Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 24, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
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| [ABC 7:00] Christmas Service [special]
Pope John Paul II's first Christmas Midnight Mass, televised live from Rome.
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| [NBC 7:00] Amahl And The Night Visitors [special]
W: Gian Carlo Menotti D: Arvin Brown With Teresa Stratas, Robet Sapolsky, Giorgio Tozzi, Willard White, Nico Castel. One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.
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| [CBS 8:00] The Nutcracker [special]
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland perform the title roles in this American Ballet Theater production. (Repeat program)
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| [ABC 8:00] Battlestar Galactica [Reg]: The Lost Planet Of The Gods (1)
Season 1, episode 4 W: Glen A. Larson, Donald P. Bellisario D: Christian I. Nyby II With George Murdock (Salik), Jane Seymour (Serina), Ed Begley Jr. (Greenbean), Sarah Rush (Rigel), David Greenan (Omega), Sheila DeWindt (Lt. Deitra), Janet Lynn Curtis (Sorrell), Janet Julian (Brie). Starbuck becomes marooned on a strange planet where people are imprisoned and punished for the crimes of their ancestors. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/24/1978)
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| [NBC 8:00] TV Movie: Huckleberry Finn (1975)
W: Jean Holloway D: Robert Totten With Ron Howard, Donny Most, Royal Dano, Antonio Fargas, Jack Elam, Merle Haggard, Rance Howard, Clint Howard. Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi.
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: It Happened One Christmas (1977)
W: Lionel Chetwynd D: Donald Wrye With Marlo Thomas, Orson Welles, Wayne Rogers, Cloris Leachman, Doris Roberts, Christopher Guest. On Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York, a despondent and suicidal girl prays for guidance on what to do about an incident that was no fault of her own.
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| [CBS 9:30] Alice [Reg]: A Semi-Merry Christmas
Season 2, episode 9 W: Madelyn Pugh Davis, Bob Carroll Jr., Tom Whedon D: Marc Daniels With Patrick Cronin (Jason Carp), Pat Cranshaw (Andy). Mel, Flo, Vera, Alice and Tommy spend Christmas Eve in the cab of a trailer truck en route to Colorado. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/18/1977)
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| [CBS 10:00] Dallas [Reg]: Old Acquaintance
Season 2, episode 3 W: Camille Marchetta D: Alex March With Morgan Fairchild (Jenna Wade), Peter Mark Richman (Maynard Anderson), Laurie Lynn Myers (Charlie Wade), Nicki Flacks (Melissa Anderson), Richard Anthony (Waiter), Lisa LeMole (Susan). Jenna Wade, a young woman Bobby once proposed to, now seeks help for herself and her fatherless daughter. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/7/1978)
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| [NBC 10:00] Sword Of Justice [Reg]: Port of Entry
Season 1, episode 7 W: Christopher Crowe D: Winrich Kolbe With William Prince (Rutherford), Richard McKenzie (Berardi), Robert Hogan (Moseley), Trish Stewart (Maureen), David Buchanan (Nelson). Jack Cole, wounded by a policeman's bullet while trying to smash a dope-smuggling ring, relies on Hector to avenge the slaying of an honest cop.
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