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Show 9:00 O STARSKY AND HUTCH While Stsrsky fights for his life after being critically wounded, a grief stricken Hutch sets out in a relentless search or the would-be killers. (60 mins.) O FROM CHINA TO US This presentation provides highlights of the historic tour of the Performing Arts Company of the People's Republic Repub-lic of China in this country. Taped at the University of Minnesota, excerpts which are featured include segments ' operq, Chinese dance, ballet and musical performance. (90 mins.) 10:00 OOO NEWS 10:30 B THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. (90 mins.) O TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK Gold' 1974 Stars: Roger Moore, Susannah York. Thousands of miners are trapped underground by a raging current of water from a broken dam in South Africa as financiers scheme to control the gold market. (2 hrs., 30 mins ) O IRISH TREASURES This program focuses on the most extensive exhibit of Irish masterpieces ever assembled in the United States at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Featured are gold, bronze, and silver jewelry, musical instruments, military shields and ornaments, and illuminated manuscripts, manu-scripts, dating from Pagan times through the middle ages. 10:40 H STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:00 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 11:30 U ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 e f.b.i. 12:00 O TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Benson Ford, nephew of Henry Ford II. (60 mins.) O BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL A Conversation with Ronald Reagan' This program focuses on Reagan's political aspirations and his place in the Republican party. 12:40 O MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 O NEWS V ((wednes)) EVENING 6:00 OOO NEWS O STUDIO SEE 6:30 O CELEBRITY CHARADES O MAKE ME LAUGH TIC TAC DOUGH O ON THE SPOT 7:00 O REAL PEOPLE O EIGHT IS ENOUGH Joanie's professional debut as an actress and her dreams of stardom cause a conflict of interest for Tom, who's unexpectedly been assigned to review the play that she's to star in. (R; 60 mins.) O THE MUPPETS GO HOLLYWOOD HOLLY-WOOD Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great and an assortment of other Muppet characters bring their special brand of magic and madness to the entertainment capital of the world. Hosts: Dick Van Dyke and Rita Moreno. Guests: Johnny Mathis, Paul Williams and Gary Owens. (60 mins.) O DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Robin Williams, Part I. I 7:30 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 O THE SACKETTS Tell Sackett and Cap Roundtree tend off the vengeance-seeking Bigelow brothers, while Orrin and Tyrel Sackett Sack-ett cope with a Spanish-hating bigot and a former friend turned enemy. Stars: Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck. (Conclusion; 2 hrs.) O CHARLIE'S ANGELS On the night of their third anniversary of working for Charlie, the Angels are about to go their separate ways tor vacations when Charlie summons them to the olfice for a late-night meeting. (60 mins.) O YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU The classic Pulitzer Prize-winning Kaufman and Hart comedy about a slightly mad family who conducts their lives exactly as they please. Stars: Art Carney, Jean Stapleton. (2 hrs.) O THE LONG SEARCH Footprint of the Buddha' This program takes viewers on a journey to Ceylon and India to discover the type of Buddhism Budd-hism practiced in Southeast Asia. (60 mins.) 9:00 O VEGAS Dan goes after a masked rapist who has assaulted three young beauty pageant contestants, one of whom is the daughter of an ambitious industrialist. (R; 60 mins.) O DANCE IN AMERICA 'The Feld Ballet' This chamber ballet company performs its classic 'Intermezzo' and other works choreographed by Eliot Feld. The program also features interviews with composers Aaron Copeland and Morton Gould. (60 mins.) 10:00 BO O NEWS GEORGE SEGAL This is a documentary profile ol the sculptor, George Segal, focusing on an exhibit of his work at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. The program is broadcast broad-cast at the time of the opening of a new exhibit of Segal's work at the Whitney Museum in New York. (60 mins.) 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. (90 mins.) O POLICE WOMAN-MANNIX 10:40 O STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:00 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 O F.B.I. 12:00 O TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Shana Alexander, liberal commentator. com-mentator. (60 mins.) O OVER EASY 'Four Alone: The Older Woman in America' This special segment of the popular series hosted by Hugh Downs is devoted to the specific issues concerning the 24 million women in our country who are over age 55. The program visits with four women who are among the 714 million who have found themselves , alone at a late and Often lonely stage of life. (60 mins.) 12:30 O MCHALE'S NAVY 12:40 O MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 Q NEWS O ORIGINALS: THE WRITER IN AMERICA 'Janet Flanner' reminisces about the 50 years she chronicled life in Paris for 'The New Yorker' and the people who became her friends. 10:40 0 STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO 11:00 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT .... 11:30 , . O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:37 O MOVIE -(SCIENCE FICTION) '1 "Rocket Ship X-M" 1950 Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen. A doomed rocketship heading for the moon is blown off course and lands on Mars. (2 hrs.) 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 0 TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Gwen Davis, author of 'Ladies In Waiting.' (60 mins ) O MASTERPIECE THEATRE Episode Ten. 'Lillie: Home on the Range' Lillie's spectacular stage success on two continents is dampened dam-pened by the loss of two of her greatest lovers. (60 mins.) 12:40 0 MIKE DOUGLAS 2:10 0 NEWS ((tuesday)) EVENING 11:15 O PHIL DONAHUE SHOW Topic: Child Snatching. Pt. II. (60 mins.) 11:30 O MOVIE -(WESTERN) "Last Day" 197S Richard Widmark, Barbara Rush. A retired gunman is forced to use his weapons again to defend his town against the Dalton , .,Gaog. wbo plan-to stagers fobtjey, (2, O MATCH GAME 12:15 O ABC NEWS 12:25 0 NEWS LOCAL STATIONS AND NETWORKS RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE LAST MINUTE CHANGES. ((monda) EVENING 6:00 OOO NEWS O STUDIO SEE 6:30 0 MUPPET SHOW Guest: Raquel Welch. O MAKE ME LAUGH O TIC TAC DOUGH O OVER EASY Host: Hugh Downs. Guest: Chef Julia Child. 7:00 O BOB HOPE AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM Bob Hope stars in this tribute to one of the world's few remaining variety theaters. The Palladium Pal-ladium has presented popular music from the era of vaudeville through jazz and swing up to disco music. Guest stars: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Susan George and Leslie Uggams. (60 mina.) O SALVAGE-1 The lives of Harry, Skip and Melanie are threatened during a dangerous and frightening cross-country flight when the plane changes course and then crashes. (60 mins.) 0 SNOOPY, COME HOME Snoopy ,bids farewell to Peanutland to return to his first owner, a lonely, ailing little girl named Lila, and a heart-broken Charlie and the rest of the Peanuts realize how much the little canine means to them. (90 mins.) O DICK CAVETT SHOW Guest: Columnist Art Buchwald. 7:30 O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 . NBC THEATER 'Son Rise: A J Mjrcl! )f Xove'' Stars'. 'James Far-entrno," Far-entrno," Kathryn Harrold. The heartwarming, fact-based story about dedicated parents who devote themselves to helping their infant son overcome autism despite gloomy medical prognoses. (2 hrs.) O THE TELEVISION ANNUAL 1978-79 Stars from all areas of television will make entertainment history when they appear in the first annual two-hour special presenting the medium's most memorable moments from the past season. The special takes the form of a gala party. Stars: Bill Bixby, Jim McKay, Donna Pescow, Jaclyn Smith, Hal Linden, Cicely Tyson, Peter Strauss and many others. (2 hrs.) O BILL MOYERS' JOURNAL A Conversation with Ronald Reagan' This program focuses on Resgan's political aspirations and his plsce in the Republican parly. 8:30 0 M.A.S.H. The oppressive Korean heat gets to everyone, especially Klinger, who responds to the condition condi-tion with one of his most ingenious schemes to effect a discharge. (R) 9:00 0 LOU GRANT When reporter Billie Newman investigates the murder of a young hooker, she finds she must change many of her ideas about the world of prostitutes. (R; 60 mins.) O THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE Episode Two. 'Sandy and . Jenny' Miss Brodie's students are moved by a poetic account ol her tragic love affair with a scholar who was later killed. Sandy and Jenny start a journal about the facts of love. , (60 mins.) 10:00 OOO NEWS O ORIGINALS: WOMEN IN ART 'Mary Caasatt: Impressionist from Philadelphia' Thia is a profile of 19th century painter Mary Cassatt, the only American member of the French Impreasionist group. 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: David Brenner. Guests: Vincent Price, Mike Connors. (90 mins.) O POLICE STORY 'Prime Rib' A narcotica detective risks his career when he goes into unauthorized territory to catch a major drug dealer. (R) EVENING 6:00 O THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY 'The Sky Trap' A daring sailplane pilot is blackmailed into smuggling a cargo of heroin across-: the Mexican border. Stars: Mark! McClure, Jim Hutton. (2 hrs.) ; O THE OSMOND FAMILY SHOW Guest stars: Loretta Lynn, Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker and Wolfman Jack. (60 mins.) O 60 MINUTES O ' ADVOCATES 'Should We Stop Construction of Nuclear Power Plants?' (60 mins.) 7:00 O FANTASY ISLAND SUNDAY SPECIAL A motherless young boy who wants to run the island's amusement amu-sement park to give hia wandering stuntman father a chance at the big time; and four children who seek instant success as rock stars to escape living in foster homes make an excursion to the other side of the island where dreams are fulfilled. (60 mins.) O STRANGERS: STORY OF A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER After an absence of more than 20 years, a daughter returns to the home of her widowed mother for an uncertain reunion. The past, which the two women shared with the now dead husband and father, must now be dealt with. Stars: Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands. (2 hrs.) O TWO RONNIES 7:30 O USU AND YOU 8:00 O THE BIG EVENT The Cassandra Crossing' 1977 Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris. A passenger on board a trans-European express train is discovered to have the plague virus and the decision is made to send the train and its 1,000 passengers to almost certain destruction. (2 hrs., 30 mins.) O SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid' 1969 Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford. Serio-comedic adventurea and misadventures mis-adventures of the two most famous members of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang unfold as they take It on the lam with the beautiful Etta Place. (2 hrs., 15 mins.) O OVER EASY 'Four Alone: The Older Woman In America' This special segment of the popular series hosted by Hugh Downs is devoted to the specific issues concerning the 24 million women in our country who are over age 55. The program visits with four women who are among the 7!4 million who have found themselves alone at a late and often lonely stage ,ol life. (60 mins.) 9:00 O ALL IN THE FAMILY When Archie and Edith arrive at their daughter's new California home for the holidays, they discover that all is not paradise among the sunshine and the palm trees for Mike and Gloria. (R) Q MASTERPIECE THEATRE Episode Ten. 'Lillie: Home on the Range' Lillie's spectacular stage success on two continents is dampened dam-pened by the loss of two of her greatest lovers. (60 mins.) 9:30 O ONE DAY AT A TIME Ann and the girls are shocked when an unmarried classmate of Barbara arrives with her new baby and some news that's even more upsetting. (R) 10:00 0 NEWS U NOVA 'A Whisper from Space' This program looks at theories about the beginnings of the universe. (60 mina.) 10:15 O NEWS 10:30 O NEWS 10:35 O CBS NEWS 10:45 O CARTER COUNTRY Rumors of the Impending marriage of Sgt. Baker to Lucille Banks have Clinton Corners in a tizzy. (Pt. I. of a two-part episode) 10:55 O GUNSMOKE 11:00 STAKE 2 AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Michael Murphey, one of the Southwest's most outspoken and musically gifted performers la featured. Selectiona include 'Geronimo's Cadillac,' 'Cosmic 'Cos-mic Cowboy' and 'Loner's Paradise.' (60 mins.) 6:00 SOO NEWS STUDIO SEE 6:30 8 FAMILY FEUD MAKE ME LAUGH 0 TIC TAC DOUGH U CIVIC DIALOGUE 7:00 O GREATEST HEROES OF THE BIBLE 'The Tower Of Babel' A young architect's foolish design to build a soaring tower as a monument to God's glory is corrupted by a cruel despot. Stars: Ron Palillo, Vines Edwards. (60 mins.) O HAPPY DAYS When troubles with his studies and an insulting professor cause Potsie to decide to quit school, the Fonz comes up with an ingenious plan to help his friend. D PAPER CHASE The study group's well-laid plans for a weekend of frivolity off-campus go awry when Professor Kingstield makes a monumental mon-umental assignment for Monday. (R; 60 mins.) 7:30 O LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY Shirley's love life takes a new turn when she starts spending time with a wealthy, sophisticated older men and is discovered in his company by boyfriend Carmine. O MACNEIL LEHRER REPORT 8:00 O THE SACKETTS The drama tells the story of the three Ssckett brothers, who go to the New Mexico territory in the turbulent days following follow-ing the Civil War in order to seek a more fruitful way of life than their home In the Tennessee mountains offers them. Stars: Glenn Ford, Sam Elliott. (Pt. I. of two-part series; 2 hrs.) O THREE'S COMPANY Using Janet and Chriaay as allies, Jack pretends he lives alone when he falls for a girl he thinks is old fashioned. O TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE Walking Through The Fire' 1979 Stars: Bess Armstrong, Tom Mason. A young mother battles against Hodgkin's disease which is endangering endan-gering her life and the life of her unborn baby. (2 hrs.) O PREVIN AND THE PITTSBURGH 'Alpine' Andre Previn conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony in a performance perfor-mance of Richard Strauss' 'Alpine Symphony.' Previn examines some of Strauss' musical themes and discusses dis-cusses their use, in a lecture-demonstration lecture-demonstration at the piano. 8:30 O TAXI The cabbies become reluclant baby-sittera for Elaine's young son when she goes out of town, but after meeting the boy, they undergo a chsnge of heart. |