Nightly TV Schedule Highlights From a Busy Lineup
A dense listing covers movies, HBO features, and network shows for an evening. Key titles include On Moonlight Bay with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, Borderline, Escape From Alcatraz, Scanners, and Raffles, with news segments, sports, and variety programs filling the late slots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moonlight Bay
Doris Day
Gordon MacRae
Jack Smith
HBO
Borderline
Border Patrol
California
Charles Bronson
Bruno Kirby
Ed Harris
Carol Burnett
Mia Farrow
Lillian Gish
Hans Christian Andersen
Donna Pescow shines in NBC TV movie Bubble Burst
Ruth Thompson Tiny notes Donna Pescow’s career after Saturday Night Fever. The actress fronts the 1920s set TV movie The Day the Bubble Burst airing Feb 8 on NBC with co stars Richard Crenna and Robert Vaughn. Pescow plays Gloria, inspired by a real woman, while Olivia Walton returns to TV in Nurse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Thompson
Tiny
Donna Pescow
Angie
NBC
Richard Crenna
Robert Vaughn
Donna
1STATION BREAKS TO STAR IN WALTONS MOTHER'S DAY
NBC plans three two hour TV movies from The Waltons after its CBS run from 1972 to 1980. Learned left Walton family drama in 1978 79 season due to tuberculosis. Olivia written out for treatment. She has appeared in Off the Minnesota Strip Widow and Touched by Love. Also known for stage work in New York San Francisco and Los Angeles. Chronicle introduces a new syndicated magazine series with elegant Eric commenting on national and world issues. Neil Simon awards fifty thousand dollars for best scripts on American Playhouse first two seasons. He cites pneumonia cure while announcing the grant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
CBS
Miss Learned
Olivia
Minnesota
Lynn Caine
Neil Simon
American Playhouse
Playhouse
Neil
Bette Davis Stars in A Piano for Mrs Cimino on CBS
Bette Davis headlines the TV movie A Piano for Mrs Cimino about aging stigma, airing Wednesday February 3 on CBS. She reflects on a 50 year career, TV movies, and preferring to call them motion pictures despite TV commercials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bette Davis
Los Angeles
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Carol Burnett and Friends
Kansas Literature
Laverne & Shirley & Co
Atlanta
New
Cincinnati
MacNeil-Lehrer Report
Egypt
Kansas
Iowa State
Colt’s
Buddy Hackett
Tootie
Imino
National Geographic
George Adamson
East Africa
Love
Sidney
TBS Evening News
Dynasty
Quincy
Ww TD
Kansas City
Jennifer O'Neill
Stephen Lack
Patrick McGoohan
Dick Cavett
Wiliam F. Buckley
Nightline
ABC News
Calvary
Trading Post
Dale Robertson
Martha Hyer
Wendell Coray
Chare
April Lopez
PBS
Dennis Weaver
Sally Strothars
David Jaes
Victoria
Peter O'Toole
Burt Lancaster
Simon Ward
van Nuys Blvd
Hollywood
Cynthia Wooda
Dennis Bowen
Melissa Prophet
Jesus
Raffles
E. W. Hornung
Gracksman
Scotland Yard
Olivia da Haviland
David Niven
Dama May Whitty
Desire
TV Starscene
Joe Hardy
Gloria
Michael Learned
Olivia Walton
Eee
Eric Segareid
Michael
New York
San Francisco
Eric
Bette Davis Plays ‘Piano
Vancouver
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