Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 22, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Working Stiffs [Reg]: Looking For Mr. Goodwrench
Season 1, episode 2 W: E. Jack Kaplan D: Norman Abbott Al invests in a new tool whch works so well that Ernie is soon out of a job.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Ropers [Reg]: Days Of Beer And Rosie
Season 2, episode 2 W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea With Squire Fridell (Bill), Vernon Weddle (Ernest Grimes), Peggy Converse (Mrs. Hollingsworth). A young man appears at the Ropers carrying his mother's diary, which has an entry claiming that Stanley is the boy's father.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Roller Disco
Season 3, episode 1 W: Rudolph Borchert D: Don Weis With Larry Storch (Franco), Robert Starr (Brian), Leif Garrett (Jimmy Tyler), Bill Daily (Balford), Mike Minor (Doctor), Fred Williamson (Ty), Jim Brown (Romo), Larry Linville (Carlin), Ed McMahon (Himself). Season premiere. While organizing a roller disco charity ball, Ponch and Jon cross paths with roller-skating thieves, a con man constantly collecting insurance for whiplash, and a rock star hiding out from the world.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: Buttermaker Rides Again
Season 2, episode 2 W: Ron Leavitt D: William Asher With John Touchstone (Cop), Danny Nunez (Jose). Buttermaker, sent to the race track to find a missing student, makes a unique bet with the teenage truant.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: Nick Is Smitten
Season 2, episode 2 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff D: Walter C. Miller With Michael DeLano (Jimmy), James Brodhead (Foster), Fritzi Burr (Madame Duchamp), Richard O'Brien (Lou Garver), Mary Louise Weller (Cora). Nick finds himself in jail when he falls for a lovely young lady who uses the unaware detective as the star of a porno film.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Lucky Lady (1975)
W: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz D: Stanley Donen With Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, Geoffrey Lewis, John Hillerman, Robby Benson, Val Avery, Louis Guss, John McLiam. A trio of rum-runners during prohibition in the 1930s engage in a menage-a-trois after business hours.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Oldies But Goodies / The Grass Is Always Greener / Three Stages Of Love
Season 3, episode 2 W: Jan Jessel, Tom Dunsmuir, Bob Fraser, Rob Dames D: Alan Rafkin With Adam Rich (Brian Phillips), Eddie Mekka (Mike), Amanda Blake (Nora Knox), Joan Hackett (Tina Phillips), Werner Klemperer (Perkins), Karen Morrow (Daphne Knox), Lani O'Grady (Robin), Barry Sullivan (Phillip Schaeffer). A woman has reason to worry about her divorcee daughter; a handicapped man is bedeviled by his valet; a couple find their seven-month romance turning sour.
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| [ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Hit Jennifer Hart
Season 1, episode 2 W: Rogers Turrentine, Tom Mankiewicz D: Tom Mankiewicz With Craig Wasson (Steven Thomas), Shera Danese (Carla), Peter Brandon (Daniels), Luke Andreas (Dock Foreman), W.T. Zacha (Longshoreman), Walter Olkewicz (Longshoreman), Lynn Wood (Moderator), Edward Grover (Morgan), Eddie Hailey (Officer Pierson). After extending her hospitality to her new-found cousin, a struggling young writer, Jennifer becomes the victim of a series of terrifying near-fatal accidents.
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| [NBC 10:00] A Man Called Sloane [Reg]: Night Of The Wizard
Season 1, episode 1 W: Peter Allan Fields D: Alan J. Levi With Christine De Lisle (Krista), Roddy McDowall (Manfred Baranoff), Diane Stilwell (Sara), Chris Marlowe (Alexander), Erik Cord (Sherman), Jack Tyree (Melrose). Series premiere. Secret agent Thomas Remington Sloane III uncovers the diabolical plot of a demented millionaire to control the world with an army of deadly humanoids.
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