Wednesday, October 14
ELECTION EVE IN BRITAIN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Summary of the British election campaign.
OLYMPICS 1964 (NBC, 11:15-11:30 p.m.). Beginning of Olympic track events and the final of men's freestyle 400-meter relay in swimming.
Friday, October 16
BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob plays a bungling marriage broker who persuades three rowdy cowboys, Aldo Ray, Rod Cameron and Sonny Tufts, to order up three Eastern brides, Rhonda Fleming, Jill St. John and Marilyn Maxwell. Color.
12 O'CLOCK HIGH (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Peter Fonda appears as a promising young lieutenant who goes AWOL after meeting a blonde (Jill Haworth) on a three-day leave.
Saturday, October 17
EXPLORING (NBC, 12 noon-1 p.m.). This children's series delves into the mysteries of migration not only of birds and animals but also of people to the New World.
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Pendleton Roundup Rodeo from Pendleton, Ore., lassoes together top cowboy contenders in this year's rodeo competition.
Sunday, October 18
DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). A look at the space equipment under construction for the first moon landings, with photographs of the moon showing that it is far more complex than green cheese.
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). An adaptation of the off-Broadway musical hit The Fantasticks. Ricardo Montalban plays the Spanish bandit who narrates the fanciful love story of two young people whose respective fathers (Bert Lahr and Stanley Holloway) devise zany schemes to bring them together by keeping them apart. Color.
Tuesday, October 20
WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). U-boat warfare up to and including the torpedoing of the Lusitania (May 1915).
THE DOCTORS AND THE NURSES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Merrie Spaeth, one of the scene-stealing youngsters in The World of Henry Orient, makes her television debut as a hospitalized high-school girl who is unaware that she has leukemia.
THEATER
The new season is setting Broadway marquees ablaze again, though the hold over shows still predominate. Of the long-runs, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is still incontestably the best of the musicals, and The Subject Was Roses the best of the straight dramatic plays. The top comedy distance runners are Barefoot in the Park and, if there is anyone left who hasn't seen it, Mary, Mary.
The season just started provides three fine, fresh and funny items:
O WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Mockingly ironic, tender, frolicsome and tragic, this musical revolves around the unlikely subject of the follies of World War I. Blending English music-hall sentimentality with Brechtian savagery, Lovely War is an unsettling and not-to-be-forgotten theatrical experience.
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF strays far from Broadway to record the gentle joys and occasional sorrows of a Jewish community in a Russian town in 1905. In his finest performance to date, Zero Mostel gives this musical an unfaltering heartbeat.
ABSENCE OF A CELLO erupts with steady laughter as an academic scientist tangles with an org man from corporation land.
RECORDS
Chamber Music