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Show Page Four - The TV Section - September 28, 1978 rVr i . f(mondayj) EVENING 8:00 0D NEWS 6:30 O MUPPET SHOW Guest: Leo Sayer. NEWLYWED GAME CROSS WITS OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: Anita O'Day, singer. CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:00 O LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Laura Ingalls' innocent in-nocent joke about a fat man leads to grave consequences when she learns that the fellow she was making fun of is her best friend's father. (60 mins.) O MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FOOT-BALL Dallas Cowboys vs Washington Redskins 0 WKRP IN CINCINNATI A scurrilous remark from a sports writer leads WKRP's timid news director, Les Nessman, to think his manhood Is being questioned. 0 DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Andre Previn. GD STUDIO SEE 7:30 0 PEOPLE O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT (D ONCE UPON A CLASSIC What Katy Did' Episode Six. In the final episode, Katy determines to live down false accusations against her. Later, the dashing young naval lieutenant, Ned Wor-thington, Wor-thington, reappears In her life. 8:00 0 MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES 'Little Women' Stars: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Susan Dey. An adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's tale of a New England family during the Civil War years. The wife and four daughters of the Rev. John March, a chaplain with the Union Army, attempt to carry on In his absence despite poverty. (Pt. I. of a two-part episode; 2 hrs.) 0 M.A.S.H. Colonel Potter strikes up a warm friendship with the visiting Eighth Army head nurse. O OPIUM Pt. II. 'The Politicians' This segment takes a behind-the-scenes look at the battle between a congressional committee and the White House over drug traffickers' offer to sell the U.S. 35 million worth of opium to be destroyed. (60 mins.) (D ECONOMICALLY SPEAKING 8:30 0 ONE DAY AT A TIME Ann's apparent success and enthusiasm en-thusiasm for her new lifestyle becomes a real problem when she unknowingly influences the wrong person. QD MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD i 9:00 fXflU GRANT Lou has to firrVit why his friend and bosTCharlie Hume behaves irrationally when the Trib runs an expose on political torture. (60 mins.) O TENNIS: TRANSAMERICA OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS This coverage presents the finals competition from San Francisco, Fran-cisco, in the tournament featuring a $175,000 purse. (2 hrs.) CD LDS CONFERENCE 10:00 0O0 NEWS 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Sammy Davis Jr. Guests: James Mason, Arnold Schwarzenegger. (90 mins.) O ALIAS SMITH AND JONES 10:40 0 GUNSMOKE 11:00 CD LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 'General John J. Pershing' 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:38 Q MOVIE -DRAMA)'V4 "SandcaatlM" 1972 Jan-Michael Jan-Michael Vincent, Herschel Bernardl. Beautiful talented musician falls in love with a young man who, it turns out, has met with an accident; then his ghostly Image comes back to right the wrong. (2 hrs.) 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 f) TOMORROW Host Tom nyder takes a tour of New York City. (60 mins.) O MASTERPIECE THEATRE The Mayor Of Casterbridge' Episode five. The tables have turned-Farfrae runs a thriving business and has even been elected mayor, while Hen-chard Hen-chard works as his hired hand. Although Henchard has abstained ab-stained from drink for over 20 years, he decides to make up for lost time and he plots Farfrae's ruin. (60 mins.) 12:40 O MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 0 NEWS NETWORKS AND STATIONS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TV COMPULOG SERVICES, INC. ((tuesday)j) EVENING 0om' 6:00 OD NEWS 6:30 8 BONKERS NEWLYWEDGAME 0 cross wrrs O CIVIC DIALOGUE CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:00 0 GRANDPA GOES TO WASHINGTON Senator Joe Kelley matches wits with a crooked land developer to save the baseball field used by his grandson's little league team. (60 mins.) O AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ABC Sports will provide live coverage of the first game in the American League playoff series from the city of the Western Division champions. 0 PAPER CHASE The study group's well-laid plans for a weekend of frivolity off-campus off-campus go awry when Professor Kingsfield gives a monumental assignment for Monday. (60 mins.) CD BYU FORUM Guest: Mildred Jefferson, M.D. 7:30 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 Q BIG EVENT MOVIE 'Little Women' Stars: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Susan Dey. Amy travels in Europe as companion to a relative; Beth battles ill health at home; and would-be-author Jo goes as a governess to New York where she falls in love for the first time. (Concluding episode; 2 hrs.) 0 TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE Carrie' Stars: Sissy Spacek, John Travolta. An unpopular teenager uses her supernatural super-natural powers to gain devastating revenge against her cruel classmates. (2 hrs.) Q OPIUM Pt. III. 'The White Powder' This program focuses on heroin users in Hong Kong, the notorious center for Illegal drug dealings. (60 mins.) OD BYU FORUM Guest: Michael Novak. 9:00 O CINEMA SHOWCASE Pumping Iron' This documentary focuses on the body-building culture, examining the ' lives and motivation of men who train rigorously to compete for the Mr. Olympia title. (90 mins.) OD LDS CONFERENCE 10:00 00 NEWS 10:15 O NEWS 10:30 0 THE TONIGHT SHOW T5est Of Carson' Guests: Tony Curtis, John R2tter, Charles Aznavour, Freda Levatter. (R; 90 mins.) O 2846 This program Is a collection of five abstract visual compositions accompanied ac-companied by musical improvisations. im-provisations. Very complex structures made up of highly reflective curvilinear material provide a starting point for light to pass over and create some very interesting images. 10:40 0 GUNSMOKE 10:45 Q TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK 'Shootout' Stars: Gregory Peck. An ex-gunman Is torn between his obsession with revenge and his responsibility for a six-year-old girl and a lonely widow. 11:00 Q MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 0 TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: William Manchester, author of 'American Caesar - Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964.' (60 mins.) O OPIUM Pt. II. 'The Politicians' This segment takes a behind-the-scenes look at the battle between a congressional committee and the White House over drug traffickers' offer to sell the U.S. 35 million worth of opium to be destroyed. (60 mins.) 12:40 0 MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 0 NEWS 3:15 O MOVIE -WESTERN) "Taza, Son of Cochise" 1954 Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush. The eldest son of Cochise, on his father's deathbed, is named chief of the Apache Nation, to work for peace. (90 mins.) NETWORKS AND STATIONS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES TV COMPULOG SERVICES, INC. U 3 fL 1 m g I 1 1 NETWORK The blockbuster hit satirical drama 'Network,' winner of four Academy Awards and starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden (both pictured), Peter Finch and Robert Duvall, will premiere on television on 'The CBS Wednesday Night Movies," Oct. 4. Sidney Lumet directed the funny, yet terrifying account of the power struggle in a failing television network, the United Broadcasting System, recently taken over by a giant conglomerate determined to make it a profitable enterprise. As part of the revamping, veteran newscaster Howard Beale (Finch) has been given the axe by his old friend and boss Max Schumacher (Holden). Distraught, Beale goes beserk on his broadcast and announces his upcoming upcom-ing on-the-air. suicide. Schumacher, the news division and network executives are thrown into an uproar by Beale's bizarre action but up-and-coming programming executive execu-tive Dwna Christensen (Miss Dun-away) Dun-away) sees the event as an opportunity opportuni-ty to take control of the Howard Beale Show and make it the vanguard of her programming strategy. CONSULT OUR LISTINGS FOR LAST MINUTE NETWORK CHANGES AND FOR EXACT AIR TIME. ((Wednesday)) AFTERNOON 1:00 O AMERICAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ABC Sports will provide live coverage of the second game In the American1- League playoff series from the city of the Western Division champions. EVENING 5oom' 6:00 . flD NEWS Donna Fargo Rex Allen Jr. w Jody Miller 8:30 8 NAME THAT TUNE NEWLYWEDGAME 8 CROSS WITS OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: Dick Haynes. 0D MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 7:00 0 DICK CLARK'S LIVE WEDNESDAY Tonight's guests: Raquel Welch, Paul Williams, Billy Crystal, Rodney Rod-ney Dangerfield, stunt expert Steve Baker and a salute to disco fever. (60 mins.) O NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ABC Sports will provide live coverage of the first game In the National League playoff series from the city of the Eastern Division champions. 0 THE JEFFERSONS Allan Willis sees through George's scheme to con him out of his newly inherited warehouse, so George directs his flim-flammery flim-flammery at an alternate target-Louise. O DICK CAVETT SHOW CD OPIUM Pt. I. 'The Warlords' The first segment of this program dealing with the jungle warfare and criminal network that supply millions of heroin addicts, focuses on the fierce battle among local chieftains for the Burmese opium crop. (60 mins.) 7:30 0 IN THE BEGINNING O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 6:00 O WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES 'BJ And The Bear' Stars: Greg Evigan, Penny Peyser. Free-lance trucker 'BJ' McKay Is hired by a woman called Stilts to transport an undisclosed cargo across the county line, and ends up being chased by determined law enforcement and military authorities. (2 hrs.) 8 TO BE ANNOUNCED LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER 'The Turk In Italy' The New York City Opera presents Beverly Sills in Rossini's tale of an Italian noblewoman and her many loves. This production is' performed in English. (3 hrs.) CD A CONVERSATION WITH EARL WARREN This taped interview with the late Supreme Court Chief Justice is conducted by Brandeis University President Dr. Abram Sacharon the occasion of the awarding of Warren with the Dretzln Prize. (60 mins.) 9:00 OD LOS CONFERENCE 10:00 00 NEWS 10:15 O NEWS 10:30 0 THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guests: Kelly Monteith, Senor Wen-ces, Wen-ces, Frank Abagnale. (90 mins.) 10:40 0 CBS LATE MOVIE 'Hawaii Five-O: One Born Every Minute' Well-heeled tourists are played upon by a bunch of con-artists who use a pretty girl to sell them phony diamonds. (R) 'Kojak: When You Hear The Beep, Drop Dead' Stars: Telly Savalas, Kevin Dobson. (R) 10:45 O POLICE WOMAN-s!w.A.T. WOMAN-s!w.A.T. Police Woman-'lt's Only A Game' Kevin Duffy, following the footsteps of his ex-lieutenant father, join Pepper and Crowley in trying to break a drug ring. (R) S.W.A.T.-'Deadly Weapons' Hondo investigates the murder of a young man who was slain after helping a group of 'professionals' burglarize his father's warehouse. (R; 2 hrs., 15 mins.) 11:00 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT CD TO BE ANNOUNCED 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12:00 0 TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guests: Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, film critics. (60 mins.) O OPIUM Pt. III. 'The White Powder' This program focuses on heroin users in Hong Kong, the notorious center for illegal drug dealings. (60 mins.) NETWORKS AND STATIONS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES The Oak Ridge Boys, who have been breaking atten- . dance records this cummer at fairs and theatres, continue contin-ue the winning ways with a date at the Eastern Idaho State Fair and will headline at the Tennessee Valley Fair in Knoxville on Monday and Tuesday. Sept. U and 12. They'll also be at the Clay County Fair, Spencer, Iowa, on the 15th. Barbara Fairchild has been chosen as the Truck Driver Sweetheart and hosted a few of them as her guests in Nashville on Sept. 1. Then she trucked on down Sept. 2 to the Toma State Reservation Reserva-tion in Cairo, Ga. On Sept. 10, she'll be at the new stadium in Pasadena, Tex., and on the 15th she'll headline at the International Room in Tex-arkana. Tex-arkana. Ark. Rex Allen Jr. and his Country Travelers band flew to Las Vegas recently to tape Rex's first appearance on 'The Merv Griffin Show.' Rex sings his current hit 'With Love,' a song he co-wrote with his lovely wife Judy. Other guests on the show include Bobby Goldsboro, Wayne Newton and Eddie Rabbltt. Holland bulbs give your garden bright, beautiful flowers from late winter 'til June. Tulips Hyacinths Daffodils Crocus and Dutch his Now Available Early Blooming Now is the Time to Plant Peony Roots $2 4 9 wch Seed (6, vj-a - PROva Utah Iff |