Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 9, 1978:
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Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Rhoda [Reg]: The Total Brenda
Season 5, episode 9 W: Emily Purdum Marshall D: Nancy Walker With Nancy Lane (Tina Molinari), Michael Alldredge (Ed Riley). When Benny starts to feel down-and-out, Brenda tries to cheer him up by catering to his every whim. (Last show of the series.)
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| [ABC 8:00] Rudolph's Shiny New Year [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin, Morey Amsterdam. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer comes to the rescue when Happy, the Baby New Year, turns up missing. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: High Explosive
Season 2, episode 12 W: William D. Gordon, James Doherty, Suzanne Ryder D: Barry Crane With Lynne Marta (Beth), Ken Kercheval (Dr. Faraday), Robert Yuro (Eddie), Carol Vogel (Mrs. Lasher), Rosanne Katon (Mary), F. William Parker (Gus), Steve Oliver (Brad Holmes), Jonathan Lippe (Stan Mallory), Ike Eisenmann (Barry), Bucklind Beery (Shorty). Jon and Ponch sort out an accident caused by a misguided youth with a pellet gun; an ambulance driver steals a van and fills it with dynamite after being fired from his job.
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| [CBS 8:30] Good Times [Reg]: The Witness
Season 6, episode 9 W: Bruce Howard, Joseph Bonaduce D: Gerren Keith With Teddy Wilson (Sweet Daddy Williams), Bubba Smith (Claude), Beverly Hope Atkinson (Savannah Morgan), William Lanteau (Mr. Miller). J.J. is the only witness to a car accident and is pressured into lying about which driver was at fault.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: A Real American Hero (1978)
W: Samuel Peeples D: Lou Antonio With Brian Dennehy, Forrest Tucker, Brian Kerwin, Ken Howard, Sheree North. Drama concerning the life of Buford Pusser, and chronicling his efforts to drive out of business a local moonshiner whose illegal liquor caused a number of teenagers to go blind.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: Isosceles Triangle / El Kid / The Last Hundred Bucks
Season 2, episode 12 W: Barry Blitzer, Mark Fink, Ray Jessel D: Allen Baron With Connie Stevens (Karen Maynard), Rue McClanahan (April Dunlevy), Robert Urich (Larry Hartman), Heather Menzies (Cybill Hartman), Dabney Coleman (Van Milner), Dave Madden (Wes Larsen), Dena Dietrich (Renee Larsen), Gabriel Melgar (Pepito), David Clover (Pete Milner). Capt. Stubing and Doc get into a quarrel over the affections of an attractive passenger; a couple get a 7-year-old street-wise orphan instead of the infant they expected; an unemployed executive falls in love with a successful businesswoman.
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| [NBC 9:00] Dean Martin's Christmas in California [special]
With Connie Stevens, Mel Tillis, Jonathan Winters, Lee Meriwether, The Golddiggers. Taped at the Garrison Andalusian Horse Ranch in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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| [ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: Charlie's Cherubs / Stalag 3
Season 2, episode 12 W: Skip Webster, Steve Fisher D: Cliff Bole With Nita Talbot (Lizzie Clarke), Yvonne DeCarlo (Fifi Aprea), Melinda Naud (Amber), Nehemiah Persoff (Horst Von Stern), Bobby Troup (Johnny Fox), Cornel Wilde (Danny Ryan), Brenda Benet (Ginny), Brendon Boone (Matthews), Bond Gideon (Claudia), Joe Mantell (Eddie Hodges), Ivor Barry (David Garner), Robert Gentry (Dick), Lanna Saunders (Joyce), Patti Pivaar (Cleo), Mike Nomand (Soldier). Three beautiful secretaries want to be detectives like their heroines -- Charlie's Angels; four World War II veterans relive their days in a German prison camp.
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| [NBC 10:00] Weekend
The eviction of Atlantic City's senior citizens to make room for gambling casinos; Sam Weiner's unsuccessful campaign to legalize casino gambling in Florida.
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