Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 12, 1975:
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 musical special about how the Grinch attempts to erase Christmas from the tiny town of Whoville by stealing all the symbols of the season. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Movie: The Guns Of Navarone (1961)
W: Carl Foreman D: J. Lee Thompson With Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker, Anthony Quayle, Irene Papas. A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Ebenezer Sanford
Season 5, episode 12 W: Saul Turteltaub, Bernie Orenstein D: James Sheldon With Lynn Hamilton (Donna Harris), Herb Ellis (Landlord), Kathryn Jackson (Mother), Jay Riley (Mr. Small), Adrian Ricard (Mrs. Small), Marc Copage (Fredsie), Eric Laneuville (Ron). Despite the attempts of his friends and family to spread Christmas cheer, Fred become more and more of a "Scrooge".
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| [CBS 8:30] Frosty The Snowman [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Billy DeWolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees, June Foray. The musical Christmas fable in which a magician's stovepipe hat transforms a lifeless snow figure into a lovable song-and-dance man. Jimmy Durante hosts. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:30] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Rivalry [special]
W: Donald Comorant, Ernest Kinoy D: Fielder Cook With Arthur Hill, Charles Durning, Hope Lange. The slavery issue is splitting the nation in 1858 as Sen. Stephen Douglas, aided by his wife and his conscience, launches a series of debates with a political unknown, Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Douglas, who sits quietly on the platform during the debates, questions her husband's actions in their private talks. Gnawed by mounting doubts, Mrs. Douglas seeks and obtains a private audience with Lincoln.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Fielder Cook With Patricia Neal (Olivia Walton), Edgar Bergen (Grandpa Zebulon Walton), Dorothy Stickney (Emily Baldwin), Josephine Hutchinson (Mamie Baldwin), William Windom (Charlie Snead), Andrew Duggan (John Walton), Woodrow Parfrey (Ike Godsey), David Huddleston (Sheriff Bridges), David Livingston (Claudie Dooley), Cleavon Little (Hawthorne Dooley). Earl Hamner's story that served as the pilot for The Waltons. On Christmas Eve, the Walton family are in the midst of their Christmas preparations and hoping to celebrate it together, but John Walton has not yet arrived at home to share this Christmas with his family. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/19/1971)
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: Breaking Point
Season 3, episode 11 W: Christian Wise D: Robert Collins With Tony Musante (Vince Della Maggiore), Howard Duff (Sgt. Butler), Joseph Ruskin (Captain Ferguson), Linda Scruggs (Ellen Armstrong), Michael Anderson Jr. (Robert Armstrong), Rosemary DeCamp (Beulah), Marsha Hunt (Mrs. Hines), Ron Soble (Lee Cracker), Milton Selzer (Hall), George DiCenzo (Torchia). Two policemen are assigned to investigate a suspicious shooting by one of their fellow officers.
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