Prime-time network TV listings for Friday January 9, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Bring Me The Head Of The Hulk
Season 4, episode 6 W: Allan Cole, Chris Bunch D: Bill Bixby With Sandy McPeak (Alex), Jane Merrow (Dr. Cabot), Barbara Lynn Block (Pauline), Laurence Haddon (Neil Hines), Murray MacLeod (Ludin), Jed Mills (Le Front), Walter Brooke (Mark Roberts). After a rival publisher of McGee's newspaper offers a million-dollar reward for the Hulk's head, a mercenary adventurer lures David Banner to an isolated laboratory specially designed to attract him.
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: In High Places
Season 2, episode 8 W: Rob Dames, Bob Fraser D: John Rich With Myron Natwick (Pilot). The pilot of an aircraft carrying Benson, Marcie, Clayton and the Governor becomes ill and it is up to the Governor and Benson to fly the plane.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford [Reg]: Here Comes The Bride
Season 2, episode 1 W: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf, Phil Doran, Sy Rosen D: Jim Drake With Lisle Wilson (Lawyer), John Anderson (Judge), Sid Gould (Balliff), Vanda Barra (Sylvia), Phil Leeds (Husband), Joyce Gitlin (Wife). Aunt Esther returns and moves in with Fred to watch over Cliff. Cal discovers that due to an error on Fred's marriage license, Fred was actually long ago legally wed to Esther.
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| [ABC 8:30] I'm A Big Girl Now [Reg]: Fear And Loathing In Georgetown
Season 1, episode 8 W: Deborah Leschin D: Doug Rogers A heavy breather keeps calling Edie at all hours, eventually driving her out of her own house and into Diana's.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: State Of The County
Season 3, episode 10 W: Bruce Howard D: Dick Moder With Phillip Brown (Earl Becket), Larry D. Mann (Boss J.W. Hickman), Ken Foree (Rollo), A.J. Freeman (Truck Driver), The Oak Ridge Boys (Themselves). Cooter's new employee is an underling for a crooked county administrator wanting to take over Hazzard County, and things become even more complicated when Daisy falls for the handsome stranger.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Topper (1979)
W: Mary Ann Kasica, George Kirgo, Michael Scheff D: Charles S. Dubin With Kate Jackson, Andrew Stevens, Jack Warden, Rue McClanahan, James Karen, Charles Siebert. In this updated version of the 1937 movie, a recently deceased fun-loving couple tries to get into heaven by returning to earth as phantoms to do enough good deeds to get them past the Pearly Gates.
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| [NBC 9:00] Momma The Detective [special]
W: Larry Cohen D: Larry Cohen With Esther Rolle, Kene Holliday, Frank Converse, Andrew Duggan, Laurence Luckinbill, Fritz Weaver, Jean Marsh, Paul Dooley. The story of Momma Sykes, a housekeeper with an uncanny knack for solving crimes. In the pilot episode, Momma attempts to solve the mysterious murder of a man in a hotel room despite the objections of her son, a New York police sergeant who balks at her intervening in his cases.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Executive Wife
Season 4, episode 10 W: Rena Down D: Leonard Katzman With Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Joel Fabiani (Alex Ward), Morgan Woodward (Punk Anderson), Barbara Babcock (Liz Craig), Michael Bell (Les Crowley), William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell), Jeanna Michaels (Connie), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Ted Gehring (Brady York), Jerry Haynes (Pat Powers). J.R. encourages Jock to consummate a business deal, fully aware that this will conflict with Bobby's plans. Pam, feeling a poor second to Bobby's work, receives the attention she is lacking from a business associate named Alex Ward.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
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