Television: May 3, 1968

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Wednesday, May 1

THE DOM DeLUISE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Actor-Comedian Dom DeLuise replaces Jonathan Winters on the summer schedule with the same old variety-comedy format. Guests are Bill McCutcheon, Marian Mercer, Paul Dooley and the Gentry Brothers. Premiere.

Thursday, May 2

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Admirable Crichton. Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, the husband-and-wife team from the motion picture Born Free (1966), make their American TV debut in this adaptation of Sir James Barrie's 1902 comedy about a family of English aristocrats marooned with their servants on an island.

Friday, May 3

MAN IN A SUITCASE (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Subbing for Operation: Entertainment this summer is Richard Bradford in yet another spy series. Premiere.

WE WON'T GO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of the small but growing number of young men whose angry opposition to the Viet Nam war and bitter disillusionment with U.S. society have led to self-exile and the familiar chant, "Hell no, we won't go." Correspondent George Page gives a report on draft resisters in Canada, Sweden and the U.S. in an effort to evaluate the severe implications of their civil disobedience.

Saturday, May 4

THE KENTUCKY DERBY (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). First of the Triple Crown thoroughbred races. The 94th running of the Kentucky Derby, telecast live from Churchill Downs, Louisville.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Figure Skating from Geneva, Switzerland, featuring World Champions Peggy Fleming, Emmerich Danzer and the Protopopov hus-band-and-wife team; International Crosscountry Motorcycle Racing championships from Simi, Calif.

Sunday, May 5

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Fred Waring and Robert Goulet join Ed in saluting Irving Berlin on his 80th birthday.

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ship of Fools (1965). Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Jose Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner and George Segal star in the motion-picture adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's best-selling 1962 novel. Repeat.

Tuesday, May 7

CAMPAIGN '68: INDIANA PRIMARY (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). CBS continues its cover age of this topsy-turvy political year with live reports from the candidates' head quarters, comment by Anchorman Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Joseph Benti, and computer analysis of the early pri mary returns.

NBC NEWS SPECIAL REPORT (NBC, 11:30 p.m.-12 midnight). An evening wrap-up of the Indiana primary, with Frank McGee as anchorman in Indianapolis.

Check local listings for dates and times of these NET programs:

NET FESTIVAL. "Elisabeth Schwarzkopf." The world-famous soprano in a recital of songs and arias by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Wolf and Strauss. Repeat.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Color Us Black." A documentary of the conflict between militant black students and the administration of Howard University filmed during the "sleep-in" that closed down the university for four days in March.

THEATER

On Broadway

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