Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 11, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 1, episode 2 With Jackie Gleason, Nancy Walker. Jackie gives Tony a lesson in coining phrases, Nancy is cast as a snowbird, and Tony attempts to salute his childhood cowboy heroes. The entire cast gets together for "That's Entertainment", a series of blackouts covering show business from vaudeville to the present. Jackie and Tony do "I'll Teach You Everything I Know"; Tony sings "Snowbird" and "I Shot the Sheriff"; Tony Orlando and Dawn do "Hello, My Baby", and Tony closes with "Hava Nagila".
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| [ABC 8:00] That's My Mama [Reg]: Song And Dance Man
Season 1, episode 14 W: Ron Friedman D: Bob Lahendro With Rosanne Katon (Lola MacBee), Slappy White (Blainey Carter). Clifton becomes the third person in an open marriage arrangement between an old friend and his young wife.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Award
Season 1, episode 12 W: Michael Landon D: William F. Claxton When Mary causes a fire in the barn while studying for exams and burns the teacher's history book, she must work in the general store to earn money to replace the book.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: The Tribe (1974)
W: Lane Slate D: Richard A. Colla With Victor French, Warren Vanders, Henry Wilcoxon, Andriana Shaw, Stewart Moss. The story of a small band of Cro-Magnon men nearly 100,000 years ago as they struggle for survival against a giant mastodon and a horde of Neanderthal men.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Prisoner
Season 4, episode 12 W: Norman Hudis D: William Wiard With Peter Haskell (Mike Ballard), Stephen Keats (Johnny Forgarty), Arthur Adams (Officer Murray), Paul Jenkins (Chet), Edward Power (Wayne Morgan), Ed Gilbert (Major Nelson), Tim Herbert (Biff Colter), Stanley Clements (Hank Holly), Scott Ellsworth (Eddie Gamble). Cannon's pretense of becoming a hit man unearths the secret that led to blackmail of a former Army captain.
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| [NBC 9:00] Andy Williams Christmas Special [special]
Andy Williams, Claudine Longet and the entire Williams family, including the singing Williams twins, Andy and David, gather for their 11th Christmas show.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Manhunter [Reg]: A.W.O.L. To Kill
Season 1, episode 13 W: Robert W. Lenski With Geoffrey Deuel (Walt Bellows), Devon Ericson (Jamie Bellows), Adrienne LaRussa (Marion Liggett), Kurt Grayson (Alex Liggett), Frank Maxwell (Colonel Foster), James Hampton (Lon Tyrell), Alan Fudge (Ned Fawcett), Dabney Coleman (Sheriff Stigman), Stephen Elliott (Van Phillips). When a sharpshooting marine hides out in the hills, determined to avenge his wife's brutal rape-slaying, Barrett tries to head him off before he goes on a rampage and the law hunts him down.
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| [ABC 10:00] Get Christie Love [Reg]: The Longest Fall
Season 1, episode 12 With Michael J. Pollard (Leonard Marvin), James Wainwright (Mike Overton), Linda Scruggs (Gina), Roger Robinson (Casey Hunter). Christie poses as an aspiring aviatrix to infiltrate a trio planning a jewel heist.
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| [NBC 10:00] Flip Wilson Special [special]
Flip's guests for his second special of the season include Diahann Carroll, Freddie Prinze and Paul Williams.
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