Wednesday, January 22
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A report on the narcotics racket, with exclusive films of the bosses and street pushers.
BEN CASEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dr. Casey has to decide whether to attempt brain surgery on an amnesia victim. Robert Walker guest-stars.
Friday, January 24
BELL SYSTEM SCIENCE SERIES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A Walt Disney documentary on oceanography. Color.
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tonight's list of suspects includes Terry-Thomas, Dorothy Lamour, Jeanne Grain and Carolyn Jones.
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The week's events are lampooned by David Frost, Nancy Ames, Henry Morgan and others.
Saturday, January 25
IX WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES (ABC, 6:30-7 p.m.). The last in a series of 14 previews takes viewers on a tour of the installations at Innsbruck and analyzes the potentials of the competing athletes.
Sunday, January 26
DISCOVERY '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The discoveries of Thomas Edison are recreated for children.
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Finals of the ten-day "World Series" of bowling from Dallas. Also the world pentathlon championship from Berne, Switzerland.
ONE OF A KIND (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Three young artists—Sculptor James Wines, Painter Alfred Leslie and Composer Charles Mills—are shown in the midst of creation.
THE WIZARD OF OZ (CBS, 6-8 p.m.). Judy Garland is Dorothy; her old friends are Ray Bolger and Bert Lahr. Color.
NBC NEWS SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of NBC's excellent tour of the Kremlin. Color.
Tuesday, January 28
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An all-Cole Porter program, starring Ethel Merman, Martha Wright. Gretchen Wyler, John Raitt and Peter Nero. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
THE CHINESE PRIME MINISTER. In a triumph of style over substance, this drawing-room comedy pours some intellectual eyewash about old age as if it were Dom Perignon. But Playwright Enid Bagnold writes with unfailing grace and literacy, and Margaret Leighton is an actress who can do no wrong.
MARATHON '33, by June Havoc, is a dance marathon macabre with clowning, roughhousing and tenderness, but it is illuminated by the weary, winning, little-girl-lost-and-found acting style of Julie Harris.
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. Robert Preston impersonates a TV "genius" whose career is a castle of balloons—when one is popped, the escaping hot air just fills another.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford are handsome enough to model for any refrigerator ad, but their apartment—and its visitors—are mad, mad, mad, mad, mad.
THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Under dingy eaves, or in front of bookcases chockful of texts, Playwright Peter Shaffer sees the awkward and funny, stuffy and tender sides of people searching for love.
CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, chides the British lower classes for being docile sheep that raise nary a baa of protest at their lot. The setting is an R.A.F. training camp, and the military gamesmanship is brisk and funny.