Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 23, 1974:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Aesop's Fables (R)	I Heard The Owl Call My Name (R)			Medical Center: Three-Cornered Cage (R)
ABC	The Rookies: Legacy Of Death (R)		Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl
NBC	Movie: Scrooge (1970)				The Navajo Way

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[CBS 8:00] Aesop's Fables [special] Bill Cosby is featured as the storyteller in this animated and live musical program with script and special lyrics by Earl Hamner. Included is an updated version of "The Tortoise and the Hare". Voices of the animal characters are performed by Larry Storch, John Byner, John Erwin and Jane Webb. (Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Legacy Of Death
Season 3, episode 3
W: Skip Webster D: E.W. Swackhamer
With Alex Rocco (Earl Fisher), James Keach (Stoney Putnam), Jeremy Slate (Andy Page), Robin Strasser (Laura Page), Michael Christian (Tom Harper). Chris is partnered with a patrolman who gets involved in suicidal situations so that he might be killed in the line of duty and his family would be secure with financial compensation. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1974)

[NBC 8:00] Movie: Scrooge (1970)
W: Leslie Bricusse D: Ronald Neame
With Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Paddy Stone. Musical version of the Dickens' Christmas classic about an old skinflint, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by his old partner and the ghost of Christmas past, present and future on Christmas Eve.

[CBS 8:30] I Heard The Owl Call My Name [special]
W: Gerald Di Pego D: Daryl Duke
With Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley. The acclaimed drama about a dying Anglican priest, who is sent on his last assignment to a remote Indian village on Vancouver Island where he will be "closer to life". The film was shot entirely on location at the Indian fishing village of Ahouset. (Repeat program)

[ABC 9:00] Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl Houston vs. North Carolina State.

[CBS 10:00] Medical Center [Reg]: Three-Cornered Cage
Season 6, episode 4
W: Howard Dimsdale D: Vincent Sherman
With Diane Baker (Anne Martin), Dennis Cole (Tom Martin), Diana Hyland (Pat Londean), Kate Murtaugh (Martha), Barney Phillips (Dr. Carlington). An operation brings a 7-year coma victim back to reality, but complications set in when she discovers her husband has fallen in love with her best friend. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1974)

[NBC 10:00] The Navajo Way An in-depth portrait of the modern American Indian, exploring the traditions that have survived through the 20th century and focusing on the Navajo tribe.