Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 27, 1974:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Planet Of The Apes [Reg]: Escape From Tomorrow
Season 1, episode 1 W: Art Wallace D: Don Weis With Mark Lenard (Urko), Booth Colman (Zaius), Royal Dano (Farrow), Woodrow Parfrey (Veska), Bobby Porter (Arno), William Beckley (Grundig), Biff Elliot (Ullman), Jerome Thor (Proto), Alvin Hammer (Man). Series debut. Hurled through the time barrier when their spaceship malfunctions, two astronauts crash land on a futuristic planet where apes rule humans and regard these men from a past civilization as enemies. The show is based on the 20th Century-Fox movie, with Roddy McDowall recreating his movie role. In the first episode, the astronauts are given refuge from searching gorilla patrols by another human. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1974)
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| [ABC 8:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: A Small Beheading
Season 3, episode 2 W: Eugene Price D: Richard Lang With William Shatner (Capt. Gage), Rosemary Forsyth (Ellie), France Nuyen (Lady Ching), James Hong (Hwang Kyu), Yuki Shimada (Injured Man), Tony Brubaker (Murphy), Kinji Shibuya (Pan Chao), Frances Fong (Woman), Jeanne Joe (Ta Hsia). Caine is offered a chance to return to China after a sea captain delivers a pardon from the Emperor. The pardon, however, has one condition: Caine must lose a finger. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/21/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Once A Thief
Season 4, episode 15 W: Winston Moss D: Herbert Kenwith With Hal Williams (Officer Smith), Howard Platt (Officer Hopkins), Ron Glass (Herman), Don Rickles (Announcer). Lamont invites an ex-convict friend to stay at the Sanford home, but Grady is fearful that he will steal the family valuables.
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: The Manuel Who Came To Dinner
Season 1, episode 12 W: Elias Davis, David Pollock D: Peter Baldwin With Danny Nunez (Manuel Carrera), Gary Cervantes. Chico arranges a party at the garage for Ed and an old friend with whom he has been feuding for years.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Last Run (1971)
W: Alan Sharp D: Richard Fleischer With George C. Scott, Tony Musante, Trish Van Devere, Colleen Dewhurst. A former ace getaway driver for gangsters, living in peace and obscurity for nine years, gets bored. He decides to get back in the business one last time.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Six Million Dollar Man [Reg]: Nuclear Alert
Season 2, episode 1 W: William Driskill D: Jerry London With Carol Lawrence (Dr. Clea Broder), Fred Beir (Ted Swenson), George Gaynes (General Wiley), Stewart Moss (Air Force Major), Thomas Bellin (Carson), Irene Tedrow (Farmer's Wife), Felice Orlandi (Cal), Sid Haig (Passenger). To begin the second season, an atomic bomb has been sold to a small foreign country by conspirators and Steve Austin must find a way to stop delivery before Air Force missles destroy the bomb-carrying plane with him aboard. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/13/1974)
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Profit And Loss (2)
Season 1, episode 13 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Lawrence Doheny With Ned Beatty (Leon Fielder), Sharon Spelman (Doris Parker), Albert Paulsen (Kurt), Michael Lerner (Arnold Love), Tom Rosqui (Norm Mitchell), Al Stevenson (L.J.). Rockford and his client "burglarize" a print shop, searching for clues which will lead to stock market fixing and homicide.
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| [ABC 10:00] Kolchak: The Night Stalker [Reg]: The Vampire
Season 1, episode 4 W: David Chase D: Don Weis With William Daniels (Lt. Matteo), Suzanne Charney (Catherine Rawlins), Kathleen Nolan (Faye Kruger), Larry Storch (Jim "The Swede" Brytowski), Jan Murray (Ichabod Grace), Army Archerd (Man), Selma Archerd (Woman), John Doucette (Deputy Sample), Noel de Souza (Chandra), Milt Kamen (Gingrich). A trail of bloodless bodies sets Kolchak on the track of a vampire he believes is stalking Los Angeles. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/4/1974)
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Woman [Reg]: It's Only A Game
Season 1, episode 6 W: David Dugan D: Leonard Horn With Dane Clark (Ned Duffy), Patrick Wayne (Kevin Duffy), Clayton Wilcox (Lou Brunswick), Candy Ward (Linda), Anthony Cordova (Carlos), Ed Prentiss (Judge), Joseph Sicari (Benedetti), Mwako Cumbuka (Willy), Danny Ades (Ramirez), Peter Gonzales (Raymond Solis), Hector Elias (Sergio), Philip Michael Thomas (Sonny). A retired cop is determined to drive his son into living up to all his fantasies of what an ideal cop should be. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/25/1974)
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