Television: Apr. 12, 1968

Thursday, April 11

CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.).* "For Love or $$$$," Janet Leigh, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Mayehoff, J. Carroll Naish and Pat Harrington Jr. join Bob in a comedy about a hapless tourist in South America up to his neck in foreign intrigue.

Friday, April 12

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Joan of Arc (1950), with Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Ward Bond.

THE AMERICAN ALCOHOLIC (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A study of the social implications of alcoholism in middle-class America. Actor James Daly narrates, as housewives, clergymen, farmers and professionals in clinics around the country describe the lure of the bottle and the agony of the cure.

Saturday, April 13

THE 32ND ANNUAL MASTERS TOURNAMENT (CBS, 3:45-6 p.m.). Live coverage of the third round from Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club. Defending Champion Gay Brewer competes against 85 of the world's leading professional and amateur golfers. Final round of the tournament will be shown tomorrow, 4-5:30 p.m.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Atlanta "500" Stock Car Race Championship from Atlanta International Raceway in Georgia along with the Junior and Tandem competition from the International Surfing Championships, Makaha Beach, Hawaii.

Sunday, April 14

EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Highlights of a concert of sacred music written and performed by Duke Ellington from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York.

EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 11 a.m.-noon). Traditional Easter Sunday service at London's Westminster Abbey.

THE LEGEND OF MARK TWAIN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). David Wayne hosts and narrates this documentary featuring dramatized excerpts from Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "Going to Bethlehem." Highlights of last spring's annual Bach Festival in Bethlehem, Pa., featuring Soprano Judith Raskin, Bass Cesare Siepi and a 200-voice choir.

THE ROBE (ABC, 8-10:30 p.m.). A movie adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' 1942 novel. Richard Burton plays Marcellus Gallic, the Roman tribune tormented by guilt about the Crucifixion.

Monday, April 15 THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Search in the Deep." The oceanauts of the Calypso journey to the Island of Europa in the Mozambique Channel, foremost breeding ground of giant green sea turtles, those mysterious and ancient armored behe moths that sometimes grow to 800 Ibs. and the span of two arms' lengths across their shells.

MOVIN' WITH NANCY (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Nancy Sinatra, the "Rat Pack"—Frank Sinatra and Frank Jr., Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.—and others join hands in a musical tour of California.

Tuesday, April 16

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "The Lonely Dory-men—Portugal's Men of the Sea." A saga of the 3,250-mile journey to the Davis Straits of Greenland that Portuguese fishermen have made annually for 500 years.

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