Television: Jan. 21, 1966

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Wednesday, January 19 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The second week of this new twice-a-week series features Burgess Meredith as the Penguin —a fine-feathered foe of that dynamic duo, Batman and Robin.

CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRIST MAS SHOW (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Had Bob been born in ancient Rome, he would have followed the eagle through all of Gaul. As it is, it's Viet Nam.

Thursday, January 20

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS 9-11 p.m.). The War Lover, Columbia's 1962 rendering of John Mersey's chilling novel about a World War II B-17 bomber pilot who lives to kill, filmed on location in England and starring Steve McQueen.

THE BARON (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). What ABC calls its "second season" spawns a third new spy—this time a London antique dealer pressed into service by British intelligence. Based on a character created by Mystery Writer John Creasey, the series stars Steve Forrest. Premiere.

Friday, January 21

PETER PAN (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Mary Martin, who starred on Broadway in this musical version of the James Barrie classic and did it twice live for TV, put it on video tape in 1960. This is a replay of that tape.

Saturday, January 22

BING CROSBY 1966 GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). The annual pro-amateur event, from Pebble Beach, Calif.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Ski Jumping championships at Innsbruck, Austria, and the International Surfing championships at Makaha Beach, Hawaii.

Sunday, January 23

THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A revival, now that the football season is over, of a series about hunting and fishing, featuring this week Craig (Peter Gunn) Stevens hunting Indian tigers in the jungles of Bundi (with the maharajah), and Bandleader Phil Harris shooting pheasant in Nebraska (without Alice Faye).

AGES OF MAN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Part I (with Part II next week) of Sir John Gielgud's one-man Shakespeare program, which strutted its hour upon a Broadway stage seven years ago and now happily can be heard once more.

BING CROSBY GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 4:30-6 p.m.). The final day.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Majestic Polluted Hudson," a camera cruise down the mighty river as it picks up sewage and industrial waste for delivery to New York Harbor, plus interviews with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Bobby Kennedy and others.

Tuesday, January 25 CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

Part II of "The National Health Test," in which viewers are asked some of the questions about health most frequently put to doctors by their patients, then told the correct answers and scored against a nation wide sample.

THEATRE

On Broadway MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, bruises the ear and hypnotizes the eye. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superbly disciplined Royal Shakespeare Company envelops the playgoer in an experience that is largely inspired sensationalism, but quintessentially theatrical.