The great ones all have to go sometime. For their fans, the hope is that they go out on top, a la Barry Sanders, rather than try to hang on to past glory when their skills have faded, like so many boxers at the end of their careers.

Tyra Banks will try to do the former come December, when she hits the "Victoria's Secret Fashion Show" runway for the final time before ceding the catwalk to a new generation of models.

CBS and the lingerie maker have set a date of Tuesday, Dec. 6 for the show, which will feature Banks, Heidi Klum and a host of other Victoria's Secret models showing off the titular company's designs. Klum will be making her first runway appearance since giving birth in September, and "new modeling sensations" Selita Ebanks and Izabel Goulart will make their show debuts.

The Victoria's Secret show has been a lightning rod for indecency watchdogs ever since its first airing on ABC in 2001 (it moved to CBS the following year). Each show has generated a flood of complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, although no fines have resulted. Last year, following the Janet Jackson-Super Bowl fallout, CBS and Victoria's Secret opted not to air the special.

This year's special will air at 10 p.m. ET, when, presumably, the audience will be mostly grown-ups. It will pre-empt the legal drama "Close to Home," although that show is likely to be in post-sweeps reruns by then.