Prime-time network TV listings for Wednesday December 7, 1977:

	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
CBS	Good Times: Thelma's Brief Encounter	Szysznyk: Ball Three	Movie: Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
ABC	Paul Lynde Special: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas		Charlie's Angels: The Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnap Caper		Baretta: All That Shatters
NBC	A Flintstone Christmas		Mac Davis. . . I Believe In Christmas		Bette Midler -- Ol' Red Hair Is Back

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[CBS 8:00] Good Times [Reg]: Thelma's Brief Encounter
Season 5, episode 10
W: Bruce Kalish, Philip Wickham Taylor D: Gerren Keith
With James A. Watson Jr. (Lloyd Williams), Susan Batson (Waitress). Big brother J.J. is watching when Thelma becomes the romantic target of a handsome stranger with a shady past.

[ABC 8:00] Paul Lynde Special: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas [special]
D: Tim Kiley
With Anne Meara, Martha Raye, Alice Ghostley, Foster Brooks, Howard Morris, George Gobel, Anson Williams. Lynde and his guests present their version of how the classic Christmas poem came to be written.

[NBC 8:00] A Flintstone Christmas [special]
W: Duane Poole, Dick Robbins D: Charles A. Nichols
With Mel Blanc, Henry Corden, Virginia Gregg, Lucille Bliss, Don Messick, Gay Hartwig, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Jean Vander Pyl. Fred Flintstone reluctantly pinch-hits for Santa Claus when the jolly old gent sprains his ankle and can't complete his rounds.

[CBS 8:30] Szysznyk [Reg]: Ball Three
Season 2, episode 1
W: Alan Rosen, Fred Rubin
With Reggie Jackson (Himself). Szysznyk, an ex-Marine turned community center supervisor, is trying to keep the nearly bankrupt facility afloat. Baseball's Reggie Jackson helps lead off the season when he comes looking for a home run ball Ray Gun claims to have caught at the World Series.

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
W: Richard Wesley D: Sidney Poitier
With Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Roscoe Lee Browne. Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin sneak out of their houses to visit Madame Zenobia's, a high-class but illegal nightclub where they get robbed of a winning lottery ticket and try to get it back.

[ABC 9:00] Charlie's Angels [Reg]: The Sammy Davis Jr. Kidnap Caper
Season 2, episode 12
W: Ron Friedman D: Ronald Austin
With Lee De Broux (Leo Harris), Sammy Davis Jr. (Himself / Herbert Brubaker III), Natalie Core (Mrs. Warren), Altovise Davis (Herself), Norman Alden (Louis Fluellen), Robert Pine (Andy Price), Martin Kove (Georgie), Hari Rhodes (Ben Brody). The Angels are hired to protect Sammy Davis, Jr. from kidnappers.

[NBC 9:00] Mac Davis. . . I Believe In Christmas [special]
W: Jeremy Stevens, Alan Thicke D: Tim Kiley
With David Soul, Shields & Yarnell, Engelbert Humperdinck. Singer-composer Davis and other celebrities take a musical trip through the Christmases of their childhoods.

[ABC 10:00] Baretta [Reg]: All That Shatters
Season 4, episode 9
W: Ed Waters, Rift Fournier, Sidney Ellis D: Don Medford
With Borah Silver (Parker), Stanley Brock (Kubick), Kristoffer Tabori (T.J.), Toni Kalem (Bobbie), Bob Morgan (Starbuck), Mary Louise Weller (Rosalind), David Hess (Bosco). War veterans are blamed for a disabled man's bombing spree.

[NBC 10:00] Bette Midler -- Ol' Red Hair Is Back [special]
W: Bette Midler, Pat McCormick, Rod Warren et al D: Dwight Hemion The "Divine Miss M" clowns around with Emmett Kelly and sings her own lyrics to a bittersweet piano number composed and played by Dustin Hoffman. Musical highlights include "Friends", "Dusty's Tune", "Delta Dawn", "Higher and Higher" and "In the Mood".