WEDNESDAY
8:30 p.m.
ABC, 'The Leprechauns' Christmas Gold.' Art Carney and Peggy Cass star in this tale of a cabin boy lost on an uncharted island who accidentally frees a wicked banshee that seta out to find and take the leprechauns' fabulous pot of Christmas gold.
CBS, 'WKRP in Cincinnati.' As Christmas bonus time draws near it looks like Arthur Carlson is going to remain a Scrooge and stiff the staff.
9 p.m.
ABC, 'The Fall Guy.' Colt goes to Mexico to track down a meek white-collar thief who has stolen millions in computer fraud.
CBS, Movie. 'The Ordeal of Bill Carney.' Richard Crenna and Ray Sharkey star in this drama based on the true story of a quadrapelgic who waged a landmark court battle for the custody of his children.
NBC, 'The Facts of Life.' To avoid dating, Tootie invents an imaginary boyfriend with whom she pretends to correspond.
PBS, 'The Giulini Concerts: The Los Angeles Philharmonic Bicentennial celebration with Carlo Maria Giulini.'
9:30 p.m.
NBC, 'Love Sidney.'
10 p.m.
ABC, 'Dynasty.' Alexis schemes to rekindle Krystle's relationship with Blake and Krystle's nubile niece, Sammy Jo, unexpectedly arrives for an indefinite stay.
CBS, 'Shannon.'
NBC, 'Quincy.' NBC, 'Quincy.' When a trucker who was hauling toxic wastes to a dumping site dies, Quincy takes to the road to prevent leakage of the chemical that could endanger the health of the residents of a community.
PBS, To be announced.
11 p.m.
PBS, 'The Dick Cavett Show.'
11:30 p.m.
ABC, 'News Nightline,' with Ted Koppel.
CBS, 'WKRP in Cincinnati.' (R).
PBS, 'The ABC Evening News,' captioned for the hearing-impaired. Midnight.
ABC, 'Love Boat.' (R).
CBS, Movie. 'Grand Jury.' A young couple, just starting out, runs into an older man with a money-making scheme and find themselves drawn into a fraudulent situation and caught between a grand jury and organized crime. Bruce Davidson and Leslie Nielson star. (1977).
NBC, 'The Best of Carson.'
PBS, 'The MacNeil-Lehrer Report.'
12:30 p.m.
NBC, 'Tomorrow Coast to Coast,' with Tom Snyder.
1 a.m.
PBS, 'A Christmas Special with Luciano Pavarotti.'
THURSDAY
8 p.m.
ABC, 'Mork and Mindy.' Mork learns new ways to experience the joys of Earth with a sightless young singer who believes his father has rejected him because of his handicap. (R).
CBS, 'Magnum P.I.' An eccentric, reclusive inventor, a beautiful author and a distraught senator's wife form a strange triangle surrounding Magnum as he tries to unravel a situation that could lead to sudden death.
NBC, Movie. 'The Man in the Santa Claus Suit.' Fred Astaire plays seven different parts in this yuletide fantasy about the mysterious propietor of a costume shop changes the lives of an aspitring politician, a derelict, and a shy bachelor teacher. (R).
PBS, 'Sneak Previews.'
8:30 p.m.
ABC, 'Best of the West.' Sam prevents a mob from hanging Parker Tillman -- temporarily -- until he can prove Parker innocent of cattle rustling. (R).
PBS, To be announced.
9 p.m.
ABC, 'Barney Miller.'
CBS, 'Knots Landing.' Abby turns vindictive when Karen is obliged to take her back after having fired her, and Laura spends the weekend with Scooter after Richard's boss orders him to pander for an important client.
PBS, 'John Callaway Interviews: Helen Hays.'
9:30 p.m.
ABC, 'Taxi.'
NBC, 'Gimme A Break.'
10 p.m.
ABC, '20-20'
CBS, 'Nurse.' Frustrated and depressed over her inability to be a miracle worker at the hospital, Mary resigns after an argument with Dr. Rose over a comatose little girl whose mother refuses to visit her.
NBC, 'High Hopes: The Capra Years.' Lucille Ball, Carl Reiner, Burt Reynolds and others salute the long and distinguished career of Oscar-winning producer and director Frank Capra.
PBS, 'The Lawmakers.'
10:30 p.m.
PBS, 'Camera Three: The Family: Scenes from British Working Class Life, part II.' (R).
11 p.m.
PBS, 'The Dick Cavett Show.'
11:30 p.m.
ABC, 'News Nightline,' with Ted Koppel.
NBC, 'The Sounds of Christmas Eve.' Doc Severinsen hosts this program of original and traditional yuletide music and readings. (R).
CBS, 'CBS News Religious Broadcast.'
PBS, 'ABC's Evening News,' captioned for the hearing-impaired.
Midnight.
ABC, 'Vega$.'
NBC, 'Christmas Rome 1981.' Pope John Paul II celebrates Christmas Midnight Mass from the Basilica of St. Peter's in Rome.
PBS, 'The MacNeil-Lehrer Report.'
1 a.m.
PBS, 'Sneak Previews.'
FRIDAY
8 p.m.
ABC, 'Benson.' Benson's former girlfriend, whom he hasn't seen for 20 years, comes to town to rekindle their romance.
CBS, 'The Dukes of Hazzard.' Too many Santa Clauses make Christmas Eve in Hazzard a merry chase. (R).
NBC, 'Magazine,' with Betsy Aaron, Douglas Kiker, Jack Perkins and Garrick Utley.
PBS, 'Washington Week in Review.'
