Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 25, 1974:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 1, episode 4 With Esther Rolle, Lloyd Bridges. Tony's grandmother makes a cameo appearance. Esther is an extremely wealthy woman in the TV series "Very, Very Good Times", and series regular Alice Nunn plays a female Santa. Tony and Dawn do a musical salute to gypsies, Tony sings "Grandma's Hands", Esther and Dawn do "Elegance". Then Tony Orlando and Dawn perform "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" and Dawn sings a medley of "Never Can Say Goodbye" and "Always".
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| [ABC 8:00] That's My Mama [Reg]: Mama Gets Fractured
Season 1, episode 15 W: Larry Siegel D: Bob Lahendro With Dorothy Meyer (Ruby Lester). After Mama is confined to a wheelchair because of a broken leg, she is afraid Clifton and Tracy will decide they don't need her and upset her position in the family.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Christmas At Plum Creek
Season 1, episode 14 W: Arthur Heinemann D: William F. Claxton With Queenie Smith (Mrs. Whipple). When the members of the Ingalls family decide what to get the others as Yule gifts, they discover each is short of cash.
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| [ABC 8:30] TV Movie: My Darling Daughters' Anniversary (1973)
W: John Gay D: Joseph Pevney With Robert Young, Darlene Carr, Ruth Hussey, Raymond Massey. A young widower, a year after marrying off all four of his daughters in one day, finds his own marital plans upset when the girls pay their first anniversary visit home with a host of problems.
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: Voice From The Grave
Season 4, episode 3 W: Robert Hamner D: William Wiard With Robert Webber (Jake McVea), Jason Evers (Jordan Hollinger), Michael Baseleon (Lt. Jack Mancuso), Madlyn Rhue (Gloria Norlan), Richard Bakalyan (Andy Norlan), Ford Rainey (Ray Wheelock), Virginia Gregg (Kay Ryan), Dennis Patrick (Owen Kendall), Patricia Stich (Susan Wyatt), Ron McIver (Jim Grady), Milton Frome (Night Club Owner), Larry J. Blake (Grant Sylvester). Cannon, like his friend, retired policeman Ray Wheelock, becomes prey for a hired hit man after Wheelock's unofficial investigation of a still-unsolved murder case begins to uncover evidence close to the killer. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/25/1974)
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| [NBC 9:00] Lucas Tanner [Reg]: Merry Gentlemen
Season 1, episode 11 W: Robert Van Scoyk D: Walter Doniger With Barry Sullivan (Thomas Keyes), Dee Wallace (Waitress), Kelly Lockwood (Joan), Paul Napier (Dr. Margolis), Janice Pennington (Lottie Garland), Anne Schedeen (Carolyn). An accidental meeting between Tanner and his ex-father-in-law close to the day of the sad anniversary of the death of Tanner's wife and son succeeds in making the gloomy holidays even worse.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Manhunter [Reg]: Death On The Run
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert W. Lenski With Bo Hopkins (Sonny Welch), William Schallert (Dr. Hurley), Harry Guardino (Bert Heideman), William Watson (Fred Lummit), Kelly Thordsen (Sheriff Grant). A vicious gangster and his men take over a small town hospital, forcing the staff to neglect their patients and concentrate on saving ther critically injured cohort. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1974)
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| [ABC 10:00] Get Christie Love [Reg]: Market For Murder
Season 1, episode 1 W: Calvin Clements Jr. D: Gene Nelson With Tom Atkins (Peterson), Howard Caine (Anderson), Peter Mark Richman (Young). Teresa Graves stars as Christie Love, a black, bright, up-beat young lady who happens to be a very good police officer. Tonight, wearing sexy clothes, a sassy smile and a pair of earrings, Christie goes undercover and nearly loses her life when she is trapped by the top man in an international jewel fence ring and a gang member who recognizes her from an earlier ripoff. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/11/1974)
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: The Golden Cage
Season 1, episode 1 W: Dan Ullman D: Joseph Pevney With Rosemary Forsyth (Nancy Holbrook), William Windom (Alex Mayberry), Joseph Campanella (Arthur Holbrook), Morgan Woodward (Lt. Cayle), Rose Marie (Thelma). Barry Newman stars in the title role as an aspiring lawyer who leaves city life to practice in a southwest cattle town where his unconventional courtroom tactics create a stirring atmosphere. Tonight, Petrocelli defends a millionaire's wife who is charged with slaying her husband's associate. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/11/1974)
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