Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 8, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] A Special Sesame Street Christmas [special]
W: Tom Dunsmuir D: Russ Petranto With Leslie Uggams, Ethel Merman, Anne Murray, Henry Fonda, Michael Jackson, Imogene Coca, Dick Smothers. Leslie Uggams and the Sesame Street gang try to convince Oscar that Christmas can be fun, even for a grouch.
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| [ABC 8:00] Donny And Marie [Reg]
Season 4, episode 8 With Gavin MacLeod, Raquel Welch, Ruth Buzzi, Johnny Dark.
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| [NBC 8:00] Diff'rent Strokes [Reg]: Goodbye Dolly
Season 1, episode 6 W: Albert E. Lewin D: Herbert Kenwith With Jack Riley (Miles Monroe). Arnold becomes extremely upset when he learns that his doll Homer was given away.
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| [NBC 8:30] Who's Watching The Kids [Reg]: Good News, Bad News
Season 1, episode 9 W: Fred Maio D: John Lennox With Miriam Flynn (Ms. Collins). Rehearsing for her TV debut on a Kids News spot, 9-year-old Melissa turns on her vast vocabulary and turns off the station manager.
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| [CBS 9:00] Danny Thomas: Young & Foolish [special]
W: Marty Farrell, Kenny Solms D: Buddy Bregman With Bob Hope, Phil Donahue, Suzanne Somers, Kristy McNichol. A special which looks at forms of entertainment for today's youth.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: The Gift Of Love (1978)
W: Caryl Ledner D: Don Chaffey With Marie Osmond, Timothy Bottoms, Bethel Leslie, June Lockhart, Donald Moffat. A socialite New York City girl falls in love with a penniless young man.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: Local Man Eaten By Newspaper
Season 5, episode 11 W: Juanita Bartlett D: Meta Rosenberg With Bo Hopkins (John Cooper), Kenneth Tigar (Jerry Simpson), Scott Marlowe (Augie Arnow), Joseph Hindy (Leo Cotton), Gianni Russo (Johnny Bongard), Pat Renella (Vincent), Joe E. Tata (Sal), Dallas Mitchell (Dr. Hagens), Harlee McBride (Monica), Rose Gregorio (Natalie Arrow), Scott Brady (Harold Witbeck), John Tuell (Proofreader). Jim becomes the target of a sleazy scandal newspaper while investigating a murder.
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| [CBS 10:00] Flying High [Reg]: South By Southwest
Season 1, episode 10 W: Dennis Palumbo D: Peter H. Hunt With John Gavin (Sinclair), Victor Buono (Smith), Ross Martin (Roberts), Scatman Crothers (Crothers), Broderick Crawford (Willard), William Bogert (Walter). Pam and Marcy experience very different results after encounters with the idle rich.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Eddie Capra Mysteries [Reg]: The Two Million Dollar Stowaway
Season 1, episode 9 W: Robert C. Dennis With Bobby Van (Warren Custer), Pat Crowley, Julie Gregg, James McEachin, Ken Swofford (J.J. Devlin), Gloria DeHaven, Guy Stockwell, Michael Horton (Harvey Winchell), Seven Anne McDonald (Jennie Brown). The skipper of a cruise ship asks Capra to find the shipboard murderer of a fugitive stowaway -- a con man who was carrying a fortune in diamonds.
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