Wednesday, June 30
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* This Could Be the Night (MGM, 1957), a singularly crisp, sophisticated comedy in which Jean Simmons plays a schoolteacher who takes a part-time job in a nightclub owned by Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa.
THE LUCY-DESI COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The first in a series of eleven reruns of old Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz specials, this one has a guest appearance by Danny Thomas.
ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A critical evaluation of L.B.J. by men close to his four predecessors: Kennedy Biographer James MacGregor Burns, Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, Truman Economist Leon Keyserling, and Roosevelt Brain-Truster Thomas Corcoran.
Friday, July 2
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Think Pretty," Fred Astaire's first TV musical comedy, in which he plays the owner of a record company. Repeat.
Saturday, July 3
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The A.A.U. National Track and Field Championships from San Diego. Winners will compete in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. track meet to be televised from Russia via Early Bird satellite on July 31 and Aug. 1.
Sunday, July 4
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part II of a profile of Songwriter Harold Arlen, including old film clips of Judy Garland singing Arlen's Over the Rainbow and The Man That Got Away.
WORLD WAR I (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Tipperary and All That Jazz"—songs of the home front and battlefield. Repeat.
NBC'S SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Highlights of two British sporting events: the Ascot Gold Cup horse race and Wimbledon.
Monday, July 5
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Napoleon Solo and Illya beard George Sanders in a British castle in "The Gazebo in the Maze Affair." Repeat.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Although shadowed by miscasting, Tennessee Williams' 20-year-old family drama is still evocative and haunting—and the best serious play on Broadway.
HALF A SIXPENCE is a pleasant showcase for Tommy Steele, an ingratiating pre-Beatle Beatle. Bright tunes and dances seem brighter when brushed with the Steele charm.
THE ODD COUPLE. Two men breaking out of wedlock find the freedom of regained bachelorhood more agony than ecstasy. Walter Matthau and Art Carney are hilarious as mismatched roommates.
LUV frolics through the mazes and labyrinths of three pseudo-Freudian psyches —all suffering from nothing more than acute self-attention. Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach are brilliant.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's romantic merry-go-round, a neurotic prostitute (Diana Sands) has a priggish book clerk (Alan Alda) running around in sidesplitting circles.
Off Broadway
LIVE LIKE PIGS. Violence erupts when a band of nomads are forced to settle in a housing development in the north of England. British Playwright John Arden makes an auspicious U.S. debut with a boisterous and stunning play.