Television: Nov. 20, 1964

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Wednesday, November 18

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A memorial tribute to the late President Kennedy, retracing the main events of his Administration. The many off-screen narrators include Adlai Stevenson, McGeorge Bundy, Hubert Humphrey, Allen Dulles and Theodore Sorensen.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The second of two original Hollywood-produced films to be aired on TV this season. The Hanged Man stars Edmond O'Brien, Vera Miles and Robert Gulp, is a suspense story involving a man's attempt to avenge the death of a friend believed murdered by a union boss. Color. THE DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Dinah and Guests Polly Bergen, Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Ebsen take off on the average American home.

Thursday, November 19

AN HOUR WITH ROBERT GOULET (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Goulet faces up to his first TV special with the aid of Leslie Caron and Terry-Thomas.

Friday, November 20

THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope's guests are Trini Lopez, Donald O'Connor, Stella Stevens and Richard Chamberlain.

Sunday, November 22

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). A look at Greek and Roman mythology. WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Life of a leopard family and cub. Color. JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIALS (NBC and ABC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). NBC News correspondents recall the late President's White House years by use of film clips. ABC looks at the personal life as well as the political career of John F. Kennedy, features a seventh-grade teacher, a Choate schoolmate and Close Friends Lord Harlech (Sir David Ormsby Gore) and Kenneth Galbraith.

Tuesday, November 24

WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Life in the trenches and the biggest battle of all—the 1916 battle of the Somme.

THE BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Dancers Patricia McBride and Edward Villella, Pianist Andre Previn, and the Brothers Four. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway A SEVERED HEAD, by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, is a most unusual play to encounter on Broadway. It is a sex farce adapted from a novel by an Oxford University professor of philosophy (Miss Murdoch), and its true subject is the nature of reality. Acted with uncommon skill, it is a delectable repast of fun and thought.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Period songs, sketches, gauze-clad music-hall girls and blown-up film stills have the cumulative impact of an artillery barrage in Joan Littlewood's biting satire on World War I.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel seems to expand physically to fill the stage with yeasty joy, pain and mystery in this musical based on Sholom Aleichem's tales of a poor Jewish dairyman, his family and friends in 1905 Russia.

ABSENCE OF A CELLO is a bright, laugh-every-other-minute comedy demonstrating that a free-spirited scientist cannot be stamped into a cog-sized mold.

Off Broadway

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY has been boldly extrapolated from the celebrated James Thurber story. The young adaptors have not been cowed by the sanctity of the master, and the clever lyrics, melodically oriented songs, and infectious joie de vivre of the cast make this a thoroughly pleasant musical evening.