OCR Text |
Show ( tondayjj 5:30 NBA BASketball New V S York Knicks vs Utah Jazz (2 DEC. 15, 1980 hrs.) EVENING EVENING 6:00 (DCS NEWS CD HOLLYWOOD SQUARES IB STUDIO SEE 05 OVER EASY 6:30 CD PM MAGAZINE (A) FAMILY FEUD CD TIC TAC DOUGH CD OVER EASY 0.1) WEEKNIGHT 7:00 CD THE BERENSTAIN BEARS' CHRISTMAS TREE The two young bears, Sister and Brother, accompany Papa Bear on his search for the perfect Christmas tree and along the way they encounter en-counter some heartwarming moments with the wildlife in the woods. (Repeat) CD MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL FOOT-BALL ABC Sport swill provide live coverage of the Dallas Cowboys at the Los Angeles Rams. GD FLO Randyrunsaway from his dad's garage dreaming of becoming a country music star and everyone suffers when he moves into Flo'r. storeroom to practice for hi:; new career. CD MACNE1L LEHRER REPORT OD ONCE UPON A CLASSIC 'Swish of the Curtain' When Mrs. Potter-Smith announces thatshewantstousetheBlue Door Theatre to give an evening even-ing performance for the garden gar-den fete, Mrs. Bell realizes she is trying to take the theatre from the children. (Closed-Captioned;U.S.A.) 7:30 (2) THE LITTLE RASCAL! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Spanky and Porky mistakenly think they heard Mom order electric trains for them for Christmas, but when sh learns of the mtx-up she sacrifices sa-crifices to make fhem happy. (Repeat) ( 5 ) LADIES' MAN The off ice is ' amazed when Hol3tein is swept off her feet by a handsome hand-some sports agent. (7) SUPERSTAR PROFILE: STEVEN SPIELBERG (11) FAMILY CLASSICS 8:00 (2) THE OSMOND FAMILY CHRISTMAS An hour of traditional tradi-tional holiday pageantry starring star-ring Marie Osmond and the en-tire en-tire Osmond family. Guest stars include illusionist Doug Henning, ice skater Peggy Flemming, and Greg Evigan. (60 mins ) (5) M.A.S.H. The 4077ft. wages a two-front Christmas, hosting Korean orphans at t party in the mess tent whik tending a seriously woundec soldier in the operating room. (7) GREAT PERFOR MANCES: DANCE IN AMERICA AMER-ICA 'Choreography by Balan-chine Balan-chine 'Part IV. Five ballet masterpieces mas-terpieces by Balanchine are performed by members of the New York City Ballet. Featured Fea-tured artists include Makhail Baryshnikov. Patricia McBride. Peter Martins and Suzanne Farrell. (90 mins ) (11! THE 12th STREET RAG FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH Eubie Blake. Virgil Thomson and Kansas City ragtime clarinetist Lawrence Denton, this program is about the origins of ragtime music and its influences on 20th century cen-tury composers. (60 mins.) 8:30 (5'HOUSECALLSIt'sChrist-mas (5'HOUSECALLSIt'sChrist-mas Eve at Kensington Hospital Hospi-tal when Charley and Ann learn an invited U.S.O. troupe will not be able toput on a show for the patients, so the staft decides to do its own show. 9:00 (2) ICE FOLLIES AND HOLIDAY ON ICE SPECIAL Host Tony Randall welcomes former Olympic and world champion skater Peggy Fleming to this glittering spectacular, featuring skating skat-ing talent from the two most famous ice revues in the world. (60 mins.) 6:00 CD NEWS CD HOLLYWOOD SQUARES CD STUDIO SEE CtD OVER EASY 6:30 CD PM MAGAZINE CD FAMILY FEUD CD OVER EASY OH WEEKNIGHT 7:00 CD BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Bob Hope celebrates cele-brates the holidays with his 24th annual Christmas special, a musical-comedy spectacular with guest stars Loni Anderson, Larry Gatlin, and the Associated Press All-America All-America football team. (60 mins.) CD HAPPY DAYS Christmas at the Cunninghams for the gang is in jeopardy when a snow storm strands and scatters scat-ters the celebrants. CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT QlJ COSMOS 'Encyclopedia Galactica' Dr. Carl Sagan examines the probability that life will be found elsewhere, what should we look for, and how should we deal with it? ' (Closed-Captioned;U.S.A.) (60 mins.) 7:30 (D LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY Laverne and Shirley takea job LOUGRANTRossi'sover-bearing LOUGRANTRossi'sover-bearing manner angers a black reporter working with him on a difficult story about the surprising community response re-sponse to a ghetto killing. (60 mins.) (11) FOCUS ON THE FAMILY 9:30 (7) DIVINE MADNESS Julie Harris narrates a look at the lives and works of two of the pertorming art s most dedica1-ed dedica1-ed professionals, Portii Mansfield and Charlolt ) Perry. In I912these wome 1 founded the Perry-Mansfiel I Dance Camp, a creative mecca for some of America'- most successful dancers. (11) ISTHERE AN AMERICAN STONEHENGE? In the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, there is a collection of cairns and lines marked in stone which resemble a primative astron omical observatory. fi modern astronomer appliet computer research and anth Topological data to solve the mystery of the structure. 10:00 I2)(4)(5) NEWS (7) THE 12th STREET RAG FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH Eubie Blake, Virgil Thomson and Kansas City ragtime clarinetist Lawrence Denton, this program is about the origins of ragtime music and its influence son 20th century cen-tury composers. (60 mins.) (11) DICK CAVETT SHOW 10:30 (2) THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Joan Rivers. Guest: Bob Hope. (60 mins.) (4) ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE (11) ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 10:40 (5) M.A.S.H. 10:50 (4) MOVIE -(ADVENTURE) "Lightning Bolt" 1967 Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Leigh. A sabotage ring tries to blow up Cape Kennedy. ( 105 mins.) 11:00 ( 7) DICK CAVETT SHOW (.11) BODY IN QUESTION 'Brule Machine' Dr. Jonathan Miller uses analogies from gunpowder to electronics in order to probe the so called 'Mind-Body Problem'. (Closed Captioned; U S A ) (60 mins ) 11:10 (5) STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:30 (2) NEWS 17) ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12:00 (2) TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder Guest: Chef Jacques Pepin. (90 mins.) 12:10 (51 MERV GRIFFIN 12:35 (4) HOLLYWOOD SQUARES 1:10 15) NEWS ': ' 7 " Vxv-v . W' V ; ' V 1 TV COUPUIOG SERVICES, (NC. wrapping gifts at a department depart-ment store, and Laverne gets tipsy on French candies that happen to be filled with rum. GD TIC TAC DOUGH CD HERE'S TO YOUR HALTH 8:00 CD DEAN MARTIN'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 1980 Dean Martin welcomes Beverly Sills, Mel Tillis, Erik Estrada and Andy Gibb in a Yuletide special featuring classical, country and pop music. (60 mins.) -CD THREE'S COMPANY When Chrissy can't return to pay her share of the rent, Jack, Janet, Larry and Furley each come up with their ideal temporary roommate only to ha vethe decision swept out of their hands by the arrival of Chrissy's cule and clumsy cousin Cindy. C5) CBS TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE 'Blinded By The Light' 1980 Stars: Kristy McNichol, James Vincent McNichol. The McNichols play David and Gail Bowers, teenage children chil-dren in a family suddenly torn from its comfortable middle-class middle-class existence when David renounces home, parents and the world to follow a quasi-religious quasi-religious cult. (2 hrs.) (7) NOVA 'The Safety Factor' This program on air safety lol-lows lol-lows a trip with the pilot and crew of a Laker Airways DC-10 as it travels from London Lon-don to Los Angles. (Closed-Captioned;U.S (Closed-Captioned;U.S A.) (60 mins.) 01) DIRECTED BY JOHN FORD 8:30 (4) TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT 9:00 (2) THE STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR ( 4 )HARTTOHARTTheHarts' Christmas spirits are spiked with equal parts of burglary, mayhem and murder when they go undercover to expose a dangerous industrial espionage plot in their toy company (60 mins.) (7) BODY IN QUESTION 'Heads and Tails' Many bodily functions can be carried out in the absence of a brain, andDr. Jonathan Miller explains how the lower nervous system has a large measure of independence. indepen-dence. (Closed-Captioned. (Closed-Captioned. S. A.) (60 mins.) 10:00 (2)(4)(5) NEWS (7) SOUNDSTAGE 'George Benson, Chet Atkins and Earl Klugh' (Closed-Captioned;U.S. (Closed-Captioned;U.S. A.) (60 mins.) OD DICK CAVETT SHOW 10:30 (2) THE TONIGHT SHOW Guests: Johnny Mathis, Erma Bombeck (60 mins.) (4) ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE 01) COUGAR BASKETBALL BYU vs Michigan State (2 hrs ) 10:40 (5) M.A.S.H. 10:50 (4) TUESDAY MOVIE OFTHE WEEK 11:00 (7) DICK CAVETT SHOW 11:10 IS) STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:30 (2) NEWS (7) ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12:00 12) TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guests: Ted Koppel. Marvin Hamlish (90 mins.) 12:10 CD MERV GRIFFIN BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Jimmy and Kristy McNichol (pictured) (pic-tured) make their dramatic film debut together as stars of the thriller, 'Blinded 'Blind-ed by the Light,' a powerful new motion mo-tion picture-tor-television dramatizing the brainwashing of a young man by a youth religious cult, to be broadcast on 'The CBS Tuesday Night Movies, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16. The McNichols play David and Gail Bowers, teen-age children in a family suddenly torn from its comfortable I middle-class existence when David renounces re-nounces home, parents and the world to follow a quasi-religious group called The Light of Salvation, headed by 'Father Adam.' CHECK LISTINGS FOR EXACT TIME ((Wednesday)) DEC. 17, 1980 EVENING 6:00 (DGD NEWS CD HOLLYWOOD SQUARES CD STUDIO SEE OD OVER EASY 6:30 CD PM MAGAZINE CD FAMILY FEUD CD TIC TAC DOUGH CD OVER EASY CM) WEEKNIGHT 7:00 CD REAL PEOPLE The story of an AtlanticCity woman who refused to sell her house to make way for a gambling casino, a visit to a kissing contest, con-test, and a segment on a Wyoming man who gets great gas mileage on his motor-powered motor-powered roller skates. (60 mins.) 14) EIGHT IS ENOUGH When the typesetters at Tom Bradford's Brad-ford's paper go on strike, Tom finds himself at odds with management after he sides with the typesetters. (60 mins.) (Closed-Captioned; U.S.A.) CD BILLY GRAHAM CHRISTMAS CHRIST-MAS SPECIAL CD MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT fli) MOVIE -(COMEDY-FANTASY) h "It'sa WonderfulLife" 1946 James Stewart, Donna Reed. A guardian angel shows a potential po-tential suicide victim how terrible ter-rible life would be in his small town without him. (2 hrs.) 7:30 CD QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: COM-MENTS: GOERNOR MATHESON 8:00 CD DIFF'RENT STROKES Arnold is dejected when he fails to make the Pop Warner football team, but Mr. Drum-mond Drum-mond has a plan to revive his spirits. (Closed-Captioned: U.S.A.) CD TAXI It's a riotous homecoming for Reverend Jim when he ret urns to face his millionaire father for the first time since Jim blossomed in the hippie movement. (5) CBS WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE The Millionaire' Million-aire' 1978 Stars: Martin Balsam. Bal-sam. Edward Albert. Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly sud-denly given one-million dollars dol-lars each by an eccentric billionaire. bil-lionaire. (Repeat: 2 hrs.) (7) ED WIN HAWKINS AT THE SYMPHONY Edwin Hawkins and the Hawkins Family come together with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra for an evening of gospel music. (60 mins.) 8:30 CD 17GOINGONNOWHERE The story of a father and son who somehow completely loose touch with one another. CD SOAP Jessica finds romance in the tropics can be a sticky business, getting more than she bargained for when Valdez. entranced by herwackycharm.sweepsher into his tent. 9:00 (?) QUINCYQuincy rushes to an Arizona Indian reservatior wherehisfoster son, Chester, has been hit by bubonic plague--and efforts to halt the disease's spread are hampered ham-pered by greedy resort owners and an Indian medicine man. (60 mins.) CD VEGAS The arrival of a precious child shatters Dan Tanna's romantic Christmas skiing vacation, as a little girl claiming to be his daughter precipitates a desperate racefo save her mother from a snowy suicide. (60 mins.) (7) A LADY NAMED BAYBIE This documentary offers a glimpse at the imagination and creativity of Reverend Baybie Hoover and Virginia Brown, two blind friends and street singingpartnersforfifty years. They contradict and often outrage virtually every Iraditiional convention of social work and societal attitude atti-tude toward the blind. (60 mins.) (11) MASTERPIECE THEATRE Testament of Youth' Episode III. Devastated Devastat-ed by Roland's death, Vera represses her grief .and devotes all her energies to nursing. After voluntary service ser-vice overseas, she suddenly returns to England determined deter-mined to marry her brother's friend, Victor. (Closed-Captioned;U.S.A.) (Closed-Captioned;U.S.A.) (60 mins.) 10:00 (2)C4)C5) NEWS (7) CHRISTMAS SNOWS, CHRISTMAS WINDS Set in a western farming community in the '40's, this is the story o' the joys of a young boys Christmas, and how they are overshadowed by his memory of a school concert and a young girl's tears. (11) DICK CAVETT SHOW 10:30 (2) THE TONIGHT SHOW Guests: Shirley MacLaine, B B. King, Johnny Yune. (60 mins.) (4) ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE (7) FESTIVE BACH This pro- gram offers a performance of Bach's Magnifica in D, his most often performed Christmas Christ-mas holiday work. (11) ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 10:40 (5) M.A.S.H. 10:50 (4) LOVE BOAT POLICE WOMAN 11:00 C7) DICK CAVETT SHOW (11) COSMOS Encyclopedia Galactica' Dr. Carl Sagan examines the probability that life will be found elsewhere, what should we look for, and how should we deal with it? (Closed-Captioned; U.S. A.) (60 mins.) 11:10 (5) STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:30 (2) NEWS (7) ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 12:00 C2) TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guests: Jack Lem-mon. Lem-mon. Lynda Byrd Robb. (90 mins ) 12:10 CO MERV GRIFFIN 1:10 (5) NEWS |