Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 4, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] How The Grinch Stole Christmas! [special]
W: Dr. Seuss D: Chuck Jones With June Foray, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dal McKennon. Repeat telecast of the animated holiday special from the Dr. Seuss literary menagerie about the mini-hearted Grinch, known for the arsenic in his soul and termites in his smile, emerging for his annual try at Christmas larceny. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Countdown To 2001
ABC science editor Jules Bergman reports on what lies ahead in space during the final quarter of the 20th century, on the eve of the flight of Apollo 17.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #128
Season 6, episode 12 W: Allan Katz D: Bill Foster With Henny Youngman, Jack Klugman, Rich Little. Jack Klugman guests as Filthy Farkle, the black sheep of the Farkle family, and a floppy-eared dog reporting the news from the animal world. A dream sequence finds Gladys Ormphby married to Jack -- who turns out to be as sloppy as his Odd Couple character Oscar.
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| [CBS 8:30] Frosty The Snowman [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Billy DeWolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees, June Foray. An animated musical holiday program, narrated by Jimmy Durante about the happy-go-lucky snowman with a corncob pipe, a button nose and eyes made from coal who attempts to reach the North Pole to keep from melting. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Vandals
ABC news correspondent Harry Reasoner focuses on the senseless effects of vandalism; its history, destruction of property and sometimes human life.
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| [CBS 9:00] Perry Como Winter Show [special]
With Joey Heatherton, The Muppets, The Ray Charles Singers, Art Carney. A welcome to the winter season set to music as Perry Como and his guests bring in the holiday season. Highlights include Como singing "A House Is Not a Home" and joining Miss Heatherton in a winter medley; Carney appears as a variety of characters, from a small-town cop to Santa Claus. The entire cast is featured in "Goin' Up the Mountain".
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| [ABC 9:00] ABC Monday Night Football
Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, San Francisco. Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, Howard Cosell report.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Hired Hand (1971)
W: Alan Sharp D: Peter Fonda With Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden. Three itinerant cowboys have their dreams of going to California interrupted when they stop in a desolate town in New Mexico for supplies and relaxation and one of them is arbitrarily gunned down by a sadistic town merchant.
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| [CBS 10:00] The New Bill Cosby Show
Season 1, episode 12 With Mark Spitz, Ike Turner, Tina Turner, Roosevelt Grier. Cosby opens with a monologue comparing Spitz's swimming feats to his own; Spitz plays a pro football rookie with a mental hangup; Ike and Tina Turner perform "Let Me Take You Higher" and "Let Me Into Your Mind".
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