Television: Sep. 30, 1966

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Wednesday, September 28 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A toast, in film clips, to old Ski Nose's leading ladies, among them Dorothy Lamour, Lana Tur ner, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr and Arlene Dahl. Also appearing are Old Comrades Jerry Colonna and Bandleader Les Brown.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An original musical fantasy by Richard Adler, "Olympus 7-0000," concerns the trials and tribulations of men and gods con fronted with college football. Donald O'Connor plays Hermes, Larry Blyden a fumbling football coach, Phyllis Newman the coach's mythologically minded fiancee.

The New York Jets and a couple of goats figure strongly in the play.

Thursday, September 29 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gia Scala and Nehemiah Persoff are guest stars in "Upbeat and Underground," in which the Jericho team tries to spirit the 100-man French National Symphony Or chestra out of its Nazi-occupied homeland.

THE HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In "Curiosity Killed a Key," a mysterious key turns up in the house of Sam Garret (Richard Mulligan) and becomes the talk of the neighborhood. As a topper, it is found to fit a somewhat improper lock.

Friday, September 30 THE TIME TUNNEL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).

In "The Day the Sky Fell Down," a chill ing reunion takes place when the Time Tunnel transports Tony (James Darren) back to 1941 and Pearl Harbor, where he meets his father, who was killed during the attack. Tony tries to warn the older man of the coming disaster.

Saturday, October 1 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). Missouri and U.C.L.A. pit their star quarterbacks, Charlie Brown and Gary Beban, against each other in Los Angeles.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).

Impossible Mission Force, the counter espionage team, stages a counterplot to stave off the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.

GUNSMOKE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Bette Da vis guest-stars as an embittered ranch wid ow who, with her four sons, holds Marshal Dillon and Kitty prisoners while plotting the marshal's death.

Sunday, October 2 SPECIAL CBS NEWS BROADCAST (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The Hat, a much-acclaimed 1964 short cartoon about barriers between na tions narrated by Dizzy Gillespie and Dud ley Moore, is shown and then discussed for its social significance by an interfaith group of clergymen.

i BELIEVE (NBC, 4:30-5 p.m.). A doc umentary film on the work of a Prince of Peace Volunteers group in New York City slums. Walt Reiner, onetime University of Valparaiso football coach and now di rector of the Volunteers, tells about his 34 teams around the U.S. and overseas and his plans for the future.

NBC NEWS SPECIAL: THE AGONY OF TWO CITIES (NBC, 6:30-8:30 p.m.). NBC concentrates on Cleveland and Chicago for a filmed documentary about the social changes under way in the North and how white Northerners feel about it.

* All times E.D.T.

Monday, October 3

RUN, BUDDY, RUN (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Buddy (Jack Sheldon) eludes an arch-criminal's henchmen in a knife-throwing act; then the villain tracks our hero to a waterfront pier for a final confrontation.

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