Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 25, 1970:

	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	The Interns (R)		Headmaster (R)	Movie: Life With Father (1947)
ABC	The Brady Bunch: The Voice Of Christmas (R)	Nanny And The Professor: The Humanization Of Herbert T. Peabody	The Partridge Family: What? And Get Out Of Show Business? (R)	That Girl: Rattle Of A Single Girl (R)	Love, American Style (R)	This Is Tom Jones
NBC	The High Chaparral: Only The Bad Come To Sonora (R)		The Name Of The Game: Cynthia Is Alive And Living In Avalon (R)			Bracken's World: Miss Isabel Blue

Sports

Movie

Drama

News

Special

Variety

Comedy

Program details:

[CBS 7:30] The Interns [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[ABC 7:30] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: The Voice Of Christmas
Season 1, episode 12
W: John Fenton Murray D: Oscar Rudolph
With Hal Smith (Santa Claus), Carl Albert (Boy). Carol loses her voice from too much choir practice and may have to pass up singing at the Christmas services. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/19/1969)

[NBC 7:30] The High Chaparral [Reg]: Only The Bad Come To Sonora
Season 4, episode 3
W: Don Balluck, Gerry Day
With Ed Bakey (Jubel), Bruce Dern (Wade), Paul Fierro (Bartender), James Gammon (Lafe), Ralph Manza (Gomez), Joaquin Martinez (Peon), Than Wyenn (Gonzales), Margarita Cordova (Costanza). After becoming the victim of a robber who leaves him stranded, Manolito poses as a poor Mexican drifter in order to track down the bandit. The late Frank Silvera, in his final acting role, plays Don Sebastian Montoya. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1970)

[ABC 8:00] Nanny And The Professor [Reg]: The Humanization Of Herbert T. Peabody
Season 2, episode 13
W: John McGreevey D: Ralph Senensky
With Patsy Garrett (Mrs. Fowler), Paul Winchell (Herbert T. Peabody), Vincent Van Patten (Tommy), Kevin McCarley (Chuck), Stuart Lee (Pete), Dabney Coleman (Detective Robinson). The professor and his clan are determined to befriend a self-proclaimed people-hater neighbor who charges Butch and Hal with trespassing.

[CBS 8:30] Headmaster [Reg]
(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: What? And Get Out Of Show Business?
Season 1, episode 1
W: Bernard Slade D: Jerry Paris
With Gordon Jump (Man), Johnny Cash (Variety Show Host), William Wintersole (Club Manager), Debra Pearce (Gloria Steinman), Hal Taggert (Desk Clerk), Felton Perry (Airport Clerk), Ceil Cabot (Woman). Comedy about a widow with five muscially-inclined children who are bent on a show business career. In the first episode, the youngsters form a vocal-instrumental group to make an audition record. When their lead girl singer, a neighborhood friend, comes down with the measles, the kids press their mother into the act. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1970)

[NBC 8:30] The Name Of The Game [Reg]: Cynthia Is Alive And Living In Avalon
Season 3, episode 3
W: Ben Masselink D: Gene Levitt
With Tom Skerritt (Pete), Robert Culp (Paul Tyler), Barbara Feldon (Cynthia), Mickey Rooney (Les), Sam Edwards. A reporter from People Magazine poses as a stick-up man to get a story about a fugitive heiress. She ran from police after hitting an officer with a picket sign during an anti-pollution demonstration in front of one of her father's plants. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1970)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Life With Father (1947)
W: Donald Ogden Stewart D: Michael Curtiz
With William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Lydor, Edmund Gwenn, Martin Milner. The story of an American family in New York City during the 1880s. The Day family is headed by a somewhat eccentric father who, with his wife and four sons, occupy a brownstone house. The arrival of a cousin and her beautiful daughter gives rise to a number of problems.

[ABC 9:00] That Girl [Reg]: Rattle Of A Single Girl
Season 5, episode 5
W: Bruce Howard D: John Rich
With Bob Ross (Waiter), Sam Denoff (Man in Booth), Alan Oppenheimer (Dr. Globe), Reva Rose (Marcy), Dick Van Patten (Mr. Morse), Harry Basch (Man in Elevator). Ann Marie and Don discover they aren't ready for marriage yet when they fail a test given them by a marriage counselor. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/23/1970)

[ABC 9:30] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Father
With James Millhollin (Rev. Stevens), Art Lewis, Wes Stern (Howard), Judy Strangis (Phyllis), Keenan Wynn (Mr. Wade).
A lovesick youth visits his girlfriend's father in prison to ask permission to marry the girl. After giving approval, dad shows up at the wedding.

2. Love And The Motel
With Harry Morgan (Woody), Barbara Rush (Carol).
A couple, who are married to others, arrange a motel rendezvous only to be frustrated by guilt and anxiety.

[ABC 10:00] This Is Tom Jones [Reg]
Season 3, episode 13
With Ella Fitzgerald, Rudolph Nureyev, Merle Park, The Welsh Treorchy Male Choir. Tom sings "I'll Be Home for Christmas", "Patches", "The Twelve Days Of Christmas", "Mary?s Boy Child" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". Ella performs "Just a Closer Walk With Thee", "Good Morning Blues" and "A Ship Without a Sail". Tom and Ella duet on "Sunny". Ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park perform to music from "The Nutcracker".

[NBC 10:00] Bracken's World [Reg]: Miss Isabel Blue
Season 2, episode 15
With Sally Ann Howes (Isabel Blue), Virginia Capers (Mrs. Andrews), Armando Silvestre (Manuel Rivas), Joey Forman (Joey Williams), Gilbert Green (Andrew Johnson). Bracken hires an English actress to portray Susan B. Anthony. But the historical suffragette never caused as much trouble as the actress does around Century Pictures. (Last show of the series.)