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Friday April 17, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday April 17, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS The Incredible Hulk: Half Nelson The Dukes Of Hazzard: The Late J.D. Hogg (R) Dallas: Full Circle
ABC Those Amazing Animals Special Movie: The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
NBC Harper Valley P.T.A.: To Dunk Or Not To Dunk (R) The Brady Brides: A Pretty Boy Is Like A Melody Nero Wolfe: The Murder In Question NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
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[CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: Half Nelson
Season 4, episode 16
W: Andrew Schneider   D: Barry Crane

With Cecelia Holman (Tina), Jimmy Briscoe (Jack), Luis Cortes (Pete), Charles Sweigart (Jimmy), Wesley Thompson (Bill), Sandy Dryfoos (Marsha), Elaine Joyce (Mitzi), Joey Forman (Promoter), David Himes (Kelly), Paul Henry Itkin (Channing), H.B. Haggerty (Gregor), Tommy Madden (Steven 'Buster' Caldwell).
David travels to Baltimore and meets Buster Caldwell, a midget wrestler with a big mouth that gets both of them in trouble.

[ABC 8:00] Those Amazing Animals Special [special]
Highlights from past shows and new segments with guest star Brooke Shields are presented. Hosts are Burgess Meredith, Jim Stafford and Priscilla Presley.

[NBC 8:00] Harper Valley P.T.A. [Reg]: To Dunk Or Not To Dunk
Season 1, episode 1
W: Lloyd Schwartz, Sherwood Schwartz   D: Bruce Bilson

With Enid Kent (Mrs. Crowley), Matthew Ansara (Teenager), Vic Dunlop (George Kelly), Robert Gray (Cliff Willoughby).
Premiere of a new series starring Barbara Eden. A misunderstanding leads to Stella being kicked off the school carnival commitee for allegedly having an affair with the mayor, but she cooks up a plot with Cassie to get even with the snobbish PTA members.

(Repeat program, originally aired 1/16/1981)

[NBC 8:30] The Brady Brides [Reg]: A Pretty Boy Is Like A Melody
Season 1, episode 10
W: Richard Gurman   D: Tony Mordente

With Mr. Blackwell (Himself), Tom Gagen (Brandon), Tom Jordan (Lance).
Marcia is forced to use Wally and Philip in her fashion show after her models go on strike. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 9:00] The Dukes Of Hazzard [Reg]: The Late J.D. Hogg
Season 3, episode 4
W: Martin Roth   D: Hollingsworth Morse

With Lindsay Bloom (Mabel Tillingham), Joanne Hickman (Nurse), James McIntire (Linc), Ray Young (Dell), Dennis Haskins (Charlie Watkins).
Boss' dream finally comes true when he forecloses on the Duke farm. Just as he is celebrating his success, he gets a call from his doctor telling him he has only two weeks to live, and he becomes a changed man.

(Repeat program, originally aired 11/21/1980)

[ABC 9:00] Movie: The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
W: David Ambrose   D: Ken Annakin

With Beau Bridges, Ursula Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Alan Hale Jr., Lloyd Bridges, Jose Ferrer, Olivia de Havilland, Rex Harrison.
Saddled with a cruel monarch, the middle-aged and weary musketeers train a young man -- an identical twin of the King -- to do battle with the tyrant.

[NBC 9:00] Nero Wolfe [Reg]: The Murder In Question
Season 1, episode 12
W: Merwin Gerard   D: George McCowan

With John Reilly (David Wharton), Norman Alden (George Miller), Diane Shalet (Valerie Jenson), Lucinda Dooling (Ellen Miller), Dale Robinette (Gary Bartlett), Ted Hartley (Frank Carlson).
A former prosecutor's wife and then his secretary are killed in apparent attempts on his life; the wife is burned to death in a car crash just after telling Nero that her husband's life is being threatened.

[CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Full Circle
Season 4, episode 22
W: Arthur Bernard Lewis   D: Michael Preece

With Susan Flannery (Leslie Stewart), Leigh McCloskey (Mitch Cooper), Christopher Stone (Dave Stratton), Morgan Woodward (Punk Anderson), Don Starr (Jordan Lee), Sherril Lynn Rettino (Jackie Dugan), David Healey (Senator), Joseph Warren (Senator), Jared Martin (Dusty Farlow), Priscilla Pointer (Rebecca Wentworth), Ellen Bry (Jean Hallinan), John Randolph (Lincoln Hargrove), Jay Varella (Senator), William Smithers (Jeremy Windell).
Kristin Sheppard returns from California to reveal another scheme; Cliff uses Westar's help to build a case against J.R. in connection with the South-East Asian coup, and hands the materials over to Bobby's Senate committee.

[NBC 10:00] NBC Magazine With David Brinkley


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