Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 14, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Calucci's Department [Reg]: Winners And Losers
Season 1, episode 5 Calucci finds out his department must downsize and it's up to him to decide who is fired. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/12/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] A Very Merry Cricket [special]
W: Chuck Jones D: Chuck Jones With Les Tremayne, Mel Blanc. Chester Cricket returns to New York to help revive his old friends' lagging Christmas spirit.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Wine, Women And Aunt Esther
Season 3, episode 13 W: Ilunga Adell D: Peter Baldwin With Leroy Daniels (Leroy), Ernest Mayhand (Skillet), Betty Waldron (Fast Fanny). Fred and his buddies beat the post-funeral blues by planning a party with "Fast Fanny" and her friends.
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| [CBS 8:30] Roll Out [Reg]: No Wages - All Fear
Season 1, episode 9 W: Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller D: Don Weis Jed has had it with the fast-talking, selfish ways of his partner, Sweet William, and moves out.
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| [ABC 8:30] A Christmas Carol [special]
W: Charles Dickens D: Richard Williams Repeat of the animated version of Dickens' classic. Voices by Alastair Sim, Michael Redgrave, Michael Horton. The program won the 1971 Oscar for Best Animated Short Subject. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Borrowers [special]
W: Jay Presson Allen D: Walter C. Miller With Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, Dame Judith Anderson, Barnard Hughes. Fantasy story about a family of "little people" who borrow from a Victorian household in order to sustain their way of life beneath the floorboards.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: Miracle On 34th Street (1973)
W: Jeb Rosebrook, George Seaton D: Fielder Cook With Sebastian Cabot, Jane Alexander, David Hartman, Jim Backus, David Doyle, Roland Winters, Roddy McDowall, Tom Bosley. A new musical version of the 1947 movie. A department-store Santa who claims to be the real Kris Kringle stirs up a controversy involving big business, the law, government, science and just plain believers.
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| [ABC 9:00] Julie Andrews Christmas Special [special]
With Peggy Lee, Peter Ustinov, The Treorchy Male Choir. In the feature skit, Ustinov plays a Santa who is fed up with Christmas. The show was taped in London.
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| [ABC 10:00] Legend In Granite [special]
With Ernest Borgnine, Colleen Dewhurst, James Olson, John Calvin, Alex Rocco, John McLiam. The story of Vince Lombardi's football career, from one of Fordham University's legendary "Seven Blocks of Granite" to one of American football's greatest professional coaches.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]: Roast Of Monty Hall
With Gene Kelly, Foster Brooks, Birch Bayh, Bert Parks, Ted Knight, Audrey Meadows, Art Linkletter.
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