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Show ML September Peasant 7 The TV Section 1978 Page One TELEVISION SCANNING ((thursdayj) Washington D C (60 mins ) (B MASTERPIECE THEATRE The Mayor of Casterbridge Episode One Eighteen years have passed since Michael Henchard last saw his wife and daughter He is now the of prosperous Mayor Casterbridge but the family reunion reminds him of his disgraceful past for which he vows to make amends (60 EVENING 600 QOQID ZOOM NEWS 0 630 FEUD 0O NEWLEYWEDGAME FAMILY 0 TICTAC DOUGH U UTAH WEEKEND MACNEIL LEHRER Q) REPORT mins 700 0 ) 10 00 000 o JOE NAMATH AND THE WONDERS Dean WAVERLY Martin, O J Simpson, Dick Bruce Jenner and Clark, others guest star in a salute to Namath and his new comedy which the in series, celebrated NFL quarterback stars as a high school history teacher and coach of a winless basketball team (60 mins ) year is 1776 O ROOTS TheKunta has lost and the adult none of his rebellious will His final escape attempt costs him his right foot, and the crippled slave is nursed back to health by a slave woman named Bell enthe with Soon, couragement of Fiddler, Kunta and Bell are married and Kunta passes up a chance to escape because of the birth of Stars his daughter Kizzy John Amos (Pt III 3 hrs ) THE WALTONS A German which found has family, refuge on Walton s Mountain from the scorn and rejection of their former neighbors, brought on by the war, is hurt once again when Elizabeth carries a rumor (R, 60 mins ) OVER EASY Host Hugh Downs Guest David Frost self-mad- man (60 mins 10 30 TONiGHT Q COMEDY) - 600 0O CANDID NEWLEYWEDGAME CAMERA (9 REPORT OF THE Sewing LEHRER 700 BAY CITY ROLLERS MEET SUPER-STARSATURDAY S The popu'ar Scottish rock group, who are the headliners of NBCs new Saturday morning series, the Krofft Superstar Hour, star in this special Introducing the new NBC-Tof Saturday morning line-uprograms Guest stars Joe Namath, Scott Baio (60 mins ) HAPPY DAYS Fonzies life O as a gang leader is recalled to convince Chachi that it s not so cool to be a member of a street gang (R) d p THE NEW ADVENTURES OF WONDER WOMAN Gary Burghoff guest stars as a college student who, while as a janitor, moonlighting et accidentally finds the a formula for dangerous new explosive, then has to run for his life from industrial spies 830 THE This portrait of Eric HOFFER LIFE recent the r and pungent, pithy quotes from his books on the human condition Actor Richard Basehart reads from Hoffer s writings (90 mins ) thought-provokin- g 900 first pioneering series about the professional and private lives of real doctors focuses on Dr Judson Randolph, n Surgeon-m-Chie- 'Special MACNEIL 0 THE comic The SPECIAL Techniques' (MYSTERYTo Caich a LIFELINE in this 0 GUNSMOKE 00 CAVETT 11 O DICK SHOW Guest James West, former narcotics agent, Part I 30 ABC CAPTIONED 11 55 MIKE DOUGLAS 12 00 11 O 0 O NEWS TOMORROW Host Tom Snyder Guests Roy Rogers, Tim McCoy and Monty Hale-forstars (R, 60 cowboy 1 25 NETWORKS AND STATIONS TO RESERVE THE RIGHT MAKE CHANGES TV COMPULOG SERVICES, INC f, Children s Hospital, Medical Center, (R, 60 mins ) OVER EASY Host Hugh Q Downs Guest Opera singer Giorgio Tozzi MOVIE DRAMA)Vi Kim "Three Sisters 1966 Geraldine Page The Stanley, story of the relationships amidst an unhappy family in 19th century Russia (3 hrs) -- 730 HAPPY O Fonzie DAYS Richie and play cupid to fill a romantic void in Als life by fixing him up with a meter maid (R) MACNEIL LEHRER O REPORT 800 THE EDDIE CAPRA MYSTERIES Vincent Baggetta stars as a maverick lawyer 0 lies in his skill at unraveling the most impossible homicide cases Tonight s case involves the puzzling slaying of a hated Guest mogul publishing stars Robert Vaughn, George Hamilton (2 hrs ) ROOTS In 1824 Kizzy is now the mother of a youth who will be called Chicken George, sired by her owner who raises fighting chickens As word of spreading slave rebellions led by Nate Turner reaches the plantation, the owner imposes and harsh retaliatory measures Chicken George is sent off to England to pay his the owner s debt, with promise he II return a free man Stars Ben Vereen. (Pt O TICTAC DOUGH O USU WEEK opera satirizes 1950s suburban sophistication in dealing with the lives of a couple in search of the good life while beset by marital difficulties (60 mins ) National NEWS 630 TO creased responsibilities after a family tragedy THEATRE OPERA (D Trouble in Tahiti Leonard 0program day and night play, with Pat Summerall, Tony Trabert and Virginia Wade providing the whose brilliance EVENING UPON A CLASSIC Katy Did Episode Three Its Christmas and Katy is still confined to bed More determined than ever to walk again, Katy takes on in- longshoreman-philosophe- TENNIS US 0HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of the ((friday)) college documentary Hoffer intersperses with interviews ... 10 40 OPEN H- Crying Child Starsky and Hutch befriend a boy only to learn to their horror that he is the victim of parental abuse SWAT- The Killing (R) Hondo rescues Ground' police officer Jim Street from ) ERIC O CROWDED v Hutch-'T- he (D one act Songwriters Sammy Cahn, Alan Jay Lerner and Arthur Schwartz Part II 3 ) AND A T ONCE Q What Bersteins i show ) Thief 1955 Grace Kelly, Cary Grant On the French Riviera, thief falls in love an with a wealthy American girl and finds he is suspected of continuing his old thievery (2 hrs dick cavett (90 professor forced to retire from teaching because of his age is drafted to run for the U S Senate after the incumbent withdraws because of a widely a with affair publicized stripper Stars Jack Albertson, Larry Lmville (60 mins ) MOVIE LEHRER MACNEIL CD BYU DEVOTIONAL 7 30 LEHRER MACNEIL GOES Guests SHOW mins 0Host THE Johnny Carson mins 0 FBI HUTC0SW STARSKY Starsky and 0 NEWS Q A ) REPORT 0 0REPORT 800 GRANDPA 0WASHINGTON m 3 s'Mvr 10 55 the Exchequer makes Glencora s role that of a stylish London hostess Two personalities that enter their circle of friends are Irish Parliamentarian Phmeas Finn a and Robert Kennedy, e wealthy and powerful QD an ambush that has claimed the life of Street s partner (R, 2 hrs , 15 mins ) commentary NEWS THE PALLISERS s post of Chancellor of - W,. IV, 2 0 hrs host Joe Garagiola shakes the paw of the Broadway star Sandy, the origin, cast canine performer in the hit musical Annie who is one of the guests in the lighthearte will beam on Tuesday entertainment special THE CANINE HALL OF FAME, which NBC-TOn-came- ra V Sept. 12. ) SOMETHING FOR JOEY The critically acclaimed true-lif- e story of the close and between loving relationship John Cappelletti, a Heisman his and winner, Trophy GRAND THEFT AUTO Joey brother, younger stricken with leukemia Stars Marc Singer, Geraldine Page (2 hrs ) WASHINGTON Q REVIEW WEEK IN 830 0Stocks WALL STREET WEEK Cheap Thrills Host Guest Louis Rukeyser Economist Ira U Cobleigh 900 MASTERPIECE O of The THEATRE Casterbridge Eighteen years have passed since Michael Henchard last saw his wife and daughter He is now the of Mayor prosperous Casterbridge but the family reunion reminds him of his disgraceful past for which he vows to make amends (60 mins ) (3 Mayor Episode One 0O0 o THE 10 00 NEWS PALLISERS leads the Liberal Party fight in the House of ComBill mons for a Reform designed to broaden suffrage and Phineas Finn lends eloquent support A twist of fate enhances Finns political fortunes as well (60 mins) L Two young lovers find then elopement turned into a zany cat chase as they are pursued by a motley collection of fortune hunters in the 1977 comedy Grand Theft Auto,1 and directed by starring, Happy Days star Ron Howard, to be broadcast as a special CBS-Tmovie presentation on Friday, Sept 15 Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan) and Sam Freeman (Howard, pictured) are in love but Paulas millionaire father (Barry Cahill) couldn't care less. He figures that his political aspirations would be better served if his daughter married handpicked suitor Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), a socially drip Taking matters into their own Sam Paula borrow" her and hands, e and head for Las fathers Vegas and marriage Collins sets out Rolls-Royc- after them Then, when Powers offers a reward for his daughter's return and Mrs. Hedgeworth (Miss Ross) follows suit, a varied crew of bounty hunters joins the pursuit The whole gang meets in a giant arena, just as a demolition derby is about to beein |