TELEVISION
ABC completes its roster of new shows with eight premières this week, NBC introduces four of its new series, and CBS has three—with nine to follow next week.
Anyone with a large laid-in supply of food, drink and cigarettes—and a certain amount of endurance—can sample almost all the new wares at a single, two-week sitting.
Wednesday, September 16 SHINDIG (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* A variety show featuring different pop singers each week. Première.
MICKEY (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Mickey Rooney gives his first name and his talents to this new series about a Midwesterner who inherits a hotel on the West Coast.
Dina Merrill guest-stars in this first episode. Première.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Formerly Monday Night at the Movies; first picture of the new season is To Catch a Thief, that Hitchcock snitch switch in which Cat Burglar Gary Grant gets caught by Mouse Grace Kelly.
Thursday, September 17 THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A pre-election special.
BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Based on that old Veronica Lake movie, I Married a Witch, this new series has Witch Elizabeth Montgomery married to Mortal Dick York, and Agnes Moorehead as the witch's mother who objects to her daughter's marrying "something that is 90% water, 6% potash and 4% mohair." Première.
Friday, September 18
JONNY QUEST (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). A new animated-cartoon series devised by Hanna-Barbera (The Flintstones) about the eleven-year-old son of a scientist-explorer. Première.
THE ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A situation comedy based on Cartoonist Charles Addams' family of cartoon ghouls, with Carolyn Jones as Mother Morticia. Première.
VALENTINE'S DAY (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Anthony Franciosa plays Valentine Farrow, hero of this new series about a "dashing young bachelor-about-town who is senior nonfiction editor for a Park Avenue publishing house." Première.
12 O'CLOCK HIGH (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Yet another World War II dramatic series, this one follows the exploits of a daylight bombardment group in Europe. Paul Burke guest-stars in the first episode. Première.
SMALL TOWN U.S.A. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An NBC Special Projects program that explores contemporary problems of small towns, some of which are dying, others being engulfed by expanding cities, with visits to Cimarron, Kans., Bradenton, Fla., Bossier City, La., Greenville, Me., and Hellier, Ky. Fredric March narrates.
Saturday, September 19 SUMMER OLYMPIC TRIALS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Canoeing and the modern pentathlon plus a look at the U.S. Olympic team.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Yachts and autos—the America's Cup races off Newport, R.I., and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, Italy.
FLIPPER (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). A new adventure series starring a dolphin. Première.
THE FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A new animated cartoon series based on the movie cartoon character. Première.
KENTUCKY JONES (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A new series about a nine-year-old Chinese boy called Dwight Eisenhower Wong, and a veterinarian-horse trainer called Kentucky Jones. Première.