Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday December 23, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Good Times [Reg]: The Family Tree
Season 3, episode 15 W: Bob Peete D: Herbert Kenwith With Richard Ward (Henry Evans). While researching the family tree, Thelma locates James's father, long believed dead, and invites him home as the big surprise for her dad's birthday.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Guess Who's Coming To Christmas
Season 2, episode 11 W: Bill Idelson D: Frank Buxton With Beatrice Colen (Marsha), Misty Rowe (Wendy), Randolph Roberts (Chuck), Robert Casper (Orville), Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Harrison). Richie accidentally discovers that Fonzie, who has been boasting of sharing a big holiday with relatives, is miserably alone on Christmas Eve. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/17/1974)
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| [NBC 8:00] Movin' On [Reg]: Love, Death And Laura Brown
Season 2, episode 13 W: Nancy Greenwald D: Lawrence Dobkin With Fionnula Flanagan (Laura Brown), Don Dubbins (Bevo). Sonny and Will save a young woman from death when the brakes of her truck fail, and Will is so taken with the charming widow that he convinces Sonny they should stay in town.
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| [CBS 8:30] Joe And Sons [Reg]: Nick's Problem
Season 1, episode 12 With Darrell Zwerling (Doctor). Nick, who has taken great pains to hide his bed-wetting from the others, finds himself the object of much concern when his secret is discovered.
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| [ABC 8:30] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Basket Case
Season 1, episode 2 W: Jerry Ross D: Bob Lahendro With Jess Nadelman (Coach). Kotter has a verbal confrontation with his class and the school basketball coach when he threatens to flunk Freddy Washington for refusing to take an exam. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1975)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Dear Ma
Season 4, episode 16 W: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell D: Alan Alda With Byron Chung (Korean Soldier), Lynne Marie Stewart (Nurse Fox), Gwen Farrell (Nurse Able), Redmond Gleeson (Sgt. Callan), John Fujioka (Col. Kim), Rollin Moriyama (General Park). Radar chronicles some of his unusual experiences in the MASH unit in a letter to his mother, such as an enemy sniper eating with the gang at the mess hall and Colonel Potter's problems at the monthly foot inspection.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Rookies [Reg]: Shadow Of A Man
Season 4, episode 16 W: Robert I. Holt D: Fernando Lamas With Patsy Garrett, Ned Beatty (Frank Forest), Linda Marsh (Millie Forest), Linda Thompson (Young Woman), John Aprea (Phil Richards). The officer who saves Chris's life is later charged with murder.
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| [NBC 9:00] Police Woman [Reg]: Incident Near A Black And White
Season 2, episode 15 W: Gregory K. Scott D: Herschel Daugherty With Don Galloway (Lt. Buckles), Roberto Millar (Rubin Rojas), Jim B. Smith (Officer Gemil), Ned Romero (Gates), Susan Blanchard (Karen Kelley), Cynthia Avila (Gloria), Chu Chu Malave (Bobby Romero), Cedrick Hardman (Henpecked Husband). The glory-seeking ambitions of a vain police lieutenant undermine the painstaking police work of Sgts. Anderson and Crowley.
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Chicago Rendezvous
Season 1, episode 2 W: Dick Bensfield, Perry Grant D: Don Richardson With Lyman Ward (Steve Blanchard). Ann's new airline pilot boyfriend invites her to spend the weekend with him.
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| [CBS 10:00] Switch [Reg]: Mistresses, Murder And Millions
Season 1, episode 14 W: David Chase D: Allen Baron With Ann Blyth (Miriam Estabrook), Carole Wells (Jo Ann Bateman), Charles Drake (Charles Estabrook), Joe Maross (Lt. Gates), Shelly Novack (Strayhorn), Med Flory (Curtis Malinchak), Read Morgan (Sgt. Kinnell). Ann Blyth makes her first television appearance in seven years as a woman who hires Pete and Mac to watch her husband, but he is kidnapped under their noses and held for ransom.
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| [ABC 10:00] Marcus Welby, M.D. [Reg]: The Fruitfulness Of Mrs. Steffie Rhodes
Season 7, episode 2 W: Jerome Ross D: Marc Daniels With Julie Cobb (Steffie Rhodes), Michael Richardson (Kenny Rhodes), Jon Cypher (Eric Brandon), Warren Stevens (Chief of Obstetrics), Army Archerd (Reporter), Selma Archerd (Reporter), Dick Wesson (Charlie Benson). The hospital is thrown into a state of excitement when quintuplets are about to be born. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Joe Forrester [Reg]: Fashion Mart
Season 1, episode 12 W: Mark Rodgers, Albert Aley D: Alex March With Veronica Hamel (Gloria Richards), Vincent Baggetta, Richard Kelton, Brooke Mills (Karen Stone), Suzy Parker (Anne Leigh), Alex Nicol (Lawrence Goldman), Robert Gentry (Fred Mason), James Ingersoll, Randolph Powell. Joe Forrester is faced with two possible homicides in the high fashion district of his beat after a fashion executive and a model fall from the top of a high rise.
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