Friday, Feb. 16, 1968
The 10th Winter Olympics highlights the week. ABC will have it via satellite daily from Wednesday through the Sunday closing ceremonies.
Wednesday, February 14 HE'S YOUR DOG, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).* And now he's Snoopy Star --a headliner at last. Fame comes and his manners go; so Charlie B. has to send him back to Daisy Hill Puppy Farm for a refresher course in obedience.
THE ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell and Fredric March in Jean-Paul Sar tre's The Condemned of Altona (1963).
THE FIRST ANNUAL ACADEMY OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AWARDS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Johnny Carson presides over this special to honor the outstanding pro athletes from the six major sports, and to name the "Man of the Year in Pro Sports."
Thursday, February 15 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). I Want to Live! (1958), with Susan Hayward, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of California Murderess Barbara Graham.
Friday, February 16
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Hal Holbrook narrates "Wild World," which takes a look at the golden eagle, bison, baboons, octopuses and other animals in their native habitats.
CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Peter Sellers in The World of Henry Orient (1964).
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet.
Sunday, February 18
FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Part 3 of the series "Is Peace Possible?" questions whether an economy based on peace, not war, can survive.
ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). New York City's Mayor John V. Lindsay tries some answers.
NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). In "Four Days to Omaha," a young man sets out to learn about his dead soldier-father by retracing his foot steps from London to an Omaha Beach cemetery in Normandy.
THE CBS CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Kukla and Ollie backed up by Burr Tillstrom and Fran Allison host Funny Stories, a sort of Russian Our Gang comedy about the adventures of two lively young boys.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The first of a two-part series, "From Cradle to Classroom," takes a look at the education process that starts long before a child steps foot in a classroom.
THE LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Sherwood Forest comes to life again as Robin Hood (David Watson) and his band (Noel Harrison, Walter Slezak, Bruce Yarnell) make merrie to the music of Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Cast includes Roddy McDowall, Steve Forrest, Victor Buono, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., singing and swashbuckling through 12th century England.
ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Alan Ladd in Shane (1953).
Tuesday, February 20
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Alexander Scourby narrates "The Amazon," a study of the 3,900-mile river from its headwaters in Peru, through Brazil to its mouth in the Atlantic.
WORLD PREMIERE ON TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Prescription: Murder stars Peter Falk, Gene Barry and Nina Foch.
Check your local listings for date and time of these NET specials:
NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). The Life of Adolf Hitler, a German-made film originated and produced by Walter Koppel, examines Hitler not as a phenomenon sui generis but as the product of the political and economic conditions of his day.
NET FESTIVAL. "Ustinov on the Ustinovs": Peter Ustinov describes in monologue his incredible family tree, laden with eccentrics and branching from Russia to Ethiopia.
THEATER On Broadway
JOE EGG. The uncanny juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic.
DARLING OF THE DAY is another of this season's dead-as-the-dodo-bird musicals. Weary of adulation, a famous painter assumes his deceased valet's identity and achieves happiness with a pneumatic widow. As the painter, Vincent Price acts like a berserk semaphore and sings in a mauve whisper. As the widow, Patricia Routledge performs with a joyous professional authority lacking in the score and the show.
I NEVER SANG FOR MY FATHER, by Robert Anderson, wears its heart on its sleeve but has small muscle in its script. It sentimentally examines the plight of a middle-aged son who wants to heal the lifelong wound of lovelessness festering between himself and his aging tyrant of a father, magnificently played by Alan Webb. A sense of mortality, filial duty and remorse give the play vagrant scenes of poignance but, despite the impeccable direction of Alan Schneider, never a coherent dramatic vision.
EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death that is rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his characters' emotional tumult.
THE SHOWOFF. An unwelcome son-in-law crashes like a wayward meteor into the mundane sphere of the earthy Fisher household and sets it ablaze with his fireworks manner. George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy is revived by the APA.
Off Broadway
YOUR OWN THING. Writer-Director Donald Driver blends bits of the Bard with shreds of Hollywood folklore, then shakes them up with high jinks and low camp, and comes out with an ingratiating rock musical version of Twelfth Night.
RECORDS
Instrumental
ESCHENBACH: BEETHOVEN'S CONCERTO NO. 1 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). As always, Beethoven's music is as majestic as it is meditative. Christoph Eschenbach, under the tightly controlled conducting of Herbert von Karajan, plays as if his piano were strung with spinal cords. This is tempestuously joyful, occasionally heartbreaking music rendered by musicians who never underestimate the power of the composer.
JACQUELINE DU PRE: HAYDN'S CELLO CONCERTO IN C and BOCCHERINI'S CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT (Angel). Israeli Daniel Barenboim has earned a reputation as a first-rank pianist, and his British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed in the effort of doing justice to Haydn's recently discovered concerto (composed circa 1765 and found in the National Museum in Prague in 1961) that her breathing is quite audible. More's the charm.
GEORGE SZELL: MOZART PIANO QUARTETS (Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues.
HEIFETZ-PIATIGORSKY CONCERTS: DVORAK'S PIANO QUINTETTE IN A, and FRANC,AIX: STRING TRIO (RCA Victor). Piatigorsky's full-throated cello conducts a civilized but passionate conversation with the violins of Heifetz, Israel Baker and Joseph de Pasquale and Jacob Lateiner's piano. In fact, all five musicians have a meticulous sympathy for Dvorak's buoyant chamber work, which is permeated by Czech folk music, or dumka ("little thought"), the unpretentious but satisfying Slavic themes that delighted Dvorak. The Franc,aix String Trio, on the other side, has little to offer but excellent musicians giving their best to Franc,aix's 1933 neoclassical piece.
CINEMA
POOR COW. TV Director Kenneth Loach's first film tells the story of a scruffy London slum dweller (Carol White) with humanity that is never sentimental and humor that never jokes.
THE JUNGLE BOOK. Walt Disney's animated version of the Kipling children's classic is thoroughly delightful, and clearly aimed at the below-twelve market.
THE PRODUCERS has many things going for it--notably a wild ad-lib energy that explodes in sight gags and punch lines. Mel Brooks, creator of TV's Get Smart, wrote and directed this piece of lunacy about a pair of sleazy producers (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) who try to make a killing on a Broadway flop.
THE GRADUATE. Mike Nichols' second screen effort begins as genuine comedy, but soon degenerates into spurious melodrama, although Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft do an excellent job as victims of a sophomoric love triangle.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE NEW AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH, by Louis Keren. The Washington correspondent of the London Times casts a sympathetic eye on the U.S. political system.
SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807, by James Pope-Hennessy. The author documents the vast complex of international crime that sold people for profit--from its origins on the 15th century African Gold Coast to the Abolition Act of 1807.
TO BROOKLYN WITH LOVE, by Gerald Green. The sights, sounds and special excitement of Brownsville during the Depression are convincingly evoked in this memoir disguised as a novel by the author of The Last Angry Man.
THE NAKED APE, A ZOOLOGIST'S STUDY OF THE HUMAN ANIMAL, by Desmond Morris. A witty mixture of established anthropological theory and wild speculation on the evolution of Homo sapiens.
RIGHT & WRONG, by Paul Weiss and Jonathan Weiss. A dialogue between a father and son attempting to resolve problems of ethics and moral philosophy.
MAKING IT, by Norman Podhoretz. The literary critic and editor of Commentary tells of his lust for money, power and fame in this semi-autobiographical account of his career.
THE BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week) 2. Topaz, Uris (2) 3. Christy, Marshall (3) 4. The Instrument, O'Hara (5) 5. The Exhibitionist, Sutton (8) 6. Vanished, Knebel (9) 7. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (4) 8. The President's Plane Is Missing, Serling (7) 9. The Chosen, Potok (6) 10. Where Eagles Dare, MacLean (10)
NONFICTION 1. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (1) 2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (2) 3. Tolstoy, Troy at (3) 4. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (4) 5. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (6) 6. Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan (5) 7. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (8) 8. The Blast of War 1939-1945, Macmillan 9. Incredible Victory, Lord (10) 10. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman
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