TELEVISION
Television's shining moments seem to come when it shoots for the moon. During their ten-day coverage of the Apollo 12 mission, the networks plan to relay live color television of the astronauts' moon walk, which is set for Wednesday, Nov. 19. Lift-off is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 14, at 11:22 a.m., and will be covered live by all networks.
Wednesday, November 12
HEY, HEY, HEY—IT'S FAT ALBERT (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Bill Cosby's famous characters come to animated life for a football game between Bill's team and the Green Street Terrors.
JOHNNY CARSON'S REPERTORY COMPANY IN AN EVENING OF COMEDY (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). George C. Scott, Maureen Stapleton and Marian Mercer are formidable assets for even an NBC Prince of Players.
DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES AND THE TEMPTATIONS ON BROADWAY (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). When the titles get this long, need more be said?
NORMAN ROCKWELL'S AMERICA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Some of the famous illustrator's works come alive through the efforts of Jonathan Winters, Michele Lee and Dick Smothers.
THE MERV GRIFFIN SHOW (CBS, 11:30-1 a.m.). Special guest is Mrs. Rose Kennedy.
Thursday, November 13
THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-10:45 p.m.). James Garner, Jean Simmons, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross and Suzanne Pleshette in Hollywood's version of Evan Hunter's bestselling story about an amnesia victim's search for identity, Mister Buddwing (1966).
Friday, November 14
FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).
If you can't get your husband's attention, you might follow Natalie Wood's example and try robbing his bank. But then you might also have Penelope's problem and find that you were a successful robber (1966).
Saturday, November 15
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau made dough in Billy Wilder's The Fortune Cookie (1966), even though the show was rather crummy.
Sunday, November 16
WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Sockeye salmon head upstream for a fishy version of the mating game.
THE ADVOCATES (NET, 10-11 p.m.). The pros and cons of the Federal Government's right to continue issuing off-shore leases for oil drilling is up for public debate.
Tuesday, November 18
THE WOLF MEN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). James Coburn narrates this examination of the scientific work being done to learn more about the wolf and the efforts to prevent its extinction.
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Charles Collingwood examines the situation in "Can South Vietnam Go It Alone?"
THEATER
JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and to make his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller.
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. The basic plot of this tepid little comedy is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl. Playwright Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself but simply a one-man situation-and-gag file.