Prime-time network TV listings for Friday January 23, 1981:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Goodbye Eddie Cain
Season 4, episode 8 W: Nicholas Corea D: Jack Colvin With Jennifer Holmes (Vicki Lang), Anthony Caruso (Danny Romero), Donna Marshall (Norma Crespi Lang), Ray Laska (Jack Lewis), Virginia Hahn (Mrs. Stauros), Cameron Mitchell (Eddie Cain), Thomas MacGreevy (Sheehan), Gordon Connell (Mac), Roscoe Born (Sheldon). A 1940s-style detective can't explain why a corpse is found in his office -- except that it may be related to an extortion plot, a mysterious gardener, and a green creature.
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| [ABC 8:00] Benson [Reg]: The Apartment
Season 2, episode 10 W: Kathy Speer, Terry Grossman D: John Rich With Fay Hauser (Rhonda Page). Benson, wanting to be alone, moves into an apartment which is intended to give him a place to escape from the mansion on weekends.
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| [NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: A Husband For Stella
Season 1, episode 2 W: Jordan Moffet D: Alan Myerson With Joan Kjar (Eunice Clayton), Vic Dunlop (George Kelly), Robert Gray (Cliff Willoughby), Ned Wertimer (Inspector Hartley). Flora and the Harper Valley PTA believe that Stella is pregnant, so they set out to find her a husband to protect the reputation of their upstanding town.
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| [ABC 8:30] I'm A Big Girl Now [Reg]: Let's Give Ben A Hand
Season 1, episode 10 W: Marc Sotkin D: Doug Rogers With Kip Gilman (Dr. Wilson), Barry Gordon (Jerry). Ben becomes even more ornery after Walter smashes his hand with a tennis racket, leaving Ben fearful that he will no longer be able to practice dentistry.
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| [NBC 8:30] Sanford [Reg]: Cal The Coward
Season 2, episode 3 W: J. Stanford Parker D: Jim Drake With Howard Platt (Officer Hopkins), Hal Williams (Officer Smith), Michael D. Roberts (Sam), Jonathan Banks (Al). A bag of gold drops over the fence and Fred thinks he's rich -- until some crooks show up to claim their stash and leave Cal feeling guilty over his cowardly behavior when the robbers confront him.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: Duke vs. Duke
Season 3, episode 12 W: William Raynor, Myles Wilder D: Paul Baxley With Fran Ryan (Ma Harper), Johnnie Collins III (Billy Boy Harper), Richard Fullerton (Billy Gene Harper), Alan Wyatt Jr. (Junior Harper), Sandy Wescott (Nurse). When Cooter is injured before Hazzard County's annual road race, Luke offers to take the driver's seat of Cooter's car, knowing he will have to race Bo in the General Lee.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Oklahoma City Dolls (1981)
W: Ann Beckett D: E.W. Swackhamer With Susan Blakely, Ronee Blakely, David Huddleston, Eddie Albert, Lynne Moody, Art Lund, Jack Ging, Sarah Cunningham, Judyann Elder. A female factory worker leads a rebellion among her co-workers for equal rights by forming a company football team for women and hires a down-on-his-luck coach to make them winners.
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| [NBC 9:00] Nero Wolfe [Reg]: Death On The Doorstep
Season 1, episode 2 W: Stephen Downing D: George McCowan With Stephen Parr (Paul Hendricks), Frank Coppola (Cabbie), Tim Thomerson (Brian Stoner), Arlen Dean Snyder (Vance Allison), Walter Matthews (McNab), James Gallery, Nick Angotti (Marty Thomas), Irene Miracle (Mandy Sullivan), Joe Lowry. Nero becomes involved when Archie's college football teammate is found dead on the doorstep of Nero's Manhattan brownstone, and the investigation leads directly to the victim's widow.
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: End Of The Road (2)
Season 4, episode 12 W: Leonard Katzman D: Irving J. Moore With Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Joel Fabiani (Alex Ward), Barbara Babcock (Liz Craig), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), Monte Markham (Clint Ogden), William Smithers (Jeremy Wendell), Jeanna Michaels (Connie), Karlene Crockett (Muriel Gillis), Ted Gehring (Brady York), Robert Rockwell (Minister), Anne Francis (Arliss Cooper). At the wedding of Lucy and Mitch, Sue Ellen makes a play for an old boyfriend to get even for J.R.'s "interest" in Mitch's sister; Bobby resigns as president of Ewing Oil; Miss Ellie accuses Jock of behavior for which she can never forgive him.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
A look at Great Britain's economy under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; cons and swindles that deprive victims of their life savings; an investigation of the private eye business.
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