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Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Inner Space, Part II of The Mysterious Deep, with Swiss Oceanographer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Lieut. Don Walsh, holders of the world deep-diving record (35,000 ft.).
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.). Alas, Babylon, Pat Frank's tale of atomic war.
Mon., April 4
Oscar Awards (NBC, 10:30-12 midnight). The annual prize fest.
Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Still trying to live up to its boast, "TV's Finest Hour" presents a Hitchcock slant on unsavory antics in suburbia.
THEATER
Off Broadway
Henry IV, Part I. The repertory group of Manhattan's Phoenix Theater has done so well with Falstaff, Hotspur, and Prince Hal that it has decided to do Part II when the present run ends April 10.
On Broadway
The Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young Jewish girl possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) succeeds as a genuine theater piece.
A Thurber Carnival. In the country of Humorist James Thurber, there is a nut behind every tree: Tom Ewell, Paul Ford, Alice Ghostley, Peggy Cass, John McGiver.
Toys in the Attic. In one of Broadway's rare original plays, Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman once more proves herself both craftsman and writer, powerfully examines a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) and his maiden sisters (Anne Revere, Maureen Stapleton).
Fiorello! La Guardia, New York's most colorful mayor since the last Canarsie Indian chief, bursts into life again on the musical stage in a light and delightful evening planned by Director George Abbott, accomplished by Actor Tom-Bosley.
The Miracle Worker. Actress Anne Bancroft plays the Irish tutor who draws the deaf-mute child Helen Keller (Patty Duke) into the light of language. The play is uncoordinated, but the acting makes for a deeply moving evening.
The Andersonville Trial. Sharply theatrical treatment of a war-crimes trial after the U.S. Civil War that evokes (but never quite faces) the moral issues also raised by Nuremberg.
Five Finger Exercise. Subsurface warfare in a devastatingly familiar family. With Jessica Tandy, Roland Culver.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee. The British poet's unsentimental account of his boyhood in a rural village is rich in common truths uncommonly stated.
Commandant of Auschwitz, by Rudolf Hoess. A revolting book, but one that should be read: the autobiography of the SS captain, since executed, who gassed 2,000,000 Jews at Auschwitz but saw himself as a loyal officer carrying out a vexing assignment.
The Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. A zestful biography of John Hunter, brilliant, eccentric 18th century surgeon who did as much as any man to turn surgery and pathology into sciences.
Frank Harris: The Life and Loves of a Scoundrel, by Vincent Brome. Less scatological but more truthful than Harris' own notorious account of his life, this biography offers a good portrait of the British editor, lecher and liar.
A European Education, by Romain Gary. A Polish boy learns bitter lessons during the Nazi occupation.
Passage of Arms, by Eric Ambler. Flimflammery among gunrunners in the Orient.