A very young Richard Dreyfuss is a...
A very young Richard Dreyfuss is a nerdy teen who turns into an egomaniac on “Gidget” (2:30 p.m. Sunday, KTLA).
“Soap” starts a new run, beginning with the first episode (midnight Thursday, KTLA).
Bonnie Raitt performs on “The Best of Saturday Night Live” (10 p.m. Monday, Nickelodeon) back when it was cool-but not popular-to listen to her. Also on that show: the first Greek restaurant sketch, where cheeseburgers, chips and Pepsi are the order of the day.
“Little House on the Prairie” (6:05 a.m. Tuesday, TBS) adds a special realism to the episode “Darkness Is My Friend.” The part of Kim is played by a blind girl who wrote to Michael Landon and asked if the blind characters were portrayed by blind actors.
Jason Seaver moves his psychiatry practice into his home so Maggie can work as a reporter in the first “Growing Pains” (6:30 p.m. Thursday, KCOP).
Diane is history this week on “Cheers.” She makes her farewell appearance on “I Do, Adieu” (11 p.m. Monday, KTLA). Kirstie Alley comes aboard the following night.
Vicki the robot joins the Lawson household in the premiere episode of “Small Wonder” (5 p.m. Monday, KTTV).
The “Space Seed” episode of “Star Trek,” which was preempted a couple weeks ago, has been rescheduled (midnight Friday, KCOP).
A retired judge and a convicted car thief become partners in crime-fighting on Part I of the first “Hardcastle & McCormick” (3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tuesday, Family). Part II airs Wednesday.
Anne Archer, the gutsy wife in “Fatal Attraction,” appears in a 20-year-old “Hawaii Five-O” (2 p.m. Tuesday, KCOP) about a strangler who writes the poetry of Byron on the legs of his victims.
Bobby Rydell is a singer with a chip on his shoulder on “Make Room for Daddy” (1 a.m. next Sunday, Nickelodeon).
Esther Williams plays a famous fashion designer who visits Donna, an old high school chum, on “The Donna Reed Show” (9:30 p.m. Tuesday. Nickelodeon)
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