Prime-time network TV listings for Saturday December 23, 1972:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] All In The Family [Reg]: Edith's Accident
Season 2, episode 7 W: Michael Ross, Bernie West D: John Rich With Barnard Hughes (Father John Majeski). Edith's honesty infuriates Archie when she leaves a note on an unoccupied car which she dented accidentally. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/6/1971)
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| [ABC 8:00] Alias Smith And Jones [Reg]: The McCreedy Feud
Season 3, episode 3 W: Juanita Bartlett D: Alexander Singer With Burl Ives (Big Mac McCreedy), Cesar Romero (Armendariz), Katy Jurado (Carlotta), Dennis Fimple (Kyle Murtry). Heyes and Curry are hired by a rancher to patch up his feud with a Mexican rancher, and they get arrested for their effort. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/30/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Tennessee Ernie Ford's White Christmas [special]
W: Jim Carlson, Bud Wingard D: Joe Hostettler With Lou Rawls, Claudine Longet, Lynn Anderson, Mac Davis, The Mike Curb Congregation. In a show produced in Nashville, Tenn., Ford and his guests present traditional and contemporary music appropriate to the Christmas season. In a skit, Claudine tries to teach Scott Firestone how to sing in French.
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| [CBS 8:30] Bridget Loves Bernie [Reg]: Belated Honeymoon
Season 1, episode 15 With Ivor Barry (Charles), Ysabel MacCloskey (Mother Superior). Nerves are strained between Bridget and Bernie, and the Steinbergs and the Fitzgeralds decide the best way to smooth things over is to send the kids on the honeymoon they never had.
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| [CBS 9:00] The Mary Tyler Moore Show [Reg]: The Courtship Of Mary's Father's Daughter
Season 3, episode 15 W: Elias Davis, David Pollock D: Jay Sandrich With Michael Tolan (Dan Whitfield), Barra Grant (Judy Conrad), Bill Quinn (Walter Richards), Steve Franken (Jonas Lasser), Gordon Jump (Mr. Conrad), Arthur Abelson (Man in Elevator), Molly Dodd (Woman at Party). Mary meets an old boyfriend in a crowded elevator as he's taking his new fiancee to get a marriage license.
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| [ABC 9:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Bitter Wine
Season 1, episode 13 W: Hal Sitowitz, John Wilder D: Christian Nyby With Nehemiah Persoff (Papa Kampacalas), Robert F. Simon (Capt. Rudy Olsen), Scott Marlowe (Dimitri Kampacalas), Paul Michael Glaser (Jason Kampacalas), Donna Baccala (Thalia Kampacalas), Michael Margotta (Thanos Kampacalas), Arthur Batanides (Maitre'd). The eldest son in a family of wine-growers returns home after serving a prison term for a crime which, unknown to his father, was actually committed by his younger brother, only to face arson charges.
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| [NBC 9:00] TV Movie: Climb An Angry Mountain (1972)
W: Joseph Calvelli, Sam Rolfe D: Leonard Horn With Fess Parker, Stella Stevens, Barry Nelson, Joe Kapp, Marj Dusay, Arthur Hunnicutt. A widower with two children doubles as rancher and sheriff in a small California community, where he clashes with a New York detective as they track a fugitive Indian up Mt. Shasta.
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| [CBS 9:30] The Bob Newhart Show [Reg]: His Busiest Season
Season 1, episode 14 W: David Davis, Lorenzo Music D: Peter Baldwin With Florida Friebus (Mrs. Bakerman), King Moody (Ken Willett), Harvey J. Goldenberg (Barry Gorman), Renee Lippin (Michelle Nardo). A worrisome session with one of his therapy groups about anxieties created by the holdiays, coupled with his inability to find the right gift for Emily, sets Bob up for a depressing Christmas.
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| [CBS 10:00] The Carol Burnett Show [Reg]
Season 6, episode 14 With Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway. Carol and cast do a take-off on a talk show, spoof Columbo, and Harvey Korman revives his ham actor character.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Sixth Sense [Reg]: The Eyes That Wouldn't Die
Season 2, episode 12 W: David P. Harmon D: Robert Day With Rudy Solari (Dr. Simmons), Percy Rodrigues (Lt. Woods), Tom Bosley (Albert), Kathleen Lloyd (Kathy Turner). Dr. Rhodes and a police lieutenant try to save the life of a girl who, after an operation to restore her sight, looks in a mirror and suddenly sees visions of an old murder. (Last show of the series.)
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