Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday April 10, 1980:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Palmerstown, U.S.A. [Reg]: Black Travelers (1)
Season 1, episode 4 W: Ronald Rubin, Alex Haley D: Jeffrey Hayden The white citizens of Palmerstown plan on making some easy money by pitting their baseball team against the Black Travelers, a "ragamuffin" touring team.
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| [ABC 8:00] Mork & Mindy [Reg]: Stark Raving Mork
Season 2, episode 2 W: April Kelly D: Howard Storm When Mork learns about the Earth custom of kissing and making up, he immediately starts a squabble with Mindy. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/23/1979)
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| [NBC 8:00] Buck Rogers In The 25th Century [Reg]: The Plot To Kill A City (2)
Season 1, episode 6 W: Alan Brennert D: Dick Lowry With Nancy DeCarl (Sherese), James McEachin (Mr. Selvin), Anthony James (Varek), John Quade (Quince), Frank Gorshin (Kellogg), Markie Post (Joella Cameron), Robert Tessier (Marcos), James Sloyan (Barney Smith), Victor Argo (Raphael Argus), Whitney Rydbeck (Hartsteen), Nonice Williams (Katrina Selvin). Discovered and captured by would-be assassins, Buck tries to stop their plan to destroy the city of New Chicago by using lethal anti-matter. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/18/1979)
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| [ABC 8:30] Benson [Reg]: Benson In Love
Season 1, episode 4 W: Bob Colleary D: Peter Baldwin With Beverly Todd (Senator Francine Wade). Benson falls madly in love with a lady politician. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1979)
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| [CBS 9:00] Hagen [Reg]: Hear No Evil
Season 1, episode 6 D: Vincent Sherman With Stephanie Zimbalist (Linda), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Chavez), Paul Pape (Stewart), Aldine King (Jody), Robert Shields (Toby). Hagen tries to protect a would-be actress who witnessed a $2 million jewelry heist.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: The Photographer
Season 6, episode 2 W: Bob Colleary D: Noam Pitlik With Phil Leeds (Gilbert Lettier), Anita Dangler (Louise Meyers), Sal Viscuso (Joseph Beatty), Kenneth Tigar (Jesus Christ). A drug pusher who is outraged by being arrested by a short cop and a man claiming to be Jesus Christ liven up the 12th Precinct. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1979)
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| [NBC 9:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Mode Of Death
Season 5, episode 7 W: Aubrey Solomon, Deborah Klugman, Steve Greenberg D: Rod Holcomb With Granville Van Dusen (Moyer), Marshall Thompson (Henry), Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Osborne), William Bogert (Kenneth Ross), Byron Morrow (Franklin Osborne), Sarah Rush (Lauren), Stephen Elliott (Dr. Chase), Fritzi Burr (Dr. Finkel), Regis Cordic (Dr. Condon). Quincy refuses to believe a police report confirming a religious leader's death as suicide and sets up his own autopsy. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1979)
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| [ABC 9:30] The Associates [Reg]: The Censors
Season 1, episode 9 W: Stan Daniels, Ed Weinberger D: Tony Mordente With John Ritter (Chick), Stuart Margolin (Phil Kramer), Lee Wallace (Gerald McMartin), Pamela Toll (Vera #2), Richard Brestoff (Mr. Adamson), Louisa Moritz (Vera #1), K.C. Martel (Stevie #1), Ian Praiser (Stevie #2). Tucker travels to Hollywood to help a television censor persuade the producer of a comedy show to tone down an episode which the network thinks is too sexy.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Contender [Reg]: Breakthrough
Season 1, episode 2 W: Howard Berk D: Sutton Roley Johnny battles his way through the tryouts for the U.S. Olympic team.
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| [ABC 10:00] 20/20
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| [NBC 10:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Big Cheese
Season 6, episode 10 W: Shel Willens D: Joseph Pevney With Constance Towers (Sally Sternhagen), Alan Manson (Chuck Ryan), Ben Andrews (Stamps), Mark Lonow (Coco), George Pentecost (George Neff), Mary Jackson (Postal Supervisor), Hank Brandt (Sgt. Floyd), Eldon Quick (Willis Hoag), Bill McLean (Fred Barlow), Jimmy Weldon (John Rockfield), Francis X. McCarthy (Eddie Hellinger), Peter Hobbs (Walter Winterwood), Marie Denn (Sally Packard), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). A reporter is slain after mailing Rockford a critical piece of evidence about a labor union-mob connection, but the package gets lost in the mail. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/7/1979)
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