Wednesday, January 27
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).* Paramount's 1951 movie version of Sidney Kingsley's excellent play Detective Story, with Kirk Douglas and Eleanor Parker.
Thursday, January 28
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a television adaptation of Emmet Lavery's The Magnificent Yankee, a dramatization of the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Saturday. January 30
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Two-Man Bobsled Championships from St. Moritz and the International Surfing Championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii.
Sunday, January 31
THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). The first in a series of four specials on the world of hunting and fishing.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Nisei: The Pride and the Shame," a documentary on the Japanese Americans who were in internment camps in the U.S. during World War II while other Japanese Americans were fighting and dying in the armed services.
WORLD WAR 1 (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Daredevils and Dogfights," the beginnings of war in the air.
PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The story of Frederick Douglass, a fugitive slave who crusaded publicly against slavery and prejudice before, during and after the Civil War.
FOR THE PEOPLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). William Shatner plays a prosecuting attorney in a new series that replaces one of the early-season CBS casualties. Premiére.
THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). One, Two, Three, Billy Wilder's marvelous spoof about a Coca-Cola exec in West Berlin, featuring a virtuoso performance by James Cagney.
Monday, February 1
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Richard Haydn guest-stars as a mild-mannered threat to U.N.C.L.E.
Tuesday, February 2
THE RED SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Francomime Marcel Marceau appears in four of his favorite sketches, and plays Pinocchio to Red Skelton's Geppetto as well.
THEATER
On Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days, man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina—his wife.
With Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett deftly handling the key roles, this wry, observant comedy argues with cogency that marriage is funny as hell.
TINY ALICE. Mystification is the end result of Edward Albee's quasi-metaphysical suspense melodrama centering on the relationship between a lay brother (John Gielgud) and the richest woman in the world (Irene Worth). The burden of feeling rests on the language and a supremely competent cast.
HUGHIE. Jason Robards and Eugene O'Neill prove incomparable stage mates once again in this engrossing and poignant-study of a man's need for a false mirror wherein he may see himself as he is not.
POOR RICHARD. Alan Bates plays a lovable lush and a poet pursued—by his own doubts and remorse, plus a sweet honey-blonde. He conquers his qualms and loses to her winning ways in Jean Kerr's sporadically amusing comedy.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoffs sly interpretation of the mating ritual, a saucy prostitute (Diana Sands) runs circles around a stuffy book clerk (Alan Alda). To his horror and the playgoer's amusement, he helps her trap him.