Time Listings: Apr. 25, 1969

Wednesday, April 23

PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Barry Sullivan and E. G. Marshall star in "This Town Will Never Be the Same," which chronicles the last day in the life of a newspaper and the effect its death will have on its staff and the town.

YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Auto Repairs: Points and Plugs" is a comprehensive report on the high cost of auto repairs, with comments from Ralph Nader and Senator Philip Hart.

THE JAPANESE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Former U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer hosts this program on Japan and its people.

Thursday, April 24

THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Cousteau crew goes to Peru to dive for lost Incan gold in "The Legend of Lake Titicaca."

MEET GEORGE WASHINGTON (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part of Project 20, this show will try to breathe some life and substance into the dehumanized schoolbook image of our first President.

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Dorothy Tutin stars as Catherine of Valois, the tragic widow of Henry V and grandmother of Henry VII in "The Queen and the Welshman."

Saturday, April 26

BYRON NELSON GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). The final two rounds of the $100,000 tourney from the Preston Trail Golf Club in Dallas will be continued Sunday afternoon 4-6.

CBS GOLF CLASSIC FINALS (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). The last 18 holes in the 36-hole finals from Firestone Country Club in Akron, with George Archer and Bob Lunn playing Al Geiberger and Dave Stockton.

Sunday, April 27

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE (CBS, 2-4:30 p.m.). The Stanley Cup playoff.

FELICIANO-VERY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A musical 60 minutes, starring Vocalist-Guitarist José Feliciano, with Guests Andy Williams, Glen Campbell, Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach.

Monday, April 28

THE SPRING THING (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Love and springtime are the subjects, and Noel Harrison and Bobbie Gentry the objects, with some outside help from Rod McKuen, Goldie Hawn, Shirley Bassey, Irwin C. Watson, Meredith MacRae and the Harpers Bizarre.

Tuesday, April 29

NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The World of José Limón" deals with the life and artistry of the American dancer and choreographer.

THEATER

On Broadway

1776 presents a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence and their sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations at the Second Continental Congress. The musical succeeds only in bringing the heroic, tempestuous birth of a people and a polity down to a feeble vaudevillian jape.

HAMLET. Everything about Ellis Rabb's APA production is peculiarly wrong, including Rabb's portrayal of Hamlet as if the Prince of Denmark were in desperate need of geriatric drugs.

CELEBRATION, with a handsome blond Orphan pitted against an evil Mr. Rich, is a beguiling musical fairy tale for sophisticates who have never quite forsaken the magic of childhood.

PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM features Woody Allen playing Woody Allen, the compleat neurotic, with his nimble jokes and woefully unconfident presence.