Wednesday, September 13
KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass play host for the first of this "series of specials" that will feature different hosts and guests each week. Guests on "And All That Brass" are Louis Armstrong, Jackie Vernon and Robin Wilson.
Thursday, September 14
IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr stars as Robert T. Ironside, a paraplegic who serves as a civilian consultant to the San Francisco Detective Bureau. For a starter, he takes a crossword collection of puzzling clues and fills out the solution to a race-track robbery. Première.
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Steve McQueen, James Garner, James Coburn and Richard Attenborough star in The Great Escape (1963), a thrilling tale of Allied war prisoners trying to break out of a Nazi prison camp. Movies are getting longer than ever (2 hours 50 minutes for this one), so constant viewer will have to wait for CBS Friday Night Movies, 9-11 p.m., for the conclusion.
GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey takes a swing into Virginia for a chat with Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R., Ill.) and his wife, Louella, on their farm in Sterling.
Friday, September 15
ACCIDENTAL FAMILY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation-comedy show, in which a Las Vegas-based comedian, Jerry Webster (Jerry Van Dyke), suddenly learns that he has custody—and all that entails—of his eight-year-old son, Sandy (Teddy Quinn). In the opener, Jerry's delight is tempered by the court's stipulation that he must raise the boy on a California farm, 300 miles from Las Vegas.
SUMMER '67: WHAT WE LEARNED (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special on Negro rioting in U.S. cities, focusing on Detroit and Newark. Daniel P. Moynihan, author of the Moynihan report on Negro family life, is among those interviewed.
Saturday, September 16
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The America's Cup Races, live from Newport, R.I., along with live coverage (via satellite) of the Karl Mildenberger-Oscar Bonavena heavyweight bout from Frankfurt.
N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4-7:15 p.m.). The S.M.U. Mustangs meet the Texas Aggies at College Station, Texas, in the first televised game of the new season.
MAYA (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two boys, one American and one Indian, join forces with an elephant, Maya, for an adventure-filled jaunt through India. Terry Bowen (Jay North, once "Dennis the Menace") arrives in Bombay where reports say his father has been killed by a tiger. As he sets out to prove rumor wrong, Terry is joined by Orphan Boy Raji (Sajid Khan) and his lifelong companion, Maya. Première.
MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mike Connors stars as Joe Mannix, member of a highly specialized private-detective firm called Intertect. Joe Campanella is Lou Wickersham, Intertect's boss. Première.
Sunday, September 17
AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Houston Oilers v. the Buffalo Bills and the Boston Patriots v. the Oakland Raiders, in a doubleheader from Buffalo and Oakland.