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Show 8:30 O ONE DAY AT A TIME Barbara's Bar-bara's plan to win back her boyfriend from her more 'experienced' 'ex-perienced' sister Julie leaves Ann with few options besides panic. 9:00 O LOU GRANT Lou has to watch P THREE'S COMPANY Stanley Roper plays such a dirty trick to prevent Jack, Janet and Chrissy from holding a party that his wife walks out on him. O AMERICA SALUTES THE PERFORMING ARTS The John F. Kennedy Center for the Per- 2 55 ) LIVE FROM WOLF TRAP Arlo Ciulhrte And Hi.-tii Sueger' (2 hrs., 15mins) 3:30 t MOVIE -5CIFNCE FICTION)" "Riders to the Stars" 1954 William Lundigan, Herbert Marshall. Mar-shall. Three men are assignod by the office ol scientific in-ve.'iligalion in-ve.'iligalion lo man rocket ships to outor space and attempt to capture a meteor (M mins.) 4:00 O A CHRISTMAS CHILD 4:30 fj CBS NEWS 5 00 O STAR TREK By Another Name' (60 mins ) CJ IN SEARCH OF... O BARN ABY JONES J R. Is caught on the horns of a violent dilemma when his high school sweethearl turns lo him for help when threatened by her former husband, also J R.'s friend. (60 mins.) 5:10 O SOCCER MADE IN GERMANY 5:30 O NEXTSTEP BEYOND EVENING 6:00 O WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Superdad' An out-ol-touch father is a hapless victim of the generation gap when he tries to torn in the escapades of his teenage daughter and her friends. Stars: Bob Crane, Barbara Rush. (Conclusion: 60 mins.) O BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Surrounded by Cylon warships, Addma reluctantly joins forces with the glory hungry commander of the Baltlestar Pegasus in a surprise attack on their robot enemies. Guest star: Lloyd Bridges. (Conclusion; 60 mins.) O 60 MINUTES 6:15 fj JOHNNY MATHIS IN CONCERT CON-CERT 7:00 O BOB HOPE SPECIAL Bob Hope salutes the Ohio Theater on its 50th anniversary along with guests Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers. Donny and Marie Osmond and Vic Damone. (60 mins.) P NFL FOOTBALL SPECIAL Denver Broncos vs Oakland Raiders P KAZ A 72-year-old shoplifter brings Kaz and Peter Colcourt's sister together, striking a fine romance and a full scale war between the two young attorneys. (60 mins.) 7:05 P CALLAS This documentary special examines the lile and work of Maria Callas, whose professional achievements made musical history. Hosted by Maria's long-time friend and professional associate Franco Zefferelli, the program features interviews with her colleagues and friends, taped conversations with Callas herself, rare performance per-formance sequences and newsreels. 8:00 0 CENTENNIAL 'The Longhorns' A tough, demanding trail boss molds a group of seasoned veterans and tenderfoot ten-derfoot youngsters into a crew pushing 3,000 Texas longhorns through Indian raids and rustler attacks to the Venneford ranch in Colorado in the 1860's. Stars: Dennis Weaver, Cliff De Young. (2 P MASTERPIECE THEATRE Episode Seven. 'The Duchess of Duke Street: A Lady ol Virtue' George Dugdale, a well-known womanizer, takes a fancy to Diana Strickland, a beautilul new guest at the hotel, who soon falls under his spell and Is prepared to abandon her family for her new love. (60 mins.) 9:30 P ALICE Vera seems to be gifted with 'second sight' and Mel gets the willies when she foresees danger from a stranger. 10:00 OOO NEWS 10:05 O BEST OF LAUREL AND HARDY 'The Music Box' 10:30 O TAKE 2 WITH SANDY GILMOUR P SOAP Eunice elopes with Dutch; Chester, who thinks he's Marlene Dietrich, disappears while shopping for net stockings. 10.35 P CBS NEWS 10:40 P MOVIE -(COMEDY)" ' Blockheads" 1938 Laurel and Hardy, James Finlayson. The story of a man who hasn't been told WW I. is over and is still marching in a trench, and his partner who finds him after all this time and brings him home. (60 mins.) 10:50 P BYU BASKETBALL 11:00 P COACH'S SHOW P 20-20 The ABC newsmagazine takes an inside look at Hawaii's flourishing marijuana Industry and the failure of law enforcement agencies to stamp it out, focuses on hockey star Bobby Orr's unsuccessful un-successful attempt to make a comeback after 18 months off the ice because of injuries, and examines the dispute over generic and brand name drugs. (60 mins.) 11:05 P BYU FOOTBALL 11:20 P MATCH GAME 11:30 P MOVIE -DRAMA) My Sweet Charlie" 1970 Patty Duke, Al Freeman Jr. A white unwed mother and a black New York lawyer are thrown together in an abandoned house in rural Texas. (2 hrs.) 11:45 P MOVIE -(DRAMA) Smiles of a Summer Night" 1955 Ulla Jacobsson, Harriet Anderson. Partner-swapping is the name of the game at a Swedish country home. Ifi hrs.) 11:50 P CONSUMER BUYLINE 12:00 O COLLEGE FOOTBALL 78 This show features weekly highlights of key contests which are scheduled during the 1978 NCAA Football Season. 12:05 O NEWS 12:30 P LUCY SHOW 1:00 p ABC NEWS ((monday)) EVENING . forming Arts in Washington D.C., will pay tribute to five of the world's most distinguished artists, ar-tists, Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers and Arthur 11:15 P DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Dr. Robert Coles, child psychologist, Part I. 11:40 P F.B.I. 11:45 P ABC CAPTIONED NEWS P DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Dr. Robert Coles, child psychologist. Part I. 7:30 P MACNEILLEHRER REPORT 10:30 P THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Bill Cosby. Guests: Bobby Goldsboro, Linda Lavin. (90 mins.) P POLICE WOMAN-S W AT. Police Woman-'Sidewinder' When a group of veterans run out 10:40 P GUNSMOKE 11:40 P F.B.I. 12:00 P TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Debbie K.empton Smith, London astrologer. (60 mins.) 12:10 P ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12:40 P MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 P NEWS 1113 ueai reporters piunge into ine sex and singles scene of computer com-puter dating on orders from an expert hired to give the Tribune a new look. (60 mins.) 9:05 O VARIATIONS FROM VIENNA Maestro Erich Leinsdort conducts the Vienna Symphony in a concert of nineteenth and early twentieth-century twentieth-century music including works by Johann Strauss Jr., Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Kodaly and Smetana. (60 mins.) 10:00 OOO NEWS 10:05 P CINEMA SHOWCASE 'Harlan County, U.S.A.' 1976 Barbara Kopple's Academy Award-winning Award-winning documentary chronicles the efforts of 180 striking coal mining families in Kentucky. This film follows the strike through confrontations on the picket line between strikebreakers and police to, ultimately, the murder of a young miner. (2 hrs.) 10:30 P THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Bill Cosby. Guests: Lou Rawls, Sandy Duncan, Dr. Wayne Dyer. (90 mins.) P MOVIE -(DRAMA) To All My Friends on Shore" 1972 Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster. A story concerning a father whose young son has a fatal illness. (2 hrs.) 10:40 P GUNSMOKE 11:40 P F.B.I. 12:00 fl TOMORROW Host: Tom nyder. Guest: Jim Fallows, President Carter's former speech writer. (60 mins.) 12:20 P ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12.40 P MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 P NEWS of wars In which they can serve as mercenaries, they turn to crime. (R) S.W.A.T.-'Sole Survivor' A gang of ex-convicts, led by their former parole olficer, use S.W.A.T. methods to invade a heavily guarded coin auction. (R; 2 hrs., 15 mins.) hrs.) P DALLAS It's reunion time for Bobby when his (ormer college idol, Taylor 'Guzzler' Bennett, arrives in town and they decide to renew their friendship by becoming partners in the construction con-struction business. (60 mins.) 9:00 P ALL IN THE FAMILY Christmas Christ-mas lis not the season to be jolly for Archie when someone passes counterfeit money at the bar and Edith is arrested as a suspect. "6:00 OOO NEWS U ZOOM 6:30 O MUPPET SHOW Guest: Leo Sayer. P NEWLYWED GAME P CROSS WITS P OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. 7:00 O LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Charles Ingalls learns a secret about his new son-in-law's courage while trying to guide 25 blind children through the woods to their new school. (Conclusion; 60 mins.) P MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Chicago Bears vs San Diego Chargers P THE WHITE SHADOW Coach Reeves has a very special reason for helping a player who has a serious drinking problem but gets nowhere until his team itself takes drastic action. (60 mins.) O DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: writer-director Susan Sontag. 7:30 P MACNEILLEHRER REPORT 8:00 0 MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES 'Suddenly, Love' Stars: Cindy Williams, Paul Shenar. A girl from the ghetto who becomes a successful architect, falls deeply in love with a socially prominent lawyer and marries him over the objections of his family. (2 hrs.) fj M.A.S.H. Colonel Potter iscovers that the 4077th's ample supply of vital sodium pentothal has fallen victim to Sgt. Zale's notorious barter system. O EVENING AT SYMPHONY Colin Davis conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 'Siegfried's Rhine Journey' from 'Die Gotterdammerung' by Wagner; Symphony No. 6 by Jean Sibelius; and Sir Edward Elgar's 'Cockaigne Overture.' (60 mins.) EVENING 6:00 OOO NEWS P FEELING FREE 6:30 P BONKERS Guest: Paul Williams. f) NEWLYWED GAME I CROSS WITS P CIVIC DIALOGUE 7:00 P GRANDPA GOES TO WASHINGTON P HAPPY DAYS Fonzie takes a plunge for an ailing escape artist when he volunteers to risk his life by being sealed in a tank of water--a feat created by Houdini. P PAPER CHASE Elizabeth Logan's challenging question to a U.S. Supreme Court justice who visits Professor Klngsfield's class as part of the 25th anniversary of the admission of women to law school proves an embarrassment to Kingsfield and the members of her study group. (60 mins.) 7:30 P LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY Laverne and Shirley get the surprise of their lives when they stand-up old pals Lenny and Squiggy for a candlelight dinner with two handsome veterinarians. P MACNEILLEHRER REPORT 8:00 P BIG EVENT MOVIE 'My Husband Is Missing' Stars: Sally Struthers, Tony Musante. The personal conflicts of a wife who travels to North Vietnam to search for her husband, an American flier reported Missing In Action. (2 hrs.) Rubinstein, by presenting them with the first annual Kennedy Center honors. (2 hrs.) P SOUNDSTAGE 'Fifth Anniversary An-niversary Special' Hosted by Harry Chapin, this gala event includes performances by Benny Goodman, Barry Manilow, John Sebastian, Melissa Manchester, Judy Collins and Itzhak Perlman among others. (60 mins.) 8:30 P TAXI As mechanic Latka Gravas frantically works to save the cracked-up cab 804, the cabbies fondly recall times in the legendary auto when Alex delivered a baby and Elaine met the perfect man. 9:00 P ABC NEWS CLOSEUP 'Selling The Supernatural' ABC News delves into the world of the supernatural and current preoccupation pre-occupation with psychic phenomena, focusing on healing and past lives recall. (60 mins.) 9:05 O RAY CHARLES AT MON-TREUX MON-TREUX Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Crawford, David Newman, George Duvivier, Micky Roker, Kenny Burrell and Esther Phillips join Charles at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Music includes 'Georgia,' 'I Got A Woman' and 'Unchain My Heart.' (2 hrs.) 10:00 PPP NEWS 10:30 P THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Bill Cosby. Guests: Mac Davis, Norm Crosby, George Plimpton. (90 mins.) P TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK 'Walking Tall, Part II' Stars; Bo Svenson, Noah Beery. The continuation of sheriff Buford Pusser's one-man battle against Tennessee mob activity in this sequel to the 1973 film. 10:40 P GUNSMOKE 12:00 P TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Jane Withers. (60 mins.) 12:30 P LUCY SHOW 12:40 P MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 P NEWS wednes EVENING 6:00 OOO NEWS P ZOOM 6:30 0 NAME THAT TUNE NEWLYWED GAME P CROSS WITS P OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: John Gardner, former Secretary of HEW. 7:00 P DICK CLARK'S LIVE WEDNESDAY WED-NESDAY Tonight's guests are Paul Anka, Nipsey Russell and impersonator Jim Bailey. (60 mins.) P EIGHT IS ENOUGH After bundling off their brood to the mountains for a weekend camping cam-ping trip, Tom and Abby soon find their romantic weekend alone disturbed by too much peace and quiet. (60 mins.) P RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER The perennially popular Christmas special recounts the tale of a shy reindeer whose Christmas spirit is dampened dam-pened because his shiny nose has made him the laughing stock of all Christmasville. (60 mins.) 8:00 P WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES The Steel Cowboy' Stars: James Brolin, Rip Torn. An honest, but struggling Independent In-dependent trucker finds himself under the thumb of thieves when he agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle. (2 hrs.) P CHARLIE'S ANGELS A smooth-talking embezzler marks Kelly for murder, and Kelly's best friend who's in love with the man unwittingly sets the scene for the deadly encounter. (60 mins.) P BING CROSBY: THE CHRISTMAS YEARS The Crosby family gather from different parts of the world to celebrate Christmas and look back at their Christmases with Bing through shared memories, and view kinescope, tape and film clips from Bing's Yuletide performances. per-formances. (60 mins.) p CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET Trying to find out how Santa Claus gets down all those chimneys, Big Bird encounters en-counters Mr. Snuffleupagus, Oscar the Grouch, The Cookie Monster, Mr. Hooper and the rest of the Sesame Street friends. Music includes 'True Blue Miracle,' 'Keep Christmas With You' and 'I Hate Christmas.' (60 mins.) 9:00 P VEGAJ Dan Tanna sets out to discover who wants to stop the comeback efforts of a famous female singer plagued by problems with booze and pills. (60 mins.) P THE JOHNNY CASH CHRISTMAS SHOW Johnny Cash hosts his third annual Christmas special with his close personal friends, Rita Coolidge, , Kris Kristofferson, Steve Martin, June Carter Cash, and the Tennessee Three. (60 mins.) 9:10 P GREAT PERFORMANCES Episode One. 'Mourning Becomes Electra: The Homecoming . In this adaptation of Eugene O Neill's play, members mem-bers of the Mannon household await the return of the father from the Civil War, while his wife and her lover plot to murder him. (60 mins.) 10:00 PPP NEWS 10:10 P LIVE FROM WOLF TRAP Sarah Vaughan' opens an all-Gershwin all-Gershwin show which she performs per-forms along with the National Symphony from Wolf Trap Farm Park. (2 hrs. 30 mins.) |