Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 23, 1971:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Bearcats!: The Return Of Estaban		CBS Correspondents Report: The Nation		Under Surveillance
ABC	Alias Smith And Jones: The McCreedy Bust (R)		Longstreet: So, Who's Fred Hornbeck? (R)		Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law: Eulogy For A Wide Receiver (R)
NBC	The Flip Wilson Show		Ironside: No Motive For Murder		The Dean Martin Show

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Program details:

[CBS 8:00] Bearcats! [Reg]: The Return Of Estaban
Season 1, episode 12
W: Edward J. Lakso D: Herb Wallerstein
With Henry Darrow (Raoul Estaban), Kathryn Hays (Milly Todd), Brioni Farrell (Sally Todd), William Smith (Russell), Richard Anders (Caldwell). Hank attempts to infiltrate a hijackers' camp by dropping to the area by parachute from an ancient Jenny biplane.

[ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The McCreedy Bust
Season 1, episode 2
W: Sy Salkowitz D: Gene Levitt
With Edward Andrews (Ralph Peterson), Mills Watson (Blake), Charles Wagenheim (Bartender), Cesar Romero (Armendariz), Burl Ives (Big Mac McCreedy). Heyes and Curry are hired by a rich rancher to retrieve a bust of Caesar which was stolen from him. (Repeat program, originally aired 1/21/1971)

[NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 2, episode 14
With Marty Feldman, Melba Moore, Jimmy Osmond. In skits, Marty plays a robot that a 1984 couple (Flip and Melba) get from the government; Flip is a bookshop proprietor besieged by a strange customer; Melba sings "Blue Skies".

[CBS 9:00] CBS Correspondents Report: The Nation CBS newsman Walter Cronkite is moderator of a panel of fellow newsmen who analyze news events of 1971, ranging from the Attica riot to President Nixon's economic program. Joining Cronkite are Eric Sevareid, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather, Daniel Schorr, Hal Walker and Mike Wallace.

[ABC 9:00] Longstreet [Reg]: So, Who's Fred Hornbeck?
Season 1, episode 4
W: Sandor Stern D: David Lowell Rich
With Michael Ontkean (David De Carie), Martha Scott (Louisa De Carie), Victor Jory (Fred Hornbeck), Lynn Hamilton (Mary Rose Carter), Leonard Stone (Means). Mike Longstreet tries to clear the name of a man who spent 10 years in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/7/1971)

[NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: No Motive For Murder
Season 5, episode 15
W: Sy Salkowitz D: Leslie H. Martinson
With Kay Shimatsu (Yamashita), Lloyd Kino (Saburo Tokahisa), Bob Okazaki (Watanabe), Irvin Paik (Shinji Watari), George Takei (Tsutomu Watari), James Shigeta (Tamaka). The Chief travels to Tokyo to prevent the murder of a Japanese officer who befriended him in the final days of World War II. When the former military man learns that his son contacted Ironside he becomes very angry, and so do the Tokyo police.

[CBS 10:00] Under Surveillance A special report on how surveillance technology is eroding the right to privacy, via the use of wiretaps, stakeouts, tape recordings and monitoring the mails of suspect persons.

[ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Eulogy For A Wide Receiver
Season 1, episode 3
W: Richard Bluel D: Steven Spielberg
With Stephen Young (Dave Bruckner), John David Carson (Marty Carwell), Anson Williams (Player), David Soul (Pete), Brad David (Cliff Holmes). Marshall and his associate defend a high school football coach, charged with the murder of his star player. The youth dies after a game and an autopsy reveals a high concentration of amphetamines. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1971)

[NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 15
With Jonathan Winters, Dan Rowan. Winters brings Maudie Frickert in for a song number with Dean, becomes Santa in a toy workshop and plays a stiff-necked traffic officer. Rowan goes digging for archaeological treasures with Dean. Dean sings "Marshmallow World " and "I Feel the Earth Move".