Prime-time network TV listings for Thursday December 22, 1977:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] The Waltons [Reg]: The Celebration
Season 6, episode 13 W: Marion Hargrove D: Gwen Arner With Tammi Bula (Marcia Woolery), Peter Fox (Rev. Hank Buchanan), Hal Riddle (Track Superintendent), Wilford Brimley (Horace Brimley), Jack Manning (Joe Brendamore). John Walton takes on a huge fence-post contract that will give him the money needed to become completely free of debt.
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| [ABC 8:00] Welcome Back, Kotter [Reg]: Sweatwork
Season 3, episode 16 W: Eric Cohen D: Bob Claver Horshack becomes uncontrollable when he suddenly shines as the star of Buchanan High's radio station.
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| [NBC 8:00] CHiPs [Reg]: Aweigh We Go
Season 1, episode 12 W: Christian I. Nyby II D: Ivan Nagy With Paula Victor (Esther), Tony Russell (Eduardo), Marie Reynolds (Lucy), Sean Morgan (Sven), Ric Mancini (Vince), Richard Karron (Fred), Bruce Glover (Sgt. Vogt), Janet Brandt (Sylvia), Zina Bethune (Mother), Gerald McRaney (Derrick). Ponch and Baker are diverted from their pursuit of professional truck thieves when a woman and child become trapped in a car hanging on the edge of a cliff.
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| [ABC 8:30] What's Happening [Reg]: Black And White Blues
Season 2, episode 13 W: William Bickley, Michael Warren D: Mark Warren With Nick LaTour (Reverend Bailey). Raj, Rerun and Dwayne panic when they break a new color TV set they had "borrowed" from their church.
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| [CBS 9:00] Hawaii Five-O [Reg]: Tsunami
Season 10, episode 10 W: Don Balluck D: Harvey Laidman With Lyle Bettger (Dr. Dmitri Sartain), Ron Nakahara (Kenji Tatsumo), David Palmer (Dave Keller), Leigh McCloskey (Ted Bonner), Ayn Ruymen (Shirley Collins), Sidney Clute (Ron Bradford), Jim Simpson (Larry Marsh), Bruce Atkinson (Dean Manning), Ehukai Teves (Mike), Carol Honda (Kalea), Kathy Yano (Adrienne). A gang of university students plan a hoax tidal wave alert in order to steal priceless jewelry.
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| [ABC 9:00] Barney Miller [Reg]
[Episode "The Bank" pre-empted, aired January 5, 1978.]
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| [NBC 9:00] James At 15 [Reg]: Fast And Loose
Season 1, episode 6 W: Joyce Eliason, Dan Wakefield D: Richard Crenna With Elaine Joyce, Dick Wilson (Clerk), Army Archerd (Emcee), Joe Di Reda (Security Officer), William Joyce (Mr. Cobb), Daniel Tamm. James is swept into the jet set by a rich classmate -- and gets arrested.
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| [ABC 9:30] Carter Country [Reg]: By The Light Of The Moonlight
Season 1, episode 13 W: Al Gordon, Jack Mendelsohn D: Peter Baldwin With Med Flory (Lester), Vernon Weddle (Guard), Arlene Golonka (Eloise), Macon McCalman (Drunk), John Moskoff (Mickey). When a dispute over a holiday loan gets out of hand, the participants -- Chief Roy and Deputy Curtis -- spend Christmas Eve in jail.
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| [CBS 10:00] Barnaby Jones [Reg]: Deadly Homecoming
Season 6, episode 13 W: Arthur Bernard Lewis D: Joe Manduke With James Carroll Jordan (Michael Sandell), A Martinez (Tomas Aguilar), Cynthia Avila (Linda Aguilar), Taylor Lacher (Sheriff Simmons), Ford Rainey (Carmine Sandell), Russell Thorson (Dr. Sloane), Roberta Leighton (Donna Morgan), Richard Doughty (Nick Sandell), Stephen Johnson (Joe Sandell), Abel Franco (Victor Cortez). When a girl who triggered a family feud reappears after a three year absence, Barnaby is caught in the middle of the feud -- and murder.
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| [ABC 10:00] The Redd Foxx Show
With Jim Nabors, Tim Thomerson, Rip Taylor.
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| [NBC 10:00] Class Of '65 [Reg]: The Class Dreamers
Season 1, episode 3 W: James M. Miller D: James M. Miller With Judy Landers (Wanda), Alex Rocco (Hornblower), Eugene Roche (Lloyd Casty), Richard Stanley (Sook), Gilbert Garcia (Solado), Yvonne Regalado (Stel). Two scheming graduates, intent on making lots of money, are offered a fast-food franchise with all kinds of strings attached.
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