Television: May 30, 1969

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Wednesday, May 28

PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Workers on the committee of an antipoverty project include a war hero (William Shatner) and a poor girl (Elizabeth Ashley) who fall in love while dealing with politics and urban responsibility. The play's title: "... The Skirts of Happy Chance . . ."

WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, p.m.). Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch and James Mason in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), about a woman whose fourth marriage has reached a shattering crisis stage.

YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "What Price Paradise?" pits the package tour and its routine activities (a hula lesson and a luau in Hawaii) against the adventures (climbing Mauna Kea, cave exploring) of independent travel.

Thursday, May 29

ANIMAL WORLD (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Host Bill Burrud discusses such threatened African species as the elephant, giraffe, cheetah, lion and leopard.

THE PRISONER (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Those who missed the antics of imprisoned Hero Patrick McGoohan in the show last summer can catch the series this year.

Friday, May 30

THE JOHN DAVIDSON SHOW (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). New summer froth featuring French Pop Singer Mireille Mathieu, Comic Rich Little and Baritone Davidson's pleasant demeanor. Special guests are Mama Cass and Ruth Buzzi. Premiere.

Saturday, May 31

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME OF THE WEEK (NBC, 3 p.m. to conclusion). Detroit Tigers at Seattle Pilots.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). International Surfing championships from Makaha Beach, Hawaii, and the N.C.A.A. Wrestling championship from Provo, Utah.

Sunday, June 1 A.A.U. CHAMPIONSHIP TRACK AND FIELD (CBS, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). First annual Ken nedy Memorial games from the University of California at Berkeley.

D-DAY REVISITED (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).

Observing the 25th anniversary of the be ginning of the end of World War II in Europe, Narrator Darryl F. Zanuck shows footage from his 1962 film The Longest Day.

SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.).

Steve Allen will host the series of summertime music festivals, with "Casals in Puerto Rico" coming first. Ninety-two-year-old Cellist Pablo Casals conducts Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("The Prague") and Brahms' Concerto in A Minor for violin, cello and orchestra, with Yehudi Menuhin and Leslie Parvas.

Premiere.

Monday, June 2 SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

"War in the Mideast?" explores the tan gle of problems there; Frank Reynolds narrates this premiere of an irregularly scheduled news series.

Tuesday, June 3

FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Something for everyone on the monthly "magazine": airline stewardesses, antismoking programs, teen-agers and the occult, and population control through sterilization of males in India.

NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). The Stuttgart Opera Ballet and its director John Cranko are subjects of "Cranko's Castle," a documentary-performance featuring the company in his Opus I.

CBS REPORTS: GENERATIONS APART (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Youth International" shows signs of the gap in England, Japan and Mexico.

THEATER

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