Prime-time network TV listings for Monday December 21, 1981:
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Program details:
[CBS 8:00] Private Benjamin [Reg]: Gone With The Jeep
Season 2, episode 9 W: Max Katz, Toni Wunsch D: William Asher With Robert Ayers. Capt. Lewis' life is in Pvt. Benjamin's hands when their jeep crashes in the middle of the desert.
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[ABC 8:00] Rain Of Terror
An examination of the reported use of biochemical warfare by the Soviet Union, including the alleged use of the deadly poison "yellow rain" in Afghanistan.
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[NBC 8:00] Little House On The Prairie [Reg]: A Christmas They Never Forgot
Season 8, episode 11 W: Don Balluck D: Michael Landon With Newell Alexander (Mr. Holbrook), Tom Lester (Mr. Wilder), Eddy C. Dyer (Poppa Terhune), Helby Ziroe (Momma Terhune), Alene Wilson (Young Hester-Sue), Don Dubbins (Master Hayes), Holly Villaire (Charlotte Holbrook), Maggie Gwinn (Mrs. Wilder), Jerry Supiran (Young Almanzo), Kathy Pazoff (Young Eliza Jane), Rebecca Wolfe (Young Alice), Dago Dimster (Young Royal), Sheri Strahl (Young Caroline), Kathleen MacNaughton (Emily), Oliver Aubrey (Santa Claus). Snowbound on the Ingalls homestead on Christmas eve, Caroline, Laura and Hester Sue share memories of Christmases past.
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[CBS 8:30] The Two Of Us [Reg]: A Man From Brentwood's Past
Season 2, episode 9 W: Charlie Hauck D: Peter Bonerz With Richard Libertini. A conniving old friend of Brentwood's flatters his way into the house.
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[CBS 9:00] M*A*S*H [Reg]: Death Takes A Holiday
Season 9, episode 5 W: Mike Farrell D: Mike Farrell With G.W. Bailey (Sgt. Rizzo), Keye Luke (Choi Sung Ho), Perren Page (Driver), Sally Imamura (Korean Girl), Yoshi Hoover (Korean Boy). While local orphans attend a Christmas party in the mess tent, Hawkeye, B.J., and Margaret try to save the life of a critically injured solider so that his family won't think of Christmas as the day that their father died. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/15/1980)
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[ABC 9:00] Monday Night Football
Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers.
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[NBC 9:00] All The Way Home [special]
W: Jeff Cullen D: Delbert Mann With Sally Field, William Hurt, Ned Beatty, Ellen Corby, Murray Hamilton, Polly Holliday, Betty Garrett, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan. A production of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play -- based on the late James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family" -- about a large Tennessee family adjusting to the death of a loved one. Telecast live from the Bing Theater at the University of Southern California.
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[CBS 9:30] House Calls [Reg]: Son Of Emergency
Season 3, episode 8 W: Richard Dimitri, Richard Lewis D: Bruce Bilson With Suzanne Hunt (Nurse Bryan), Mark L. Taylor (Conrad Peckler). The overworked doctors have to deal with the weirdos they meet on the night shift in the emergency room.
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[CBS 10:00] Lou Grant [Reg]: Pack
Season 4, episode 3 W: Steve Kline D: Burt Brinckerhoff With Eileen Heckart (Flo Meredith), Ed Nelson (Jim Carlisle), John Hillerman (Sturbridge), James Callahan (Stephens), Ivor Francis (Haywood), Joe Regalbuto (Benson), Jorge Cervera Jr. (Sheriff Nunez), Buck Young (Mayor). Billie tours with a senatorial candidate to conduct an investigation, and finds that the politics of the press corps is the toughest part of the assignment. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/27/1980)
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