Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday September 30, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
A visit to Northern Ireland; children coping with cancer; teenage drug use.
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| [ABC 7:00] Out Of The Blue [Reg]: Laura, The Runaway
Season 1, episode 4 Random tries to convince runaway Laura to give up her job as a truck-stop waitress and come home.
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| [NBC 7:00] Wonderful World Of Disney: The Million Dollar Duck (1)
Season 21, episode 1 W: Roswell Rogers D: Vincent McEveety With Dean Jones (Albert Dooley), Sandy Duncan (Katie). The story of an impoverished research scientist who develops a wild concoction that is eaten by his test lab duck which immediately starts to lay eggs of solid gold. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/15/1974)
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| [ABC 7:30] A New Kind Of Family [Reg]: The Hero
Season 1, episode 3 W: Robert Illes, James Stein D: Jeremiah Morris With Phil Leeds (Principal Aplanap), Chuck McCann (Harold Zimmerman), Jenna McMahon (Lynette Zimmerman - voice only). Kit and Abby's happy household turns into a war zone when their 13-year-old daughters become rivals for a cheerleading position.
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| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Edith Gets Hired
Season 1, episode 3 W: Harriet Weiss, Patt Shea D: Paul Bogart With William Schallert (Dr. Wakeford), Victor De Rose (Patient). Archie is more than upset when he learns of Edith's plans to take a job helping the mentally disturbed.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Mork's Baby Blues
Season 2, episode 3 W: David Misch, April Kelly D: Howard Storm With Dinah Manoff (Kathy), Carl Gottlieb (Justice Abbott). A gold digger builds an innocent dinner date with Mork into a torrid love affair that she claims has left her with child.
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: The Kid From Left Field (1979)
W: Katharyn Powers, Jack Sher D: Adell Aldrich With Gary Coleman, Robert Guillaume, Ed McMahon, Tab Hunter, Gary Collins, Tricia O'Neil. A bat boy passes his father's game strategy on to the cellar-dwelling San Diego Padres, launching them on a winning streak that takes them to the World Series.
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| [CBS 8:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Back To School
Season 5, episode 1 W: Julie Kirgo, Dinah Kirgo D: Alan Rafkin With Ivor Francis (Professor Bradley), Steven Anderson (Elliot Newcombe), Karen Knotts (Lynn), Gina Russell (Carol). Season premiere. Ann decides to enroll in the same college that Barbara is attending, and Barbara is enthusiastic about it until she realizes she'll be sharing more than college with her mother.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Associates [Reg]: Is Romance Dead?
Season 1, episode 2 W: David Lloyd D: Tony Mordente With Jack Gilford (Julius Barnes), David Knapp (Congressman Faraday). Lovesick Tucker finally makes his move on Sara after he gets some romantic advice from an author of romantic novels.
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| [CBS 9:00] Alice [Reg]: Mona Lisa Alice
Season 4, episode 2 W: Charles Isaacs, Tom Whedon D: Marc Daniels With Robert Hogan (Greg Stemple), Dave Madden (Earl Hicks), Duane R. Campbell (Chuck), Nancy Lenehan. Mel makes the mistake of offering a free meal to every customer who doesn't get a smile from his waitress.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Murder By Death (1976)
W: Neil Simon D: Robert Moore With Peter Sellers, David Niven, Peter Falk, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Eileen Brennan. Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Jeffersons [Reg]: A Short Story
Season 6, episode 2 W: Neil Lebowitz D: Bob Lally With Stymie Beard (Businessman #1), Jesse Jacobs (Photographer), Bob Gorman (Bob Simmons), Don Potter (Jack Feldman). George becomes even more of an egomaniac when he is chosen "Midtown Small Businessman of the Year".
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| [CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: Flashback
Season 1, episode 2 W: Don Brinkley D: Murray Golden With Byron Morrow (Dr. Schoenberg), Jane Actman (May Maxwyn), Lonny Chapman (Detective), James Coco (Jennings), David Huffman (Frank Maxwyn), Richard Balin (Collins). Trapper John and Gonzo try to keep a deranged Vietnam vet who shot a poet from being locked away until they can figure out why he did it.
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| [NBC 10:00] Prime Time Sunday
Restrictions on foreign nationals working at embassies in Washington; a woman who reunites brothers and sisters separated by adoption; profile of Earl Weaver, the controversial manager of the Baltimore Orioles.
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