Wednesday, May 27
TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Senator J. William Fulbright, British Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, and Maurice Schumann, chairman of France's Foreign Affairs Committee, will be linked via Telstar II for a live discussion of U.S. foreign policy, based on Senator Fulbright's recent denunciation of the assumptions behind U.S. policy.
Thursday, May 28
GENTLEMEN: START YOUR ENGINES (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). History of the Indianapolis 500-mile Speedway Race. Color.
KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Harris stars as a homely schoolteacher wooed by a handsome fisherman who is determined to get hold of a ring she purchased in a curio shop. Color.
Friday, May 29
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Efrem Zimbalist Jr. stars in an adaptation of Carson McCullers' The Sojourner, the story of a restless wanderer.
Saturday, May 30
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National A.A.U. Gymnastics championships from Kings Point, L.I.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m.-conclusion). Sidney Poitier, Rock Hudson and Dana Wynter in Something of Value.
Sunday, May 31
THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Preview of the California primary elections.
Monday, June 1
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Cyd Charisse in MGM's 1952 spoof of Hollywood moviemaking, Singin' in the Rain.
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Theodore Bikel guest-stars as the father of a 20-year-old mentally retarded boy accused of having molested a young girl. Repeat.
Tuesday, June 2
ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Carol Burnett re-creates the role of Princess Winifred, which first brought her to fame.
THEATER On Broadway
HAMLET. Although Richard Burton as Hamlet and Hume Cronyn as Polonius burnish all the richness of language, wit and humor of the play, this revival, and specifically Burton's Hamlet, lacks the burning passion, the mind-tossed anguish, the self-divided will that Hamlet must have to be a true prince of tragedy.
FUNNY GIRL shines in the refracted light of the most brilliant new star to rise over Broadway in years, Barbra Streisand.
HIGH SPIRITS. As a spirit brought back to haunt her husband by means of a slapstick seance conducted by mad Bea Lillie, impish Tammy Grimes is about as ghostly grey as a rainbow.
ANY WEDNESDAY. Without even the help of her closetful of balloons, Sandy Dennis ascends from playmate to helpmate in two acts.
DYLAN. Alec Guinness probes the special hell in which Dylan Thomas found himself. His performance is moody, taut with rage and sometimes bright with humor.
HELLO, DOLLY! Part of this musical's nostalgic appeal lies in its evocative Oliver Smith backdrops of little old New York, part lies in its hissable boss-villain (David Burns), whom Dolly finds kissable. Most of it lies in the skirt-swishing charm of Carol Channing as Dolly.
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Playwright Neil Simon's deft quips punctuate this early-marital farce with humor to spare for a zany subplot involving a mother-in-law and a Continental charmer (he thinks).
Off Broadway