Wednesday, March 8
ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* The 1961 science-fiction thriller that became a prototype for the current TV serial, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Joan Fontaine, Walter Pidgeon and Peter Lorre.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Giovanni's Wedding," an original five-act musical based on some of Kaye's earlier sketches about a shy Italian-tailor-come-to-America. Amzie Strickland plays the widow who breaks through Giovanni's shell and gently leads him to the altar.
Thursday, March 9
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Moscow State Circus," taped in Minsk, with Dinah Shore as hostess. The seven acts include the famed Dudykchau Teeterboard Tumblers, the Potchernikova Bears, the Berikovi Aerial Rockets.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Trilogy: The American Boy," three short films that capture the precarious moments of youth entering manhood. Skaterdater, an 18-minute Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner, careens along on a skateboard; The River Boy and Reflections move the viewer from a Louisiana bayou boyhood to life in New York City.
Saturday, March 11
N.I.T. BASKETBALL (CBS, 2-4 p.m.). First round of the 30th annual National Invitation Tournament, live from Madison Square Garden.
SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Doug Sanders meets Harold Henning at the Frankfurter Golf Club in Frankfurt am Main. Germany. Gene Sarazen and Jimmy Demaret describe the action.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Telecast live from Cobo Hall, Detroit, the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Sunday, March 12
DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Two children of American embassy officials show what life is like for 150 American youngsters living in Moscow. They tour the American embassy, Red Square and the Kremlin Palace, and they discuss their frequently lonely existence in a strange and sometimes hostile land.
THE VINE (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Although it was filmed mainly in the Holy Land, this life of Christ achieves a new dimension as it ranges from a shell-wracked battlefield in Viet Nam to a New York City ghetto and a Paris fashion salon.
THE CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The Boy with Glasses is a sensitive Japanese film about a youngster frightened by the prospect of having to wear glasses and his gradual understanding that a person is not judged by appearance alone.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "At Home, 2001." A startling and hopeful look at what modern technology, architecture and city planning promise for the future.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Toscanini: the Maestro Revisited" commemorates the 100th birthday anniversary of Arturo Toscanini with excerpts from symphony telecasts, home movies and comments on his approach to his art by Conductors George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf and Milton Katims. Harold Schonberg narrates.
ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Haunting (1963), an icy view of the supernatural at work in a New England mansion under investigation by a team of psychic researchers. Julie Harris, Claire Bloom and Richard Johnson are the ghost wrestlers.
Tuesday, March 14