Wednesday, December 4
ESPIONAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Carl Schell (brother of Max and Maria) and Ronald Howard (son of Leslie) star in a drama about a cynical spy reformed by a child.
Thursday, December 5
THE JIMMY DEAN SHOW (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Guest: Gwen Verdon.
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Anne Francis and Gary Merrill in "The Machine That Played God."
Friday, December 6
THE GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joan Hackett in the story of a nun's teaching experiences in Colorado in 1872.
BOB HOPE THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes with a disintegrating political-campaign manager played by Milton Berle, with Dina Merrill and Ruth Roman.
Saturday, December 7
VICTORY AT SEA (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Twenty-two years after Pearl Harbor, a repeat of the highlights of NBC's 26-episode series.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney and Lee J. Cobb in The Left Hand of God.
Sunday, December 8
DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Verdun: The End of the Nightmare," a report on W.W. I's bloodiest military engagement.
SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "1776," the recreation, in films shot at Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, Williamsburg, England and France, of the mood and the times.
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The second of a three-part rerun of Disney's 1960 movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills.
Monday, December 9
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The first of two parts on motion picture comedians, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Louise Fazenda and Mabel Normand.
Tuesday, December 10
THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Boone stars in "Big Mitch" a comedy-drama written by the late Clifford Odets.
THE SOVIET WOMAN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A special, featuring an interview with Mrs. Khrushchev.
RECORDS
RAY CHARLES: INGREDIENTS IN A RECIPE FOR SOUL (ABC-Paramount). Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Charles teams up with a studio full of musical midgets and almost survives their attempts to pull him down to Teensville. But not quite. Arranger Marty Paich, the Jack Halloran Singers and some errant fiddlers get the best of him on all but a few tunes. Besides, what is "The Genius" doing singing such things as You'll Never Walk Alone and Ol' Man River!
THE WORLD OF MIRIAM MAKEBA (RCA Victor) looks more like Harry Belafonte's old neighborhood all the time. But when she sings in the pure voice of Africa (as she does on half the twelve tunes), no one could be better.
PIAF AND SARAPO AT THE BOBINO (Capitol) presents the late Edith Piaf in the enthusiastic but otherwise drear company of her young (25) Greek husband, Theo.
The songs, however, are among her best:
Monsieur Incognito, Chez Sabine, La Bande en Noir, Le Chant d' Amour.