Television: Apr. 1, 1966

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Wednesday, March 30 ALICE IN WONDERLAND, OR WHAT'S A NICE KID LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?

(ABC, 8-9 p.m.).* A Hanna-Barbera animated-cartoon special. Sammy Davis Jr. provides the voice of the Cheshire cat, Zsa Zsa Gabor that of the Queen of Hearts, Bill Dana the White Knight, and the late Hedda Hopper Madame Hatter.

COLOR ME BARBRA (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The second Streisand special, which deliberately duplicates the successful format of the first. This time Streisand dances through a fantasy in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, swapping places with the paintings; she also clowns around a circus, doing a dance with some penguins, and winds up with a concert.

Thursday, March 31

THE SOUTH (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Music Man Robert Preston tours South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, and Richard Kiley and Joan Fontaine read excerpts from the love letters of Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel.

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A program originating entirely in London, transmitted by Early Bird satellite and taped in the U.S. for slightly delayed replay. NBC News London Bureau Chief Elie Abel reports, and the Rt. Hon. David Brinkley translates.

Friday, April 1

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). It hadda happen: "The Bat Cave Affair."

TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays a nun who gets involved in a murder. This series, now on reruns and canceled for next season, got into ratings difficulty early in the season when it was opposite Get Smart! CBS, to give it the "benefit" of a more favorable time slot, moved it opposite U.N.C.L.E. Would you believe Bonanza?

Sunday, April 3

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Integration in the Military," the history of integration in the U.S. armed forces, which began in the mid-1940's under the late James Forrestal, the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense. The program also features filmed interviews with Negro and white soldiers in Viet Nam.

-MARY MARTIN AT EASTERTIME WITH THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gower (Hello, Dolly!) Champion directs Mary (Hello, Dolly!) Martin as the spirit of spring, a nun, a Rockette and a magician. Goodbye, Radio City!

Tuesday, April 5

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Another of those tests, this time on income taxes.

THEATER

On Broadway WAIT A MINIM! is a South African musical revue that is light of heart, flip of wit, and full of such wondrously exotic instru ments as the mbira, timbila and kalimba.

The five-man, three-woman, all-white cast is so remarkably gifted that it may never see Johannesburg again.

3 BAGS FULL, by Jerome Chodorov. Written in mock-Edwardian, directed like a six-day bike race, this adapted French farce is irresistibly droll, thanks chiefly to that dour master of ludicrous mayhem, Paul Ford.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Brian Friel applies the saving sponge of humor to the Irish sentiment that pours from his play, and Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, as twin images of the hero, stir up a fine farrago of laughter and tears.