Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 8, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:30] Frosty The Snowman [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Billy DeWolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees, June Foray. The annual holiday animated program, originally telecast in 1969, about the happy-go-lucky snowman with his corncob pipe, button nose and eyes of coal who attempts to return to the North Pole to keep from melting. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 7:30] Wonderful World Of Disney: Stub, The Best Cow Dog In The West
Season 21, episode 10 With Slim Pickens, Jay Sisler. The story of an Australian sheep dog who herds Western cattle, appears in rodeos and makes a daring rescue of a drowning boy.
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| [CBS 8:00] 'Twas The Night Before Christmas [special]
W: Jerome Coopersmith D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Tammy Grimes, John McGiver, George Gobel. Animated tale of a friendly family of mice, a kind and gentle clockmaker and a sensitive Santa Claus who tries to prevent Christmas from passing by the little town of Junctionville. Features the voices of Tammy Grimes, John McGiver and George Gobel.
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| [ABC 8:00] The Sonny Comedy Revue [Reg]
Season 1, episode 11 With Barbara Feldon, Rufus, Rod Hull and his Emu Puppet, Ken Berry.
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| [CBS 8:30] The Waltons [Reg]: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Fielder Cook With Patricia Neal (Olivia Walton), Edgar Bergen (Grandpa Zebulon Walton), Dorothy Stickney (Emily Baldwin), Josephine Hutchinson (Mamie Baldwin), William Windom (Charlie Snead), Andrew Duggan (John Walton), Woodrow Parfrey (Ike Godsey), David Huddleston (Sheriff Bridges), David Livingston (Claudie Dooley), Cleavon Little (Hawthorne Dooley). Earl Hamner's story that served as the pilot for The Waltons. On Christmas Eve, the Walton family are in the midst of their Christmas preparations and hoping to celebrate it together, but John Walton has not yet arrived at home to share this Christmas with his family.
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| [NBC 8:30] McMillan And Wife [Reg]: Guilt By Association
Season 4, episode 4 W: Steven Bochco D: Harry Falk With Susan Strasberg (Virginia Ryan), David Soul (Jerry), Pat Harrington Jr. (Nino Mordanti), John Randolph (Andrew Brill), Gene Washington (Luke Johnson), Phil Leeds (Mr. Potts), Dick Butkus (Coach), Logan Ramsey (Coroner), Felton Perry (Carter Lewis), Dennis Patrick (Leon Silver), Bernie Kopell (Bernini Mussolino), Paul Stevens (Buddy Stone). The McMillans' maid, Mildred, goes on jury duty but her initial enthusiasm for civic duty is dimmed when she's attacked in her hotel room and a fellow juror is slain.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Funny Girl (1968)
W: Isobel Lennart D: William Wyler With Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon. The story of Fanny Brice, who overcomes a series of heartbreaks in her life to become a star with the Ziegfeld Follies. The Jules Styne-Bob Merrill songs include "People", "My Man" and "Don't Rain on My Parade".
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