Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 27, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Minstrel
Season 1, episode 14 W: John Furia Jr. D: Philip Leacock With Merie Earle (Maude Gormley), Peter Hooten (Jamie), Regis Cordic (Mr. Pickett). Mary Ellen is stricken with wanderlust and tells her family she will run away as soon as she is old enough. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/21/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] Crisis Of The Presidency
ABC News reports on the current state of the Nixon Administration. Howard K. Smith will seek answers to questions: Should the president resign? Is there a vacuum in the power of the executive branch?
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 13 With Anthony Newley, Jack Klugman, Roscoe Lee Browne, Franklyn Ajaye. Spoofs of football, secret agents and horse racing.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Oklahoma! (1955)
W: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig D: Fred Zinnemann With Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame, Charlotte Greenwood, Eddie Albert, Rod Steiger, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore, J.C. Flippen, Barbara Lawrence. The film version of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical tells the tale of a cowboy hero and a farm girl heroine. He is anxiously courting her, but she is young and uncertain and accepts his advances shyly, along with the invitations of a rough and surly farmhand. Torn between her confused feelings for the two men, she finally decides in favor of the cowboy, a situation that leads to tragedy.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Chalice
Season 2, episode 3 W: William Kelley D: Jerry Thorpe With William Smith (Luther Staggers), Gilbert Roland (Padre Braganza), Lee Paul (Gilchrist), Charles Dierkop (Traphagen), Pepe Serna (Los Vidrios), Victor Millan (Padre Benito), Victor Arco (Diaz), Stafford Repp (Father Clancy), Steve Chambers (Kunkel), Rick Hurst (Tubbs), Clay Tanner (U.S. Marshal). Honoring a dying Franciscan priest's request to find and return a stolen chalice, Caine crosses paths with a vengeful man. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/11/1973)
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: A Game Of Showdown
Season 6, episode 23 W: Sy Salkowitz, Mann Rubin D: Don Weis With William Tepper (Johnny), Robert Webber (Del Hogan), Suzanne Charney (Bev), Don Hanmer (Woody Owens), Scott Brady (Sheriff), Mary Murphy (Carrie Thomas), John Carter (Burt Thomas), Virginia Vincent (Marylou Beacon), Cheryl Ladd (Gwen). An unscrupulous professional gambler, with a habit of cheating the innocent, runs into formidable opposition when Robert Ironside decides to teach him a lesson. (Repeat program, originally aired 3/22/1973)
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Betrayed
Season 2, episode 2 W: Mark Weingart D: William Hale With Collin Wilcox (Kate Evans), Martin Sheen (Dean Knox), Reuben Collins (Tanner), Lenore Kasdorf (Lindsay Campbell). A woman who is growing older and worried that her young boyfriend may leave her is used to set up an elaborate bank robbery, and is so blinded by her love she doesn't care that her own life may be in danger. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/20/1973)
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [Reg]
With Mrs. Sammy Davis Jr., Petula Clark, Vince Edwards, Peter Lawford, Mickey Rooney. Highlights: Altovice Davis joins Sammy in "It Only Happens When I Dance With You"; Sammy sings "The Candy Man"; Miss Clark sings "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"; Peter and Vince sing a medley of tunes about girls and also frolic in sketches "Sherlock Jones", "Divorce" and "The French Foreign Legion". (Last show of the series.)
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