Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 23, 1976:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Rebellion
Season 5, episode 14 W: Kathleen Hite D: Harvey Laidman With John Ritter (Rev. Matthew Fordwick), Rachel Longaker (Aimee Godsey), Lynn Hamilton (Verdie Foster), Nora Marlowe (Mrs. Brimmer), Audrey Christie (Zelda Maynard). Olivia, frustrated with the monotonous life she is leading, desperately lashes out for a change and decides to alter the way she looks.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Hark, The Sweatkings
Season 2, episode 12 W: Peter Meyerson, Nick Arnold D: Bob Lahendro With Michael V. Gazzo (Angelo DeMora). The Sweathogs express the Christmas spirit when they go out of their way to help an old hobo make a new life for himself.
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| [NBC 8:00] Doug Henning's World Of Magic [special]
With Michael Landon, Joey Heatherton. The youthful, magnetic magician returns for another Christmas show of magic involving 10 new illusions, topped by "The Flaming Miracle", in which Henning appears to be engulfed by flames. The acts are more flamboyant this time around, including Henning's vanishing stunt with an elephant.
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| [ABC 8:30] Barney Miller [Reg]: Christmas Story
Season 3, episode 10 W: Tony Sheehan, Reinhold Weege D: Bruce Bilson With John Morgan Evans (Mugger), Nobu McCarthy (Miss Murakami), Jay Gerber (Mr. Craig). Wojo wants to tell Yemana that his Christmas Eve date is a call girl; Fish dons a red suit to catch a mugger who's targeting Kris Kringles; Luger fishes for an invitation from Barney for Christmas Day.
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Target -- A Cop
Season 9, episode 12 W: Bill Stratton D: Robert Scheerer With Don Stroud (Nathan Purdy), Gerald McRaney (Tim Ryder), Seth Sakai (Captain Sakai), Bernard Ching (Officer Ichiro), Wallace Landford (Matt), Jo Pruden (Dispatcher), Gary Kau (Officer Mifune), Ron Nakahara (Officer Ming), Lee Stetson (Sgt Claybourne), Terry Plunkett (Oni), Stephen Schnetzer (Officer Blankenship), Barton McCullough (Officer Cartwright), Russell Sacco (Bob), Dorothy Mackaill (Mrs. Pelcher), Mark Malmborg (Officer MacDougall). Paraplegic as the result of a police bullet, a vengeful ex-con turns sniper and begins shooting down police officers.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Tony Randall Show [Reg]: Case: O Come All Ye Wastrels
Season 1, episode 11 W: Sy Rosen D: James Burrows With Dick Van Patten (Myron C. Dobbs). Feeling Christmasy, Walter takes a colorful but incorrigible thief into his home.
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| [NBC 9:00] Once An Eagle: Chapter Five [special]
While on vacation to visit relatives, Sam Damon is offered a high-paying job managing his in-laws' business, but turns it down to stay in the Army. Later, Sam and his arch rival, Courtney Massengale, are transferred to the Philippines.
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| [ABC 9:30] The Nancy Walker Show [Reg]: Kenneth's Memoirs
Season 1, episode 11 With John Welsh. An elated Nancy and Kenneth plunge into a project they feel is the perfect combination of her career and their marriage, but Nancy will be lucky to escape with either.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Renegade's Child
Season 5, episode 9 W: Larry Alexander D: Harry Falk With Don Johnson (Wayne Lockwood), Nancy Wolfe (Julie Nesbitt), Edward Walsh (Griffith Markham), Christina Hart (Amanda), Bettye Ackerman (Mrs. Nesbitt), Victor Mohica (Roy), Frederick Herrick (Leo Shenson), John Perak (Willie Omardt), James Coleman (Pete Dawson), Bruce Watson (Rudy Bates), Gary Sandy (Sy Rogers), David Hollander (Jody Lockwood), Iris Korn (Mrs. Trent), Karl Ellis (Chuck Moss). Barnaby is retained to track down the missing child of a girl just released from prison, and his search pays an unexpected dividend when he uncovers a ring of thieves hijacking U.S. Army material with the help of an inside source.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Castle Of Fear
Season 5, episode 10 W: James Menzies D: Allen Reisner With Stephen Bradley (Bernie), Pat Hingle (Al Mossman), Edward Walsh (Frank Herrick), Dawn Lyn (Bonnie Mossman), Pat Crowley (Mrs. Mossman), Marshall Colt (Inspector Holmer), Michael McGuire (Stan Fredricks), E.J. Peaker, Steve Eoff (Sgt. Kline), Al Nalbandian (Mr. Abajian). A timid man's paranoid belief that he is being stalked by a criminal leads to his shooting of a police officer.
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| [NBC 10:00] Gibbsville [Reg]: Andrea
Season 1, episode 5 W: Edward Adler With Russell Arms (Senator Styler), Jack Aranson (Banigan), Diana Scarwid (Kathleen), Dan O'Herlihy (Walter Culligan), Frank Campanella (Lefty), Joan Collins (Andrea Cooper). Andrea Cooper, fiancee of Walter Culligan, a judge who aspires to a spot on the federal bench, receives another proposal of marriage -- from reporter Ray Whitehead.
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