Television: Nov. 3, 1967

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GUNSMOKE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A young gunsmith from the East, Newly O'Brien (Buck Taylor), moves to Dodge City, but en route is abducted by a border cutthroat (John Saxon) who thinks O'Brien is a doctor. Marshal Dillon rescues him and brings him to town, where he becomes a regular and adds youth to the cast.

LOVE ANDY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first Andy Williams special includes Guest Stars Erroll Garner, Henry Mancini and Andy's wife, Claudine Longet.

Tuesday, November 7

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marlon Brando and David Niven use their considerable charm to con money from wealthy women like Shirley Jones in Bedtime Story (1964).

THE CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Where We Stand in Viet Nam, Part II," a progress report by Charles Collingwood on what the South Vietnamese are—or are not—doing to solve their own problems.

NET PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts is the TV premiere of Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, which was written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration last June. It deals with a boy who hates living in Conway and wants to leave town forever. By getting him to examine and evaluate the town's past, MacLeish re-creates the major events of Conway's history.

NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman.

THEATER

On Broadway

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Everymen of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heart-beat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a 1958 play written prior to The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Party lacks the dramatic sophistication of tone, tempo and themes of the two later plays; yet the telltale stigmata are all here—dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is often blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter nevertheless provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers.

Off Broadway

SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past.