Television: Dec. 1, 1967

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Wednesday, November 29

CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "U.C.L.A. Has Hope" is the slogan of students counting on this benefit performance by Hope & Co. to replenish the U.C.L.A. Scholarship Fund. Jack Jones, Elke Sommer, The Kids Next Door, and the Look magazine All-America football team go back to school.

Thursday, November 30

THE PERRY COMO HOLIDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Perry's 20th anniversary as a TV headliner is bolstered by the presence of Rowan and Martin, the Jefferson Airplane, Bobbie Gentry, and Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66.

THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The Andrews Sisters and Lena Horne join Dino in song; Nightclub Comedian Don Rickles tosses wisecracks at an audience of notables, among them Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Pat Boone, Ernest Borgnine and Polly Bergen.

Friday, December 1

SAME MUD, SAME BLOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). To study the Negro soldier in Viet Nam, Newsman Frank McGee lived for nearly a month in the field with a platoon of the 101st Airborne Division.

Saturday, December 2

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 1:15 p.m. to conclusion). Army v. Navy at Philadelphia.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jimmy Ellis takes on Oscar Bonavena in a semifinal round of the elimination tournament to find a heavyweight champion to replace Cassius ("Muhammad Ali") Clay. Live from Lexington, Ky.

Sunday, December 3

LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). Adapted from S. Y. Agnon's short story Tehila, The Greatest Poet in Talpiot is a TV play about a character who remembers the past in an Israeli village.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Former Governor George Wallace is guest.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLE-HEADER (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Buffalo Bills v. the Kansas City Chiefs at Kansas City, followed by the Oakland Raiders v. the San Diego Chargers at San Diego. The NBC News Sunday Report is sandwiched in at half time.

THE TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SPECIAL (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). For a bit of musicalizing and a lot of laughs, Ernie gets together with Danny Thomas, The Dillards, Andy Griffith, Diana Ross and The Supremes.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). George Segal in King Rat (1965).

AMERICA AND AMERICANS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From John Steinbeck's recent book of the same title comes this picture essay on the paradoxes of America "complicated, bullheaded, shy, cruel, boisterous, unspeakably dear and very beautiful." Henry Fonda narrates.

Monday, December 4

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan arrives on TV with an international cast headed by French Canadian Actress Genevieve Bujold as Joan of Arc, supported by Theodore Bikel, Maurice Evans, Roddy McDowall, Raymond Massey, Leo Genn and James Donald.

Tuesday, December 5

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The 1967 National Drivers Test," a repeat to see how much if at all U.S. drivers have improved since last May.

HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Jimmy Durante plays host to Hostman Merv Griffin. Other guests are Ethel Merman and The Grassroots.

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