Tuesday December 19, 1978
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Prime-time network TV listings for Tuesday December 19, 1978:


8:00 PM 8:30 PM 9:00 PM 9:30 PM 10:00 PM 10:30 PM
CBS A Turning Point In History TV Movie: The Millionaire (1978)
ABC Happy Days: Christmas Time Laverne & Shirley: Oh, Come All Ye Bums The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait Starsky & Hutch: Starsky's Brother
NBC The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (R) The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams: Once Upon A Starry Night Mac Davis: Christmas Odyssey 2010


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[CBS 8:00] A Turning Point In History President Carter's normalization agreement with China. Walter Cronkite reports.

[ABC 8:00] Happy Days [Reg]: Christmas Time
Season 6, episode 16
W: Beverly Bloomberg   D: Jerry Paris

With Eddie Fontaine (Vito Fonzarelli). Fonzie receives a very unexpected Christmas gift from his long-lost father.

[NBC 8:00] The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas [special]
W: Larry Spiegel, John Barrett   D: Gerry Chiniquy, Hawley Pratt

With Tom Smothers, Arte Johnson, Barbara Feldon, Kelly Lange, Casey Kasem, Michael Bell. Ted E. Bear, a young bruin, decides to postpone his winter hibernation in order to search for Christmas.
(Repeat program)

[ABC 8:30] Laverne & Shirley [Reg]: Oh, Come All Ye Bums
Season 4, episode 14
W: Paul B. Price, Stephen Nathan   D: Joel Zwick

With Hamilton Camp (Burns). The girls come up with a unique way to raise money for Mr. DeFazio's annual free Christmas dinner for bums.

[NBC 8:30] The Life And Times Of Grizzly Adams [Reg]: Once Upon A Starry Night
Season 2, episode 24
W: Brian Russell, James Simmons   D: Jack B. Hively

With Ken Curtis, Jack Kruschen. Adams sets out in a raging blizzard to locate a young couple who have become separated from their children by an avalanche. (Last show of the series.)

[CBS 9:00] TV Movie: The Millionaire (1978)
W: John McGreevey   D: Don Weis

With Martin Balsam, Edward Albert, Pat Crowley, Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt, William Demarest, John Ireland, Allan Rich, Talia Balsam. Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire.

[ABC 9:00] The Carpenters: A Christmas Portrait [special]
W: Rod Warren   D: Bob Henry

With Kristy McNichol, Jimmy McNichol, Georgia Engel, Gene Kelly. Karen and Richard Carpenter celebrate the holiday season.

[ABC 10:00] Starsky & Hutch [Reg]: Starsky's Brother
Season 4, episode 12
W: Ralph Wallace Davenport, Robert Earll   D: Arthur Marks

With John Herzfeld (Nick Starsky), John O'Leary (Gerold Victor), Nicholas Worth (Al), Eddie Fontaine (Jake), Stanley Grover (Agent Weldon), David Moses (Agent Bronson), Elisabeth Brooks (Marlene), Antony Ponzini (Frank Stryker), Joan Shawlee (Mrs. Krupp), Liberty Godshall (Katie), Linda Lawrence (Carol), Jill Jaress (Officer Sweeney). Starsky's petty hoodlum little brother is kidnapped by a gang of ruthless counterfeiters.

[NBC 10:00] Mac Davis: Christmas Odyssey 2010 [special]
D: Dwight Hemion

With Bernadette Peters, Ted Knight, Paul Lynde. A futuristic musical about a family trying to cope with the new version of Christmas.

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