Television: Mar. 4, 1966

Wednesday, March 2

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* William Shatner stars in a drama about a jungle doctor accused of malpractice and murder.

Thursday, March 3

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Devil at Four O'clock. Spencer Tracy, as a hardhanded Irish-American priest, and Frank Sinatra, as a hard-case Italo-American criminal, invoke the blessings of heaven in their work at a children's leper colony situated on the slopes of a volcano that may erupt any moment.

Friday, March 4

THE SAMMY DAVIS JR. SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sammy's third appearance of the season will have more of himself and less of his friends. Guests include the Supremes and Jonathan Winters.

Saturday, March 5

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Ski Jumping championship from Oslo, Norway; the Daytona 500 Stock Car championship from Daytona, Fla.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Five Pennies. This movie biography of Jazz Musician Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols is laden with heroics and sentimentality, but Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong have a ball and save the show.

Sunday, March 6

CBS NEWS RELIGIOUS BROADCAST (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A tour around the new Israel Museum in Jerusalem to see exhibits ranging from 5th century Persian gold ornaments to Picasso and op art.

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Part 3 of "In Search of Ezra Pound" traces Pound's childhood, college life and self-exile in Europe.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Nehru: Man of Two Worlds" highlights Nehru's career from his days in prison to his election as independent India's first Prime Minister.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of the story about a girl who wants to dance, filmed with the Royal Danish Ballet.

Tuesday, March 8

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Our Friends, the French": the state of the Franco-American alliance as seen through the eyes of Frenchmen.

THEATER

On Broadway

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves.

SWEET CHARITY. As a taxi dancer in search of lasting love, Gwen Verdon is Terpsichore's darling and fortune's foil.

Bob Fosse's choreography sizzles, but Neil Simon's book is a burnt-out case.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell, all the while lashing out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes.

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE blends Brecht with the Theater of Cruelty, mixing in philosophy, revolution and insanity. A skin-tingling assault on the senses.