Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 17, 1975:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Tony Orlando And Dawn		Cannon: The Games Children Play		The Blue Knight: Two To Make Deadly
ABC	When Things Were Rotten: The French Dis-Connection (R)	That's My Mama: Clifton's Casual Fling	Baretta: Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth		Starsky & Hutch: Shootout
NBC	Little House On The Prairie: The Gift		Doctors' Hospital: Surgeon, Heal Thyself		Petrocelli: Face Of Evil (R)

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[CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 2, episode 13
With Dinah Shore, Dom DeLuise.

[ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: The French Dis-Connection
Season 1, episode 2
W: Bo Kaprall, Pat Proft, Gene Wood, Jay Burton D: Coby Ruskin
With Sid Caesar (Marquis de la Salle). Robin and his men infiltrate the castle to prevent Prince John from signing a treaty with the French ambassador. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1975)

[NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: The Gift
Season 2, episode 11
W: Rocci Chatfield D: William F. Claxton
With Lurene Tuttle (Agnes Molson), Anne Gee Byrd (Mrs. Hobson), David Byrd (Faubus), Peter Haas (David), Eve McVeagh (Mrs. Hillstrom). Laura and Mary decide to invest the Sunday school funds in patent medicines which they hope to sell to their neighbors in an effort to double the money needed to buy Rev. Alden's birthday present.

[ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: Clifton's Casual Fling
Season 2, episode 13
W: Lloyd Garver, Winston Moss, Thad Mumford D: Jerry Markus
With Dee Timberlake (Sharon), Helen Martin (Laura), Sarina Grant (Diane). Mama is elated when Clifton begins going steady with a girl who meets her approval. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Games Children Play
Season 5, episode 16
W: Albert Aley D: William Wiard
With Thaao Penghlis (Prince Hassan), Fritz Weaver (Mr. Shumann), Norman Fell (Carl), Charles Drake (Dr. Larkin), Herbie Furlong (Johnny), Paul Jenkins (Martin Spetler), Janet Montgomery (Ruth Malin), Vince Martorano (Boruff), Tony Cristino (Russo), Shirley O'Hara (Nurse), Howard Maurer (Prince Ahmad El Mussein), Philip Larson (Det. Henderson). A 12-year-old boy's tale of being shot at by two Arabian-clad men who had wheeled a patient into an abandoned house equipped as a hospital is dismissed as daydreaming until Cannon discovers a bullet buried in the wall opposite the old house.

[ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
Season 2, episode 13
W: Frank Dandridge, Robert Janes D: Charles R. Rondeau
With Titos Vandis (Mr. Nicholas), Doris Roberts (Mrs. Asher), Joseph Hindy (Charlie Asher), Vince Martorano (Rick), Roger E. Mosley (Rudy Davis), Charles Shull (Bergman), Sylvia Soares (Maria Davis), Joyce DeWitt (Jill). Tony fights to save his partner's future after the officer is suspended for allegedly shooting a murder suspect in the back.

[NBC 9:00] Doctors' Hospital [Reg]: Surgeon, Heal Thyself
Season 1, episode 11
W: Oliver Crawford D: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
With William Windom (Dr. Ralph Keyes), Susan Brown (Rose Kemper), Megan Sullivan (Cloris Kemper), Jo Anne Meredith (Gina Cerone), Vince Martorano (Joe Cerone), Jerome Guardino (Sam Venuti). Four years after the deaths of his wife and daughter, a highly skilled neurosurgeon is still wallowing in his own grief and has withdrawn from the practice of medicine.

[CBS 10:00] The Blue Knight [Reg]: Two To Make Deadly
Season 1, episode 1
W: Don Letney, Herman Groves D: Paul Krasny
With Vic Tayback (Lou Gilmore), Bill Fletcher (Raymond Tolar), Robert DoQui (Willie Moore), Morgan Paull (Phil Davis), Eddie Firestone (Harmony), Michael Baseleon, Claire Brennan (Carole), Claudia Bryar (Mrs. Bridger), Angus Duncan (Sgt. Willoughby), Richard Foronjy (Bartender), Ross Elliott (Rice), Booth Colman (Coroner). Bumper's beat becomes a powder keg of murder and theft when two hoods decide it would be safer to rob other lawbreakers.

[ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Shootout
Season 1, episode 14
W: David P. Harmon D: Fernando Lamas
With Steven Keats (Joey Martin), Norman Fell (Sammy Grovner), Barbara Rhoades (Robin Morton), Steve Sandor (Jimmy Lee Carson), Albert Paulsen (Tom Lockly), Jess Walton (Theresa Defusto), Teresa Hughes (Mrs. Durant), Danny Wells (Jeru Maharaji / Harry Sample), Jan Arvan (Mr. Durnat). Starsky and Hutch drop into an all-night restaurant where they are seized by two gangland executioners awaiting the arrival of their target, a syndicate chieftain.

[NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: Face Of Evil
Season 2, episode 10
W: Thomas L. Miller D: Irving J. Moore
With Kay Lenz (Janet/Mary Wade), Robert F. Lyons (Sam Johnson), Fred Beir (John Kelly), Shirley Poliakoff (Thelma), Henry Kendrick (Doc Simpson), Fred Ashley (Henry Hoffler), Lucille Benson (Madge Briar), Sandy Rosenthal (Dr. Koblin). Kay Lenz guests as twin sisters when a shy, introverted girl is accused of slaying a man she met at the diner where she works. (Repeat program)