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Show programming may be pre-empted at varloue tlmaa during aacti day of tha week. At praaa time, apaclflc tlmaa and programs to be pre-empted were unannounced. tor In turn-of-the-century Africa. (2 hrs.) 1:00 CD AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFFS If a fourth game is not played in the American League Playoff series, regularly scheduled programming pro-gramming will be broadcast. DIMENSION FIVE REPORT 1:30 FACES - 2:00 TO BE ANNOUNCED MORMON WORLD CONFERENCE 2:30 NOVA 'A Plague On Our Children' In this premiere episode of Nova, the chemical industry is under suspicion of being a major threat to our health and that of future generations; contrary con-trary to being publicized as a boon to modern civilization. (2 hrs.) 3:00 33) FREESTYLE 3:30 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS 33) GUTEN TAG 4:00 CS WILD KINGDOM R0UNDTABLE 33) COUGAR FOOTBALL BYU vs Hawaii (3 hrs.) 4:30 NBC NEWS CBS NEWS USU AND YOU 5:00 JACQUES C0USTEAU 'Hippo' (60 mins.) 20-20 HEE HAW CS FREESTYLE 5:30 FEELINGS EVENING 6:00 NAME THAT TUNE (If a fourth game is played in the NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFF SERIES, REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING WILL BE PRE-EMPTED.) LAWRENCE WELK SHOW NEWS FOOTSTEPS 6:30 JOKER! JOKER! JOKER! DIMENSION FIVE FIESTA LATINA 7:00 CHiPs Furious motorists, frustrated gas station owners, and fast-moving thieves give the CHP a rough week as thousands of gallons gal-lons of stolen gasoline disappear. dis-appear. (60 mins.) (Note: CHiPs may be pre-empted by coverage of the Baseball Playoffs) THE ROPERS When Helen yearns for a child of her own, neighbor Anne Brookes suggests adoption. EVENING PT. i. SOCCER MADE IN GERMANY CO) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GEOGRA-PHIC 'Strange Creatures of the Night' Filmed with night-vision night-vision camera devices, this program documents the world of bats, owls, hyenas, and sightless cave-dwelling salamanders. (60 mins.) 7:30 DETECTIVE SCHOOL Nick Hannigan and his student sleuths wheel into action by infiltrating a tough motorcycle gang when Han-nigan's Han-nigan's niece disappears. 8:00 BJ AND THE BEAR BJ and a group of lady truckers are hired by the government to haul money, but jealous male truckers and crooked Sgt. Wiley have other plans for the currency. (Note: BJ And The Bear may be preempted pre-empted by coverage of the Baseball Playoffs) THE LOVE BOAT Three vignettes: 'The Audit Couple' Stars: Phyllis Diller. 'The Scoop' Stars: Joyce DeWitt, Ray Buktenica. 'My Boyfriend's Boy-friend's Back' Stars: Jennifer Jen-nifer Salt, Richard Kline. (60 mins.) 33) BYU FORUM 8:10 ONCE UPON A CLASSIC 'The Old Curiosity Shop.' The season premiere of Once Upon A Classic starts off with Charles Dickens' classic told in 10-parts. It is (jsundayj) OCT. 7, 1979 MORNING 6:00 SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTER 6:30 H.R. PUFNSTUF 7:00 HERALD OF TRUTH LAND OF THE LOST MORNING SHOW 7:30 SACRED HEART FAR OUT SPACE NUTS 7:45 FROM THE CATHEDRAL 8:00 JERRY FALWELL KIDS ARE PEOPLE TOO ffl SESAME STREET 8:30 ROBERT SCHULLER the story of Little Nell, her gambling grandfather and Quilp, the greedy and evil dwarf. In episode one Nell's grandfather Kent gambles away all of the money he borrowed from Quilp. 8:50 HERBIE MANN 9:00 A MAN CALLED SLOANE (Note: A Man Called Sloane may be preempted pre-empted by coverage of the Baseball Playoffs) HART TO HART The Harts are confronted with unplanned parenthood and a kidnapping case when a little boy is left on their doorstep with a note falsely proclaiming proclaim-ing that he is Jonathan's son. (60 mins.) PARIS When his mother is mugged and seriously injured by a particularly vicious gang operating in the ghetto, Police Academy student Thomas Sims tries to take the law into his own hands. (H) BYU FIRESIDE 10:00 NEWS PYTHONS 33) ANOTHER VOICE Host Chuck Stone and guests provide timely weekly analyses of current events from the perspective of America's minorities with probing interviews and on-location on-location reports. 10:30 MARCUS WELBY SECOND CITY TELEVISION BIG SHAMUS, LITTLE SHAMUS House detective Arnie Sutter and the daughter of one of the world's wealthiest men are kidnapped While he i? chaptering chap-tering her to the airport. (60 mins.) S3) MOVIE -(COMEDY) "V4 "Love Happy" 1949 Marx Brothers, Marilyn Monroe. A trio of loonies get mixed up with jewel thieves. (90 mins.) 11:00 MOVIE -(DRAMA) "In Tandem" 1974 Claude Akins, Frank Converse. A middle-aged free-lance trucking contractor teams up with a Harvard Law School graduate to help an orange farmer fight to save his land. (90 mins.) MOVIE -(COMEDY-DRAMA) "Class of '44" 1973 Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser. Sequel to 'Summer of '42': Adventures of three boys as they graduate from high school; one joins the Marines, Mar-ines, the other two leave for college, where their romancing romanc-ing brings plenty of trouble. (2 hrs.) MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS 11:30 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE Host: Maureen Stapleton. Guests: Linda Ronstadt, Phoebe Snow. (Repeat; 90 mins.) 12:30 NEXT STEP BEYOND 1:00 GET SMART ffi ABC NEWS NEWS IT) MiSTrn ....-..-. 8:30 ftWlMAl li. ANIMALS, animals; school. hoik. CJ5l3 tabernacle choih cd electric company 10:00 S) MEET THE PRESS CD ORAL ROBERTS (3D LDS WORLD CONFERENCE CD STUDIO SEE 10:30 TAKE 2 LET'S FACE IT ZOOM 11:00 MOVIE-(DOCUMENTARY) 'Lions Are Free' 1969 Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna. (If a fifth game is played in the National League Playoff series, regularly scheduled programming will be pre-empted.) FEELINGS 11:30 CROSSFIRE FOOTSTEPS AFTERNOON 12:00 MOVIE -(CRIME-DRAMA) "Slay Ride" 1972 Glenn Ford, Edgar Buchannan. In the modern day Southwest, a marshall must deal with a questionable murder suspect, su-spect, a bitter Apache youth, (i hrs.) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW OLD TABERNACLE CHOIR IN JAPAN MASTERPIECE THEATRE 'Love for Lydia' In this, the second episode, Edward and Lydia are separated separ-ated by the spring thaw. Although each is too uncertain uncer-tain to pursue the other, they fall completely in love when reunited through the efforts of their friend Alex Sanderson. Sander-son. (60 mins.) 12:30 OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN FACE THE NATION 1:00 A PAPAL VISIT ABC News will present live coverage cover-age of Pope John Paul ll's high pontifical Mass to be celebrated in Washington D.C. (2 hrs., 30 mins.) TALENT SHOWCASE WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW 1:30 WALL STREET WEEK 'Ruff and Ready.' Guest: Howard J. Ruff, Editor, The Ruff Times. 2:00 NFL FOOTBALL San Diego Chargers vs Denver Broncos LDS WORLD CONFERENCE GREAT PERFORMANCES PERFOR-MANCES 'A Life in the Theatre' Tonight's performance perfor-mance presents a two-character two-character play by David Mamet, one of America's most gifted new playwrights. The story is about two actors - one a seasoned veteran, the other a neophyte - for whom the theatre is clearly SS important as life itself. (90 mins.) 3:00 3D HUMAN DIMENSION 3:30 MOVIE -(SUSPENSE-DRAMA) "Deadly Hunt" 1971 Tony Franciosa, Peter Lawford. Young couple become the quarry for two paid killers. (90 mins.) TO BE ANNOUNCED 33) THIS IS THE LIFE 4:00 NFL FOOTBALL (JOINED IN PROGRESS) Dallas Cowboys vs Minnesota Minneso-ta Vikings EVENING AT SYMPHONY 33) LONG SEARCH 'The Romanian Solution' Despite the influences of Communism, Commun-ism, the Romanian Orthodox Church is still an important aspect of Romania's cultural heritage and ethnic identity. Host Ronal Eyre travels about Romania to enjoy Byzantine architecture and the inspiring choral music of some of Christendom's earliest ear-liest liturgies. (60 mins.) 5:00 MUPPET SHOW ABC NEWS WORKING STIFFS Nikki's husband, Ralph, finally fin-ally returns from California to tell his pregnant wife goodbye for good. LONG SEARCH The Romanian Solution' Despite hotllBua nn3 alhnkc Idanllty. Woat Ronal t yt ravaa about Romania to enoy Byzantine architecture and the inspiring choral music of some of Christendom's earliest ear-liest liturgies. (60 mins.) CED FIRING LINE Host: William Wil-liam F. Buckley, Jr. 'Crisis in the U.S. Military' 5:30 EXTRA ALL IN THE FAMILY BAD NEWS BEARS Morris Buttermaker renews acquaintances with 'old flame,' Alice Wurlitzer. Amanda's mother, and winds up asking her to marry him. (Pt. I. of a two-part episode) EVENING 6:00 DISNEYS WONDERFUL WORLD (If a fifth game is played in the American League Playoff series, regularly scheduled programming pro-gramming will be pre-empted.) OUT OF THE BLUE Random faces a dilemma because the kids look to him for a healing miracle after Chris injures his knee and can't play football. 60 MINUTES UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS DOWN-STAIRS 'A Pair Of Exiles' (60 mins.) 33) CONNECTIONS 'Death in the Morning' Narrator James Burke traces the origin of the atom bomb back more than 26 centuries to the invention of gold assaying. From there, he shows how the expansion of trade, invention in-vention of the compass, experiments with vacuums and electricity contributed to the most critical development develop-ment of the modern world. (60 mins.) 6:30 A NEW KIND OF FAMILY Kit Flannagan and Abby Stone take their dispute with the power company to the airwaves when a computer-caused computer-caused overcharge disrupts family life. 7:00 THE BIG EVENT 'Gray Lady Down' 1978 Stars: Charlton Heston, David Car-radine. Car-radine. A suspense drama about the Navy's efforts to rescue the crew of a nuclear submarine trapped 1,450 feet below the ocean surface. sur-face. ('Gray Lady Down' may be pre-empted by coverage of the Baseball Playoffs) MORK AND MINDY Mork plays doctor to an ailing robot named Chuck who is headed for the junk pile, and the two new buddies proceed to drive everyone around them crazy with their antics. ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE Business partners Archie and Murray disagree over what to do about a Jfiondlv lady who's set up a business of her own. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL Life for a newly-qualified vet isn't all that easy; finding a job is difficult in the thirties. (60 mins.) 33) MASTERPIECE THEATRE 'Poldark.' Thinking Think-ing that Mark Daniel could locate a lode of copper in the mine, Ross accompanies Trencom'8 smugglers as they search for him in the Scilly Isles. The journey becomes adventurous when a spy joins the smugglers. (60 mins.) 7:30 THE ASSOCIATES When Eliot's overly sensational sensa-tional tactics fail, Tucker takes over and pulls an outrageous courtroom stunt to defend a client being sued by his former live-in girlfriend. ONE DAY AT A TIME Brad is putting the pressure on Barbara to consummate their relationship, forcing Barbara into one of the most important decisions of her life. 8:00 SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE 'Vampire' 1979 Stars: Jason Miller. E.G. Marshall. A devastatingly handsome but mvtlcloua millionaire whoi deadly powers ol seduction are irresistible to women is the target ot a frenzied hunt by men who will do anything to destroy him. (2 hrs.) CS TRAPPER JOHN M.D. Gonzo is alone, apparently deserted by Trapper and by his sweetheart, when he feels morally compelled to risk his position at San Francisco Memorial by blowing blow-ing the whistle on a nuclear power plant. (60 mins.) CONNECTIONS 'Death in the Morning' Narrator James Burke traces the origin of the atom bomb back more than 26 centuries to the invention of gold assaying. From there, he shows how the expansion of trade, invention in-vention of the compass, experiments with vacuums and electricity contributed to the most critical development develop-ment of the modern world. (60 mins.) 33) SCARLET LETTER This is the premiere of an encore presentation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's great American classic. It is the story of Hester Prynne condemned for adultery by the people of 17th century Boston. Tonight, Ton-ight, while Hester and her infant Pearl languish in prison, pri-son, they are visited by Hester's long-lost husband. Roger Chillingworth is played by Kevin Conway. (60 mins.) 9:00 PRIME TIME SUNDAY A summary of the Pope's visit to the United States. (60 mins.) ALICE Mel gets carried away and gives his girl, Marie, an engagement ring, but then the grits hit the tan when Flo's boyfriend suggests sug-gests that Mel and Marie should sign a pre-marital agreement. 33) HERE TO MAKE MUSIC 'The Trout' This special is a filmed record of a rare musical mu-sical happening: The collaboration col-laboration of Daniel Baren-boim, Baren-boim, Itzals Perlman, Pin-chas Pin-chas Zukerman, Jacqueline DuPre and Zubin Metha performing per-forming Shubert's 'Trout Quintet.' (60 mins.) 9:10 MASTERPIECE THEATRE 'Love for Lydia' In this, the second episode, Edward and Lydia are separated separ-ated by the spring thaw. Although each is too uncertain uncer-tain to pursue the other, they fall completely in love when reunited through the efforts of their friend Alex Sanderson. Sander-son. (60 mins.) 9:30 CO CBS REPORTS ON PAPAL VISIT 10:00 NEWS 53) INSIGHT 10:20 MURDER MOST ENGLISH ENG-LISH 'Nine Tailors' (60 mins.; 10:30 BAXTERS SOAP The Campbell and Tate women candidly rate their love lives, while Burt and Saul try to escspe from the aliens. 33) DAVID SUSSKIND SHOW 10:40 CBS NEWS 10:55 B.Y.U. FOOTBALL 11:00 COACHES SHOW ffi PHIL DONAHUE SHOW 11:10 GUNSMOKE 11:20 MONTY PYTHON 11:30 MOVIE -(DRAMA) "The Sergeant" 1968 Rod Steiger, John Phillip Law. In France, a homosexual Army sergeant has a desire for a handsome private. (2 hrs ) 33) SNEAK PREVIEWS-TAKE PREVIEWS-TAKE 2 'Ten Best Movies of the 70's' The new season leads off with a program in which film critics-hosts Roger Ebert and Gene Siskal discuss their favorite movies of the last decade. 12:00 CROSSFIRE 12:10 CROSS WITS 12:30 CS COLLEGE FOOTBALL '79 12:40 NEWS 1:00 ABC NEWS |