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Friday December 22, 1972
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Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 22, 1972:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Mission: Impossible: The Puppet Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
ABC The Brady Bunch: Everyone Can't Be George Washington The Partridge Family: Don't Bring Your Guns To Town, Santa (R) Room 222: The Nichols Girl The Odd Couple: Don't Believe In Roomers Love, American Style (R) Who Do You Think You Are: Man And Beast
NBC Sanford And Son: The Light Housekeeper The Little People: Puni B. DeMille Ghost Story: Time Of Terror Banyon: Just Once
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[CBS 8:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: The Puppet
Season 7, episode 13
W: Leigh Vance   D: Lewis Allen

With Roddy McDowall (Leo Ostro), John Larch (Larry Gault), Val Avery (Augie Leach), Richard Devon (Hank), John Crawford (Paul Ostro), Lewis Charles (Sam Zercos), Ken Scott (Fusco), Joseph Ruskin (Khalid).
A brilliant crime syndicate boss becomes the target of the IMF when he launches a mysterious $100 million scheme.

[ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Everyone Can't Be George Washington
Season 4, episode 12
W: Sam Locke, Milton Pascal   D: Richard Michaels

With Sara Seegar (Miss Bailey), Barbara Bernstein (Peggy), Sean Kelly (Stuart), Jimmy Bracken (Freddie), Michael Barbera (Harvey), Cheryl Beth Jacobs (Edith), Angela Satterwhite (Donna).
Peter tries out for the role of George Washington in the school play and ends up as Benedict Arnold.

[NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: The Light Housekeeper
Season 2, episode 14
W: Lee Kalcheim, Aaron Ruben   D: Peter Baldwin

With Mary Wickes (Mary), Beah Richards (Aunt Ethel).
When Fred receives a slight injury in a car mishap, Lamont finds himself waiting on his father hand and foot.

[ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Don't Bring Your Guns To Town, Santa
Season 2, episode 13
W: Bernard Slade   D: Richard Kinon

With Dean Jagger (Charlie), Britt Leach (Jess).
Chris and Tracy fantasize a Christmas tale of the Old West, with the family as Miss Belle, Sheriff Swell, the schoolmarm, Little the Kid and Mean Sidney.

(Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1971)

[NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: Puni B. DeMille
Season 1, episode 14
D: Gary Nelson

With Moe Keale (Officer O'Shaugnessy), Allen Tam (Thomas), Jerry Cox (Herman), Josephine Pagud (Mrs. Paona).
Dr. Sean Jamison is disappointed when nurse Puni disqualifies him from playing Santa in the annual holiday pageant, which she is directing and casting.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
W: Terence Rattigan   D: Herbert Ross

With Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael Bryant.
In this musical drama, Mr. Chips, a shy bachelor and confirmed conservative, marries a music-hall star and his dull existence completely changes.

[ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: The Nichols Girl
Season 4, episode 14
W: Martin Donovan   D: Charles R. Rondeau

With Angela Cartwright (Phyllis), Ed Begley Jr. (Stretch), Alice Backes (Mrs. Webster), Holly Irving, Harry Lauter (Nichols), Elizabeth Harrower.
The subject of a dress code comes up in the PTA when a basketball star's teeth braces are broken while he's ogling a braless cheerleader.

[NBC 9:00] Ghost Story [Reg]: Time Of Terror
Season 1, episode 13
W: Jimmy Sangster   D: Robert Day

With Patricia Neal (Ellen Alexander), Craig Stevens (Brett), Elliott Montgomery (Harry Alexander), Alice Ghostley (Betty Carter), Douglas Henderson (George Carter).
After a woman's husband vanishes from a hotel, the assistant manager tries to convince her that he checked out.

[ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: Don't Believe In Roomers
Season 3, episode 13
W: Ed Scharlach, Peggy Elliott   D: Jack Donohue

With Joy Harmon (Waitress), Marlyn Mason (Lisa).
Oscar befriends an attractive girl and then finds he must compete with Felix for her attention.

[ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1.   Love And The Unbearable Fiancee
W: Ron Friedman   D: Charles R. Rondeau

With Peggy Cass (Mrs. Baxter), Werner Klemperer (Harold Baxter), Janos Prohaska (Millard the Bear), Beverly Sanders (Carol Baxter), Jim Parker (Henry).  
After having her overly protective father continue to find fault with her boyfriends, a daughter brings home a bear.

2.   Love And The Country Girl
With Bridget Hanley (Christine), Pat Buttram (Pappy), Bill Daily (Donald Baxter), Erica Hagen (Wanda June), Shug Fisher (Abner).  
A salesman wins a poker game and discovers the prize is the right to wed the farmer's daughter.

3.   Love And The Little Black Book
With Carol Wayne (Rosie), Dick Clair (Harvey), Bob Hastings (Lester), Jenna McMahon.  
A newly-married couple who are entertaining friends discover a coded address book.

[NBC 10:00] Banyon [Reg]: Just Once
Season 1, episode 14
W: Mann Rubin   D: Marvin Chomsky

With Murray Matheson (Charles Troy), Janice Rule (Lorraine Corman), Meg Wyllie (Landlady), Dennis Redfield (Curt Torrance), Ed Flanders (Sgt. Randall), Anne Ramsey (Mrs. Hendricks), Nate Esformes (Silverio).
After just one day of being released from prison, an ex-convict is shot and killed. His daughter, convinced it wasn't a simple holdup robbery, hires Banyon to investigate.

[ABC 10:30] Who Do You Think You Are: Man And Beast
Harry Reasoner takes a look at people and their pets.


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