Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 15, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 14
Season 1, episode 14 With Burt Reynolds. Tonight's edition spotlights the people and events that make the headlines. Cher solos "Am I Blue" and teams with Sonny for "Bad Moon Rising" and "The Letter". The highlight skit features Burt as Wild Bill Hickok and Cher as Calamity Jane. In the vamp segment, Burt is the snake in the Garden of Eden. (Repeat program, originally aired 2/14/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Night The Animals Talked [special]
W: Peter Fernandez, Sam Rosen, Jan Hartman D: Shamus Culhane Repeat of the annual holiday animated feature re-creating that wonder-filled night 2,000 years ago when legend has it that animals first talked. Music and lyrics by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Fred & Carol & Fred & Donna
Season 2, episode 13 W: Lloyd Garver, Ken Hecht D: Rick Edelstein With Lynn Hamilton (Donna Harris), Kim Hamilton (Carol Davis). When Fred invites his fiancee Donna and a door-to-door saleslady to dinner on the same night, Lamont is confused by his father's attempts to keep the women apart.
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| [ABC 8:30] A Christmas Carol [special]
W: Charles Dickens D: Richard Williams Repeat of a British-produced, animated-caricature form version of the classic Dickens tale. Michael Redgrave narrates. Alistair Sim re-creates his role of Ebenezer Scrooge which he first played in a movie 20 years ago. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: Splish, Splash I Was Taking A Nap
Season 1, episode 13 D: Gary Nelson With Merlin Olsen (Himself), Michael Gray (Ronnie Collins). Dr. Sean Jamison informs one of his young patients that he has a great future in football if only he can solve a problem: stop wetting his bed.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Ambushers (1967)
W: Herbert Baker D: Henry Levin With Dean Martin, Senta Berger, Janice Rule, James Gregory, Albert Salmi, Kurt Kasznar. Super-sleuth Matt Helm is recalled from retirement to track down a hijacked American spacecraft. His assignment takes him to Mexico, where the spectacular scenery is matched by spectacular beauties.
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| [ABC 9:00] Love Is. . . Barbara Eden [special]
W: Ernest Chambers, Marty Farrell, Saul Ilson With Robert Goulet, Tim Conway, Charley Pride, The Ray Charles Singers, The Hugh Lambert Dancers. Barbara Eden for the first time hosts her own variety special. Using the "Love Is" cartoon strip as a springboard for production numbers, Barbara is featured in "Love is talking with kids"; Conway is featured in "Love is saving bad news to the last"; Pride and Conway are in "Love is a night out with the boys". In a 1920s setting on an oversize set, Barbara, stepping out of a huge phonograph horn, does the "Charleston" and "The Girl Friend". Goulet solos "Father of the Girls". Pride joins Barbara for a gospel medley.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ghost Story [Reg]: Creatures Of The Canyon
Season 1, episode 12 W: Del Reisman D: Walter Doniger With John Ireland (Arthur Mundy), Angie Dickinson (Carol Finney), Robert Donner (Ralph), Mary Murphy (Maggie Mundy), Madlyn Rhue (Georgia Strauss). Two sisters are troubled by a dog which turns vicious after its master dies. When the animal is poisoned, the people in charge blame the sisters.
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| [ABC 10:00] John Lennon & Yoko Ono Present The One-To-One Concert [special]
D: Steve Gebhardt Tape of a rock concert at Madison Square Garden featuring the former Beatle, Yoko Ono, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack and Sha Na Na. Hosted by Geraldo Rivera.
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| [NBC 10:00] Banyon [Reg]: The Murder Game
Season 1, episode 13 W: William P. McGivern D: Valentin de Vargas With Gregory Sierra (Raul Lopaca), Kaz Garas (Tom Porter), Skye Aubrey (Claire Boyer), Joseph V. Perry (Sgt. Krantz), Valentin de Vargas (Gomez Santoro), Leigh Hamilton (Jill Payton). A girl Banyon once planned to marry seeks his assistance after she's frightened by two men who come to the club where she works as a tennis pro.
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