Television: Jan. 12, 1968

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Wednesday, January 10

THE AVENGERS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* Charging into the program lineup, those English invincibles, John (Patrick Macnee) Steed and Emma (Diana Rigg) Peel, meet the inventor of a shrinking machine and wind up "livin' dolls" during "Mission: Highly Improbable."

Thursday, January 11

GREAT EXPLORATIONS: THE TRAIL OF STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). John Glenn and a 33-man safari trek 1,000 miles through Africa to re-create Journalist Henry Stanley's search for Dr. David Livingstone 100 years ago.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in Topkapi (1964).

Friday, January 12

THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A nighttime version of the daytime celebrity game, with Peter Marshall hosting a guest panel made up of Raymond Burr, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Nanette Fabray, Abby Dalton, Buddy Hackett and Morey Amsterdam. Première.

PROJECTIONS '68 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "One Crisis Leads to Another." Chet Huntley moderates as eight NBC News correspondents review 1967 and look ahead to 1968.

Saturday, January 13

BING CROSBY PRO-AM GOLF TOURNAMENT (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). The third round of the $104,500 tourney from Pebble Beach Country Club, Calif. Fourth round tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Ingrid Bergman and Gary Cooper in Saratoga Trunk (1946).

Sunday, January 14

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield does the answering.

SUPER BOWL (CBS, 3 p.m. to conclusion). The champions of the N.F.L. v. the champions of the A.F.L., with a payoff differential of $15,000 against $7,500 per man riding on the outcome. Live from Miami.

ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). In "Born to Be Free," Dr. Loren Eiseley examines the well-regulated societies of ants, wasps, monkeys and birds, with their rigorous pecking orders, and compares them with the often chaotic but infinitely freer society of man.

Monday, January 15

THE DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Bobby Darin, Dean Stockwell, Lloyd Nolan and Sugar Ray Robinson in "The Cage," a play about convicts plotting escape from a minimum-security prison.

Tuesday, January 16

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Gene Kelly in a part cartoon musical version of the giant-killing classic. Repeat.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Why do people smoke and why don't they quit are some of the questions posed by Reporters Mike Wallace and Joseph Benti in "National Smoking Test."

NET PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Dustin [The Graduate] Hoffman in Ronald Ribman's The Journey of the Fifth Horse, which won the Obie as the best Off-Broadway play of 1965-66. Repeat.

NET FESTIVAL. "Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe." John Malcolm Brinnin, Thomas' biographer, narrates a portrait of the Welsh poet in still photographs, recorded excerpts from Thomas' works and interviews with friends.

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