TV Night Schedule June 26 1979 Highlights Runaway
A Tuesday line up features The Runaways with guest star Renee Blakely, Happy Days rivalry plot, CBS reports on inflation, and star roles in Emergency! Laverne and Shirley, The Tonight Show with David Letterman, and the Macahans movie. Also late entries include Barnaby Jones, Ruby Gentry, Arabella, and Tomorrow talk.
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Jeannie
Steve Arizzio
Renee Blakely
Richie
Fonzie
Geree
CBS
Laverne
Shirley
Speat
David Letterman
The
Macahans
James Arness
Eva Marie Saint
Barnaby Jones
Ruby Gentry
Jennifer Jones
Chariton Heston
Afternoon TV Schedule Mix of Soaps and Classics
TV grid lists daytime soaps such as Days of Our Lives All My Children and General Hospital followed by game shows cartoons and older series including The Bob Newhart Show MASH Love of Life Popeye and Friends Ruff. The evening lineup features news programs and comedies like The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Beverly Hillbillies.
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Taxi
Louie
Alex
Bob Newhart
Julie Farr
M.D
Richard Egan
Sonny Liston
Mexico
King of the Underworld
Humphrey Bogart
Kay Francis
Days OF Our Lives
ALL MY Children
Young and the Restless News
Billboard Hot 100 and LPs feature week’s top hits
The AP lists Billboard Hot 100 and top LPs for the week ending June 30. Entries include Anita Ward Ring My Bell, Donna Summer Hot Stuff and Bad Girls, Sister Sledge We Are Family, Rickie Lee Jones Chuck E s In Love, Supertramp The Logical Song and Breakfast in America, and Van Halen II among others. Curious biologists note snail speeds from garden experiments.
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Associated Press
Billboard
Billboard Magazine
Anita Ward
Juana
Donna Summer
Casablanca
Earth, Wind & Fire With the Emotions
ABC
Randy Vanwarmer
Bearsville
Rex Smith
Columbia
Sister Sledge
Cotillion
van Halen II
van Halen
Warner Bros
Songs of Love
Kansas
Kirshner
Modest May rise in American personal income
Americans saw a 0.7 percent increase in personal income in May, rebounding from a strike‑hit April. Wages and salaries rose 0.6 percent to 7.1 billion, driven partly by the end of trucking industry stoppages, with government payrolls up 1 billion and farm income up 400 million.
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Eileen Alt Powell
Associated Press
Washington
Commerce Department
EPA plan to cancel 2 4 5 T uses in 1979 hearings
Attorneys from EPA USDA and chemical firms met an Administrative Law Judge on June 5 1979 to discuss cancellation hearings for all 2 4 5 T uses including rangeland and rice. EPA said a June end document would list cancellations affecting these uses. A separate gardening tip advises cutting roses and other flowers at dusk with angled cuts and cool storage to extend life.
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EPA
USDA
Chemical Companies
CBS Tops ABC in Nielsen Ratings On Monday Lineup
CBS edged ABC for first place in week ending June 17 with a 14.7 rating driven by three CBS Monday shows behind Three's Company. WKRP in Cincinnati MASH and Lou Grant followed, while ABC ranked 13.8 and NBC 10.8. Top shows included Three's Company 24, WKRP in Cincinnati 22.5, MASH 22.4, and Lou Grant 20.9 with others like Taxi Barnaby Jones Laverne and Shirley Mork and Mindy Charlie's Angels and Angie rounding out the top ten.
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New York
CBS
ABC
Three
WKRP
Cincinnati
Nielsen
NBC
Harry and Tonto
Art Carney
Lou Grant
Taxi
Barnaby Jones
Charlie’s Angels
Angie
Barney Miller
Tie
60 Minutes
Vegas
Vietnam War Hero Emerges In NBC's When Hell Was in Session
NBC adapts a Vietnam tale with commander Jeremiah A Denton Jr as hero. Denton, a POW tortured for years, signaled torture exposure via Morse code during a staged press conference. Hal Holbrook to play Denton, Eva Marie Saint as his wife Jane.
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Peter J. Boyer
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Vietnam
America
NBC
Jeremiah A. Denton Jr
Philippines
Denton
North Vietnam
U.S
States
ED. Navy
Hal Holbrook
Eva Marie Saint
Jane
DeVito Says Taxi Role Felt Written For Him
Actor Danny DeVito recalls arriving in Hollywood puzzled by the city and joining Taxi after praise for the script. He describes meeting the team, asking who wrote the “garbage” script, and realizing Louie De Palma was tailor-made for him.
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Hollywood
Ratso Rizzo
Michael Douglas
DeVito
Hog
Nicholson
Desperadoes
New York
Louie de Palma
Louis
Louie
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Laverne and Shirley Electric Company
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Family Feud Studio
Sesame Street
Young and the Restless
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Harry James
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