Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Jan. 24, 1969

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TELEVISION

Wednesday, January 22 VOYAGE TO THE ENCHANTED ISLES (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* This essay, which is partially narrated by Prince Philip, examines the strange Galapagos Islands, where the climate permits penguins and flamingoes to coexist in undisturbed splendor along with other primitive forms of wildlife.

Thursday, January 23 THE LIONS ARE FREE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Bill Travers revisits the pride of lions that returned to its natural habitat after starring in his 1966 film, Born Free.

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). Milo O'Shea and Jack MacGowran star in a com edy about a young postulant in a Trappist monastery who discovers that even monks have their little weaknesses. "Silent Song" is played almost entirely with out dialogue.

Friday, January 24 THE FRENCH-AMERICAN CHALLENGE CUP (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Members of the French and American professional ski teams compete for the Challenge Cup on the slopes of Aspen, Colo.

Saturday, January 25 UNTAMED WORLD (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.).

Philip Carey recalls the myths and leg ends surrounding the world of reptiles, and shows film of snakes as they charm and chomp their fellow creatures.

SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Doug Sanders, Charles Sifford and David Thomas compete at the Singapore Island Country Club in Singapore.

BING CROSBY PRO-AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). The third round from Pebble Beach, Calif. Fourth round Sunday from 5-7 p.m.

DOWN ON THE FARM (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The role of the American farmer, past and present, is explored; then the cam era looks at the mechanical marvels of to morrow that will send more country folk swarming to the cities.

Sunday, January 26 DISCOVERY '69 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon).

"Stockholm — The Town Between the Bridges" is a comparison of the 20th century city with the Swedish capital as it was in centuries past.

CBS CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). "Clown and Other Stories" are three award-winning French short films about the fantasies of childhood.

AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.).

In a fin and fur doubleheader, Lee Wulf fishes for tuna in Newfoundland and Rick Jason guns for grizzly bear in the wilds of British Columbia.

BOTH OUR HOUSES— THE NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). NBC looks at the makeup of the new Congress and assesses what it hopes to achieve.

MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marlin Perkins joins Explorer-Naturalist Jim Fowler in the Peruvian Andes to search for one of nature's grandest gliders, the Andean condor.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).

"Tomorrow — Today" is a look at how scientists simulate the future in order to solve pressing technological problems of the present.

Monday, January 27

NBC MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) takes out after a murderer with a preference for photographic models in World Premiere: Dragnet.

Tuesday, January 28

ARCTIC ODYSSEY: THE DAVID HUMPHREYS POLAR EXPEDITION (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A close-up study of an Arctic expedition that changed the map of the world. The odyssey follows the project from its planning stage through its 109 days on the polar ice.

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

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