Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 13, 1974:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] How The Grinch Stole Christmas! [special]
W: Dr. Seuss D: Chuck Jones With June Foray, Thurl Ravenscroft, Dal McKennon. Animated cartoon special based on Dr. Seuss' book of the same title. Boris Karloff narrates the story of the Grinch, who tries to steal Christmas from Whoville. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Demon God
Season 3, episode 11 W: Jim Helms, George Clayton Johnson, David Michael Korn D: David Carradine With Tad Horino (Chemist), Victor Sen Yung (Old Mandarin), Brian Tochi (Shen Ung), Michael Greene (Aztec Priest), Robert Tessier (Aztec Warrior), Brenda Venus (Aztec Woman), Kansuma Fujima (Choreographer), Miyako Kurata (Ghost), Shizue Fukuchi (Drummer), Nami Shingu (Dancer). Caine has to contend with a landslide that traps him, and when he escapes he encounters a hostle group of Aztec Indians.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: A Little Extra Security
Season 4, episode 13 W: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein D: Herbert Kenwith With Stymie Beard (Otis Littlejohn), Fred Scott (Mr. Hastings), John Hawker (Postman). Through a computer error, Grady receives too many Social Security checks, and insists on keeping the money.
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| [CBS 8:30] Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Larry Roemer With Larry D. Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Stan Francis. Animated musical special narrated by Burl Ives. In the musical Christmas tale, Rudolph is down and out because his shiny nose has made him the joke of Christmasville. In desperation, he runs away with another outcast, Hermy the elf, who wants to be a dentist rather than a toymaker. Chased by the Abominable Snowmonster, Rudolph and Hermy journey into the Arctic wilderness and take refuge on the Island of Misfit Toys. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Borrowers [special]
W: Jay Presson Allen D: Walter C. Miller With Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes, Dame Judith Anderson, Barnard Hughes. An adaptation of Mary Norton's classic story about little people who live below a house. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 9:00] The Six Million Dollar Man [Reg]: Stranger In Broken Fork
Season 2, episode 10 W: Bill Svanoe, Wilton Denmark D: Christian Nyby With Sharon Ferrell (Angie Walker), Arthur Franz (Dr. Carlton), Robert Donner (Horace Milser). While on a flight mission Austin's nuclear power pack fails, causing him to crash land in Colorado. Suffering from amnesia, Steve finds he must defend the woman who saved him because hostile townspeople want to run her out of the area.
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| [CBS 9:30] The House Without A Christmas Tree [special]
W: Eleanor Perry D: Paul Bogart With Jason Robards, Mildred Natwick, Lisa Lucas. The story of a precocious tomboy whose father -- embittered and withdrawn since the death of his wife -- refuses to buy a Christmas tree. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 10:00] Kolchak: The Night Stalker [Reg]: The Energy Eater
Season 1, episode 10 W: Arthur Rowe, Rudolph Borchert, Robert Earll D: Alexander Grasshoff With Michael Strong (Walter Green), William Smith (Jim Elkhorn), Elaine Giftos (Nurse Eisen), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Hartfield), Robert Yuro (Captain Webster), John Alvin (Dr. Carrie), Michael Fox (Frank Wesley), Tom Drake (Don Kibbey), Joyce Jillson (Diana Lanier). Kolchak discovers that a new hospital has become a monument to horror when a bizarre phenomenon begins creating death and destruction within its walls.
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: The Child Buyers
Season 1, episode 12 W: Larry Brody D: Richard Benedict With Judy Lewis (Lt. Ruth Grayson), Harry Bartell (Abe Falkner), Douglas Fowley (Ike Perry), Arlene Golonka (Carole English), Cliff Emmich (Ronald English), Sharon Farrell (Marcia Gordon), John Vernon (David Cory), Tom Castronova (Caruso), Virginia Hawkins (Mrs. Eberly), Wayne Wynne (Mr. Eberly), Julie Andelman (Laura), Kyle Richards (Julie), Bradley Lieberman (Scott), Christopher Wellman (Bobby), Barbara Flicker (Mrs. Simon), Les Lannom (Eric), Jen Mind (Judy), Burke Byrnes (Mr. Simon), Calvin Bartlett (Foreman), Lynne Redding (Lucy). The search for a missing granddaughter of Sergeant Crowley's old friend leads Pepper to a black market adoption racket in which children are bought and sold.
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