Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 24, 1976:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
W: Earl Hamner Jr. D: Fielder Cook With Patricia Neal (Olivia Walton), Edgar Bergen (Grandpa Zebulon Walton), Dorothy Stickney (Emily Baldwin), Josephine Hutchinson (Mamie Baldwin), William Windom (Charlie Snead), Andrew Duggan (John Walton), Woodrow Parfrey (Ike Godsey), David Huddleston (Sheriff Bridges), David Livingston (Claudie Dooley), Cleavon Little (Hawthorne Dooley). Earl Hamner's story that served as the pilot for The Waltons. On Christmas Eve, the Walton family are in the midst of their Christmas preparations and hoping to celebrate it together, but John Walton has not yet arrived at home to share this Christmas with his family.
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 2, episode 4 With Sonny & Cher, Paul Lynde, Loretta Swit, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Billy Barty. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/15/1976)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: California Crude
Season 6, episode 4 W: Larry Mintz, Alan Eisenstock D: Norman Abbott With Patrick Campbell (Professor Miller), Ross Martin (Aram). Fred goes on a spree when an Arab oil executive assures him that there is oil under his garden in the junkyard. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/8/1976)
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| [NBC 8:30] Chico And The Man [Reg]: Ready When You Are, CB
Season 3, episode 11 W: Si Rose D: Jack Donohue With Bill McLean (Lonesome Rabbit), Rose Marie (Kissy Face). While fiddling with a CB radio, Ed makes a date with somone called "Kissy Face" and the next thing he knows they're headed for Las Vegas in her camper.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Yours, Mine And Ours (1968)
W: Mort Lachman, Melville Shavelson D: Melville Shavelson With Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Louise Troy, Walter Brooke, Tim Matheson, Morgan Brittany. When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Trouble With Warren
Season 3, episode 11 W: Juanita Bartlett D: Christian I. Nyby II With Ron Rifkin (Warren Weeks), Paul Jenkins (Gareth Hudson), Joe Maross (Perry Lefcourt), Anne Randall (Catherine Lefcourt), Tom Bower (Jeff Cooperman), John Dullaghan (Agent Alpine). Rockford's attorney pressures him into helping her brilliant cousin who is suspected of slaying his boss, and Jim's investigation uncovers a web of bribery and conspiracy in a multinational corporation.
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| [CBS 10:00] On The Road With Charles Kuralt
A record of the CBS newsman's journeys through various states during the Bicentennial year in search of each state's enduring values and character.
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| [NBC 10:00] Serpico [Reg]: The Serbian Connection
Season 1, episode 10 W: Cliff Osmond D: Reza Badiyi With Janet Margolin (Helena), Stefan Gierasch (Nagel), Barbara Rhoades (Tiger), Curt Lowens (Jevenovitch), Andrew Rubin (Vladimer), Joseph V. Perry (Tony Garrison), Jay Varela (Harper), Wendell Wright (Cinnamon), Robert Raymond Sutton (Grogan). Seprico poses as a dockworker in an effort to smash a gang that preys on illegal aliens, including some of his Serbian friends.
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