Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 22, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Edith's Christmas Story
Season 4, episode 15 W: Don Nicholl, Austin Kalish, Irma Kalish D: John Rich With Vincent Gardenia (Frank Lorenzo), Betty Garrett (Irene Lorenzo), Scottie MacGregor (Nurse). As the Bunkers prepare for Christmas, Edith returns from a checkup and confides in Gloria that she has a lump in her breast and it may be cancer.
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| [ABC 8:00] 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)
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| [NBC 8:00] Emergency! [Reg]: Computer Error
Season 3, episode 14 W: John Groves D: Joel Oliansky With Donny Most (Fred Wilson), Ellen Clark (Betty Wilson), Tani Guthrie (Woman in Well), Mark Miller (Charles Evans), Bonnie Bartlett (Eunice Evans), Sandra De Bruin (Neighbor), Larry Storch (Magician), Bing Russell (Capt. Wilson), Joyce Jameson (Harriet), Audrey Landers (Marsha), Bing Russell (Carl Wilson). Paramedic Gage uses a credit card on a dinner date but is stunned when he is billed for $842. Dr. Early plays detective when he suspects a teenage auto victim is pregnant.
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| [CBS 8:30] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Officers Only
Season 2, episode 15 W: Ed Jurist D: Jackie Cooper With Clyde Kusatsu (Kwang Duk), Ralph Grosh (General's Aide), Robert Weaver (Pvt. Gary Mitchell), Sheila Lauritsen (Nurse Watson), Robert F. Simon (Gen. Mitchell). Hawkeye and Trapper John operate on General Mitchell's son, and their reward is an expense-paid weekend spree at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: Snatched (1973)
W: Rick Husky D: Sutton Roley With Howard Duff, Leslie Nielsen, Sheree North, Barbara Parkins, Tisha Sterling, Robert Reed, John Saxon, Anthony Zerbe. When the wives of three wealthy executives are kidnapped for ransom totaling $3 million, one husband flatly refuses to pay his share.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: Happy Birthday, Lou!
Season 4, episode 15 W: David Lloyd D: George Tyne With Betty White (Sue Ann Nivens), Priscilla Morrill (Edie Grant), John Amos (Gordy Howard). Mary learns it's Lou's birthday and decides to surprise him with a party. What she doesn't learn until too late is that Lou hates birthdays and surprise parties.
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| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Fitzwilly (1967)
W: Isobel Lennart D: Delbert Mann With Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, John McGiver, Edith Evans, Harry Townes, John Fiedler, Norman Fell, Anne Seymour, Cecil Kellaway. A philanthropic old lady, not realizing that she is actually penniless, continues to spread her "wealth" around while her servants cover up for her.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: I'm Dreaming Of A Slight Christmas
Season 2, episode 15 W: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses D: Peter Baldwin With Larry Gelman (Dr. Tupperman), John Fiedler (Mr. Peterson), Gene Blakely (Dr. Tetzi). Bob and Emily's dream of a quiet Christmas alone together faces an uphill battle against a patient with an anxiety attack, a blizzard and a power failure.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 7, episode 14 With Anthony Newley, Dick Martin.
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| [ABC 10:00] Griff [Reg]: Isolate And Destroy
Season 1, episode 11 W: William Driskill D: Walter Doniger With Scatman Crothers (Joe Rawls), Robert Donner (Roscoe), Pamela Hensley (June), Inga Swenson (Katherine McAfee), Joseph V. Perry (Parker), Steven Keats (Larry). Griff gets a recording from an unknown man who tells the private eye he will be killed.
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