Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 20, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 32 - Christmas Episode
Season 2, episode 13 With William Conrad. Conrad guests in a Christmas show and plays Santa in a skit. Sonny and Cher, in a holiday setting, sing Yuletide favorites.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Paul Lynde Show [Reg]: Paul's Desperate Hour
Season 1, episode 14 W: Ben Starr D: Bruce Bilson With James A. Watson Jr. (Leroy), Carol Speed (Laverne). Howie and Barbara bring home a young black whom they befriended after he tried to mug Barbara and Howie slugged him.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Gifts And Long Letters
Season 5, episode 13 W: Don Rico D: Harry Harris With Don Ross (Paul Seever), Leslie Parrish (Sharon Blake), Carlos Romero (Detective Sanchez), Sammy Jackson (Tony Fallon), Mark Miller (Tom Dunne), Leonard Stone (Phil Peters). A woman's suicide attempt and her note to a former racketeer plunge Malloy and Reed into one of their most baffling investigations.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Julie Andrews Hour [Reg]
Season 1, episode 14 With James Stewart, Joel Grey, Carl Reiner, Jack Benny, Cass Elliot, Steve Lawrence, Rich Little, Jack Cassidy, Dan Dailey, Tom Smothers. Stewart shows Julie how Christmas is celebrated in a small American town. Julie then gives Stewart a sample of a Dickens-type Christmas in London. In cameo appearances, many of the guests who have appeared with Julie this year return to help her celebrate the Yuletide season.
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| [NBC 8:30] Cool Million [Reg]: The Million Dollar Misunderstanding
Season 1, episode 5 D: Charles S. Dubin With Elaine Giftos (Kahadija Messadi), Ina Balin (Nagway), Joseph Ruskin (President Chaambes), Cliff Emmich (Paul Davison), John S. Ragin (Fred Harrison). Keyes' final assignment is personal: he tries a diamond heist to get revenge on the North African ruler who paid for his job with a million dollar rubber check. (Last show of the series.)
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| [CBS 9:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Pressure Point
Season 4, episode 15 W: Barry Oringer D: Paul Stanley With Bill Bixby (Dr. Hurst), Joanna Miles (Terry Hurst), Brooke Tucker (Nurse Peerwood), Dianne Hull (Diane). A neurosurgeon, troubled by his wife's strange behavior, neglects a young girl's surgical treatment.
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| [ABC 9:30] TV Movie: The Weekend Nun (1972)
W: Ken Trevey D: Jeannot Szwarc With Joanna Pettet, Vic Morrow, Ann Sothern, James Gregory, Beverly Garland, Kay Lenz. A nun who selects work as a probation officer as her vocation as an experimental project becomes so involved she has trouble keeping her spiritual vows.
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| [CBS 10:00] Cannon [Reg]: Nobody Beats The House
Season 2, episode 14 W: Meyer Dolinsky D: Herbert Hirsch With Charles Bateman (Lt. Tarcher), Tom Skerritt (Toby Hauser), Geoffrey Lewis (James Bancroft), John Marley (Ben Logan), Paul Michael Glaser (Jason Logan), Corinne Camacho (Cathy Hauser), Gary Clarke (Mel Warren). Frank Cannon agrees to try and protect a man who is $200,000 in debt to a gambling czar.
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| [NBC 10:00] Search [Reg]: The Gold Machine
Season 1, episode 12 W: Leslie Stevens D: Russ Mayberry With Hurd Hatfield (Chen Kuo), Kurt Kasznar (Reuben Harant), Bill Fletcher (General Kuo), Marian McCargo (Mai Tsu Kuo), Thelma Pelish (Taffy), Michael Bow (Arnold Sutter), Mark Lenard (Karl Speer), Bill Smillie (Dr. Ernest Pittman). Lockwood must locate a missing gold mine for a family in big financial trouble.
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