Prime-time network TV listings for Sunday December 26, 1982:
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Program details:
| [CBS 7:00] 60 Minutes
Morley Safer reports on how the Japanese are retraining 2,600 Americans to build trucks in Tennessee; Mike Wallace profiles tennis star Martina Navratilova; Ed Bradley reports on the moral dilemma of two couples deciding whether their child born with a birth defect should live or die.
|
| [ABC 7:00] Ripley's Believe It Or Not
(Repeat program)
|
| [NBC 7:00] Voyagers [Reg]: Voyagers
Season 1, episode 1 W: James D. Parriott D: James D. Parriott With Ed Begley Jr. (Wilbur Wright), Donald Petrie (Orville Wright), Sondra Currie (Agnes Spence), Peter Frechette (Eddie Rickenbacker), Faye Grant (Mary Murphy), Jean Bradley (Aunt Elizabeth). Series premiere. A time traveller, Phineas Bogg, accidentally materializes outside the bedroom of a 12-year old orphan, Jeffrey Jones, in 1982. In the opening episode, the duo travel through time to help Wilbur and Orville Wright perfect the airplane. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/3/1982)
|
| [CBS 8:00] Archie Bunker's Place [Reg]: Teacher's Pet
Season 4, episode 12 W: Bob Rosenfarb D: Joe Gannon With Alan Feinstein (Professor Wright), Richard Hochberg (Mr. Gifford), Bob Okazaki (Bruce). When Billie agrees to do some extra typing work for her college professor's new book, he tries to find a unique way of "thanking" her.
|
| [ABC 8:00] Matt Houston [Reg]: Who Would Kill Ramona?
Season 1, episode 5 W: Michael Fisher D: Richard Lang With Janet Leigh (Ramona Launders), Kiel Martin (Bill Claudius), William Smith (J.D. Harris), Cesar Romero (Miles Gantry), Jill Whelan (Molly Launders), John Calvin (Todd Gallagher), Carmen Zapata (Marta), Dabbs Greer (Henry). Matt invesitgates the death of a young actor who was to star in a film with an aging movie queen. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/31/1982)
|
| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Meet The New Guy
Season 6, episode 1 W: Joseph Gunn D: John Astin With Andrea Evans (Julie), Richard Simmons (Himself), Tommy Lasorda (Himself), Dominique Dunne (Amy Kent), Claire Malis (Mrs. Russell), Thomas Havens (Phil), Michael Catlin (Horvath), Jim McKrell (Mr. Russell). Ponch becomes the training officer of new rookie Bobby Nelson as they try to catch a pair of health-club thieves who robbed Ponch, and find a runaway teenage mother who has stolen the baby she originally sold; Tommy Lasorda gets a ticket. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/10/1982)
|
| [CBS 8:30] Gloria [Reg]: Visitation
Season 1, episode 12 W: Tim O'Donnell D: Bob Claver With Joseph Reale (Ticket Clerk), Buzz Sapien (Man In Spa), Patricia Rees (Airport Lady). A reluctant Joey agrees to visit his dad for the first time since his parents' separation, but Gloria is panic-stricken when she learns Joey wasn't on the plane when it landed in California.
|
| [CBS 9:00] The Jeffersons [Reg]: How Now Dow Jones
Season 9, episode 12 W: Peter Casey, David Lee D: Bob Lally With Bebe Drake (Emma), Vanda Barra (Frances), Adrian Ricard (Lucy), Marianne Muellerleile (Connie). After learning that Tom made money from George's stock tip, Florence and her fellow maids pool their money and enter the stock market with George as their advisor.
|
| [ABC 9:00] Movie: Meteor (1979)
W: Stanley Mann, Edmund H. North D: Ronald Neame With Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Martin Landau, Brian Keith, Karl Malden, Henry Fonda, Joseph Campanella, Trevor Howard, Richard Dysart. When the American government finds that its top secret nuclear weapons will not be sufficient to destroy a meteor which is threatening the earth, it is forced to ask the Soviet Union for help in the midst of sensitive cold war politics.
|
| [NBC 9:00] Movie: Battle Beyond The Stars (1980)
W: John Sayles D: Jimmy Murakami With Richard Thomas, John Saxon, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, Sam Jaffe, Sybil Danning, Morgan Woodward. A young farmer sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador and his armada of aggressors.
|
| [CBS 9:30] One Day At A Time [Reg]: Pride And Privacy (2)
Season 8, episode 12 W: Paul Perlove D: Alan Rafkin With Russell Nype (Mr. Kenton), Howard Hesseman (Sam Royer), Al Berry (Moving Man). With Julie, Max and the new baby needing a place to live, Ann may be forced to leave her own home to preserve her sanity and her relationship with Sam.
|
| [CBS 10:00] Trapper John, M.D. [Reg]: 'Tis The Season
Season 3, episode 9 W: John Whelpley D: Michael Caffey With Janet Brandt (Mrs. Larson), Jermaine Johnson (Tommy), Lynne Moody (Karen), Ray Walston (Sidewalk Santa), Lurene Tuttle (Mrs. Gatwick), Sean McClory (Reverend Flanagan), Catherine Farrar (Jackie). A drunken, threadbare street corner Santa Claus is admitted to San Francisco Memorial in critical condition, but is concerned more about a sick boy than his own health. (Repeat program, originally aired 12/20/1981)
|