On Broadway: Jun. 24, 1966

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TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 22

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* "In Pursuit of Excellence," written and directed by John Cassavetes, concerns a college track star who decides to cheat on his finals.

THE JOHN GARY SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The musical-variety summer re placement shows are still pouring out of the network woodwork. Filling in for Dan ny Kaye, this one features — surprise —Danny as its first guest. Premiere.

Friday, June 24

WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT JACK BENNY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Canada's top comics clip filmed and taped performances of U.S. comedy greats the way holders of gilt-edged securities clip coupons.

Saturday, June 25

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Out door Track and Field Championships at Randall's Island, N.Y.; the Grand Prix of Belgium in Spa; the final hours of the Le Mans 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance.

Sunday, June 26

CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A special on two Michelangelo frescoes —The Conversion of St. Paul and The Cru cifixion of St. Peter — in the Pauline Chap el of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). One of the earliest Negro activists was a slave named Sojourner Truth. She was born in 1797, and she went to court to test segregation, retrieve a child from slavery, sue a white man for slander. This program dramatizes her struggle.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Moscow University and its 35,000 students. Repeat.

NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:20-7:20 p.m.). David Brinkley is "Our Man on the Mississippi," taking a camera cruise from Lake Itasca, Minn., to Pilottown, La., and never the Twain shall meet. Repeat.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel.

Monday, June 27

DARK SHADOWS (ABC, 4-4:30 p.m.). A new daytime serial all about a young governess and a ten-year-old boy who live in a brooding, 19th century castle on a precipitous cliff above the raging sea on the rockbound coast of Maine. Premiere.

THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). One of the season's wittiest British imports now turns its satiric eye on Manchurian Can didate in "Room Without a View."

Tuesday, June 28

THE RED SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead plays Madame Fragrant, "the world's greatest authority on exotic perfumes," to Skelton's man from the gas company looking for a leak. Repeat.

ESSAY ON HOTELS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

Harry Reasoner, whose Essay on Bridges and Essay on Doors were both delightful blends of fact and philosophic musing, now finds an inn thing to do—illustrated by film clips of hotels and motels in 50 cities with prices ranging from $500 to $1.10 a day.

THEATER

MAME is more lavish entertainment than outstanding musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto.