Wednesday, January 4 ABC STAGE 67 (ABC. 10-11 p.m.).* "The Trap of Solid Gold" explores the familiar paradox of the executive who can't live on his income. Starring those newlyweds, Cliff Robertson and Dina Merrill.
Thursday, January 5 LAOS: THE FORGOTTEN WAR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of three shows called "The Battle for Asia," this one documents the war in Laos and the life of the Meo tribesmen, who are doing most of the fighting against the Communists.
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (1961), with Geraldine Page and Laurence Harvey.
PRO FOOTBALL'S SHOTGUN MARRIAGE:
SONNY, MONEY AND MERGER (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The merger of the National and American Football Leagues, with special emphasis on Sonny Werblin, owner of the A.F.L.'s New York Jets, the fellow who started the courtship in 1962.
Friday, January 6 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC. 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest Star Victor Borge plays a scientist who takes his cue from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes and sets his secrets to music to keep them from evil hands.
Saturday, January 7 SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Gene Sarazen and Jimmy Demaret host a new series of matches between various pros on the world's most famous courses. This week it's Tommy Jacobs v. Bruce Devlin at the Golf Club of Rome.
WORLD PREMIERE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Another in the series of full-length movies released first on TV. How I Spent My Summer Vacation, with Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford, Lola Albright. Walter Pidgeon and Jill St. John.
THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Ray Bolger plays host to Diahann Carroll, Audrey Meadows, The King Family and Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Sunday, January 8 DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Exploring "The Age of Mechanical Marvels" with a visit to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., to see the Model Ts and such other turn-of-the-century wonders as the charcoal-heated iron and the gasoline-heated bathtub.
THE CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.).
The first in a four-part series on "The Church and War" that traces the major historical developments in the church's teaching on war and peace.
Monday, January 9 MR. TERRIFIC (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Stanley Beamish (Stephen Strimpell) is a meek service-station operator until he takes a "power pill" developed by the Government's Bureau of Secret Projects. Premiere.
CAPTAIN NICE (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). More of the same—only now it's a Milquetoast police-department chemist named Carter Nash (William Daniels), who turns into a superhuman crime fighter after drinking a secret formula. Premiere.
Tuesday, January 10 THE INVADERS (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).
A young architect (Roy Thinnes) spots a flying saucer landing and—guess what?—nobody believes him. Premiere.
CBS REPORTS: THE FARTHEST FRONTIER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on the promise and problems involved in the use of the new drugs that twist and untwist minds.
THEATER
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