Wednesday, April 26
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* "Soldier in Love," an original drama set in 18th century England that recounts the story of Sir Winston Churchill's ancestors John and Sarah Churchill, who married to the dismay of their respective families but to the delight of Queen Anne. Starring Jean Simmons, Claire Bloom, Keith Michell, Basil Rathbone and Roy Poole.
Thursday, April 27
TWIGGY IN NEW YORK (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Photographer Bert Stern catches the lanky Britisher looking at New York and New Yorkers as they stare back.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). James Mason in John Le Carre's "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," a tale of an ingenious escape from East Germany. Repeat.
Saturday, April 29
THE SAM SNEAD GOLF SHOW (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Sam starts an instructional series that includes a helpful round with an elderly duffer at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Premiere.
Sunday, April 30
EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Author George Plimpton (The Paper Lion) hosts "Movies in the Now Generation," eight short films made by students in England, Poland, Belgium and the U.S.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Conquering the Sea." A look at all the strange and wonderful tools being developed for mankind to exploit the ocean depths—with fish ranches, coal and diamond mines, even hydroelectric stations to generate power.
THE PILL (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Hugh Downs hosts a special edition of the Today show that tries to place the birth control pill in medical and moral perspective through interviews with medical authorities, clergy and users of the contraceptive.
Monday, May 1
ZERO HOUR (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Zero Mostel in a one-man concert of singing, dancing and comedy.
Tuesday, May 2
THE NATIONAL SCIENCE TEST (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Having already tested its viewers on driving, health, income tax and politics, CBS now wants to find out how much they know about the sciences.
THEATER
On Broadway
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson splashes sex around and raises a steady spray of humor for Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard, who develop his four playlets with insouciant grace and professional skill.
THE HOMECOMING. An arid intellectual and his sex-parched wife arrive in London from the U.S. to visit his bull walrus of a father and two brothers in a house the family calls the "land of no holds barred."
He eventually flees, but she stays on—with pleasure. Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company give the latest puzzle from Playwright Harold Pinter a polished, tempered performance.
BLACK COMEDY. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is totally dark; when the lights are supposed to be off, the stage is ablaze, allowing the audience to see Peter Shaffer's electrically amusing farce about antics in the dark.
CABARET has nothing beneath its glossy veneer but another veneer. The musical version of / Am a Camera strikes notes of originality in its production but merely plays the old saws in its book and score.
Off Broadway