Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 1, 1976:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Larry Roemer With Larry D. Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Stan Francis. Burl Ives is narrator for the animated musical based on the Johnny Marks song. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Bionic Woman [Reg]: The Vega Influence
Season 2, episode 8 W: Arthur Rowe D: Mel Damski With Richard Lenz (Dr. Michael Marchetti), Jamie Smith-Jackson (Laurie Boylin), Roy Poole (Dr. Boylin), Phil Carey (Major Andrews), Don Marshall (Captain Colter), John Lawrence (Sergeant Roberts). At a government base on an isolated island, Jaime is pitted against a "living" meteorite's mysterious energy which overpowers the human will.
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| [NBC 8:00] C.P.O. Sharkey [Reg]: Oh Captain! My Captain
Season 1, episode 1 W: Ted Lang, Aaron Ruben D: Peter Baldwin With James Callahan (Captain), Dennis Kort (Fletcher), Jeffrey Kramer (Recruit), Richard Kuller (Yeoman Bradshaw). Debut of a comedy series starring Don Rickles as a crusty, acid-tongued Navy chief petty officer. In the first show, the chauvinistic chief must adjust to the fact that his new commanding officer is a woman.
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| [NBC 8:30] The McLean Stevenson Show [Reg]: Who Do You Trust?
Season 1, episode 1 W: Lloyd Garver D: Alan Myerson With Jerry Houser (Lenny), Janus Blythe (Debbie), Suzanne Wishner (Karen). Debut of a comedy series centering around the misadventures of a small town hardware store owner. McLean Stevenson plays Mac Ferguson, who works hard at his home and his business, pacifying a wife, a mother-in-law, a grown-up son and a divorced daughter with two youngsters.
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| [CBS 9:00] Bing Crosby Christmas Special [special]
With Jackie Gleason, Bernadette Peters, The Crosby Family. Bing, headlining his 41st annual Christmas show, is joined by his wife Kathryn and their three children, sons Harry and Nathaniel, and daughter Mary Frances, plus a group of British choir boys.
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| [ABC 9:00] Baretta [Reg]: Nothin' For Nothin'
Season 3, episode 10 W: Dan Ullman, Dennis Landa, S.S. Schweitzer D: Paul Stanley With Armand Cerami (Officer Kowalski), Jennifer Billingsley (Dolores), Janet MacLachlan (C.C.'s Mother), Diego Gonzalez (C.C.), Logan Ramsey (Jewel), Don Maxwell (Pinky), Michael Miller (Jake). Baretta locks horns with a tough 9-year-old street kid who is outsmarting cops and crooks alike to help feed his family, which is being deprived by his mother's compulsive gambling.
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| [NBC 9:00] Sirota's Court [Reg]: The Reporter
Season 1, episode 1 W: Jack Winter D: Mel Ferber With Victor Buono (Reporter), Andrew Johnson (Red), Alan Berger (Puckett), Mickey Fox (Margie). Debut of a comedy series starring Michael Constantine as an unpredictable night court judge. In the opening episode, Sirota's courtroom is visited by a reporter who is writing a story about the country's worst judges, just at a time that Judge Sirota is taking frequent recesses in order to keep track of the progress of a football game.
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| [NBC 9:30] The Practice [Reg]: The Snow Job
Season 2, episode 5 With Art Metrano (Cabbie), Yvonne Wilder (Mrs. Widdicomb), Jayne Meadows (Mrs. Milnor), Ivor Francis (Mr. Milnor), William Cort (Mr. Widdicomb). Dr. Jules Bedford and his son are stranded in a 16th floor apartment due to a power failure and are pressed into service by a neighbor who is about to have a baby.
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| [CBS 10:00] George Burns Comedy Special [special]
With Johnny Carson, Walter Matthau, Madeline Kahn, The Osmond Brothers, Chita Rivera. Musical variety program starring veteran comedian George Burns.
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| [ABC 10:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: Bullseye
Season 1, episode 9 W: Jeff Myrow D: Daniel Haller With L.Q. Jones (Sgt. Billings), Robert Pine (Dr. Conlan), Marla Pennington (Jenny Warren), Peter Leeds (General Green), Kelly Sanders (Trainee). The Angels enlist in the U.S. Army to uncover a medical fraud and the murder of a WAC recruit.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Quest [Reg]: The Longest Drive (1)
Season 1, episode 8 W: Katharyn Powers, Michael Michaelian D: Bernard McEveety With Dan O'Herlihy (Matthew Hatcher), Keenan Wynn (Cooler), Woody Strode (Tucker), Erik Estrada (Santos), John Rubinstein (Wakely), Gary Lockwood (Walter Lucas). A hapless rancher gets unexpected help from the Baudine brothers when they muster a motley group of drovers for what seems to be a jinxed cattle drive through the badlands.
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