Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday December 12, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Paper Chase [Reg]: Bell's In Love
Season 1, episode 12 W: Richard Kramer D: Peter Levin With Sherry Hursey (Jennie Todd), Michael Goodwin (Roger Todd), Herb Mendelsohn (Peterson), James Saito (Kai). Girl-shy Willis Bell is asked to look after Hart's troubled ex-girlfriend.
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| [ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Richie Gets Framed
Season 6, episode 15 W: Fred Maio D: Jerry Paris With Angela May (Edie), David Keith (Fred Owens), Steven Richmond (Mel Mullet). Richie, visiting a massage parlor to escape the pressures of a class presidency race, is photographed by the opposition.
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| [NBC 8:00] Grandpa Goes To Washington [Reg]: A Star Is Dead
Season 1, episode 7 W: Harry Cauley, Bruce Taylor, Paul West D: George Tyne With Jeanette Nolan (Monica Warfield). Sen. Kelley tries to help an aging movie star prove that a social security computer mistakenly declared her dead.
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| [ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: It's A Dog's Life
Season 4, episode 13 W: Judy Ervin D: Joel Zwick With Jack Somack (Officer Newman), Murphy Dunne (Reporter), Wayne Powers (Officer Battaglia). Shirley convinces Laverne to join her in an overnight sit-in at the pound to protest the treatment of dogs.
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Jordan Chance (1978)
W: Stephen J. Cannell, Roy Huggins D: Jules Irving With Raymond Burr, Ted Shackelford, George DiCenzo. A man who was wrongfully imprisoned is released and becomes a lawyer. He establishes the Jordan Foundation, whose goal is to help the wrongfully imprisoned.
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| [ABC 9:00] Three's Company [Reg]: Eleanor's Return
Season 3, episode 13 W: Roger Shulman, John Baskin D: Dave Powers With Marianne Black (Eleanor Garvey Phillips). Jack suspects that Janet and Chrissy are plotting to oust him from the apartment in favor of their former roommate.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: A Woman Called Moses (1978), part two
W: Lonne Elder III D: Paul Wendkos With Cicely Tyson, Orson Welles, Will Geer, Robert Hooks. A film about the life and career of abolitionist and slave escape leader Harriet Tubman.
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| [ABC 9:30] Taxi [Reg]: A Full House For Christmas
Season 1, episode 13 W: Barry Kemp D: James Burrows With Darren Milton (Caroler), Richard Foronjy (Nick DePalma), The Benny Powell Singers (Carolers). The Christmas party at the garage is interrupted by a high-stakes poker game between Alex and Louie's card-shark brother.
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| [ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Cover Girl
Season 4, episode 11 W: Robert Dellinger, Rick Edelstein D: Rick Edelstain With Marki Bey (Officer Minnie Kaplan), Maud Adams (Kate Larrabee), Allan Miller (James Brady), Calvin Lockhart (Walter "Angel" Allen), Jerome Guardino (Lindsay), Russ Marin (Dr. Harriman), Bo Byers (Officer Richards), Frank Geraci (Bartender), Jeffrey Tambor (Randy), Ken Olfson (Big Ed). A model who thinks she's dying arranges to be killed -- then discovers that her disease is in remission.
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