Thursday May 31, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday May 31, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Waltons: The Yearning (R) Hawaii Five-O: The Spirit Is Willie (R) Barnaby Jones: Victim Of Love (R)
ABC Mork & Mindy: Snowflakes Keep Dancing On My Head (R) Angie: The Proposal (R) Barney Miller: The Radical (R) Carter Country: Teddy's Folly 20/20
NBC Hizzonner: Tea And Synthesizers Comedy Theater: Faculty Lounge The Innocent And The Damned: Part 1 (R)


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[CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Yearning
Season 7, episode 11
W: Juliet Packer   D: Nell Cox

With Sean Roche (Rev. Andy March). Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth secretly falls in love with the new minister, who mistakenly thinks it is Erin who has a crush on him.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/14/1978)

[ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Snowflakes Keep Dancing On My Head
Season 1, episode 16
W: Dale McRaven, Bruce Johnson   D: Howard Storm
Mork and Mindy discover the idyllic mountain cabin they borrowed from Exidor for the weekend is a burned-out building with no roof. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/1/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Hizzonner [Reg]: Tea And Synthesizers
Season 1, episode 4
Mayor Cooper experiences an unexpected feeling of jealousy when his secretary begins dating his son.

[ABC 8:30] Angie [Reg]: The Proposal
Season 1, episode 1
W: Alan Eisenstock, Larry Mintz   D: Howard Storm

With Joseph V. Perry (Customer). Series premiere. Angie Falco, a waitress from the wrong side of the tracks, learns that her new boyfriend is from one of Philadelphia's wealthiest families.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/8/1979)

[NBC 8:30] Comedy Theater: Faculty Lounge [special]
With Arte Johnson, George Gobel, Nanette Fabray, Rose Marie, Jackie Mason, Larry Storch. Members of a high school faculty panic when they are unexpectedly on strike because of their inept union.

[CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: The Spirit Is Willie
Season 11, episode 15
W: Seeleg Lester   D: Reza Badiyi

With Fred Ball (Willie Fitzwilliam), Ed Sheehan (Elliot), Mildred Natwick (Millicent Shand), Diana Scarwid (Carole Walker), Eduard Franz (Professor MacKinnon), Robert Vaughn (Sebastian Rolande), Ross Barden (Jeremy Walker). A woman claims that her niece's husband has faked his own death in order to get his hands on $500,000.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/25/1979)

[ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Radical
Season 5, episode 10
W: Tony Sheehan   D: Noam Pitlik

With Corey Fischer (Jonathan Dodd / Gerald Morris), Stuart Pankin (Burglar), Craig Richard Nelson (Arnold Moraz), Sam Ingraffia (Ambulance Attendant). Wojo collars a radical who's been in hiding since the 1960s.
(Repeat program, originally aired 12/7/1978)

[NBC 9:00] The Innocent And The Damned: Part 1 [special]
With Sam Elliott, John Houseman, Perry King. (Originally broadcast as "Aspen".) Attorney Tom Keating fights with a senior colleague over the proposed defense of a gigolo accused of murder.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Teddy's Folly
Season 2, episode 20
W: Douglas Arango, Phil Doran   D: Peter Baldwin

With Marla Adams (Florabelle), Vanda Barra, Frank Farmer. When Mayor Burnside appears to have lost his fortune, his gold-digging fiancee decides to skip town.

[CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Victim Of Love
Season 7, episode 9
W: Jack V. Fogarty   D: Walter Grauman

With Darleen Carr (Julia Schumacher), Gary Swanson (Floyd Schumacher), David Hollander (Danny Schumacher), Barney Phillips (Lou Arnold), Terence McNally (Frank Taylor), Jeanne Bates (Mrs. Stites). J.R.'s high school sweetheart comes to him for help when her former husband begins threatening her.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/30/1978)

[ABC 10:00] 20/20 Geraldo Rivera visits Laos; Sylvia Chase investigates allegations of corruption against the Army Corps of Engineers; Thomas Hoving reports on the Cannes Film Festival.

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