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Show age Four-TV Section-May 11, 1978 ((mondayj) EVENING 6:00 OOOCD NEWS O ZOOM 6:30 O MUPPET SHOW Guest: Bernadette Peters. CROSS WITS CONCENTRATION DANIEL FOSTER, M.D. (D MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:00 O LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Love blooms when hog farmer Adam Simms and his son, Luke, become cap-( tivated by the charm ot Walnut Grove's Nellie Oleson and spinster school-teacher, Miss Beadle (R;60mins.) Q MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE The Adventures Of The Wilderness Family' A contemporary con-temporary drama depicting the story of an urban-oriented family who forsake the luxuries of city life in favor of a primitive lifestyle, residing in a log cabin in America's Northwest region. (2 hrs.) O GOOD TIMES One car plus Jour owners equals trouble when J.J's 'Awesome Foursome' become business partners. (R) O OVER EASY Guest: Miss Lillian Carter. (D ONCE UPON A CLASSIC 'Sky Pirates' Two brothers at a model airplane club join forces with an ex-pilot to foil an attempt by a gang of thieves to smuggle the Napoleon Diamond across the English Channel from the French State Museum. (60 min.) 7:30 0 BABY, I'M BACK When Ray hears that Olivia is about to have him pronounced legally dead so that she can remarry, he suddenly reappears reap-pears on the scene. (R) O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 O MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES 'Wheels' Stars: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick. Using his police contacts, Smokey Stevenson gets the shoplifting charges against Erica Trenton dropped; the death of her younger son, Greg, in Vietnam, Viet-nam, is the final blow that sends Erica to seek the psychiatric aid that can help her rebuild her life with Adam. (Concluding episode; 2 hrs.) O M.A.S.H. The dissonant notes of Charles' french horn drive Hawkeye and B.J. to distraction, but they conceive a devastating counterattack. (R) O CONSUMER SURVIVAL KIT 'Homes-Air Travel-Music' If you're planning to buy a.new home, you can find out how to get away with a smaller down-payment. down-payment. Also, the guitar business and pitfalls of cheap charter flights are examined. (D FAMILY CLASSICS 'Arthur Of The Britons' 8:30 Q LOU GRANT Lou fears he has placed too much pressure on reporter Joe Rossi when Rossi takes unnecessary risks vhile preparing an in-depth jature on mental hospitals. 60 mins.) 1 TURNABOUT 'Single-landed' 'Single-landed' This program looks t the lifestyles of singles and ie $40 billion industry which aters to them. Author-uzanne Author-uzanne Gordon, a flight ttendant and a single father iscuss the singles scene and pecial problems in their own ves. 0 MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN rfORD 9:00 3 FANTASY ISLAND A ould-be attorney seeking the Kimate courtroom challenge, nd a construction worker ho desires to romance two of he most beautiful women in he world journey to Fantasy sland. Guest stars: Rich ittle, Mary Ann Mobley, Ken 'erry. (60 mins.) , 1 MEETING OF MINDS ighlights of this program elude discussion by Attila e Hun, Emily Dickinson, ilileo and Charles Darwin, garding their roles in story. (60 mins.) ej CROCKETT'S VICTORY ARDEN 'Container-Grown Vegetables' 9:30 Q ONE DAY AT A TIME When Ann learns her top client expects that her 'business' is to arrange for his pleasure, she must choose between her convictions and her career. (R) m CONSUMER SURVIVAL KIT 'Homes-Air Travel-Music' If you're planning to buy a new home, you can find out how to get away with a smaller down-payment. down-payment. Also, the guitar business and pitfalls of cheap charter flights are examined. 10:00 OOO NEWS O ORIGINALS: THE WRITER IN AMERICA 'Eudora Welty' Part II. This profile of short story writer and novelist Eudora Welty visits her at home in Mississippi. She reads from 'Why I Live At The P.O.' CO MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Orson Welles. Guest: Vincent Price. (90 mins.) O POLICE STORY 'Officer Dooly' Stars: David Birney, Paul Burke. An officer is largely unnoticed by his superiors until he wins a commendation for risking his life in an automobile chase. (R) O ANYONE FOR TENNYSON? TEN-NYSON? 'Robert And Elizabeth Browning' The tuesday EVENING 6:00 OOOCD NEWS Q OVER EASY Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Redd Foxx. 6:30 Q SHA NA NA Guest: Teresa Brewer. O CROSS WITS O CONCENTRATION O CIVIC DIALOGUE Op MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT ' 7:00 O THE BIG EVENT MOVIE 'The Lincoln Conspiracy' Stars: Bradford Dillman, John Anderson. Historical dramatization based on a theory that President Lincoln's Lin-coln's unpopularity among many in Washington led a cartel of bankers and shippers to have John Wilkes Booth assassinate him. (2 hrs.) O HAPPY DAYS Richie and Fonzie play cupid to fill a romantic void in Al's life by fixing him up with a motorcycle-riding meter maid. Q TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE ''2 'It's A Mad. Mad, Mad, Mad World' Stars: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar. The germ of greed infects several motorists crossing the California desert when they come upon a mortally injured man whose dying gasp is a clue to where $350,000 in stolen loot is stashed. (3 hrs.) CO BYU DEVOTIONAL Guest: M. Russell Ballard Jr. ' 7:30 O LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY Wedding bells ring for Laverne and Shirley-and Lenny and Squiggy-when the girls enter their eighties and gain one last chance to tie the old knot. O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:45 CD LDS CONFERENCE REPORT Guest: Elder Paul H. Dunn. 8:00 O THREE'S COMPANY Chrissy vies for Jack's attention at-tention when she is assigned to lure him away from his date and back to the Roper's apartment for a surprise birthday birth-day party. O NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 'The Animals Nobody Loved' When American pioneers moved into the Western frontier, they found the region works of the Brownings are explored in the setting of a London apartment on famed Wimpole Street. CO DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: S.J. Perelman. 10:40 O GUNSMOKE 11:00 Q DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: John Reed, principal comedian with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, established to perform the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. CO LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS Aviation, 1958-60' 1958-60' In mid-1959, the North American X-15 research plane was launched from B-52, achieving speeds six times greater than sound and climbing 67 miles from Earth. Film highlights also include the first Polaris test missile, and Russian footage of the U-2 and Gary Powers' highly-publicized highly-publicized trial. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 O MOVIE -(SCIENCE FICTION) FIC-TION) "Red Planet Mars" 1952 Peter Graves, Andrea King. When a scientist receives radio messages from Mars, hysteria reigns on earth. (90 mins.) O F.B.I. N 12:00 O TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Fran Lebowitz, author of 'Metropolitan Life.' (60 mins.) 12:40 Q NEWS populated with a variety of animals. Once considered threats to food, shelter and lives, the rattlesnake, the coyote and the wild mustang are now being defended by conservationists. (60 mins.) QTJ PREVIN AND THE PITTSBURGH PITT-SBURGH 'Dame Janet Baker' Dame Janet discusses her artistic career with Mr. Previn who accompanies her in a performance of the song cycle she commissioned him to write. (60 min.) 8:30 O CARTER COUNTRY 9:00 O WINDOWS, DOORS AND KEYHOLES Telly Savalas, Lindsay Wagner, Bill Dana, John Schuck and Peter Palmer make special guest appearance in this comedy special. One segment deals with the homecoming of a football star after his sex change operation. (60 mins.) O FAMILY Kate, studying for music teaching credentials, is demoralized by an arrogant professor who regards her as ' a middle-aged amateur, and Doug begins to question the value of his work after seeing a friend suffer a heart attack. (60 mins.) O MR- SPEAKER: TIP O'NEILL A film about the complex man who holds the office of Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. (60 mins.) flD MEETING OF MINDS 10:00 OO NEWS O TO BE ANNOUNCED O SOME OF THE PRESIDENTS' MEN Four former presidential press secretaries: Pierre Salinger; George Reedy; Ron Ziegler; and Ron Nessen answer questions posed by a panel of distinguished journalists and opinion leaders. (60 mins.) CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guest: Tony Bennett. (90 mins.) O TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK " 'Funny Girl' Stars: Barbra Streisand, Omar Shariff. The story of Fanny Brice--who overcame a series of heartbreaks in her life while becoming one of America's most beloved stars, from her beginnings on the Lower East Side of New York through her triumphs with the Ziegfeld Fol'ies. if i IX CD DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: John Reed, principal comedian with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, established to perform the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. 11:00 Q NEWS O DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: John Gardner, critic and novelist. CD ANYONE FOR TENNYSON? TEN-NYSON? 'Robert And Elizabeth Browning' The works of the Brownings are explored in the setting of a A O - IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD A motley collection of top film comedians frantically races to a hidden fortune in the antic 1963 comedy 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World to be rebroadcast May 16 on 'The CBS Tuesday Night Movies.' Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney (pictured), Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Peter Ralk and Jimmy Durante head the cast. The frenzy begins when several motorists crossing the California desert on their way to Las Vegas come upon a mortally injured man whose dying gasp is a clue to-where $350,000 in stolen loot is stashed. The germ of greed infects them all and in a collection of updated variants of classic chase sequences, filled with outrageous clowning and colliding cars they make a mad dash for the hidden cash. London apartment on famed Wimpole Street. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 O GUNSMOKE 12:00 O TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: General Vernon A. Walters, aide, advisor and translator for five presidents. (60 mins.) 12:40 O F.B.I. ' 1:40 O NEWS GETTING MARRIED Richard Thomas and Bess Armstrong Arm-strong star in the zany romantic comedy 'Getting Married,' a TV-movie TV-movie about a persistent suitor and the baffled object of his love-crazed attentions May 17 on 'The CBS Wednesday Night Movies.' Dena Dietrich, Fabian, Mark Harmon, Har-mon, Katherine Helmond, Van Johnson, John-son, Mimi Kennedy, Audra Lindley and Vic Tayback guest-star. Michael Carboni (Thomas), an aspiring young songwriter who works as an assistant director in a television newsroom, has another aspiration to marry the station's attractive newscaster, Kristy Lawrence (Miss Armstrong, pictured). There are certain obstacles. Up to now, Michael has lacked the nerve to tell Kristy of his intentions and, more pressing, Kristy has made plans of her own to marry someone else (Harmon) in less than a week. Convinced that love conquers all, Michael summons up his courage and his most outrageous ingenuity to capture Kristy's attention atten-tion and heart. A crazy romantic battle . ensues, leaving Kristy baffled. CONSULT OUR LISTINGS TOR LAST MINUTE NETWORK CHANGES AND FOR EXACT AIR TIME ((Wednesday)) EVENING 6:00 OOOCD NEWS Q ZOOM 6:30 O EXTRA O CROSS WITS 8 CONCENTRATION GOVERNOR MATHESON ON THE SPOT CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:00 O MOVIE -(COMEDY) "Those Magnificient Men in their Flying Machines 1965 Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles. 1910: A wealthy British newspaper publisher is persuaded to sponsor an air race from London to Paris. (2 hrs., 30 mins.) O THE CAR PENTERS. ..SPACE ENCOUNTERS EN-COUNTERS The three-time Grammy Award-winning Carpenters present their special brand of music in a galactic setting that features shooting laser beams, celestial beings and stellar guest stars Suzanne Somers, John Davidson and Charlie Callas. (60 mins.) O TO BE ANNOUNCED O OVER EASY Guests: Maggie Kuhn and writer-director writer-director Richard Brooks. CD TEN WHO DARED 'Charles Doughty' (60 mins.) 7:30 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 O OLIVIA The games and the growing that make childhood magic are recalled by Oliva Newton-John and her guests, Andy Gibb and Abba. (60 mins.) O WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE 'Getting Married' Stars: Richard Thomas, Bess Armstrong. A romantic comedy about a persistent suitor and the baffled object of his love-crazed attentions. (2 hrs.) O LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER 'The American Ballet Theatre' Internationally famed ballet stars including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, Natalia Makarova, Ivan Nagy, Cynthia Gregory, John Meehan and Mariana Tcherkassky are featured in performances from works by George Balanchine, Berlioz, Stravinsky and Fokine. (3 hrs.) CD ADVOCATES 'Should The Federal Government Give Tax Credits To Parents For School Tuition?' (60 min.) 9:00 O STARSKY AND HUTCH Hutch masquerades as a doctor in a scheme to free two hostages from a wounded seaman wanted for murder. (60 mins.) CD WORLD AT WAR Final Solution' Pt. I. (60 mins.) 9:30 O NEWS SPECIAL 10:00 OOO NEWS CO MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guests: Jane Fonda, Ethel Merman, Dr. Carl Sagan. (90 mins.) O POLICE STORY-MYSTERY STORY-MYSTERY OF THE WEEK Mystery of the Week-'K Is For Killing' A husband-and-wile detective team are hired to find out who is trying to kill a wealthy British industrialist and why. (R) CO DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: John Gardner, critic and novelist. 10:40 O GUNSMOKE 11:00 O DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Vincent Price. CO USU SPECIAL OF THE WEEK 'Cleaning Your Home' Pt. I. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 O F B I. 12:00 Q TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Ralph Charell, author of 'How I Turned Ordinary Or-dinary Complaints Into Thousands Of Dollars.' (60 mins.) 12:40 O NEWS We've Moved! Wee Fee TV Service 510.No. Main Springville 489-7750 Specializing in TV REPAIRING Color, Blk. &. White. |