Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday October 20, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Celebrity Challenge Of The Sexes
With Bill Cosby, Joan Rivers, Michael Douglas, Lola Falana, Leif Garrett, Barbi Benton.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Ropers [Reg]: Puppy Love
Season 2, episode 6 W: Martin Rips, Joseph Staretski D: Jack Shea With Lois Areno (Debbie Hopper), Martin Ferrero (Salesman), Sheila Rogers (Customer). While flirting in a hot tub with a stewardess, Stanley loses Helen's prized puppy.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Counterfeit
Season 3, episode 6 W: Dean R. Koontz D: John Florea With Ralph Meeker, Andrew Duggan (Chester Murphy), Minda Burr (Heather), Fred Beir (Evan Whitlock), Billy Barty (James O'Hara). A gang of counterfeiters, led by a con artist posing as a clergyman, makes an unwitting Ponch one of their victims, and he also must deal with a hostile dwarf and a blind date who's less than brilliant.
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| [ABC 8:30] Detective School [Reg]: One Word Is Worth A Thousand Pictures
Season 2, episode 6 W: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff, Tucker Wiard D: Jeff Harris, Bernie Kukoff With Burt Marshall, Richard Altman, Cliff Carnell (Gene). The detectives talk Nick into letting them investigate a blackmail case involving a prominent citizen and a beautiful girl.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Crew Confessions / Haven't I Seen You? / Reunion
Season 3, episode 6 With Don Knotts (Herb Grobecker), Julie Newmar (Marla), Jean Pierre Aumont (Mr. Fluro), Jane Wyatt (Mrs. Fluro), Pat Finley (Adele), John-David Wilder (Newsman). Isaac has trouble when the crew finds some racy tales about themselves in his new novel; a man who resembles a celebrity passes himself off as the famous man to a lovely lady; a husband and wife who were separated during World War II are reunited.
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| [NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Pogo Lil
Season 2, episode 4 W: Rick Kelbaugh D: Bernard McEveety With Anne Lockhart (Lillian Pogovich), Charles Napier (Hammer), Joshua Shelley, Dick Davalos, Anthony James. B.J. tries to help a female trucker evade a pair of ruthless loan sharks who are after her truck -- and her life.
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| [CBS 10:00] Paris [Reg]: Friends And Enemies
Season 1, episode 4 W: Edward DeBlasio D: Alex March With Barrie Youngfellow (Joyce Slade), Alice Hirson (Mrs. Dalton), Rudy Ramos (Ray Segarras), Mark Slade (Frank Slade), Rosanna DeSoto (Marisa Gomez), Fred Beir, Jeannetta Arnette, Essex Smith (Ralph Banning). An unarmed suspect is killed by a young Chicano policeman under strange circumstances.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Chain Gang / The Boss
Season 3, episode 5 W: Skip Webster, John Whelpley, Arthur Rowe D: Mike Vejar With John Myhers (Howard Callas), Roddy McDowall (Gary Pointer), Dennis Cole (Mike Jenner), Donna Mills (Cindy Carter), Elizabeth Lindsey (Debbie), Pat Klous (Stacy Connors), Brett Halsey (Brent Bailey), R.G. Armstrong (Captain Hawks), Stacy Keach Sr. (Neil Atwell), Cameron Mitchell (Eddie Collins), Olan Soule (Henry Jenner). A young woman desiring professional success in the corporate world and a man seeking to avenge his father's death visit Fantasy Island.
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| [NBC 10:00] A Man Called Sloane [Reg]: Demon's Triangle
Season 1, episode 5 W: Jimmy Sangster D: Michael Preece With Clive Revill (Morgan Lancaster), Marianne Marks (Lana), Maurice Hill (Hertzog), John Reilly (David Clarke). While searching for a missing friend, T.R. Sloane encounters a gang of modern-day pirates who force down planes with a powerful hijacking apparatus.
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