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DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Hume Cronyn narrates the first of three parts, "The Sacred Lake of the Taos," dealing with New Mexico's Taos Pueblo Indians and their fight with the U.S. Government over rights to their sacred Blue Lake area.
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Host Marlin Perkins tracks deep into Indian jungles for his film, "The Tigers of Sariska," starring a Bengal tigress and her two cubs.
BACK TO BUDAPEST (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). NBC News Correspondent Frank Bourgholtzer, who reported the 1956 Hungarian revolution, returns for a look at family and factory life in the satellite capital.
Monday, November 14 RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Enemies become allies when Germans join with Rat Patrol Raiders to stave off an Arab attack.
Tuesday, November 15 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on "The State of the Unions," reviewing the history of American unionism and discussing present-day problems—from the fight to organize a grape workers' union in California to the U.A.W.'s complex operations at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn, Mich., plant.
THEATER
On Broadway
HOW'S THE WORLD TREATING YOU? manages to be blisteringly funny in the modern British fashion as it peppers hypocrisy, respectability, caste and class snobbery and native Blimpcompoops. Two insuperable zanies, Peter Bayliss and Patricia Routledge, volley comic antics back and forth with the precision of a finals match at Wimbledon.
THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus' comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera On the air, Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her loving listeners tune out, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-and-cigar-flavored tyrant with whiplash language.
THE APPLE TREE spoofs Adam and Eve and other celebrated romances, including the requited love of a slavey for Hollywood stardom. Despite the saucily mocking presence of Barbara Harris, the evening consists of flabby satire, cartoon comedy and plop art.
A DELICATE BALANCE, by Edward Albee, has echoes of Pinterish menace and Cocktail Party elegance as it mutedly discusses the absence of love and the anguish of aloneness. The characters fill and refill their whisky glasses, but the play is empty of thought or drama.
MAME. Every family has its black sheep but few have a renegade as racy as the tante terrible of the Dennis clan. The staging of this musical is sensational, the performances professional. The music, however, is distinguished only by its volume.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! A son of the Ould Sod cuts 'through the Irish mist that envelops his boyhood village as he sets out for a metropolis in an alien land. Playwright Brian Friel tells his tale with invention and compassion.
SWEET CHARITY, a musical suggested by Fellini's Nights of Cabirici, chronicles the sexcapades of a Manhattan taxi dancer who's looking for a one-way ticket to the altar. Gwen Verdon leads a high-kicking troupe through Bob Fosse's choreographic wonderland.
WAIT A MINIM! has held a stage in Manhattan for seven months now, after stops in Johannesburg and London, us South African octet offers well-paced skits even if the targets of its satire are slightly behind the times.