Picks and Pans Review: For the Love of Benji

By People Staff
Published on May 4, 1981 12:00 PM

ABC (8-9:30 p.m. ET)

In the shaggy 1977 dog story about sneaky spies and Big Oil, Benji winds up in Greece with a secret code tattooed on his paw and an enemy Doberman close on his tail.

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