Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 20, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Triangle
Season 2, episode 15 W: Lionel E. Siegel D: Lee Philips With John Ritter (Rev. Matthew Fordwick), Mariclare Costello (Miss Hunter), Nora Marlowe (Mrs. Brimmer), Janet Julian (Naomi Atkins), Brad Wilkin (Willie Dempster). John-Boy's emotions get in the way of an essay he is writing when the Rev. Fordwick begins calling on his favorite high school teacher, Miss Hunter.
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| [ABC 8:00] Toma [Reg]: The Cain Connection
Season 1, episode 5 W: Stephen J. Cannell With Frank Campanella (Joe Delmore), Peter Brocco (Vic Trinian), John Mitchum (Art Malone), Michael Tolan (Jonathan Cain), Judi Meredith (Edith Cain), Eddie Firestone (Tommy Falon), Frank Christi (Freddy DeSanti). Toma poses as a go-between in a narcotics sale involving a college professor and the leaders of two syndicates. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/1/1973)
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| [NBC 8:00] The Flip Wilson Show [Reg]
Season 4, episode 12 With Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber, The 5th Dimenson. In skits, Jack and Avery do their monks routine, with Flip as Rev. Leroy who visits them, and then they do a "Silent Movie" version of "The Hobo's Christmas".
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (1957)
W: Leon Uris D: John Sturges With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Jo Van Fleet, Lyle Bettger, John Ireland, Earl Holliman, Dennis Hopper, Whit Bissell. The story of the gunfight that made legends out of Wyatt Earp, a U.S. marshal, and Doc Holliday, a dentist turned gambler.
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| [ABC 9:00] Kung Fu [Reg]: The Elixir
Season 2, episode 11 W: A. Martin Zweiback D: Walter Doniger With Diana Muldaur (Theodora), David Canary (Frank Grogan), Don Megowan (Quinn), Matt Clark (Niebo), Richard Caine (Wade Grogan), Walter Barnes (Sheriff), Henry Wills (Joe), Gary Eppler (Billy). A beautiful woman's independence, a crippled man's love for her and a jealous suitor provide a dangerous challenge to Caine.
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| [NBC 9:00] Ironside [Reg]: The Last Payment
Season 7, episode 12 W: Felton Perry, William Gordon, James Doherty D: Daniel Haller With Scatman Crothers (Jason), Fred Beir (Jimmy Lee Gates), Felton Perry (Gilbert), Albert Popwell (China-Boy), Roger Robinson (Shuggie), Dick Anthony Williams (Reuben), Regis Cordic (Alexander Shepard). Mark, unwittingly helped by ghetto character Theodore, sets himself up as bait to catch a killer loan shark.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Streets Of San Francisco [Reg]: Most Feared In The Jungle
Season 2, episode 14 W: Jerome Coopersmith D: Robert Day With Kitty Winn (Barbara Talmadge), Joel Fabiani (Matthew Starr), Nan Martin, Patricia Smith. A girl's search for her newborn baby son leads to homicide and a bewildering maze of contradictions.
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| [NBC 10:00] NBC Follies [Reg]
With Rodney Allen Rippy, Sammy Davis Jr., Jack Cassidy, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Florence Henderson. Sammy, Jack, Ernie and Florence play four santas; the International Children's Choir sings its theme song and Cassidy sings a toyland medley, backed by a collection of walking Christmas packages.
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