Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 26, 1975:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Year Of The Wildebeest [special]
D: Alan Root Richard Widmark narrates the story of one of the world's most awesome spectacles - the annual trek of a half-million African wildebeeste across the Serengeti Plain in search of food. The program covers the full cycle of the herd, stretching out over 2,000 miles with predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas waiting for the stragglers. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Barbary Coast [Reg]: The Day Cable Was Hanged
Season 1, episode 11 W: Stephen Lord D: Alexander Grasshoff With John Dehner (General Barton), Anjanette Comer (Mary Louise), Tom Troupe (Carter), James Griffith (Eikel), Monica Lewis (Mrs. Cushman), Kelly Wilder (Tequila Lil), Booth Colman (Dr. Mattwick), Michael Blodgett (Whiting). Cable goes out on a limb when he takes the place of a John Wilkes Booth lookalike who is about to be hanged.
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| [NBC 8:00] The World Of Magic [special]
Orson Welles is magician Doug Henning's guest in a program of magic. Welles, a magic buff who studied under Houdini, narrates the segment Henning devotes to one of Houdini's feats, the water torture escape, which is presented for the first time on TV. Bill Cosby hosts.
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| [CBS 9:00] G.E. Theater: In This House Of Brede [special]
W: James Costigan D: George Schaefer With Diana Rigg, Judi Bowker, Pamela Brown, Gwen Watford, Denis Quilley. This dramatic special revolves around a sophisticated London widow who renounces a successful business career to become a cloistered Benedictine nun. The special was filmed on location in England and Ireland.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Death Be Not Proud (1975)
W: Donald Wrye D: Donald Wrye With Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander, Robby Benson, Linden Chiles, Wendy Phillips. John Gunther's true story of of his son, whose devotion to living leaves his parents a legacy of love.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Aaron Ironwood School Of Success
Season 2, episode 1 W: Stephen J. Cannell D: Lou Antonio With Ken Swofford (FBI Agent Patrick), James Hampton (Aaron Ironwood), Jerome Guardino (Vito Ginoso), Jonathan Lippe (Nino), Luis Delgado (Driver). Private-eye Jim Rockford returns for a second season. In the first show he welcomes home his childhood foster brother, who is now worth millions through a franchise scheme, and is induced to protect him from the underworld. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/12/1975)
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| [NBC 10:00] Police Story [Reg]: The Cutting Edge
Season 3, episode 2 W: E. Arthur Kean D: Michael O'Herlihy With Chuck Connors (Sergeant Ed Pebbles), Woodrow Parfrey (Napoleon Fargo), Alan Fudge (Lieutenant Boswell), Jay Varela (Cadiz), Erik Holland (Fisk), Mark Stevens (Harry), Alexandra Hay (Sharon), Sylvester Stallone (Caddo), Lola Albright (Minnie). A 30-year veteran officer loses interest in his work after his partner retires, leaving him without a single close friend. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/16/1975)
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