Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 1, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 31
Season 2, episode 12 With Andy Griffith. The cast spoofs a popular TV show, "Gidget Loves Ernie". Cher's vamps include Helen Gurley Brown, "Forever Amber" and Sadie Thompson. The cast also salutes those who make headlines in the news. Griffith sings "Somebody Bigger Than You or Me".
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| [ABC 8:00] Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner. Annual showing of a musical-fantasy telling the many mysteries surrounding the origin of Kris Kringle. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Sanford And Son And Sister Makes Three
Season 2, episode 11 W: Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney D: Rick Edelstein With Ja'net DuBois (Juanita), Emily Yancy (Alice). Fred's old flame, Juanita, brings her daughter Alice to dinner and it's love at first sight for Lamont.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: Kicking The Habit
Season 1, episode 11 With Allan Melvin (Bill Landis), Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins), Steven Hague (Alfred Landis). Dr. Sean Jamison discovers that kicking the smoking habit can have humorous as well as frustrating results.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Chairman (1969)
W: Ben Maddow D: J. Lee Thompson With Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Keye Luke, Conrad Yama. An American is sent to China on an important spy mission. Among the extraordinary precautions taken to insure his safety is an operation implanting a transmitter in his skull to allow him to communicate with London.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: Elizabeth Brown Is Failing
Season 4, episode 12 W: Jerry Rannow, Greg Strangis D: Bill Bixby With Ruth McDevitt (Miss Brown), Virginia Vincent, Angela Cartwright (Phyllis), Tina Andrews, Carol Worthington (Miss Portnoy). One of the senior teachers is getting along in years and is beginning to have lapses of memory. It becomes Principal Kaufman's unpleasant duty to retire her.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ghost Story [Reg]: Elegy For A Vampire
Season 1, episode 10 W: Mark Weingart, Elizabeth Walter D: Don McDougall With Hal Linden (Prof. David Wells), Mike Farrell (Frank Simmons), Arthur O'Connell (Chief Owen Huston), Marlyn Mason (Laura Benton), John Milford (Lt. Thorpe), Sheila Larken (Marne Simmons). A college professor discovers he's become a vampire and when he can no longer fulfill his need for blood plasma he turns to a ready supply -- coeds.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Password
Season 3, episode 11 W: Frank Buxton D: Alex March With Elinor Donahue (Miriam Welby), Allen Ludden (Himself), Betty White (Herself), Ronda Copland (Mitzi Ferguson). Allen Ludden invites Oscar to become a celebrity contestant on Password and eager Felix persuades him to accept the offer and take him along as his partner
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Super Lover W: Ed Scharlach, Douglas Tibbles D: Robert Birnbaum With Hamilton Camp (Benny), Frank Converse (Hal), Francine York (Louise), Jonathan Hole (Omar), Cheri Howell (Indian Girl), Garry Walberg (Duck), Eve Bruce (Godmother), Chris Holter (Harem Girl). A man rents a Fantastic Man outfit for a costume party and his life changes dramatically. 2. Love And The Impressionist D: Frank Buxton With Rich Little (Jackie), Michele Carey (Mildred), Jerry Rannow (Stanley). An impressionist hides behind his impersonations so well that his girlfriend finally insists that he reveal the real him -- or else. 3. Love And The First Kiss W: Lloyd Garver, Ken Hecht D: Leslie H. Martinson With Deanna Lund (Veda), Claude Akins (Fizik), Allen Garfield (Gork), Ahna Capri (Gornaga), Beverly Moore (Bengoa), Thelma Pelish (Mother). A cave man inadvertently discovers man's "greatest" invention.
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| [NBC 10:00] Banyon [Reg]: Sally Overman Is Missing
Season 1, episode 11 W: Milton Gelman D: Lawrence Dobkin With Robert Webber (Waldo), Jo Ann Harris (Sally Overman), Karen Carlson (Juanita). Banyon is wounded by a gunman as he tries to locate his secretary of the week after she mysteriously runs from his office.
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