Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 1, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Flight
Season 6, episode 10 W: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella D: Ralph Waite With Peter Miner (Joe Douglas), Michelle Stacy (Claire), Dan Priest (Harrison Bixby), Jerry Crews (Ed Larkin). When Jim-Bob's new friend who is on his way to join the Army stays at the Waltons for an unusually lengthy visit, John suspects there is something peculiar about his son's new friend.
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| [ABC 8:00] Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Paul Frees, Joan Gardner. The mysteries and truths of Kris Kringle are explored in this animated musical. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Highway Robbery
Season 1, episode 10 W: Paul Robert Coyle D: Nicholas Colasanto With David Wilson (Leo Morrison), Lorna Thayer (Matron), Vito Scotti (Emilio), Hoke Howell (York), Jeff Harlan (Jay), Florence Halop (Mrs. Abel), James Beach (Mr. Sweeney), Wendy Fredericks (Janey), Paul Linke (Officer Grossman). Jon and Ponch deal with an elephant loose on the freeway, a motorcycle rip-off artist, an elderly lady with a flat tire and joyriding teenagers.
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| [CBS 9:00] All-Star Tribute To Elizabeth Taylor [special]
With Roddy McDowall, Rock Hudson, Paul Newman, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Shaun Cassidy, Frank Gorshin, Bob Hope, Monty Hall, Robert Blake, Tom Drake, Debby Boone. More than 80 Hollywood celebrities pay tribute to one of America's best known leading ladies.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]: Tunnel
Season 4, episode 10 W: Tony Sheehan, Michael Russnow D: David Swift With Leonard Stone (Burton Shaw), J.J. Barry (Leroy Kreutzer), Jay Gerber (Howard Gabriel). Wojo is buried alive after a tunnel collapses on a burglar who is burrowing towards the diamond exchange; the precinct's phones go dead; Harris still hasn't found an apartment.
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| [NBC 9:00] Hallmark Hall Of Fame: The Court Martial Of George Armstrong Custer [special]
W: John Gay D: Glenn Jordan With Brian Keith (Defense Attorney), Ken Howard (Prosecuting Attorney), James Olson (General Custer), Blythe Danner (Mrs. Custer), Stephen Elliott, J.D. Cannon, William Daniels, Len Lawson (Judge), Anthony Zerbe, Richard Dysart, Nicolas Coster (Gen. Sheridan). A fact-fiction dramatization of what might have happened if Custer had survived the massacre at the Little Big Horn.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: Chief To Chief
Season 1, episode 10 W: George Arthur Bloom D: Peter Baldwin With Kenneth Mars (Chief Thorpe). Roy confronts his arch-enemy, Fire Chief Thorpe, who annually leads his department's baseball team to victory over Roy's team by using dirty tricks.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: The Devil's Handmaiden
Season 6, episode 11 W: Mann Rubin D: Kenneth C. Gilbert With Stacey Baldwin (Julie Tyler), Art Hindle (Joe Bronson), Macon McCalman (Ned Avery), Herb Armstrong (Dave Dufferin), Robert Nathan (Donald Wilson), Kevin McKenzie (Dufferin). A 12-year-old girl's ability to forecast two deaths and a disappearance leads Barnaby to believe he may be dealing with the occult in a small country town.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Class That Went To War
The program traces the lives of the members of the Chatham, N.J., High School graduating class of 1964 who fought in Southeast Asia -- and focuses on the legacy and lingering scars of the Vietnam war.
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