Picks and Pans Review: The 51st Annual Academy Awards Presentation

UPDATED 04/09/1979 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 04/09/1979 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (10 p.m. ET)

You'll insist later you hated it, but you'll watch. Johnny Carson is the sole host; another possible plus is that producer Jack Haley Jr. has sworn star presenters, on their lives, against ad-libbing.

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