Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 25, 1978:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The White Shadow [Reg]: Bonus Baby
Season 1, episode 4 W: Robert DeLaurentis D: Jackie Cooper With Art Metrano (Walter Preston), Annazette Chase (Marcia), Chris Wallace (Car Salesman), Robert Phalen (Doug Batty), Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Coolidge), Fred Slyter (Jewelry Salesman), Charles Robinson (Jackie Solomon). An unscrupulous pro basketball scout tries to persuade Coolidge to quit high school.
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| [ABC 8:00] TV Movie: Fast Lane Blues (1978)
W: William Blinn, Michael Leeson D: Jerry Thorpe With Bert Parks, Talia Balsam, Tony Danza, Bart Braverman, Judy Landers. A crew of hand-picked "average Americans" set off on a cross-country auto race for a winner's prize of $1 million in gold.
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| [NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: Christmas At Plum Creek
Season 1, episode 14 W: Arthur Heinemann D: William F. Claxton With Queenie Smith (Mrs. Whipple). When the members of the Ingalls family decide what to get the others as Yule gifts, they discover each is short of cash. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/25/1974)
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| [CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Lil
Season 7, episode 3 W: Dominick Palmer Jr., Sheldon Bull D: Burt Metcalfe With Carmen Matthews (Col. Lillian Rayburn). Radar believes Col. Potter's friendship with an Army nurse to be more than just platonic. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/2/1978)
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| [ABC 9:00] TV Movie: Green Eyes (1977)
W: David Seltzer D: John Erman With Paul Winfield, Rita Tushingham, Jonathan Lippe, Fred Sadoff, Robert DoQui, Royce Wallace, Victoria Racimo. Disillusioned Vietnam veteran Lloyd Dubeck travels back to Southeast Asia to search among thousands of war orphans for the son he left behind.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Sunshine Christmas (1977)
W: Carol Sobieski D: Glenn Jordan With Cliff De Young, Elizabeth Cheshire, Bill Mumy, Meg Foster. A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family.
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| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Girl Talk
Season 4, episode 13 W: Julie Kirgo, Dinah Kirgo D: Alan Rafkin Ann and the girls face frostbite and starvation in the "scenic holiday cabin" they rented for the Christmas holidays.
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| [CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Christmas
Season 1, episode 13 W: David Lloyd D: James Burrows With Verna Bloom (Emily), Tim O'Connor (Malcolm Findlay), Ben Hayes (Walter Harper), Carol O'Leary (Kay Findlay). Billie's story of a homeless family elicits a public response; Lou seeks to punish Rossi for an unethical quote. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/13/1977)
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