Television: Mar. 19, 1965

Wednesday, March 17

PUREX DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* Bob Hope co-hosts with Dinah; the guests include Henry Mancini and Maria Tallchief.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Enzo Stuarte is no Irish tenor, and neither is Imogene Fernandez y Coca, but both join Brooklyn-bred Leprechaun Danny Kaye (born Kominsky) in a celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Thursday, March 18

MAN INVADES THE SEA (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Montgomery, in a rare return to TV, narrates this documentary on underwater exploration projects, including those of the U.S. Navy (Sea lab 11), Jacques-Yves Cousteau and such institutions as Woods Hole, Scripps Institute and the Lamont Geological Observatory.

Friday, March 19

F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The 1936 election with an in-person appearance by Also-Ran Alfred M. Landon.

AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A genuine slice of Americana, this beauty contest searches for "the ideal high school senior girl" and is broadcast in color with TV Teacher James Franciscus (Mr. Novak) as host.

Saturday, March 20

NATIONAL INVITATION TOURNAMENT(NBC, 3-5 p.m.). The end-of-season college basketball championship is broadcast live from Madison Square Garden.

Sunday, March 21

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Warsaw Uprising," a report on the 63 days in the summer of 1944 during which the Poles battled the German occupation troops with virtually no weapons and no outside help.

WORLD WAR I (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The Armistice."

THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Gig Young and Gladys Cooper in a swindle involving a forged Shakespeare play.

Monday, March 22

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An U.N.C.L.E. secretary has a brush with Thrush.

Tuesday, March 23

INTER-AMERICAN HIGHWAY: BRIDGE OF THE AMERICAS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A ride, in color, 3,000 miles down the highway from Laredo, Texas, to the Darien Gap in Panama, with sightseeing en route.

THEATER

On Broadway

ALL IN GOOD TIME. Without resorting to soap-operatic mush or clinical psychologizing, Bill Naughton has written a sharp-eyed comedy about a pair of newlyweds with an intimate problem and problem parents. Naughton has some very funny things to say, and Donald Wolfit and Marjorie Rhodes say them with high talent and polished expertise.

TINY ALICE. Edward Albee's opaque allegory peddles the fallacy that the pure-in-heart are mortally vulnerable before institutionalized worldliness. The symbols tinkle hollowly, but the theatrical electricity of the play is turned on fully by John Gielgud and Irene Worth.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In a healthy, vulgar slugfest between sex and the spirit, Diana Sands's screeching prostitute discovers she has a mind, and Alan Alda's dusty bookstore clerk admits he has a body. They almost lose each other trying to reconcile the difference.

LUV. Three characters on a suspension bridge, suffering garrulously from every known brand of contemporary self-pity. Theater of the absurd? Yes, but the flawless comic acting talents of Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach keep the absurd hilarious.

Off Broadway