Prime-time network TV listings for Friday December 21, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Calucci's Department [Reg]: The $80 Heist
Season 1, episode 1 W: Joseph Bologna, Renee Taylor D: Burt Brinckerhoff James Coco, Broadway veteran, stars as the head of a state unemployment office staffed by a number of bureaucratic eccentrics. In the opening episode, after $80 he has collected from the staff is stolen, Calucci plays detective to find the culprit. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1973)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Miss Popularity
Season 5, episode 13 W: Martin A. Ragaway D: Jack Donohue With Darryl Seman (Herman), Jere Fields (Shirley). Determined to win a popularity contest, Jan is making more campaign promises than she can keep.
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Tooth Or Consequences
Season 2, episode 5 W: Adell Stevenson D: Peter Baldwin With Sid McCoy (Dentist #1), Hal England (Dentist #2), Ella Edwards (Receptionist), Ray Oliver (Hypnotist). When Fred Sanford gets a toothache, he insists that Lamont find a white dentist to treat him. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1972)
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| [CBS 8:30] Roll Out [Reg]: Christmas Of '44
Season 1, episode 10 W: Larry Gelbart, Gene Reynolds D: Michael Schultz With Jerome Cohen (Pierre), Corey Fischer (Monk). A choir of French orphans greatly lifts the men's sagging Christmas spirits, but the change is only temporary.
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| [ABC 8:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: A Barnacle Adventure
Season 4, episode 13 W: Mark Rothman, Lowell Ganz D: Robert Birnbaum With John Myhers (Director One), Val Avery (Elmo), Malcolm Atterbury (Pop), Erin O'Reilly (Nurse), Wally Taylor (Repairman). Felix becomes involved in a sticky invention sponsored by Oscar, after Felix's ex-wife invests money in the scheme.
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| [NBC 8:30] The Girl With Something Extra [Reg]: A Meeting Of Minds
Season 1, episode 13 W: Stan Cutler D: William Wiard With Henry Jones (Owen Metcalf), Jack Riley, Rod Gist, Judy Cassmore. Sally tries to convince John that it's not so much her ESP but rather his routine habits that tip what he's thinking.
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: The Chairman (1969)
W: Ben Maddow D: J. Lee Thompson With Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill, Alan Dobie, Keye Luke, Conrad Yama. A Nobel Prize winner, en route to China, is assigned to obtain there the secret formula for an enzyme that permits crops to be grown almost anywhere, thus holding world political domination in the balance.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]: El Greco To Jason
Season 5, episode 12 W: Martin Donovan D: Herman Hoffman With Dwan Smith (Amy), Jonathan Wynne (Les). Jason becomes so attracted to a pretty student that he decides to quit school, get a job and ask her to marry him, but she is not through playing the field.
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| [NBC 9:00] Needles And Pins [Reg]: The Great Blizzard
Season 1, episode 9 With Milton Selzer (Julius Singer). Nathan, Wendy and the Lorelei Co. staff are marooned by snow, only to be rescued by arch-rival Singer, who has an evil plot behind his kindness.
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| [ABC 9:30] Adam's Rib [Reg]: Illegal Aid
Season 1, episode 1 W: Peter Stone D: Peter H. Hunt With Daniel Keough (Man in Bar), Celia Milius (Francis), John Holland (Judge McElroy), Howard Caine (Hunnicutt), Peter Forster (Assistant D.A.), Edward Winter (Kip Kipple). A romantic comedy about contemporary marriage, based on the characters in the 1949 movie of the same name that starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Ken Howard and Blythe Danner, both Broadway actors, make their series debuts as the husband-wife attorneys. He is an assistant DA; she is a junior partner in a legal firm. In the first episode the Bonners get involved in proving a point, that it's all right for a man to pick up a girl, but not the other way around. (Repeat program, originally aired 9/14/1973)
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| [NBC 9:30] The Brian Keith Show [Reg]: The Thunderball Syndicate
Season 2, episode 11 With Ed Fury (Jeff), Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gruber), Ed Fernandez (Lopaka). Dr. Sean Jamison stakes his financial future and that of his friends on the potential breeding fees of a prize bull.
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| [ABC 10:00] Food: Green Grow The Profits
ABC News examines "agribusiness", the increasing involvement of big business corporations in the production and marketing of food. Roger Peterson, Dick Shoemaker and Bill Wordham report.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Dean Martin Show [Reg]: Roast Of Tony Randall And Jack Klugman
With Mike Connors, Ruth Buzzi, Jackie Vernon, Jack Carter, Loretta Lynn, Gary Burghoff, Soupy Sales, Leonard Barr.
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