Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 26, 1973:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour [Reg]: Show 44 - Season Premiere
Season 3, episode 1 D: Art Fisher With Chuck Connors, Howard Cosell, Amanda Jones. The third season starts with new segments: "Lady Luck", in which Cher, as Fate, deals strange hands to the players; "Dirty Linen", with Cher and a guest discussing world situations; "Leading Couples", satirizing popular show business teams. Tonight the guests and the show's regulars spoof life on a desert island, romances between company employees, life in ancient Greece, the White House, a Japanese space shot, strip teasers, football heroes and the All Volunteer Army. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/12/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] Dick Clark Presents The Rock And Roll Years
With Chuck Berry, The Drifters, Tommy James, Jan & Dean, Melanie, Duane Eddy, The Four Preps.
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| [NBC 8:00] Adam-12 [Reg]: Gifts And Long Letters
Season 5, episode 13 W: Don Rico D: Harry Harris With Don Ross (Paul Seever), Leslie Parrish (Sharon Blake), Carlos Romero (Detective Sanchez), Sammy Jackson (Tony Fallon), Mark Miller (Tom Dunne), Leonard Stone (Phil Peters). A woman's suicide attempt and her note to a former racketeer plunge Malloy and Reed into one of their most baffling investigations. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/20/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Daughters Of Joshua Cabe (1972)
W: Paul Savage D: Philip Leacock With Buddy Ebsen, Karen Valentine, Sandra Dee, Lesley Warren, Jack Elam, Leif Erickson. In a scheme to keep his land under a new homesteading law, a wily furtrapper recruits a thief, a pickpocket and a prostitute to portray his daughters.
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| [NBC 8:30] Banacek [Reg]: No Stone Unturned
Season 2, episode 1 W: George Sheldon Smith, Lee Santley, Robert Van Scoyk D: Richard T. Heffron With Gary Lockwood (Owen Russell), Don Stroud (Vince O'Hara), Scott Brady (David Collier), Candy Clark (Gretel), Larry Pennell (Pete Biesecker), Peggy Walton (Jennifer Nesburn), Murray Matheson, Joe Maross, Linden Chiles (Henry DeWitt). The second season starts with Banacek being called in when a huge $3 million sculpture disappears just before its unveiling. He takes the assignment with the understanding from the insurance company that he will get 10 percent of the sculpture's value if he recovers it within two days. Working more or less with him -- but anxious to find the sculpture before he does -- is insurance investigator Carlie Kirkland (Christine Belford, a new regular in the series). (Repeat program, originally aired 10/3/1973)
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Memo From A Dead Man
Season 3, episode 3 W: Robert C. Dennis D: Richard Donner With Sheila Larken (Jennifer Shaw), Martin Sheen (Christopher Grant), Robert Webber (Barney Shaw), Corrine Cole (Sigurd). An attorney presents Cannon with one of his strangest cases: a will's provision that he investigate the death of the lawyer's late client, a business tycoon. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1973)
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| [CBS 10:00] Kojak [Reg]: Web Of Death
Season 1, episode 2 W: Jack Laird D: William Hale With Bruce Kirby (Sgt. Al Vine), Hector Elizondo (Nick Ferro), Barbara Rhoades (Joanna Ferro), John Karlen (Pinky), Burke Byrnes (Detective Olney), Norbert Schiller (Mr. Pollichek), Brad Jose (Foster Bridges), John Nolan (Ingram), William Martel (Sgt. Grady), Borah Silver (Dr. Prince). Lt. Kojak joins Det. Nick Ferro to investigate a murder case, unaware that Ferro is the man who calculatingly committed the crime. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law [Reg]: Once A Lion
Season 3, episode 2 With Ralph Bellamy (Wendall), Titos Vandis, Milton Selzer, Jason Evers (Barrington), Russell Johnson (Grant), Neva Patterson (Edith). Owen believes a convicted murderer is innocent, but the only way to gain a new trial is to prove the incompetence of the defense attorney, his old and close friend. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/19/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] Love Story [Reg]: A Glow Of Dying Embers
Season 1, episode 11 With Tina Andrews, Ed Bernard (Peter), Clifton Davis (James Monroe), Charles Lampkin (Father), Janet MacLachlan (Carol Marshall), Greg Morris (Edward Marshall), Maidie Norman (Mother). A POW returns home only to find his wife has remarried, believing him dead.
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