Wednesday, November 9
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.)* Movie Director Otto Preminger briefly reverts to acting in the guest role of Mr. Freeze, threatening to cool everybody in Gotham City unless they ante up $1 billion in antifreeze.
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). When a songwriter (Peter Falk) hits it big and a society girl (Janet Leigh) just as suddenly runs into hard times, their mutual tax man recommends a merger for the best tax break. The momentous question: will their compatibility extend beyond IRS Form 1040?
THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Actor Robert Lansing's real wife, Emily McLaughlin, drops in for a guest bit of spy spoofing in "Pay Now, Pray Later."
CLOWN ALLEY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Red Skelton & Co. in a special tribute to the circus funnymen. With Jackie Coogan, Audrey Meadows, Robert Merrill, Vincent Price, Martha Raye, Cesar Romero, Amanda Blake and Bobby Rydell.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A city dweller's nightmare becomes reality in 2067, when the U.S. population tops 1 billion, and it takes three weeks to travel the traffic-jammed four miles from New York City's Battery Park to Times Square. (Actually, a lot of New Yorkers feel that 2067 is here already.) Caught in "The People Trap" are Stuart Whitman, Vera Miles, Connie Stevens and Lee Grant.
Thursday, November 10 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The grass is always greener on the other side of the tube, so Singer Vic Damone crosses over to play a paisano partisan who helps the Allied agents on the Jericho team.
BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Those unconvinced by official stories about what caused the great East Coast blackout last year now have an occult explanation in "The Short Happy Circuit of Aunt Clara."
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). High politics in Allen Drury's Advise and Consent (1962) with Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford and Gene Tierney.
Friday, November 11
THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). In Major Dundee (1965), Charlton Heston as a Union officer and Richard Harris as a Confederate prisoner join forces to defeat a marauding Apache
" HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Geraldine Page and Anthony Quayle going Barefoot in Athens, and having a rough time of it as Socrates (Ustinov) is ordered to stand trial for corrupting the thoughts of Athenian youth. Hemlock for those who miss it.
Saturday, November 12
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National "500" Stock Car championship, Charlotte, N.C.; the World Lumberjack championships, Hayward, Wis.; and a preview of the Nov. 14 Clay-Williams heavyweight championship fight in Houston.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). James Stewart and Doris Day in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
Sunday, November 13
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "The World Beneath the Sea," first of two parts examining the work of marine biologists at Miami University who are working to increase the food harvest from the three-fourths of the earth that is ocean.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney.