Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 3, 1975:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer (R)		Bing Crosby Christmas Special		Lucille Ball & Jackie Gleason Special
ABC	When Things Were Rotten: This Lance For Hire	That's My Mama: Get Your Kicks On Routes 22 And 76	Baretta: The Glory Game (R)		Starsky & Hutch: Savage Sunday (R)
NBC	Hallmark Hall Of Fame: Valley Forge			The Art Of Crime

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[CBS 8:00] Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Larry Roemer
With Larry D. Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Stan Francis. An animated musical special narrated by Burl Ives. Rudolph is down and out because his shiny nose has made him the joke of all 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)

[ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: This Lance For Hire
Season 1, episode 13
W: Bruce Selitz D: Joshua Shelley
With Ron Glass (The Black Knight). The Sheriff hires a mercenary bowslinger, the Black Knight, to combat a wounded Robin Hood. (Last show of the series.)

[NBC 8:00] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: Valley Forge [special]
W: Sidney Carroll D: Fielder Cook
With Richard Basehart, Harry Andrews, Victor Garber, Michael Tolan, Christopher Walken. A TV adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's play about Gen. George Washington's efforts to hold together the ill-equipped Continental Army in the winter of 1777-1778.

[ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: Get Your Kicks On Routes 22 And 76
Season 2, episode 12
W: Winston Moss D: Mort Lachman
With Helen Martin (Laura), Richard Foronjy (Hotel Manager). It's storming inside and out as Clifton and Earl feud during a snowbound night in a motel with five miserable companions.

[CBS 9:00] Bing Crosby Christmas Special [special]
With Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, The Crosby Family. Crosby presents his 40th consecutive Christmas show, a tradition he began on radio in 1935.

[ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: The Glory Game
Season 2, episode 2
W: Michael Butler D: Jeannot Szwarc
With Harris Yulin (Detective Grissom), Angus Duncan (Deputy Commissioner Van Der Meer), Al Stellone (Chico), Bill McKinney (Tobias), Chick Vennera (Rudolfo Cruz), Joe Renteria (Joe Molina). Tony Baretta is framed for the murder of a suspected gun dealer and becomes a fugitive to clear his name. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1975)

[NBC 9:30] The Art Of Crime [special]
W: Bill Davidson, Martin Smith D: Richard Irving
With Ron Leibman, Jose Ferrer, David Hedison, Jill Clayburgh, Eugene Roche. A gypsy antique dealer seeks to clear a fellow gypsy who he believes to be innocent of homicide.

[CBS 10:00] Lucille Ball & Jackie Gleason Special [special] This special presents a trilogy of comedy-dramas concerning three aspects of marriage as it relates to the human comedy and the all-too-human beings who live it.

[ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Savage Sunday
Season 1, episode 1
W: Fred Freiberger D: Jack Starrett
With Edward Walsh (Wilbur Sloane), Bob Delegall (Gregg Morton), Arthur Peterson (Henny Wilson), Hope Summers (Sarah Wilson), Ray Vitte (Tony), Tom Castronova (Marty), Dick Wesson (Ed), Suzanne Somers (Sally Ann Sloane), Eric Kilpatrick (Huey), Dave Shelley (Geoffrey), Louis James Oliver (Ted), Skip Lowell (Billy). Starsky and Hutch spend a frantic Sunday afternoon in pursuit of two homicidal robbers who don't know their car contains a powerful time bomb set to explode later that day. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/10/1975)