Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday September 12, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
W: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins D: John Badham With Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Mabel King, Tony Burton, Stan Shaw, Otis Day, Alvin Childress. Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930's.
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| [ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: The Cupid Crisis
Season 4, episode 2 W: Bruce Shelly D: Leslie H. Martinson With William Lampley (Driver), Terry Lester (Reed Ellis). David returns home to find his girlfriend engaged to another man, while baseball star Merle the Pearl tries to woo Susan by using Nicholas.
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| [NBC 8:00] Real People
Reports on a hollering contest; a party for former male centerfolds of Playgirl magazine; an Ariizona bar where patrons box while they drink; a woman who owns more than 100 St. Bernards.
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| [ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Love Boat Angels
Season 4, episode 1 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Allen Baron With Lee Travis (Eleanor Case), Dick Sargent (James Avery), Bert Convy (Paul Hollister), Bo Hopkins (Wes Anderson), Gavin MacLeod (Captain Stubing), Bernie Kopell (Doc), Fred Grandy (Gopher), Ted Lange (Isaac), Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy), Judy Landers (Blonde), Barry Sullivan (Mr. Damajaran). Season premiere. Kelly, Kris and their new partner Tiffany set sail aboard the Love Boat to investigate the theft of priceless artifacts from a museum.
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| [NBC 9:00] Holocaust, Part 3: The Final Solution [special]
W: Gerald Green D: Marvin Chomsky With Meryl Streep, James Woods, Fritz Weaver, Tovah Feldshuh, Michael Moriarty, David Warner, George Rose, Joseph Bottoms, Sam Wanamaker, Rosemary Harris. Rudi joins a Russian partisan brigade; Inga asks to join her husband Karl in the concentration camp; Erik Dorf's plans to execute Jews more efficiently hasten the Nazi decision to remove 6,000 Warsaw Jews each day for "resettlement". (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 10:00] Bender [special]
Pilot for a series.
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