Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday March 17, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Wonder Woman [Reg]: The Girl With A Gift For Disaster
Season 3, episode 19 W: Alan Brennert D: Alan Crosland With Jane Actman (Bonnie), Ina Balin (Dr. Koren), Dick Butkus (Neil), Charles Haid (Bob Baker), Raymond St. Jacques (Mayfield), James Sloyan (Mark Reuben), Renee Brown (Joan). A young woman with the power to cause machine failures unwittingly becomes the accomplice of a gang of robbers.
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| [ABC 8:00] Delta House [Reg]: Big Man On Campus
Season 1, episode 8 W: Stephen Tolkin, Michael Tolkin D: Bruce Bilson The Deltas try to convince Mandy, the Omegas' favorite girl, that Flounder is the man of her dreams.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: The Sheik
Season 2, episode 9 W: Jerry Thomas D: Phil Bondelli With Maggie Malooly (Irate Wife), Anita Jodelsohn (Suzanne), Marianne Marks (Fay), Kario Salem (Barney), Dick Valentine (Husband in Car), William Bronder (Workman), Colette Bertrand (Michelle), Chris Beaumont (Ambulance Attendant), Peter Ashton (Servant), Joey Aresco (Husband), Jill Jaress (Pregnant Woman). A speed-crazy young prince gives Jon and Ponch the royal treatment in the hope that they will overlook his traffic violations. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/18/1978)
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: The Gang Show
Season 4, episode 19 W: Bill Richmond, Gene Perret D: Norman Abbott With Charles Fleischer (Carvelli), Bob Harcum (Murray), Della Reese (Mrs. Tremaine). Epstein and Washington enter the school talent show, unaware that the judging has been fixed by another contestant.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Willa (1979)
W: Carmen Culver D: Joan Darling, Claudio Guzman With Deborah Raffin, Clu Gulager, Diane Ladd, Nancy Marchand, Mary Wickes, Bob Seagren, John Amos, Cloris Leachman. A truck stop waitress, a mother raising two young kids alone, is determined to make a better life for her family by pursuing a new career as a trucker.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Sounds of Silence / Cyrano de Bricker / Murder On The High Seas
Season 2, episode 23 W: Margie Peters, Joyce Armor, Judie Neer, Howard Albrecht, Sol Weinstein D: Richard Kinon With Arte Johnson (Marty Austin), Peter Lawford (Teddy Smith), Sonny Bono (Phil Baxter), Charlie Callas (Vinnie DeRisi), Jill St. John (Mitzi DeRisi), Dana Wynter (Maggie Smith), Sheila Lenham (Sara), James Dobson (Anderson). A flamboyant rock singer yearns to unveil his sensitive side; a gambler asks Doc how to express his love for his wife; Gopher and Isaac think a pair of mystery writers is plotting to murder the Captain.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Deadly Cargo
Season 1, episode 4 W: Michael Sloan D: Cliff Bole With Hank Brandt (Sheriff), Joe Maross (Officer Frank), William Mims (Dr. Braverman), Byron Morrow (Senator McMasters), Mary Louise Weller (Elizabeth Chambers), Peter Zapp (Jerry Drake), Hal Fredericks (Officer), Patrick Brennan (Thomas), Charlie Star (Hastings). B.J. transports a mysterous cargo to Washington, D.C. for use by a female scientist at a Senate hearing.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Yesterday's Love / Fountain Of Youth
Season 2, episode 21 W: Skip Webster, William Douglas Lansford D: George McCowan With Dennis Cole (Captain Jeff Bailey), Eleanor Parker (Peggy Atwood), Craig Stevens (Charles Atwood), Mary Louise Weller (Tina Mason), Guy Madison (Brick Howard), Lew Ayres (J.D. Pettigrew), Lou Frizzell (Willie Tucker), Eddie Little Sky (Chief), Rick Flores (Sato), Bob K. Cummings (Tama), Bert Santos (Priest). A troubled married couple hopes to recapture the period when they fell in love; a soldier of fortune tries to find the fabled Fountain of Youth.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Jersey Bounce
Season 5, episode 3 W: David Chase D: William Wiard With Greg Antonacci (Eugene Conigliaro), Eugene Davis (Mickey Long), Luke Andreas (Artie Nodzak), Bo Hopkins (John Cooper), Sorrell Booke (Wade Ward), Elta Blake (Celeste), Jim Scott (D.A. Cowan), Doney Oatman (Dawn Nodzak), Anthony Brand (Judge Rossi), Walter Olkewicz (Mac Amodeus), Paul Teschke (Carl Gibbons). Jim Rockford is framed for the slaying of a notoriously tough hood and must turn for help to a disbarred lawyer to keep from going to jail. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1978)
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