Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday September 29, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Working Stiffs [Reg]: The Bank Robbery
Season 1, episode 3 W: Al Aidekman D: Norman Abbott While escorting mother-to-be Nikki to the doctor's office, Mike runs into a fleeing bank robber.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Ropers [Reg]: Power Play
Season 2, episode 3 W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea With Dena Dietrich (Ethel Armbrewster), Rod Colbin (Hubert Armbrewster), Cliff Norton (Don Webster). When the Ropers' electricity is turned off, Stanley is forced into using an unfriendly neighbor's kitchen to cook a gourmet meal for Helen's snooty sister.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Valley Go Home!
Season 3, episode 3 W: L. Ford Neale, John Huff D: Barry Crane With Grant Wilson (Jerry), Aarika Wells (Kris), Jimmy Ortega (Michael), Kim O'Brien (Donna), Ed Griffith (Tom), Greg Bradford (Bart). Jon and Ponch, on temporary duty at Malibu Beach, have to cope with beautiful girls and two rival teenage gangs.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Bad News Bears [Reg]: First Base
Season 2, episode 3 W: Ron Leavitt, Bryan Levant D: Jeffrey Ganz With Tonya Crowe (Wendi). Buttermaker and the Bears go all out to help 8-year-old Regi cope with hs first romance.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: Ice
Season 2, episode 3 W: Bernard Dilbert D: Walter C. Miller With Fritzi Burr, James Brodhead. Nick's students create chaos when they search for a stolen diamond at a high society party.
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| [CBS 9:00] Big Shamus, Little Shamus [Reg]: The Canary
Season 1, episode 1 W: Dick Robbins, Don Heckman Series premiere. Arnie Sutter, a house detective at an Atlantic City casino, and his son Max search for the person threatening a nightclub singer's life. Stars Brian Dennehy, Doug McKeon.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Doc, Be Patient / Dance With Me / Going My Way
Season 3, episode 3 W: Ben Joelson, Art Baer, Carmen Finestra, Haskell Barkin D: Alan Rafkin, James Sheldon With Starr Danias (Joanna Robbins), Arlene Golonka (Susie Butterfield), Buddy Hackett (Mickey Greenbaum), Carol Lawrence (Marcy McGuire), John Meehan (William Delaney), Susan Sullivan (Dr. Emily Bradford). A ballet dancer does a pas de trois with his current partner and his former partner; a cabbie accepts an invitation to join his fare on the cruise; Doc comes down with the flu and is confined to bed by an attractive colleague.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Snow White And The Seven Lady Truckers (1)
Season 2, episode 1 W: Michael Sloan D: Christian I. Nyby II With Charles Napier (Hammer), Slim Pickens (Sgt. Wiley), Richard Deacon (Sherff Masters), John Lupton (Agent Hull), James A. Watson Jr. (Agent), Joshua Shelley (Bullets), Laurette Spang (Snow White), Bill McKinney (Jim Riker), Andre the Giant (Andre), Conchata Ferrell (The Fox), Julie Gregg (Sally), Janet Julian (Tommie), Robert Wilke (Mr. Stevens), Jack Ging (Agent Mason). Season premiere. B.J. lends his help in organizing seven female truckers to combat a gang of ruthless competitors.
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| [CBS 10:00] Paris [Reg]: Pilot
Season 1, episode 1 W: Steven Bochco D: Jackie Cooper With Vic Morrow (Julius Wellman), Barbara Babcock (Florence Carlin), Candy Ann Brown (Samantha Williams), Kiel Martin (Bo Manning), Frank Marth, Lev Mailer. Series premiere. Woody Paris, a detective moonlighting as a college professor, becomes involved in the perplexing murder of a prominent councilman's wife. Stars James Earl Jones.
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| [ABC 10:00] Hart To Hart [Reg]: Passport To Murder
Season 1, episode 3 W: David Levinson D: Ray Austin With Nicholas Pryor (Clint Reilly), Henry Darrow (Rodriguez), Carlos Romero (Doctor), John D'Aquino (Decker), Dante D'Andre (Mendez), Luisa Leschin (Anita), Margarita Garcia (Maria). While on a boating holiday in Mexico, the Harts become fugitives from a band of international drug dealers and the police.
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| [NBC 10:00] A Man Called Sloane [Reg]: The Seduction Squad
Season 1, episode 2 W: Stephen Kandel D: Michael Preece With Anthony Eisley (Herbert Davis), Laura Johnson (Joanna Ross), Robert Culp (Edward Denton), Lee Purcell (Michele Blake), Hank Brandt (Gen. Lucas), Sybil Danning (Angelika Braden), Robert F. Hoy (Brand), William Joyce (Admiral Carter), Len Lawson (Blaine). Sloane sets out to thwart a tycoon's plan to use a trio of brainwashed military officials to take over oil-rich nations.
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