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Show ((wednesj) EVENING all-accepts the challenge of freeing free-ing the prisoner via a daring helicopter rescue. (R) 0 MAUDE Walter has had a weird dream, and when Arthur finds out, he panics at the thought of their annual weekend together. (R) O MEAT Fred Wiseman's documentary, filmed at ranches and packing houses In Colorado, uncovers the realities of the slaughter, packing and retail sale of beef and lamb. 8:30 Q PHYLLIS 9:00 O THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW Mel Price, WJM-TV's station sta-tion manager, faces a catastrophe when the host of an hour-long variety program walks out on the show. Keeping his fingers crossed, cross-ed, and In sheer desperation, Price chooses Ted and Georgette to take over as co-hosts of the program. (R) 9:30 Q THE BOB NEWHART SHOW Doctor Hartley runs Into marital of San FranclsccThe Unicorn" A priest becomes the target of gangsters searching for a cache of heroin. Toma-"The Big Dealers" Toma assumes a number of phony Identities to reach the chief of a major drug Import operation. (R) 10:40 OGUNSMOKE 11:00 O BLACK JOURNAL "Language In Black and White" demonstrates how attitudes, non-verbal behavior and prejudice affect Interpersonal In-terpersonal and Interracial communications. com-munications. Linguistics experts visually document a study on this subject prepared for the U.S. Army. Ar-my. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 Q TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Ralph Pearl (Las Vegas Sun columnist who suffers from cancer). reminiscent of the late Josephine Baker. 8:30 0 NBC MOVIE OF THE WEEK "Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?" Liz Stonestreet, a private investigator, in-vestigator, Is assigned to locate Eddie Schroder, a small-time hoodlum, and turns up a surprising surpris-ing link between Eddie and the missing niece of Elliot Osborn, a rich and powerful business i leader. (R) 9:00 0 ALL IN THE FAMILY Archie panics when Edith Invites Dolores, an old school chum to dinner, fearing Edith will find out too much about his past. (R) O MASTERPIECE THEATRE Ross's trial begins in episode ten of "Poldark" and the Warleggans im onni-Amnri ahtnut thoir "star" 0 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES 7:00 O LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE "Little Women" The children of Walnut Grove decide to put on a play but when Mrs. Oleson and her daughter, Nellie, rewrite the script, Nellie has all the good lines. (R) O THE ABC MONDAY COMEDY SPECIAL Blansky's Beauties-The Beauties-The Partners" Nancy tries to cure Ken's doldrums by making him a partner In her talent agency, with startling results. 0 THE JEFFERSONS George's suggestion of a prenuptlal agreement agree-ment creates turmoil between Jenny and Llonel-and George Is loving every minute of it. (R) O ANYONE FOR TENNYSON? "A Visit with Sir John" The Poet Laureate of Enaland, Sir John 6:00 i 0O0NEWS t fi ZOOM f 6:30 QHOGAN'S HEROES O CONCENTRATION ' 0 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES O FOREST SPIRIT 7:00 O THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GRIZZLY ADAMS "Adams' Ark" A volcano erupts and Grizzly risks his life to save the lives of the animals caught in the vicinity of the crater. (R) O THE BEST OF DONNY AND ' MARIE Guests: Roy Rogers, Dale ' Evans, Georgia Engel, Rich Little, ' Osmond Brothers. (R) 0 GOOD TIMES J.J. thinks he's found a way out of the ghetto by i managing Tyrone Tyler, "The Atomic Comic", but the scene explodes ex-plodes when his financial backers turn out to be a loan shark. (R) O DRAW AND PAINT WITH DON I RUFFIN the base determined to give his wounded son a hero's publicity buildup. (R) I 0 HAPPY DAYS "Fonz-How, lnc" Howard Cunningham Invents America's first trash compactor called the "garbage gulper" and then Includes Fonzie In his plans to form a corporation and together they will become world famous. (R) 0 THE FAMILY HOLVAK The Rev. Holvak listens to a deathbed confession which becomes the key to a homicide, but the minister Is morally unable to reveal what he knows while a guilty guil-ty man runs free. O HOW TO. ..LEARN ABOUT ENERGY 7:30 O LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY "Buddy Can You Spare a Father?" Shirley Is excited because her dad, Jack, whom she hasn't seen for more than a year is coming to visit, but she gets more than she bargained for when he shows up. (R) O MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 8:00 O POLICE WOMAN "Tennis Bum" Sgt. Pepper Anderson happens hap-pens to fall In love with a "tennis bum" just while she and Sgt. Bill Crowley are Investigating the slaying of a man who appeared to be mixed up with an organized crime ring that was active in qamblina and narcotics (R witness Jud Paynter. Demelza Implores Im-plores Jud to speak the truth on Ross's behalf. 9:30 0 ALICE Alice is thrilled when her young visiting cousin is able to work temporarily as a waitress at Mel's cafe, but when Mel falls head over heels In love with the girl, trouble starts. (R) 10:00 0 0 NEWS ti PICCADILLY CIRCUS "Plaintiffs and Defendants" Alan Bates stars In Simon Gray's teleplay of infidelity and despair as an articulate middle-aged attorney at-torney who faces a vulnerable period in his marriage and a crisis with his mistress. 10:30 0 TAKE 2 WITH SANDY GILMOUR O MOVIE "Revenge is My Destiny" 1971 Chris Robinson, Ellsa Ingram. A Vietnam veteran I returns to Miami only to run Into a mystery involving his wife, a nightclub owner and a so-called Industrialist. 10:35 0 CBS NEWS 10:50 0 IRONSIDE 11:00 O NBC LATE NIGHT MOVIE "Guns ot the Magnificent Seven" 1969 George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham. A professional gunsllnger and six hired gunmen team up to free a peasant revolutionary leader from prison in Mexico so that he can resume a popular revolt. 11:50 0 MOVIE 12:30 O LOVE AMERICAN STYLE 1:00 O ABC NEWS 1:50 0 NEWS (fmonday)) EVENING 6:00 OOQNEWS U UPDATE IN QUALITY PARENTING PAREN-TING "Fatherhood" 6:30 0 HOGAN'S HEROES O CONCENTRATION 7:30 0 THE MARILYN MC COO AND BILLY DAVIS, JR. SHOW O MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 8:00 0 MARCUS WELBY 0 BARETTA "Dear Tony" Baretta hunts for the killer of a police officer of-ficer apparently shot down attempting at-tempting to thwart a robbery, and slowly realizes that the dead man was not a chance victim, but the target of a carefully planned murder which involved the victim' -s wife, who is also a cop. (R) 0 THE CBS WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE "Made For Each Other" 1971 Rene Taylor, Joseph Bologna. Couple in their mid-thirties mid-thirties meet for the first time at an "emergency encounter group". They quarrel constantly, but come to realize they need each other. O NOVA "What Price Coal?" details the price America pays in human terms for "black gold" energy. Included is an examination examina-tion of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act and the problems that still remain. 9:00 0 KINGSTON: CONFIDENTIAL "The Cult" Kingston's associate, Tony Marino, realizes that his life is In danger after his undercover Investigation reveals that a right-wing, right-wing, racist organization-operating organization-operating on an Army base Is playing for keeps. O CHARLIE'S ANGELS "Angel Trap" Sabrina poses as the mistress of one of Charlie's clients who believes he is the next victim of an assassin who has already taken the lives of several former wartime comrades. com-rades. (R) O GREAT PERFORMANCES Leonard Bernstein conducts the" Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Franz Liszt's "A Faust Symphony" with tenor Kenneth Ken-neth Riegel and the men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus under the direction of John Oliver. O THE ABC TUESDAY NIGHT MOVIE "Sleeper" 1973 Woody Allen, Diane Keaton. Contemporary Contem-porary Rip Van Winkle turns the year 2173 into a slapstick carnival. (R) 0 KOJAK A woman devises an elaborate plot to have her husband hus-band killed. Guest star: Susan Sullivan. (R) O IN PERFORMANCE AT WOLF TRAP "Galina and Valery Panov" The former stars of Russia's famed fam-ed Kirov Ballet (who have since defected) perform the pas de deux from Petipa's "Don Quixote" and "Harlequinade", scene two from Fokine's "Petrouchka" and the Adagio from Lev Ivanov's "The Nutcracker". 9:00 0 THE BEST OF POLICE STORY "The Jar" Two police officers, under indictment in an accidental slaying, promise their attorney that they'll try to stay out of trouble. trou-ble. Guest stars: Don Meredith, Christopher Connelly. (Conclusion) (Conclu-sion) (R) 0 M.A.S.H. Surgeons Hawkeye and B.J. find a perplexing psychological problem on their hands-how to cope with a former college football hero whose wound will end his career. (R) Q OPERA THEATRE "The Gondoliers" Gon-doliers" Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta comes to life in a British production. A host of handsome gondoliers court pretty young girls amidst the corrupt antics an-tics of the aristocracy in 19th-century 19th-century Venice. David Lloyd-Jones Lloyd-Jones conducts the Royal Philhar monlc Orchestra. 9:30 0 ONE DAY AT A TIME The lone ly residents of a retirement hote. are spared another dismal New Year's Eve, thanks to the hidden talents of Ann, Julie, Barbara, Ginny and Schneider. (R) 10.00 QOQ NEWS Betjeman, hosts the First Poetry Quartet at Cambridge University for an exploration of modern English poets. His own works are read, as well as those of Stephen Spender, Philip Larkin, Elizabeth Jennings and others. 7:30 O ABC'S MONDAY NIGHT BASEBALL Teams to be announced. announc-ed. 0 SHIELDS AND YARNELL U MACNEIL-LEHRER REPORT 8:00 0 NBC MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES "Breakout" 1975 Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall. A Texas bush pilot after being approached by Ann Wagner, the wife of an American unjustly incarcerated in a Mexican problems when he brings his therapy group home for a wild role-playing encounter. (R) 10:00 QOQ NEWS O AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Larry Gatlln, winner of the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performance, Per-formance, sings his hit "Broken Lady" along with "Penny Annie" and "The Bitter They Are". Singer-songwriter Singer-songwriter Alex Harvey performs his "Delta Dawn" and "Reuben James". 10:30 O THE TONIGHT SHOW Guest host: Rob Reiner. Guests: Albert Brooks, Penny Marshall, Lindsay Wagner, Billy Crystal, Harry Sherr. O THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO-TOMA The Streets ((fcuesdayj) EVENING 6:00 QOQ NEWS fJZOOM 6:30 0 HOGAN'S HEROES O CONCENTRATION 0 LET'S MAKE A DEAL O STUDIO SEE 7:00 0 BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP "Five the Hard Way" Black Sheep Don French rebels when his father, a newspaper publisher, arrives at 10:00 QOQ NEWS 10:30 Q THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guest: Bobby Goldsboro. O THE ROOKIES-MYSTERY OF THE WEEK The Rookies-"Sudden Death" A one-time POW believes that Mike Danko betrayed him and plans to punish the rookie. Mystery of the Week-"Please Call it Murder" Bradford Dillman. Lt. Danny lanello is assigned to investigate in-vestigate the death of a heavily Insured In-sured suburbanite. (R) Q BOOK BEAT "Ordinary People" Peo-ple" by Judith Guest. 10:40 QGUNSMOKE 11:00 O ANYONE FOR TENNYSON? "Poetry In Translation" Part I. "Classical and Mediterranean" The First Poetry Quartet celebrates poetry that has come into English In translation from other languages by featuring epics by Horace and Homer and two Aesop fables as well as modern French and Spanish works by Neruda, Villon and Quasimodo. 11:30 Q ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 0 TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guest: Benny Goodman. 12:40 0 NEWS 10:30 0 THE TONIGHT SHOW Host: Johnny Carson. Guest: Martina Arroyo. O TUESDAY MOVIE OF THE WEEK "Crossfire" 1977 James Farentino, Patrick O'Neal, John Saxon, Pamela Franklin. Officer Vince Rossi volunteers to be caught in the act of stealing drugs by his fellow officers in order to Infiltrate an underworld mob. (R) 10:40 OGUNSMOKE 11:00 Q INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL An amorous lady In a closet, Yugoslavia's rambunctious rambunc-tious Maxicat, a man with a musical obsession and a stylish tribute to Fred Astaire constitute the bill of fare. 11:30 O ABC CAPTIONED NEWS 11:40 0 F.B.I. 12:00 Q TOMORROW Host: Tom Snyder. Guests: Marty lngels( Dick Orkin, Bert Berdis. O BIG VALLEY 12:40 0 NEWS |