Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 25, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Opening Night U.S.A. [special]
A musical-variety hour covering the broad spectrum of opening nights from nightclubs to the theater. Included will be Sammy Davis Jr.'s opening at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe; Milton Berle's opening at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas, and the 5th Dimension performing a medley of their hits in a Boston Music Hall appearance.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Rabbits On The Runway
Season 1, episode 14 W: William Blinn D: Jerry Jameson With Charles Aidman (Arnold Sanders), Sheila Bromley (Mrs. Astor), Michael Pataki (Boone), Susan Sennett (Christie Sanders), James Luisi (Kendall), Andy Romano (Shop Owner), Jason Wingreen (Lunchroom Owner), Reid Cruickshanks (Officer). The police are asked to find a runaway girl by a murderer pretending to be her father in hopes of eliminating the only witness to his crime.
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| [NBC 8:00] Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In [Reg]: Episode #119
Season 6, episode 3 W: Allan Katz D: Bill Foster With William Conrad, Bob Crane, Nanette Fabray, Henry Mancini, Alex Smith. William Conrad guests as a former dancing sensation of movie musicals and as a cape-clad superman, Captain Amazing. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: The Case Of The Wreckless Wheelchair Driver
Season 5, episode 6 W: Fred S. Fox, Seaman Jacobs D: Coby Ruskin With Robert Foulk (Officer Rafferty), Jesse White (Hickey), Ed Hall (Officer), Jim Bates (Billy Joe Jackson), Harry Hickox (Sgt. Montgomery), Rosalind Miles (Waitress), Jayson Kane. Lucy gets a ticket for reckless driving in her wheelchair and winds up getting sued by an out-of-work country singer. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/16/1972)
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| [ABC 9:00] North-South Shrine All-Star Football
The 27th annual meeting of outstanding senior college football players takes place at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: The Railway Children (1970)
W: Lionel Jeffries D: Lionel Jeffries With Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbens, William Mervyn, Jenny Agutter. Forced to move to the country from their pleasant London home when their father is accused of espionage, a mother and her three children make a home for themselves in a quaint cottage near a railroad line.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Doris Day Show [Reg]: Just A Miss Understanding
Season 5, episode 3 W: Charlotte Brown D: Lee Philips With Peter Lawford (Dr. Peter Lawrence), Jack DeMave (Dave Jenson), Joe Hoover (Jim). Dr. Peter Lawrence is mystified by Doris' constant fatigue when she secretly resorts to moonlighting to solve a pressing economic problem. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1972)
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| [CBS 10:00] The New Bill Cosby Show
Season 1, episode 7 With Ray Charles, Teresa Graves. Highlights include Charles and musical director Quincy Jones performing "Look What They Done to My Song" and "America the Beautiful". Perrenial tippler Foster Brooks hiccups a lament to Cosby on what it's like on a new assignment. Miss Graves joins Cosby in The Wife of The Week segment. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/30/1972)
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