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Saturday December 8, 1979
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Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 8, 1979:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS Frosty The Snowman (R) 'Twas The Night Before Christmas (R) Movie: Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
ABC Pat Boone And Family Christmas Special The Love Boat: The Spider Serenade / Next Door Wife / The Harder They Fall Fantasy Island: The Cheerleaders / Marooned
NBC CHiPs: Wheeling B.J. And The Bear: Fly A Wild Horse A Man Called Sloane: Lady Bug
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[CBS 8:00] Frosty The Snowman [special]
W: Romeo Muller   D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

With Billy DeWolfe, Jackie Vernon, Paul Frees, June Foray.
Jimmy Durante narrates the story of a snowman who is brought to life by a magic silk hat.

(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:00] Pat Boone And Family Christmas Special [special]
D: Jack Regas

With the Hudson Brothers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Marty Ingels.
The Boones celebrates the holiday season with guests.

[NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Wheeling
Season 3, episode 14
W: L. Ford Neale, John Huff   D: Barry Crane

With Ray Vitte, Paul Gale (Artie).
A distraught father intent on bringing a hit-and-run driver to justice, and some mischievous paraplegics playing freeway games in their specially-equipped cars create problems for Jon and Ponch.

[CBS 8:30] 'Twas The Night Before Christmas [special]
W: Jerome Coopersmith   D: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.

With Tammy Grimes, John McGiver, George Gobel.
The children of a small town fear that Santa, insulted over a letter declaring him a myth, will pass them by.

(Repeat program)

[CBS 9:00] Movie: Somebody Killed Her Husband (1978)
W: Reginald Rose   D: Lamont Johnson

With Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges, John Wood, Tammy Grimes, John Glover.
A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

[ABC 9:00] The Love Boat [Reg]: The Spider Serenade / Next Door Wife / The Harder They Fall
Season 3, episode 13
W: Carmen Finestra, Fred Grandy, Tony Webster   D: Richard Kinon

With Milton Berle (Ed Taylor), James MacArthur (Chet Hanson), Nancy Kulp (Sylvia McTigue), Susan Buckner (Kim Patterson), Alan Hale Jr. (Jack McTigue), Sheila MacRae (Helen Taylor), Joanna Pettet (Carol Hanson), Jill St. John (Claire Dalrymple), Robert Sampson (Nelson Finner).
While Gopher is involved in a passionate affair with a woman who has a "tainted" past, Captain Stubing referees a rematch between two aging boxers, and a man on board with his girlfriend is surprised to find his soon-to-be ex-wife in the next cabin.

[NBC 9:00] B.J. And The Bear [Reg]: Fly A Wild Horse
Season 2, episode 11
W: Rick Kelbaugh   D: Christian I. Nyby II

With Hank Brandt (Landry), Burton Gilliam (Lacy), Jock Mahoney (Angus Wainsley), George DelHoyo (Jonas / Six Killer), Ruth Britt (Zena), Dan Magiera (Homer), , Bill Watson (Hank), Cliff Emmich (Deputy Tero), Thomas Callaway (Sheriff Windy Yates).
B.J. helps an Indian to save wild horses which are being systematically slaughtered by a profiteer.

[ABC 10:00] Fantasy Island [Reg]: The Cheerleaders / Marooned
Season 3, episode 12
W: Skip Webster, Herman Groves   D: Earl Bellamy

With Dan Pastorini (Roger), Norman Alden (George), Jayne Meadows (Liz), Vic Tayback (Melvyn Mews), Georgia Engel (Rosie), Mark Lonow (Manu Yprios), Jeff Donnell, Patty McCormack, Tim Rossovich (Monk), Jim Healy (Tabor).
Two women seek the glamour of becoming professional football cheerleaders, and a man realizes his dream of spending a weekend with a Hollywood starlet.

[NBC 10:00] A Man Called Sloane [Reg]: Lady Bug
Season 1, episode 10
W: Jack V. Fogarty   D: Michael Preece

With Barbara Rucker (Dr. Chris Bishop), Edie Adams (Lady Bug/Miss Chandler), Martin Kove (Roger), Stefan Gierasch (Dr. Rand), Robin Eisenman (Ingrid Hansen), Patti Pivaar (Monica Honeywell).
Sloane attempts to stop a diabolical woman's plans to destroy American crops with swarms of killer locusts.


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