Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 23, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Movie: The Bible: In The Beginning. . . (1966)
W: Christopher Fry D: John Huston With George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, Michael Parks, Richard Harris, John Huston, Franco Nero. The story of man's creation, his fall, his survival of the flood and his faith in the future.
|
| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 3, episode 11 With Paul Lynde, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Osmond Family.
|
| [NBC 8:00] The Little Drummer Boy [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Greer Garson, Jose Ferrer, Paul Frees, June Foray, Teddy Eccles, The Vienna Boys Choir. An orphaned drummer boy arrives at the manger of the Christ Child and realizes he has nothing to give -- except a song. (Repeat program)
|
| [NBC 8:30] The Fourth King [special]
W: Alvin Cooperman, Seymour Reit D: Romano Scarpa With Ted Ross, Arnold Stang, Laurie Beechman, Bob McFadden, Ed Clein. Animated Christmas story. Upon learning that a bright star in the sky heralds Jesus' birth and that three human kings are going to visit him in Bethlehem, the animal kingdom decides to send a representative of its own.
|
| [ABC 9:00] John Denver's Rocky Mountain Christmas [special]
D: Bill Davis With Valerie Harper, Olivia Newton-John, Steve Martin. Singer-composer John Denver stars in this holiday season special. (Repeat program)
|
| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: A Deadly Maze
Season 4, episode 13 W: Juanita Bartlett D: William Wiard With Larry Linville (Dr. Eric Von Albach), Corinne Camacho (Tracy Marquette), J. Pat O'Malley (Billy Baines), Johnny Seven (George), Cliff Carnell (Max Savatgy), Jack Collins (Victor Kreski), John McKinney (Nick Commandini), Ken Anderson (Tom Posner), Lance LeGault (Phil D'Agosto), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). Jim is duped by a seemingly deranged scientist, who puts him through an elaborate stress exercise under the guise of investigating a homicide.
|
| [ABC 10:00] The Eve Of Christmas Eve
Howard K. Smith leads a round of news reports from the U.S. and all over the world, via satellite, with correspondents Barbara Walters, Peter Jennings, Frank Reynolds, Sylvia Chase, Jack Smith and John Martin, offering commentary on the stories that may become the major source of news in 1978.
|
| [NBC 10:00] Quincy, M.E. [Reg]: Sullied Be Thy Name
Season 2, episode 10 W: Gregory S. Dinallo, Irving Pearlberg D: Jackie Cooper With John Saxon (Charles Deskassa), Eddie Firestone (Frank Thayler), E.J. Peaker (Michelle Rowan), Linden Chiles (Monsignor), Joseph Campanella (Jules Draper), Caroline McWilliams (Beverly Conrad). An activist priest, known for his crusade against pornography, is found dead of a heart attack in a prostitute's bedroom. (Repeat program, originally aired 5/6/1977)
|