Time Listings
Wednesday, April 20
DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Road to Lebanon" has Thomas teaming up with Bing Crosby for a "Road . . ." parody. Claudine Auger, Hugh Downs and Sheldon Leonard are posted along the route, and Bob Hope makes a brief appearance—to protest.
TESTING: RIGHT, LEFT OR CENTER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special that promises to tell each viewer where he stands politically in relationship to the rest of the nation.
Thursday, April 21
THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). A Majority of One, in which Sir Alec Guinness plays a Japanese businessman, and Rosalind Russell a Jewish widow from Brooklyn.
MICKIE FINN'S (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new music and entertainment series set in the San Diego nightery of the same name, and starring Proprietors Fred and Mickie Finn. Première.
Friday, April 22
THE POPPY IS ALSO A FLOWER (ABC, 7:30-9 p.m.). The Xerox series of top-talent drama specials on the U.N. has been disappointing so far, but this one looks promising. Director Terrence Young (Dr. No) uses an Ian Fleming story to illustrate the U.N.'s efforts to control narcotics, and the cast is a U.N. in itself: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Rita Hayworth, Trevor Howard, E. G. Marshall, Marcello Mastroianni, Gilbert Roland, Omar Sharif, Nadja Tiller, Eli Wallach and Princess Grace Kelly.
Saturday, April 23
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A celebration of the fifth anniversary of this excellent series, with segments from previous shows including Grand Prix auto races, rodeos, figure skating, a rattlesnake hunt, barrel jumping and many others.
Sunday, April 24
DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Pearl Lang is choreographer and solo dancer of Prayer for a Dark Bird, a ballet based on passages from the Navajo Night Chant. Earl Wild composed the music and Marian Seldes reads the chant.
VIET NAM WEEKLY REVIEW (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). The week's developments, in color.
Monday, April 25
THE SURPRISING MIDDLEWEST (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Massachusetts-born Robert Preston guides a tour through Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin and Michigan in this series of specials on regions of the U.S. Some of the scheduled participants: Jazzman Dave Brubeck, Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi, Repertory Theater Head Tyrone Guthrie and Architect Bertram Goldberg.
Tuesday, April 26
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). MGM's The Time Machine, which puts the clock back to the early days of science fiction and H. G. Wells's story about a man who travels into the future. Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux star.
THEATER
On Broadway
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! When Hal Holbrook shuffles off the stage at the end of his one-man show, it is as if one were bidding good night to the incorrigible Clemens himself. An extraordinary physical impersonation and uncanny dramatic recreation of one of Americana's keenest humorists.