Saturday May 16, 1981
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday May 16, 1981:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Salem's Lot
ABC Eight Is Enough: Goals The Love Boat: Tony And Julie / Separate Beds / America's Sweetheart Fantasy Island: Man-Beast / Ole Island Oprey
NBC B.J. And The Bear: The Fast And The Furious (1) (R) B.J. And The Bear: The Fast And The Furious (2) (R) The Texas Rangers


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Program details:



[CBS 8:00] Salem's Lot [special]
W: Stephen King, Paul Monash   D: Tobe Hooper

With David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres. A novelist returns to his boyhood home to put an end to troubled memories, but finds that a sinister mystery shrouds his town.

[ABC 8:00] Eight Is Enough [Reg]: Goals
Season 5, episode 20
W: Stephanie Garman, Hollace White   D: Jack Bender

With David Landsberg (Dennis Wilcox), Ralph Strait (Uncle Sid), Darrell Larson (Dan Mulford), William Phipps (Eddie Gravitz), Joshua Bryant (Walt Liebowitz), Helen Verbit (Mrs. Wilcox), Sands Hal (Barbara), Mickey Cherney (Stan Mattox), Lucas Dudley (Leibowitz), Stacy Sipes (Doris Wilcox), Esa Lewis (Laurie). Merle's career may be cut short by a shoulder injury; Mary's life is complicated by a patient at the hospital who falls in love with her.

[NBC 8:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: The Fast And The Furious (1)
Season 3, episode 2
W: Robert McCullough   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With William Smith (John Cooley), Jock Mahoney (Jason Willard), Pamela Susan Shoop (Dolly Reed), Susan Woollen (Stacy), Steven Reisch (Deke). Captain Grant and Trans Cal Trucking's new strongman Cooley conspire to put Bear Enterprises out of business, aided and abetted by a sexy saboteur who plants drugs in B.J.'s truck.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/20/1981)

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Tony And Julie / Separate Beds / America's Sweetheart
Season 4, episode 25
W: Art Baer, Ben Joelson, Si Rose, Casey Keller, Richard Albrecht   D: Richard Kinon

With Anthony Andrews (Tony Selkirk), Nancy Kulp (Aunt Gert), Allison Arngrim (Becky Daniels), Toni Tennille (Lynn Mitchell), Ronnie Schell (Director), William Christopher (Carl Mitchell), Lindsay Bloom (Nancy). Julie has a run-in with a guy who turns out to be a passenger; a young actress comes on board and makes a fool of Vicki; an estranged husband and wife -- one of whom is neat freak and the other a slob -- find themselves assigned to the same cabin.

[NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: The Fast And The Furious (2)
Season 3, episode 3
W: Michael Halperin   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With William Smith (John Cooley), Jock Mahoney (Jason Willard), Pamela Susan Shoop (Dolly Reed), Susan Woollen (Stacy), Jay Varela. B.J. and Cooley race their trucks from Oakland to L.A., with the prize being a lucrative shipping contract.
(Repeat program, originally aired 1/27/1981)

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Man-Beast / Ole Island Oprey
Season 4, episode 23
W: Stephen Lord, Valerie Allen   D: George W. Brooks

With David Hedison (David Tabori), Carol Lynley (Elizabeth Tabori), Jimmy Dean (Charlie Rowlands), Anne Francis (Lottie McFadden), Wendy Schall (Jennie Rowlands), Kevin Hagen (Sam), Keith Atkinson (Joe Henderson), Calvin Bartlett (Shepherd). David Tabori has horrifying and recurring nightmares, then discovers he is actually some kind of monster; a man wishes for his daughter to become an opera singer, but her own wishes turn out to be quite different.

[NBC 10:00] The Texas Rangers [special]
W: Stanley Ralph Ross   D: Georg Fenady

With Richard Farnsworth, Jeff Osterhage, Larry Gilman, Patricia Barry, Arlen Dean Snyder, Paul Brinegar. Pilot for a projected series about contemporary Houston lawmen who combine modern detective methods with cowboyish bravado.

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