Wednesday, April 22
OPENING NIGHT AT THE WORLD'S FAIR (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* A grand tour of the New York World's Fair, with Host Henry Fonda and Special Guides Carol Channing, Fred MacMurray and Marian Anderson.
Friday, April 24
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. Groucho Marx star in a comedy written by Groucho and Norman Krasna.
Saturday, April 25
NBC SPORTS SPECIAL (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The N.Y. Athletic Club international fencing tournament.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Kay Kendall, in one of her most delightful performances, as stepmother to The Reluctant Debutante, with Rex Harrison and Sandra Dee.
Sunday, April 26
DISCOVERY (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The Arizona Desert.
SHAKESPEARE: SOUL OF AN AGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of the highly acclaimed 1962 special in which Ralph Richardson narrates the story of Shakespeare's life, illustrated by visits to Stratford-on-Avon and other pertinent sites, while Michael Redgrave and other leading British actors read from the plays.
Monday, April 27
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy as the father and Elizabeth Taylor as the bride.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at "The Great Directors."
Tuesday, April 28
BOXING'S LAST ROUND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). David Brinkley ponders whether professional boxing should be outlawed.
THEATER
On Broadway
HAMLET is played by Richard Burton as Hamlet would have liked to have been—masterly, heroic, and never self-doubting. The tragedy is missing, but the production is lucid, fresh and vivid, and Burton makes the lines ring with present meaning rather than bygone eloquence.
HIGH SPIRITS. Such wildly improbable sprites as Bea Lillie and Tammy Grimes spook the musical version of Noöl Coward's Blithe Spirit into comic afterlife. Danny Daniels' dancers are wide-eyed and their steps nimbly inventive.
FUNNY GIRL. The many-splendored talents of Barbra Streisand not only recreate the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice but mark the shining birth of the theater's new girl for all seasons.
ANY WEDNESDAY. Anyone would swear that Sandy Dennis was a child bride, except that in this blithehearted bedtime story she is the mistress of a busy tycoon.
DYLAN. With mirth, sorrow, and an occasional flourish of eloquence, this play chronicles the U.S. reading tours of Dylan Thomas as the poet dipsy-doodled away his life. In the title role, Alec Guinness is uncannily good.
HEtLO, DOLLY! is a twinkle-toed musical, thanks to Director-Choreographer Gower Champion's dancers and to a raffish, resourceful matchmaker, Carol Channing.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. As a knavish TV writer-producer—not without charm—Robert Preston uses the backfire from his faulty schemes to set bonfires under the next person he wants to roast.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Barely married and blissful but bickering, Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford cope with each other and with some engagingly kooky visitors.
Off Broadway