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THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Nancy Sinatra, Diana Ross and the Supremes. and Spanky and Our Gang provide a foundation of rock for this week's show, which also stars Jimmy Dean and George Carlin.
THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ICE CAPADES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Comics Rowan and Martin co-host an abridged edition of the 28th annual Ice Capades. Joanie Sommers and the Harper's Bizarre pitch in with songs.
ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-12 p.m.). Guys and Dolls (1955) with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine.
Monday, March 25
ARMSTRONG CIRCLE THEATER (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Robert Goulet, as a latter-day Petruchio, and Carol Lawrence, as the shrew he tamed, star in a new TV adaptation of the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate.
Tuesday, March 26
HOW LIFE BEGINS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Commercial TV's first documentary on the subject examines the process of reproduction in single-celled organisms, plants, animals and humans. The film footage includes the mating displays of butterflies and prairie hens, as well as a human birth photographed at New York's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals.
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Stranger on (lie Run, an original TV movie, with Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter, Michael Parks, Dan Duryea and Sal Mineo.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Britain's Lord Snowdon photographed and directed this documentary on the problems of aging. Such diverse figures as Field Marshal Montgomery, Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Sculptress Barbara Hepworth and Twiggy voice their thoughts in "Don't Count the Candles."
THEATER
On Broadway THE GUIDE is a showcase for Pakistani Actor Zia Mohyeddin, who gives an electric performance as a jailbird mistaken for a holy man by the people of an Indian village. He is having a ball, until a drought and a misunderstanding force him into a real Gandhi-type fast. The play itself, adapted by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart from a novel by R. K. Narayan, is disappointingly thin in emotion and thick in talk.
PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN is part dear-diary journal and part dusty political imbroglios, but mostly a record of a woman who also happened to be Queen Victoria. Dorothy Tutin wears the role like a tiara, moving from a spoiled child of power to a yielding, sensuous wife to a desolate widow with the fatigue of existence in her voice.
PLAZA SUITE. If hotel walls had ears and Neil Simon's comic prowess—they might tell tales as mirth provoking as these three one-act plays. Directed by Mike Nichols, Suite manages to exercise the funny bone while keeping a sympathetic finger on the human pulse.
THE PRICE. Arthur Miller again walks the treadmill of filial duties and familial guilts as two brothers (Pat Hingle and Arthur Kennedy) meet in the attic of their former home to evaluate the. monetary price of their possessions and the existential cost of their choices.
JOE EGG. Peter Nichols takes audacious risks in his play about a couple with a spastic child, putting an innately tragic situation through vaudevillian turns. Albert Finney and Zena Walker make the transitions between clowning and enduring with skill and taste.