Thursday August 17, 1978
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday August 17, 1978:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: Grandma Comes Home (R) Hawaii Five-O: Invitation To Murder (R) Barnaby Jones: Sister Of Death (R)
ABC Welcome Back, Kotter: Horshack And Madame X (R) What's Happening: Raj And The Older Woman (R) Barney Miller: Rape (R) Comedy Special: Mother, Juggs & Speed ABC News Closeup
NBC CHiPs: Crash Diet (R) Richie Brockelman, Private Eye: A Title On The Door And A Carpet On The Floor (R) The Runaways: Too Young To Love (R)


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[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: Grandma Comes Home
Season 6, episode 22
W: Claire Whitaker, Rod Peterson   D: Ralph Senensky

With Peter Fox (Rev. Hank Buchanan), Ken Marquis (Clarence). Grandpa Walton goes through a trying adjustment when Grandma returns home after an extended stay at the hospital.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/30/1978)

[ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Horshack And Madame X
Season 3, episode 24
W: Peter Meyerson   D: Al Schwartz

With Sally Hightower (Laura Stevens), Melonie Haller (Angie Globagoski). The usually shy Arnold Horshack surprises his fellow Sweathogs when he announces he has fallen in love with an older woman.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1978)

[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Crash Diet
Season 1, episode 19
W: Rudolph Borchert   D: Don McDougall

With Nita Talbot (Instructor), Don 'Red' Barry (Truck Driver), Steve Franken (Student Driver), Robert Lussier (Coach), John Milford (Doctor), Herman Poppe (Leonard), Deborah Pratt (Carol), Crystin Sinclaire (Linda). Jon and Ponch have problems with the UCLA girls volleyball team, a runaway truck loaded with explosives, a dirt thrower on the freeway, and a crash diet.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/23/1978)

[ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Raj And The Older Woman
Season 2, episode 19
W: Sally Wade   D: Mark Warren

With Lavonne Dancy (Jeannie Wilson), Sip Culler (Mr. Johnson), Bob Harcum (Darryl Wayburn). In order to impress a beautiful model, Raj lies about his age and claims that he's a movie star.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/18/1978)

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Invitation To Murder
Season 10, episode 20
W: Seeleg Lester   D: Harry Harris

With Lyle Bettger (Malcolm Rhodes), Helen Funai (Riah Barlow), Sydney Lassick (Benileha), Christina Kokubo (Eugenie Barlow), Anthony Caruso (David Thorpe), Eduard Franz (Thomas Barlow), Henry Woltag (Anatole Surat), Valerie Charles (Carolyn Thorpe), Francis Kamahele (Lawrence Barlow). McGarrett and his Five-O unit try to discover which survivior of a famous and recently deceased painter is busy trying to kill off the rest of the artist's heirs.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/23/1978)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Rape
Season 4, episode 15
W: Dennis Koenig   D: Noam Pitlik

With Linda Dano (Leslie Dornan), Michael Pataki (Marvin Lindsay), Joyce Jameson (Catherine Lindsay), William Bogert (Neil Korchak), Dick Balduzzi (Mr. Duggan), Harvey Gold (Ross). A woman charges her husband with rape, while the officers chase a robber who dresses like a priest.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/26/1978)

[NBC 9:00] Richie Brockelman, Private Eye [Reg]: A Title On The Door And A Carpet On The Floor
Season 1, episode 3
W: Steven Bochco   D: Arnold Laven

With Carol Lynley (Jean Hollister), Rene Auberjonois (Shefland), Virginia Gregg, Charles Siebert (Stan Hollister), John Holland (Bushnell), Herb Voland (Pollard), Amanda Harley (Mrs. Pollard). Richie accepts an offer to join a prestigious investigative firm, but after turning his files over to his new employers a murder occurs, and the young private eye begins to question the reason he was hired.
(Repeat program, originally aired 3/31/1978)

[ABC 9:30] Comedy Special: Mother, Juggs & Speed [special]
With Ray Vitte, Joanne Nail, Joe Penny, Harvey Lembeck. A team of paramedics learn that the ambulance company they work for is about to lose its operating license.

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Sister Of Death
Season 5, episode 11
W: Gerry Day, Bethel Leslie   D: Michael Caffey

With Sheila Larken (Sister Terry), Katherine Justice (Suzanne Montaigne), Jack Ging (Dave Hendricks), Jonathan Lippe (Mr. T), Fred Sadoff (Freddy Fairfield), Skip Homeier (Col. John), Laurel Barnett (Rita Carbone), Maria Cale (Adelina), Danny Sue Nolan (Nurse McKay), Sally Marr (Marie Holcomb). Barnaby confronts the controversial subject of euthanasia when a young nun is suspected of pulling the plug on the life-support machine that kept her incurably ill sister alive.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/6/1977)

[ABC 10:00] ABC News Closeup An award-winning documentary in which a camera team lives, walks and rides with policemen in New York's highest crime area, the South Bronx.

[NBC 10:00] The Runaways [Reg]: Too Young To Love
Season 1, episode 4
W: William Froug

With Alan Fudge (Captain), Jon Van Ness (Police Officer), Gary Imhoff (Danny). McKay mediates in an emotion-charged situation involving a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend who ran away when her parents insisted on an abortion.
(Repeat program, originally aired 5/18/1978)

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