Television: Oct. 31, 1969

Wednesday, October 29 THE BRASS ARE COMIN' (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass star in this musical special, which also features Petula Clark. Johnny Carson, Gene Kelly, Lome Greene, James Stewart and Henry Fonda make cameo appearances.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Georgy Girl (1966) stars Lynn Redgrave, James Mason and Alan Bates in a comedy about a gawky, soft-hearted girl.

The performances by Redgrave and Mason earned them Oscar nominations.

Thursday, October 30 NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10:30 p.m.).

"Glory! Hallelujah!", described by its author, A. M. Barlow, as a Civil War "parable play," explores the nature of war and its effects on the human spirit.

THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).

Dear Heart (1965), with Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page and Angela Lansbury, is the story of misbegotten love between a post mistress and a greeting-card salesman.

Saturday, November 1 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National "500" Auto Race from Charlotte, N.C., and an international ski-jumping championship from Planica, Yugoslavia.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Hamming it up as only this pack can do are Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop in Sergeants 3 (1962).

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. plays host to Mama Cass Elliott, Roosevelt Grier, Lionel Hampton and Peter Lawford.

Sunday, November 2 WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar." Part 1 of a two-part story showing how being tamed as a pet dulls a cougar's instinct for survival.

Monday, November 3 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The Conservative Mr. Buckley." What William F. Buckley Jr. is all about, as seen through a series of his film statements on crime, the ghetto, capital punishment, patriotism, Communism and the arts.

Tuesday, November 4 NET SCIENCE SPECIAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.).

"The Heartmakers" explains the world's only artificial-heart implantation in a human being through separate interviews with Dr. Denton Cooley, who performed the operation, and Dr. Michael DeBakey, who headed the research team.

FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The so-called TV magazine features a portrait of former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, a look at the contemplative life at Poor Clare Monastery in Omaha, Neb., and American rule in Okinawa.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In cities with elections, results will be reported. Other cities will see "A Conversation with Dean Acheson — Part 2," with CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid.

THEATER

On Broadway

INDIANS. Playwright Arthur Kopit has taken up the cause of the American Indian and has tried to mesh together segments of a vaudeville-styled Buffalo Bill Wild West show with segments of Hochhuth-Brechtian didactic polemicism. The idea is to spank the audience while making it laugh, but the whole thing refuses to cohere. Stacy Keach plays Buffalo Bill with relish, flamboyance and charm.