Wednesday August 29, 1979
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday August 29, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Dorothy: Give My Regrets To Broadway Hanging In: Sleep With The Fishes Movie: High-Ballin' (1978)
ABC Eight Is Enough: Best Of Friends (R) Charlie's Angels: Disco Angels (R) Vega$: Demand And Supply (R)
NBC Real People (R) TV Movie: The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)


Sports
Movie
Drama
News
Special
Variety
Comedy

Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Dorothy [Reg]: Give My Regrets To Broadway
Season 1, episode 4
W: Vic Rauseo, Linda Morris   D: John Rich
Everyone blames Dorothy and Frankie when their field trips are banned after Frankie is arrested for panhandling during a museum visit. (Last show of the series.)

[ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Best Of Friends
Season 3, episode 21
W: David Braff, Nick Thiel   D: Gerald Mayer

With Joan Prather (Janet McArthur), Rosanna Arquette (Lori West), Tracey Gold (Tracey Kappleton), Missy Gold (Missy Kappleton), Martin Azarow (Will), Jeff Cotler (Irving J. Moore). Tommy shocks the Bradfords with the announcement of his impending marriage to a girl who is pregnant by another man.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/21/1979)

[NBC 8:00] Real People Reports on 67-year-old "Disco Harry"; a school for panhandlers; an artist who transforms gas pumps into animals and insects. (Repeat program)

[CBS 8:30] Hanging In [Reg]: Sleep With The Fishes
Season 1, episode 4
W: Arthur Julian, Sy Rosen   D: Walter C. Miller

With Billy Beck (Pop), Nedra Volz (Pinky). Harper fears that a mob boss wants revenge because his son was refused admission to the school. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: High-Ballin' (1978)
W: Paul Edwards   D: Peter Carter

With Peter Fonda, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver. Two truck drivers fight off thugs who have been hired to drive them out of business.

[ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Disco Angels
Season 3, episode 16
W: George F. Slavin   D: Georg Stanford Brown

With Zalman King (Harry Owens), Peter MacLean (Fred Heston), Shera Danese (Connie), Robert Symonds (Simon), Diane McBain (Marian), Gregory Rozakis (Mario). The Angels get jobs in a disco where several men were seen just before they were murdered.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/31/1979)

[NBC 9:00] TV Movie: The Night They Took Miss Beautiful (1977)
W: George Lefferts   D: Robert Michael Lewis

With Gary Collins, Sheree North, Chuck Connors, Victoria Principal, Stella Stevens, Henry Gibson, Peter Haskell, Gregory Sierra, Phil Silvers, Karen Lamm. Criminals hijack an airplane that not only carries a dangerous organism that is to be used in bacterial warfare, but also five beauty contest finalists.

[ABC 10:00] Vega$ [Reg]: Demand And Supply
Season 1, episode 17
W: Gerry Davis   D: Cliff Bole

With William Smith (Jack Avery), John Fiedler (S.J. Henderson), Cindy Eilbacher (Jenny Miller), R.G. Armstrong (Wellman), Gregory Walcott (Halford), Michael D. Roberts (Chickie), Jean Allison (Sarah), Karlene Crockett (Tracy), Lynn Theel (Dahlia), Tom Williams (Grover). Dan goes after a crime ring which uses extortion and violence to force young girls into illicit activities.
(Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1979)

  Copyright © 2014-2024, All Rights Reserved   •   Privacy Policy   •   Contact Us