The New Shows

Rockabye Dudley (Fri. 12:05 a.m., NBC) offers a whispering disc jockey, knee-deep in poesy. Sample: "Here comes Rockabye Dudley/Out of the blue/ Floating on a light cloud/To you." The music is an approximation of the verse.

Laraine Day Show (Sat. 1 p.m., ABC-TV) stakes out another half-hour of daytime TV for the ladies. Actress Day, wife of the New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher, hustles through half a dozen interviews (Author Fannie Hurst, Actress Barbara Britton, Singer Connie Moore, a barber, a general, and a wounded Korean veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered three ways of achieving poise: 1) avoid nervous giggles, 2) stand and walk as if you're proud of yourself, 3) use Odorono.

My Lucky Stars (Sun. 10:45 p.m., ABC) is a folksy, unsponsored 15 minutes with Paul Whiteman spinning 20-year-old records and reminiscing about the good old days ("I can remember when Bing Crosby had hair and was a tenor"). Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect.

The Private Files of Rex Saunders

(Wed. 10:30 p.m., NBC) introduces Britain's Rex (Bell, Book and Candle) Harrison in the unlikely role of a Manhattan amateur sleuth. Though saddled with a lackwit assistant (Leon Janney), set upon by an amorous blonde, slugged by a T-man, and tossed into a taxi with a corpse, Harrison never raises his precise, British-accented voice. The opening case, concerning a gang of diamond smugglers, was solved more by mirrors than logic. Sample Harrison deduction: a man who fell four floors to his death couldn't be a suicide, because he failed to open the window before he went through it. Compared to the storyline, the commercials (for RCA Victor) are models of clarity.

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