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TV SHOWTIME: The Register and Bee. Nov. 29-Dec. 5. 1976 Page 5 Rudolph Is Back! 6:80 p.m.

(2,7,11) News (4) Zoom (5,8,13) News (5W My Three Sons 9 PTL dufc (10,12) News (IS) Sesame Street (20) Star Trek 6:30 (2.7.11) CBS News (4) Clippies To Groupers (5.8) ABC News (5W Family Affair (9) Lassie (10.12) NBC News Hogan's Heroes (28) Lassie 7:00 (2) Liars Club (4) Rebop (5) The FBI (5W) Andy Griffith (7) Partridge Family (8) Let's Make A Deal (9,28) NBC News (10) My Three Sons (11) My Three Sons (12) To Tell The Truth (13) Star Trek (15) Mac Neil-Lehrer Report (20) Emergency One 7:38 (2) $25,000 Pyramid (4) Once Upon A Classic (5W) Brady Bunch (7) The Muppet Skew (8) The Muppet Show (9.28) Batman (10) Adam 12 (ID Price Is Right (12) Match Game (IS) People To People Try Our Delicious BREAKFAST Serving from 7:30 A.M. Riverside Or. Danville 8:90 (2,7.11) RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDE- ER: Animated musical narrated by Burl Ives, In the musical tale, Rudolph is down-and-out because his shiny nose has made him, the joke of all Christ- masville. In desperation, he runs away with another outcast. Hermy the elf.

Chased by the Abominable Snowmonster. Rudolph and Hermy journey into the Arctic wilderness and take refuge on the Island of Misfit Toys, (repeat, 60 min) (4,13) NOVA: "The Woman Rebel" The biographical drama about birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger stars Piper Laurie. (60 min) (5,8.13) THE BIONIC WOMAN: "The Vega Influence" Jaime Sommers is pitted against a "living" meteorite's mysterious power which overpowers the human will. (60 min) (5W THE FBI (60 min) (9) WILLY OFF THE CUFF (60 min) (10.12.28) CPO SHARKEY: Don Rickles stars as Chief Petty Officer Sharkey in command of a training unit at the San Diego Naval Training Center. Tonight's episode: the caustic Sharfcey antagonizes his unit at a time when the Navy has undertaken a program to make basic training as easy as possible.

mONStDE (60 min) 8:30 (10,12.28) THE MCLEAN STEVENSON SHOW: McLean Stevenson stars as Mac Ferguson, owner of a hardware business who supports a household that includes his wife, Peggy, his divorced daughter, his student son, Allan, and his sarcastic mother-in-law. Tonight's AT Jeff Davis Mobile Homes DURING OUR CHRISTMAS SALE episode: Figure" Allan invites his psychology professor home for dinner to show his father what he believes is an un- derstanding man with whom he can com- municate. 9:00 (2,7.11) BING CROSBY'S WHITE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Bing Crosby, who is marking his 50th anniversary in show business this year, is headlining his 41st annual Christmas Show. Crosby will be joined by his wife, Kathryn, and their three children, plus a group of British Choir boys. Ber- nadette Peters and Jackie Gleason guest star on the music, comedy and holiday festive special.

(60 min) (4) U.N. DAY CONCERT: The National Symphony Orchestra concert features Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in Flat Minor" with soloist Lazar Herman. (90 min) 5 8 1 3 A A "Nothin' for Nothin' Baretta locks horns with a tough 9-year-old street kid who is outsmarting cops and crooks alike to help feed his family, which is being deprived by his mother's compulsive gambling. (60 min) (5W MERV GRIFFIN SHOW (60 min) (9) SOUTHALL BAPTIST CHURCH (60 min) 1 0 1 2 2 8 I A COURT: Michael Con- stantine stars as Judge Matthew Sirota in a comedy about a Night Court judge, his associates on "right" side of the law and the motley group of suspected wrongdoers with whom he regularly must deal.

(15) THEATRE IN A I A Eccentricities of a Nightingale" Small-town i Southerners share a I fleeting moment of love in Tennessee Williams' poig- nant drama set in pre-WW I Mississippi. Blythe Danner and Frank Langella star. (2 hrs) (20) MOVIE 20: "The Sweet Ride" Tony Fran- ciosa and Michael Sarrazin. A trio of "beach bums" enjoying California sun. fun and women, find life somewhat disrupted when a beautiful young damsel emerges topless from the sea.

(2 hrs) 9:30 (10,12.28) THE PRAC- TICE: "Snow Job" Dr. Jules Bedford and his son, stranded in the letter's 16th floor apartment due to a power failure during a Thanksgiving Day blizzard, are pressed into service by Rudolph, that beguiling lit- tle buck whose nose is synony- mous with the Christmas season, will again make his holiday appearance in the traditional Yuletide animated musical special "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Wednesday, Dec. 1.8to9p.m.. on CBS Channels 2-7-11. Actor- singer Burl Ives narrates the special and is heard as the voice of Sam the Snowman.

Based on the Johnny Marks song of the-same title, which has sold over eight million recordings since its publica- tion in 1949, the Christmas tale finds shy Rudolph sulking because his shiny snout had made him the laughing stock of all Christmasville. To escape the ridicule, he runs away and is joined by an elf a neighbor who is about to have a baby. 10:00 (2,7.11) THE GEORGE SPECIAL: Musical-variety program starring veteran comedian George Burns. He will be joined by guests Johnny Carson, Walter Matthau, Madeline Kahn and the Osmond Brothers and Chita Rivera. (60 min) (5,13) CHARLIE'S AN- GELS: (5W NEWS (60 min) (8.10) BILLY GRAHAM CRUSADE (60 min) (9) PTL CLUB (60 min) (12.28) THE QUEST: "The Longest Drive" Part I.

Dan O'Herlihy guests as a hapless rancher who gets unexpected help from the Baudine brothers when they muster a motley group of drovers for what seems to be a jinxed cattle drive through the badlands. (60 mjn) 10:30 (4) LILIAS, YOGA AND YOU 11:00 (2,5,7.8.10,11.12.13) A SPORTS (4.15) ANYONE FOR TEN- NYSON: "The Restoration Wits" Cyril Ritchard joins the First Poetry Quartet in a program featuring the rakish poetry of King Charles IT's "Court (5W ODD COUPLE (9,18) PEYTONE PLACE (20) MARY HARTMAN. MARY HARTMAN 11:30 (2,7.11) CBS LATE SHOW: "The Tender Trap" Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds. Theatrical agent enjoys the attentions of a flock of girls who are trying to trap him into marriage, (repeat, 2 hrs) (4.15) SIGN OFF (S.8.13) THE ROOKIES: "Keywitness" A young nurse and a married doctor, who are linked romantically, witness a murder, but refuse to in- form police for fear of exposing their relationship, (repeat, 60 min) (5W) LOVE. AMERICAN STYLE I (9.10.12.28) I SHOW: Johnny Carson is the host and guests are John Byner, William Holden and Jack Anderson (90 min) (20) BURNS ALLEN 12:00 a.m.

5 LOVE. AMERICAN STYLE II (20) HONEYMOONERS 12:30 (5.8.13) MYSTERY OF THE WEEK: "Sorority Kill" Martha Scott and Jane Actman. The chilling story of a psychotic killer who holds six people captive in a sorority house, each of them realizing that their captor's mind, like a defective time bomb, could go off at any moment with terrifying results, (repeat. 90 min) (5W) BEST OF GROUCHO (20) UNTOUCHABLES 1:00 5 LATE NIGHT SHOW: "Once Upon a Honeymoon" Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers. An American reporter and a former Brooklyn stripper turned German Gestapo co- agent team together to i i movements, and their togetherness begins to move into other areas.

1 0 1 2 Hosted by Tom Snyder. "How to Beat the House" or various systems to use in gambling casinos is the subject for discussion. (60 1 min) I 1:30 (20) NFL GAME OF THE WEEK named Hermy. Pursued by the Abominable Snowmonster, the duo flees to the island of Misfit Toys in the Arctic wilderness, where Yukon Conrelius, a prospector they meet along the way, comes to their rescue. Return- ing to Christmasville.

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