Picks and Pans Review: American Graffiti

UPDATED 02/19/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 02/19/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

NBC (8 p.m. ET)

For the second Sunday in a row, network honchos go for each other's jugulars. NBC wields this wonderful 1973 movie about high school cruisin' life. It boosted the careers of, among others, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips and Star Wars' director George Lucas.