Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday August 1, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Ship Shape [special]
With Deborah Ryan. An ambitious female ensign is assigned a group of misfits. Pilot for a comedy series.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Fonzie For The Defense
Season 5, episode 27 W: David Ketchum, Tony DiMarco D: Jerry Paris With Barney Martin (G.W. Burch), Ralph Wilcox (Jason Davis). Fonzie and Howard Cunningham hold out against their fellow jurors when they doubt the guilt of a man accused of purse-snatching. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/30/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: Contract On Cherry Street (1977)
W: Edward Anhalt D: William A. Graham With Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Harry Guardino, Jay Black, Verna Bloom. The partner -- and best friend -- of a tough New York City detective is murdered by killers working for a local mob.
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| [CBS 8:30] Movie: The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)
W: William Rose D: Norman Jewison With Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters, Theodore Bikel, Paul Ford, Ben Blue, Parker Fennelly. A Soviet sub on maneuvers off the coast of New England ventures too close to shore and goes aground, setting off wild rumors among the inhabitants of a seacoast town that the U.S. is being invaded.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: 2001: A Comedy Odyssey
Season 3, episode 22 W: Marc Sotkin, Chris Thompson D: Ray DeVally Jr. Laverne dreams she and Shirley are 80-year-old spinsters -- and ther only hopes for marriage are Lenny and Squiggy. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/16/1978)
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Will The Real Jack Tripper . . .
Season 2, episode 21 W: Don Nicholl, Michael Ross, Bernie West D: Bill Hobin, Michael Ross With Anne Schedeen (Linda), Susan Blu (Sandra), Ted Gehring (Sandra's Father). Jack's in a panic and in the doghouse with Janet and Chrissy when a young pregnant woman arrives at their house and names him as the father. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1978)
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Out Of The Closet
Season 1, episode 3 W: Douglas Arango, Phil Doran D: Peter Baldwin With Richard Jaeckel (Bill Peterson), George Gaynes (Murdock). A dumbfounded Chief Roy is called as a character witness when one of his best friends, a schoolteacher, sues the school board for firing him when he announces he is homosexual. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/29/1977)
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
Hugh Downs hosts.
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