Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 7, 1979:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Incredible Hulk [Reg]: The Snare
Season 3, episode 9 W: Richard Christian Matheson, Thomas Szollosi D: Frank Orsatti With Bradford Dillman (Michael Sutton), Bob Boyd (Pilot). A chance meeting with an eccentric millionaire finds David Banner on a private island where he is to be hunted like a wild animal.
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| [ABC 8:00] Frosty's Winter Wonderland [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Andy Griffith, Shelley Winters, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees, Dennis Day. Frosty the Snowman falls in love with a snow-woman and decides to get married. (Repeat program)
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| [NBC 8:00] Shirley [Reg]: Play On Words
Season 1, episode 6 W: Dave Hackel, Steve Hattman D: Alan Myerson With Michael Parks (Phil), Bonnie Bartlett (Sarah), Robin Strand (Tom). While substitute teaching, Shirley flunks a star athlete, then discovers that his older brother is the vice-principal.
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| [ABC 8:30] Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey [special]
W: Romeo Muller D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. With Roger Miller, Brenda Vaccaro, Paul Frees, Don Messick, Eric Stern. A little donkey's "handicap" proves to be an asset when he takes Joseph and Mary on their journey to Bethlehem. (Repeat program)
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| [CBS 9:00] TV Movie: My Old Man (1979)
W: Jerome Kass D: John Erman With Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates, Eileen Brennan, Joseph Maher. A down-and-out horse trainer is reunited with his daughter after a 14-year separation and they set out on a new life together.
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| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Valentino (1977)
W: Ken Russell, Mardik Martin D: Ken Russell With Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, Carol Kane. In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide -- that actor was Rudolph Valentino.
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| [NBC 9:00] The Rockford Files [Reg]: The Big Cheese
Season 6, episode 10 W: Shel Willens D: Joseph Pevney With Constance Towers (Sally Sternhagen), Alan Manson (Chuck Ryan), Ben Andrews (Stamps), Mark Lonow (Coco), George Pentecost (George Neff), Mary Jackson (Postal Supervisor), Hank Brandt (Sgt. Floyd), Eldon Quick (Willis Hoag), Bill McLean (Fred Barlow), Jimmy Weldon (John Rockfield), Francis X. McCarthy (Eddie Hellinger), Peter Hobbs (Walter Winterwood), Marie Denn (Sally Packard), Luis Delgado (Officer Billings). A reporter is slain after mailing Rockford a critical piece of evidence about a labor union-mob connection, but the package gets lost in the mail.
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| [NBC 10:00] Eischied [Reg]: Spanish Eight
Season 1, episode 9 W: Mark Rodgers D: Harvey Laidman With Silvana Gallardo (Linda), Aixa Moreno (Rita), Richard Beauchamp (Joe Valenzuela), Jerry Douglas, Laraine Stephens, Joe Santos (Luis Aguilar), Tony Perez (Costanza), Ted Noose (Jackson), Charles Castilla (Detective), Joanna Lipari (Lingerie Saleslady). Eischied suspects an embittered detective of ordering the gangland slayings of two suspected heroin dealers including the owner of a disco.
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