploring some strange reports of events in the area of the Bermuda Triangle, including the disappearance of navy flights and sightings of floating coffins. Peter Tompkins is the narrator. (Repeat program)
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