Wednesday, October 2
BASEBALL WORLD SERIES (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion).* The Cardinals and the Tigers begin their best-of-seven series at Busch Stadium, St. Louis. Second game Thursday, same time. Third and fourth games Saturday and Sunday from Tiger Stadium, 1 p.m. If necessary, fifth game will be played Monday in Detroit.
ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Cat Ballon (1965). Lee Marvin in his Oscar-winning dual role as a drunken gunfighter and a hilariously sinister killer. Also stars Jane Fonda.
Thursday, October 3
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Night of the Iguana (1964). John Huston directs one of the best movies ever made from a Tennessee Williams play. Richard Burton is the renegade reverend, Deborah Kerr the peripatetic painter and Ava Gardner the rampant tramp.
Saturday, October 5
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:45-4:15 p.m.). The National Drag Racing Championships from Indianapolis; and International Figure Skating from West Berlin.
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:15-7:30 p.m.). University of Washington v. Oregon State.
NBC SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Khartoum (1966). Cinerama spectacle of the 1884 Moslem siege of the British-held fortress at Khartoum.
With Charlton Heston, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Ralph Richardson, Nigel Green and Richard Johnson.
Sunday, October 6
OLYMPIC PREVIEW SPECIAL (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Sports Commentators Chris Schenkel, Jim McKay and Bill Flemming pick U.S. and international Olympic favorites. Also films of past Olympic games.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Contender," Part 1. Former Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson guest-stars as a boxing-syndicate henchman who is kayoed by the impossible missions force.
Monday, October 7
THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Trini Lopez and Nanette Fabray join Carol in spoofing soapers ("As the Stomach Turns") and westerns ("The Mild, Mild West").
Tuesday, October 8
NBC TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Gambit (1966). A lesson in international cat burglary, with Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine.
Check local listings for date and time of this NET special:
THE POPULATION PROBLEM. "Brazil—The Gathering Millions." This documentary traces the migration of farm workers from Brazil's hinterlands, where work is scarce, to urban areas where for some there is nothing but further despair. First in a six-part series on the problems of overpopulation in the world.
THEATER
On Broadway LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS. Four diverting playlets about love, sex, and marriage. While not overly witty or wise, they foam with gentle laughter.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. In Tom Stoppard's arresting drama on inevitability, the Wittenberg Wunderkinder wander around Elsinore like two extras to whom no roles have been as signed, and who cannot even decipher whether they are part of a comedy or a tragedy.
PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon makes three bids to provide amusement and, ably assisted by Director Mike Nichols and Actors Maureen Stapleton and E. G. Marshall, scores a grand slam.
Off Broadway