Saturday April 12, 1980
. . . where the 1970s live forever!

Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday April 12, 1980:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Tim Conway Show Movie: Magnum Force (1973)
ABC Angie: Brad's Best Buddy Goodtime Girls: Growing Pains The Love Boat: Brotherhood Of The Sea / Letter To Babycakes / Daddy's Pride (R) Fantasy Island: Hit Man / The Swimmer (R)
NBC B.J. And The Bear: Cain's Cruiser (R) B.J. And The Bear: Cain's Son-In-Law (R) Sneak Preview: The Oscar Race


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] The Tim Conway Show [Reg]
Season 1, episode 4

With Susan Anton.

[ABC 8:00] Angie [Reg]: Brad's Best Buddy
Season 2, episode 18
W: Gloria Banta   D: John Tracy

With Tim Thomerson (Gianni), Pamela Brull (Laurie), Tessa Richarde (Connie). Gianni is thinking about leaving Angie's shop so Angie asks Brad to convince him otherwise.

[NBC 8:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Cain's Cruiser
Season 2, episode 3
W: Robert McCullough   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With Erin Gray (Dr. Evans), Vernon Weddle (Delwood P. Manners), J.D. Cannon (Gorley), Joshua Shelley, Janet Julian (Tommie), Ed Lauter (Sheriff Cain), Otto Felix (Deputy Higgins), Tim O'Keefe (Officer), Wyatt Johnson (Cooper), Lee Paul. Sheriff Cain decides that the best way to pay for his expensive new police cruiser is to arrest B.J. and fine him for transporting illegal aliens through the county.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1979)

[ABC 8:30] Goodtime Girls [Reg]: Growing Pains
Season 1, episode 5

With Scott Baio (Tommy). Edith finds it difficult to accept that her brother wants to join the Navy -- and the war -- and uses Betty as bait to get him to change his mind about enlisting.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Magnum Force (1973)
W: John Milius, Michael Cimino   D: Ted Post

With Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Robert Urich, Tim Matheson, Kip Niven, Felton Perry, Christine White, John Mitchum. Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Brotherhood Of The Sea / Letter To Babycakes / Daddy's Pride
Season 3, episode 10
W: Jay Grossman, Lee Aronsohn, Howard Merrill   D: George Tyne

With Jimmie Walker (Wally), Nancy McKeon (Penny Barrett), Christopher Connelly (Rory Daniels), Alex Cord (Mr. Barrett), Sydney Goldsmith (Ginger), Telma Hopkins (Tracy), Demond Wilson (Bart), Stephen Manley (Kevin), Sid Gould (Sidney). Julie is shocked by the initiation rites when she is allowed to join the ship's secret all-male club; a womanizer is surprised when he finally gets what he's looking for; a young gymnast comes to terms with her overprotective father.
(Repeat program, originally aired 11/17/1979)

[NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Cain's Son-In-Law
Season 2, episode 5
W: Frank Lupo   D: Charles R. Rondeau

With Audrey Landers (Carol Cain), Ed Lauter (Sheriff Cain), Joshua Shelley (Bullets), Angela Aames (Honey), Liberty Godshall (Dixie), Otto Felix (Deputy Higgins), Lee Paul (Customer), Timothy O'Hagan (Stone), Mark Harrison (Officer Conway). Sheriff Cain's daughter announces that she's marrying B.J. in order to free him from jail and herself from having to marry her father's deputy.
(Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1979)

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Hit Man / The Swimmer
Season 3, episode 1
W: Skip Webster, Tim Maschler   D: Earl Bellamy

With Peter Graves (Jack Summers), Eve Plumb (Terry Summers), David Doyle (Fred Forbush), Constance Towers (Shirley Forbush), Gail Fisher (Dr. Frantz), Eddie Mekka (Johnny Detroit/Wilbur Wilson), Kaye Ballard (Elvira Wilson), Marc Gilpin (Bobby), April Gilpin (Janet), Ronnie Scribner (Greg), Steven Spencer (Billy), Katrina Alexis (Kathy). A handicapped girl, dreaming of finding a cure for her paralysis, and a bankrupt hit man who takes out a contract on himself so that his family can collect the life insurance, pay a visit to the island.
(Repeat program, originally aired 9/7/1979)

[NBC 10:00] Sneak Preview: The Oscar Race [special] David Sheehan and entertainment columnists including Judith Crist, Rex Reed and Liz Smith interview some of the Oscar nominees and speculate on the upcoming awards ceremony.

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