TV listings and guests for ABC CBS and NBC evening
A detailed three hour prime time schedule with Cher and Lucille Ball guesting on Cher special, plus Gunsmoke Studs Lonigan and The Jeffersons on CBS and Tonight Show with George Carlin on NBC. The long list includes westerns comedies dramas and various news and educational programming across networks.
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George Carlin
Mannix
Houston
Rocky
Preli
Kojak
Telly Savalas
Kevin Dobson
Pecos plant hires hundred for frozen foods operations
A Pecos food processing plant owned by A B Foster began in July 1978, employing about 100 people across frozen and fresh produce departments. Carrot processing runs 50 per shift with two shifts, plus seasonal 50 in packing. Future plans include onions, peppers, zucchini, squash and cantaloupes, with a new automatic bagging machine installation underway.
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Pecos
A.B. Foster
Pecos Cantaloupe Company, Inc
West Highway 80
Foster Farms
Foster
Saragosa
Elias Kotzur
Pecos Cantaloupe Co
Robert Hinojos
Miniseries portrays Studs Lonigan life in Chicago
NBC adapts James Farrell trilogy into a six hour miniseries. Harry Hamlin debuts as Studs with Charles Durning Colleen Dewhurst Brad Dourif. The drama blends nostalgia with anger and sharp social critique of Irish American neighborhood life.
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Studs Lonigan
James T. Farrell
Chicago
Studs
Harry Harlin
Colleen Dewhurst
Lonigan
NBC
Charles Durning
Marry Hamlin
Sonny
Low
Harry Hamlin
Brad Dourif
James Farrell
Lisa Pelikan
Dan Shor
Farrell Jis
Tax credits expand for pollution control equipment
Texas livestock operators may gain 100 percent investment credit for pollution control facilities under the 1978 Revenue Act, with a five year amortization. Credits apply to water and air pollution systems certified by state boards, plus retroactive coverage for single purpose agricultural structures. Facilities built after 1978 qualify. construction status by 1978 may be prorated.
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Dick Edwards
John Sweeten
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Edwards and Sweeten
Sweeten and
Edwards
Internal Revenue Service
Texas Department of Water Resources
Texas Air Control Board
Sweeten
ABC dominates Nielsen weekly ratings with Roots II
ABC leads the week as Roots II draws 110 million viewers and earns a 30.1 average rating across seven chapters. The sequence trails the original Roots in viewership but secures the top spot in the Nielsen rankings, with Mork and Mindy and Right is Enough among other strong ABC programs.
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New York
ABC
Mork
Mindy
CBS
NBC
the White House
Brothers and Sisters,’’ ‘‘Weekend,’’ ‘‘Women In White
Women In White
Eight
Shirley
Angie
The
White House
Steve Martin look alike contest crowns winner
Steve Martin hosted a look and sound alike contest at The Comedy Store in Hollywood. Six imitators performed before Martin and Carl Reiner as Warner Brothers officials judged. Winner was Mark Phillips, a diabetes researcher from Nashville. Contenders included Tapie Cleveland Heights, Dorr Oklahoma City, Myers Hartford, Berger Los Alamitos, and Weber Brookfield.
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Yardena Arar
Associated Press
Hollywood
Steve Martin
Martin
Carl Reiner
The
Jerk
Reiner
Warner Brothers
Mark Phillips
Nashville
Paul Tapie
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
Jon Dorr
Oklahoma City
Ted Myers
Hartford
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Mary Tyler Moore
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Jeannie
Cher
Lucille Ball
Andy Kaufman
Elliott Gould
Shelley Winters
Abby
Tommy
Margaret Whiting
Helen O'Connell
Billy
Joanna
Gunsmoke
Blair Pro Rodeo
June Allyson
Perry Como
Richard Rogers
Lorenz Hart
the Jeffersons
George
Louise
Bob Newhart
Vegas
Dan Tanna
Binzer
Kaza
Kazinski
George Maharis
Arizona Territory
EARTH
Maverick
Faithruthurs
Wall Street
Good Morning America
Dusty
Phil Donahue
Sesame Street
ALL IN the Family
Happy Days
Electric Company
Pyramid
Young and the Restless
Ironside
Hollywood Squares
New Mexico
Doctors
Onelife
FBI
Another World
Guiding Light
General Hospital
Andy Griffith
Lilias
Merv Griffin
NEW Zoo
Mister Rogers
Green Acres
Ilove
NBC News
Abcnews
CBS News
Dick van Dyke
Shawn
Jerry Buck
William
Ireland
Nielsen
Paramoun
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