Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 24, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Tony Orlando And Dawn [Reg]
Season 1, episode 3 With Carroll O'Connor, The International Children's Choir. In comedy spots, Carroll plays grouchy King Blear, a ruler who wants to take Christmas away from his complaining kingdom, and Tony appears as a bumbling magician. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/18/1974)
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| [ABC 8:00] When Things Were Rotten [Reg]: Ding Dong, The Bell Is Dead
Season 1, episode 7 W: Les Roberts D: Bruce Bilson With Bill Quinn (Abbot), Thalmus Rasulala (Prince Enjomo), Carl Ballantine (Waiter). Attempting to recover a valuable stolen church bell, Robin and his men are trapped unarmed in the castle tower. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1975)
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Christmas At Plum Creek
Season 1, episode 14 W: Arthur Heinemann D: William F. Claxton With Queenie Smith (Mrs. Whipple). When the members of the Ingalls family decide what to get the others as Yule gifts, they discover each is short of cash. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/25/1974)
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| [ABC 8:30] That's My Mama [Reg]: That's Earl, Brother
Season 2, episode 4 W: Milton R.F. Brown D: Arnold Margolin With Helen Martin (Laura), Vernee Watson (Thelma), Ray Vitte (Freddie Hampton). Clifton and Earl have a falling out when Earl, left in charge of the barbershop, is duped by a pretty girl who empties the cash register. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1975)
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| [CBS 9:00] Cannon [Reg]: The Iceman
Season 5, episode 4 W: Larry Alexander D: William Wiard With Robert Foxworth (Lanny McCrae), Dennis Patrick (Sturdevant), Paul Fierro (Frank Spinosa), Brad Stevens (Hoyt Daley), Paula Victor (Wilma), John Davey (Danny Fairchild), Margie Impert (Sondra Munson), Andrew Parks (Jimmy Carver), John Milford (Bob Costigan). A Green Beret Vietnam veteran appears to have government intelligence connections, and becomes a key figure in a reopened murder case involving a friend of Cannon's, who unexpectedly turns down parole. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/1/1975)
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: Photography By John Doe
Season 2, episode 7 W: Jeff Spielman, Michael Simpson D: Bernard L. Kowalski With Hector Elias (Hector Santos), Lazaro Perez (Juan Lacayo), Brock Peters (Judson B. Taylor), Wallace Rooney (Father Quinn), Art Aragon (Mendoza), Constance Pfeiffer (Rosa). The death of a retired policeman leads Baretta to investigate a long-term alliance between a mobster and a judge. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/22/1975)
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| [NBC 9:00] Doctors' Hospital [Reg]: Come At Last To Love
Season 1, episode 2 W: Chester Krumholz D: Vincent Sherman With Marc Plastrik (Lawyer), Madge Sinclair (Emma Delaney), Larry Hagman (Dr. David Stone), Elizabeth Hartman (Bobbie Marks). Nurse Bobbie Marks injects herself with a deadly virus after the hospital refuses to permit Dr. David Stone to test his serum on humans. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1975)
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| [CBS 10:00] The Blue Knight [Reg]: Triple Threat
Season 1, episode 2 D: Ralph Senensky With Janet MacLachlan (Beth Willard), Carl Crudup (Sandy Willard), Jonathan Lippe (Tessler), Paul Comi (Stuchman), Aneta Corsaut (Vera), Warren Kemmerling (Lt. Gillis), Michael O'Keefe (Scooter). Bumper Morgan wounds a suspected mugger, then tangles with the injured man's fiercely protective sister, an attorney who won't believe that her brother is a criminal.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Death Ride
Season 1, episode 3 W: Edward J. Lakso D: Gene Nelson With Trish Mahoney (Joanne Wells), Kathleen Miller ("Joanne Wells" / Det. Linda Williams), Ben Marino (Phelps), Jeff Corey (Andrew Mello), Mary Margaret Lewis (Terry Evers), Robert Nadder (Cook), E.J. Andre (Jenson), Paul Hecht (District Attorney), Joseph Bova (George). Driving from San Francisco with the daughter of a crime czar who has agreed to tell all when the girl arrives, Starsky and Hutch are pursued by killers. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Petrocelli [Reg]: The Mark Of Cain
Season 2, episode 2 W: Leonard Katzman D: Leonard Katzman With John Saxon (Richie Martin), Carver Barnes (Connors), John H. Cox (Davis), Paul Koslo (Morgan), Vincent Beck (Parker), Ken Swofford (Lt. John Clifford). A boyhood friend pays a visit to Petrocelli and later is arrested on a homicide charge. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/17/1975)
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