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THE MINI-SKIRT REBELLION (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Britain's Twiggy and Mod Designer Mary Quant, and Hollywood's Jill St. John and Chris Noel see boutique and discotheque action in a London to Los Angeles fashion tour.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Tenement" follows the fortunes—such as they are—of nine Negro families in a Chicago slum, from last year's long, hot summer to their eviction early this month to make way for an urban renewal project.
NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Ninety Days," a BBC production, recreates the horror and outrage of a white South African journalist who is imprisoned for a "crime" that is never explained by the authorities.
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). Lotte Lenya sings the compositions of her late husband in "The World of Kurt Weill," while telling the life story of the composer whose music is equally at home on the opera stage and in the lowliest dive.
THEATER
On Broadway BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover in the dark, is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave bring the monkeyshines to a high polish.
THE HOMECOM'NG is the season's most tantalizing drama, by Harold Pinter, who prods and arouses with the twin-tined fork of shock and humor. Vivien Merchant leads the Royal Shakespeare Company through a harmonious, moody production in which even the pauses and silences are eloquent.
THE WILD DUCK. Although dedicated to candor in human relations, Henrik Ibsen also recognized that while it may be just to deal with men for what they are, it is often kinder to consider what they wish they could be. In its revival of the 1884 drama, the APA troupe performs with more precision than passion.
AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will break into still another diverting ditty such as that non-classic The Gasman Cometh, or let go with a bit of lopsided logic: "If you put a baby in the bath and it turns red, it's too hot for your elbow."
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL and RIGHT YOU ARE are studies of one of the most active and lethal parts of the human anatomy, the wagging tongue. In Richard Sheridan's high comedy, a hive of busybodies is undone. In Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, a nest of vipers invades the privacy of a family and destroys the tenuous balance of their lives. The APA again.
Off Broadway
EH? The hero of Henry Livings farce is ideologically idiotic. Sample: "I'm satisfactory, all right. Always been satisfactory. All my school reports: satisfactory, satisfactory, satisfactory. 'Satis' meaning enough, 'factory' meaning works: Satisfactory. Had enough of work."
AMERICA HURRAH is composed of three hypodermic playlets by Jean-Claude van Itallie, who plunges through the surface of the American way of life to hit the raw network of nerves on which it runs.
RECORDS
Spreading the Word