Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 24, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Gunsmoke [Reg]: The Child Between
Season 19, episode 14 W: Harry Kronman D: Irving J. Moore With Eddie Little Sky (Goriko), Sam Groom (Lew Harrod), Sandra Morgan (Makesha), John Dierkes (Dahoma). A fugitive and hs Indian wife frustrate Newly by seeking medical help for their baby, and then refusing to take his advice.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Cauldron
Season 2, episode 1 W: Webb Morris, William Blinn D: Harry Falk With Michael Baseleon (Tate), John Saxon (Farley), James B. Sikking (Capt. Gentry), Vern Rowe (Bartender), Vince Howard (Photographer). The second season opens as a deranged, terminally ill criminal takes Terry and Willie as hostages in a desperate attempt to escape to Mexico, where he believes he can find a cure for his inoperable brain tumor. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/10/1973)
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| [NBC 8:00] Lotsa Luck [Reg]: Mom's Secret
Season 1, episode 6 W: Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore D: Alan Rafkin With Harold Gould (Martin Wicker). Interested though absent-minded, a Social Security suitor proposes a near-marriage arrangement with Mom to pool their resources. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1973)
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| [NBC 8:30] Diana [Reg]: New Marshall In Town
Season 1, episode 14 With Alan Drake (Gordon), Natalie Schafer (Mrs. Tyler), Robert Moore (Marshall Tyler). A flamboyant window dresser assumes a more masculine image and starts dating Diana -- with hopes of marriage.
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| [CBS 9:00] Here's Lucy [Reg]: Lucy, The Peacemaker
Season 6, episode 3 W: Bob O'Brien D: Coby Ruskin With Eydie Gorme (Herself), Steve Lawrence (Himself). Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme have a domestic quarrel when Steve hires Lucy to perform the secretarial duties Eydie usually handles. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1973)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: A Dream For Christmas (1973)
W: John McGreevey, Max Hodge, Earl Hamner Jr. D: Ralph Senensky With Hari Rhodes, Beah Richards, Lynn Hamilton, George Spell, Robert DoQui, Joel Fluellen, Joanna Moore. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1950 with his wife, mother and four children, a black minister is told that he has no church and is forced to accept any jobs he can find to feed the family.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: My Sweet Charlie (1970)
W: Richard Levinson, William Link D: Lamont Johnson With Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr., Ford Rainey, William Hardy, Chris Wilson, Noble Willingham, Dave Ward. Repeat of the Emmy-winning television movie about a poor, pregnant young girl who hides out in a vacant house in a small Texas town where she meets a black New York lawyer fleeing from the police.
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| [CBS 9:30] The New Dick Van Dyke Show [Reg]: Those Who Care
Season 3, episode 1 D: Alan Rafkin With Carl Reiner (Announcer), Barbara Rush (Margot Brighton). The third season opens in a new setting -- Hollywood -- as Dick and Jenny Preston have moved from Arizona to California so that Dick can pursue an acting career. Tonight's episode finds Dick landing the job of second lead in a daytime serial, whose star makes Jenny nervous. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/10/1973)
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| [CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Time Of Darkness
Season 5, episode 2 D: Michael Caffey With Jo Van Fleet (Leah), Claude Akins (Williams), Dennis Robertson (Deputy Blair), Sam Gilman (Corey), Lonny Chapman (Sheriff), Martin Braddock (Dr. Bradford), Pamela Franklin (Jessica). Joe Gannon answers an emergency call in an isolated mountain town, and finds his own life in danger. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1973)
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