TELEVISION

Wednesday, February 5

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* David McCallum, Ossie Davis and George Grizzard star in Teacher, Teacher, an original drama by Allan Sloane, about the struggle to teach a mentally retarded teen-ager played by Billy Schulman.

TURN-ON (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A computer hosts and Tim Conway guest stars in the premiere of a new series that promises to be "a visual-comedic assault on the people who watch it." Whether it also gets charged for battery remains to be seen.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Peter Ustinov, Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, and Charles Laughton star in the film about pagan Rome, Spartacus (1960). The second half is shown on Sunday Night Movie.

Thursday, February 6

THAT GIRL (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Family night. Mario is joined by three other Thomases: her sister Terre, brother Tony and daddy Danny.

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). A French-made dramatized documentary, The Boss's Son, deals with the predictable demise of the romance between a textile magnate's son and one of his father's factory girls.

WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, WORLD? (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dean Jones hosts the premiere of a weekly satirical review that takes pokes at people, places, times, trends and morals. Mission Impossible's Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are guest stars.

Friday, February 7

THIS IS TOM JONES! (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tom Jones hosts the premiere of his own weekly variety hour, with guests Peter Sellers, Joey Heatherton, Mary Hopkin, Richie Pryor and The Moody Blues.

GENERATION GAP (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). For some reason, the producers claim to have invented a new game: people over 30 match wits with those under, as they try to determine how much they really know about each others' cultures.

NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "This is Sholom Aleichem" stars Jack Gilford as the noted Jewish writer and Nancy Walker and David Burns as several of his characters in this exploration of the life, work and personality of the writer.

Saturday, February 8 THE BOB HOPE DESERT CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The fourth round of the annual golf tournament, live from Indian Wells Country Club in Palm Springs, Calif.

Final round on Sunday, 4:30-6 p.m.

Sunday, February 9 CBS CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). The Lupinek Case, a Czechoslovak film about some missing puppets and their savior.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).

"Stranger Than Science" shows what science fiction once predicted and how much of it came true.

MAN AND HIS UNIVERSE (ABC, 7-8 p.m.).

"The View from Space" depicts how man's view of the earth has expanded via space exploration and how science interprets what man now sees.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Royal Shakespeare Company makes the dream come true for television audiences.

FRED ASTAIRE SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A delightful hour with the man who is "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails." Repeat.

Monday, February 10

NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The Sixth Paul" examines the Pope and his stand on birth control through the eyes of bishops, priests and laymen.