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ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-1 1 p.m.). Taylor and Burton discover that "this marriage can be saved" if they are marooned at an airport long enough in The V.I.P.s (1963).
Monday, April 10 CHARLIE BROWN's ALL STARS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Rebroadcast of the famous game in which the "Peanuts" gang suffered their 999th straight loss.
39TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS PRESENTATION (ABC, 10 p.m. till conclusion). Hope returns with this year's team of presenters, including Fred Astaire, Rosalind Russell, James Stewart, Vanessa Redgrave, Patricia Neal, Audrey Hepburn.
Tuesday, April 11 SPECIAL−DICK VAN DYKE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In his first comedy-variety special, Dick Van Dyke ranges the musical scale from Margie to Bach, assisted by guest star, Phil Erickson.
CBS NEWS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Morley Safer's Viet Nam," a look at the land's many faces: the clamor of Saigon and the desolate boondocks; privileged ladies sipping tea with Madame Ky and women toiling in the paddyfields; men fighting in the jungle, girls bathing at the beach.
THEATER
On Broadway
YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson uses sex to ski through four separate playlets, and the trip is thoroughly enjoyable—even if a trifle obsessive. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard slalom through the comedy with dazzling grace, while Director Alan Schneider unleashes the humor in a blizzard of hilarity.
THE HOMECOMING. British Playwright Harold Pinter never shouts. He whispers, and his whispers echo endlessly. Performed by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Hall, his drama is as entertaining as it is compelling. As the whispers speak of family, of love, of men and women, of exploitation, every word carries weight, every pause makes a point.
BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy—literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit — watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness.
THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY. The mix in the company's current dramatic bag is set in the English drawing room and the Norwegian household; it is culled from the Russian epic and the American farce. Rosemary Harris leads the highly competent group in School for Scandal, The Wild Duck, War and Peace and You Can't Take It with You.
WALKING HAPPY has bounce, zing, and Wisdom—Norman that is. The musical adaptation of H. G. Brighouse's Hobson's Choice tells of a shoemaker reluctantly pulled up by the bootstraps and the determination of a self-appointed fiancee. While the music ho-hums along, Danny Daniels' dashing choreography keeps the show high-kicking.
AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. The humor of Michael Flanders' and Donald Swann's revue resembles a martini: it goes down smoothly, is slightly sly, and definitely dry.
Off Broadway
HAMP. John Wilson probes the conflict between discipline and compassion in an absorbing drama about a court-martial amidst the guns of World War I. Robert Salvio's portrayal of Private Hamp, a pebble of innocence crushed by the inexorable wheels of the military machine, is both sensitive and touching.