Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 2, 1970:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] How The Grinch Stole Christmas! [special]
W: Dr. Seuss D: Chuck Jones With June Foray, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dal McKennon. Animated Christmas story of how the wicked Grinch tried to keep the holiday from coming to the villagers. Boris Karloff narrates. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 7:30] The Courtship Of Eddie's Father [Reg]: The Secret Box
Season 2, episode 11 W: Shirley Gordon D: Jerry Bernstein With Gabbie Grammer (Elsie). When Eddie's girlfriend learns she's an adopted child, she plants in his mind the suspicion that he is too.
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| [NBC 7:30] The Men From Shiloh [Reg]: Follow The Leader
Season 9, episode 11 W: Leslie Stevens D: Richard Benedict With Noah Beery Jr. (Morgan), Harry Carey Jr. (Thad Miley), Tony Franciosa (Ritter Miley), Frank Gorshin (Dutch Miley), Steve Sandor (Van Miley), Katherine Woodville (Vanessa MacKenzie), Shelly Novack (Dean Miley), Ross Elliott (Sheriff Abbott). A not-too-bright outlaw tries to get his cousin to lead a cattle rustling gang once again, and in the process involves Trampas in a homicide.
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| [CBS 8:00] National Geographic Society Special: Ethiopia, The Hidden Empire [special]
Exploration of the relatively unknown East Africa empire of Haile Selassie. Narrated by Joseph Campanella.
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| [ABC 8:00] Make Room For Granddaddy [Reg]: He Did It His Way
Season 1, episode 11 With Roosevelt Grier (Rosey Robbins), Jana Taylor (Susan McAdams Williams). Danny begins to wonder if his way of bringing up his kids has been the right one when he learns that little Michael is not permitted to sing in a school show.
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| [ABC 8:30] Room 222 [Reg]: The Valediction
Season 2, episode 11 W: Richard DeRoy D: John Erman With Richard Dreyfuss (Stan Siebert), Ed Begley Jr. (Willard), Danny Goldman (Murray), Helen Kleeb (Miss Tandy), Dick Patterson (Jackson Baker), Dwan Smith (Donna), Maxine Stuart (Parent), Jason Wingreen (Parent), Ivor Francis (Mr. Dragen). Principal Kaufman becomes alarmed by the choice of a nonconformist student as valedictorian. He's afraid of what he might discuss when he's invited to appear on a TV show.
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Accused
Season 2, episode 12 W: Anthony Lawrence D: Harvey Hart With Belinda Montgomery (Melanie Toland), James Olson (Dave Toland), Jonathan Brooks (Alan Lacey), Corinne Camacho (Dr. Bartlett), Chris Woodley (Vicki). A coed suffering from a possible brain tumor claims Dr. Gannon is the father of her unborn child.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Johnny Cash Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 11 With Merle Haggard, Anne Murray. Johnny with Homer & Jethro perform "Guess Things". Homer & Jethro perform "Portrait Of A Woman". Johnny, the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers perform "Daddy Sang Bass". Johnny, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens sing "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny and Merle Haggard duet on "Mama Tried". Johnny, June Carter Cash, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens perform "Swinging Doors". Johnny with the Carter Family, Statler Brothers, Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens perform "Sing Me Back Home". Johnny sings "Fireball Mail", "Wreck Of The Old 97" and "Casey Jones".
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| [NBC 9:00] Kraft Music Hall [Reg]
With Jane Wyatt, Desi Arnaz Jr., Luci Arnaz. Robert Young hosts.
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| [CBS 10:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Beautiful Screamer
Season 3, episode 12 W: Stephen Kandel D: Tony Leader With Bernard Ching (Roberts), Lloyd Bochner (Walter Gregson), Laraine Stephens (Sally Gregson), Anne Archer (Jane Michaels), Jack McCoy (Alan Ryland), Michael Medeiros (Pete King), Richard Gossett (Brewster), Emma Veary (Miss Costello), Linda Marsh (Valerie Holmes), Adrian McKibbin (Mark Davis), Jim Lathrop (Tennis Pro). When Danny Williams' fiancee becomes the second of two girls slain in quick succession under similar circumstances, the suspicion is that it is the work of the same man, possibly a Hawaiian socialite.
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| [ABC 10:00] Dan August [Reg]: The Soldier
Season 1, episode 11 W: Stephen Kandel D: Lewis Allen With Hal Lynch (Willis), Ron Pinkard (Harry Tate), Peter Deanda (Charity Jackson), Arch Johnson (Sergeant Forbes), Larry Ward (Captain Kent), Lynne Marta (Jody Forbes), Michael Ontkean (Mike Foschke), Will Kuluva (Jacob Foschke), Donna Baccala (Deborah King), Jack Ging (Sgt. Pollock). A decorated war hero, member of the military police, dies of wounds a few minutes after arresting a private-turned-pacifist in a Santa Luisa church. By the time August reaches the scene of the crime, only a pocket knife, the murder weapon, is found.
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| [NBC 10:00] San Francisco International Airport [Reg]: The High Cost Of Nightmares
Season 1, episode 7 W: William P. McGivern D: Daniel Petrie With Lloyd Bridges (Jim Conrad), Clu Gulager (Bob Hatten), Albert Salmi (Murph), Lorraine Gary (Janie), Severn Darden, Barbara Werle (June), Barbara Sigel (Suzie). Manager Conrad tries to locate a narcotics ring chief and a shipment, which are both linked to the murder of the boss of a charter service. This is the final episode in the Airport segment of Four-in-One.
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