On Broadway: Jan. 28, 1966

TELEVISION

Wednesday, January 26 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* To get Batman off on the right talon, ABC is pitting him against some fine-feathered birds of prey. This week Oscar Winner (for Razor's Edge) Anne Baxter is a visiting villainess.

THIS PROUD LAND (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Robert Preston narrates "The Sun Country," a special on Texas. Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, with New Mexican (by adoption) Greer Garson and Oklahoman (by birth) Pamela Tiffin pointing out some of the sights.

Friday, January 28

THE SAMMY DAVIS JR. SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A previous commitment to ABC (see below) keeps Davis off his new show this week, so Actor Sean Connery, who has been crying loudly for a chance to be better than his Bond, gets a break.

Saturday, January 29

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). TV tries hard to forget its former favorites, but here's a cup of kindness for Auld Prime Timers Arthur Godfrey and Sid Caesar.

Sunday, January 30

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). You have to get up early in the morning to catch a show with a name like "Te Deum for J. Alfred Prufrock"—a dramatic reading commemorating T. S. Eliot's death a year ago.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Richard Nixon will answer questions on Viet Nam, the Republican Party and his own political plans.

AGES OF MAN (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Part 2 of Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare readings.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Man of the Month," a profile of North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Polly Bergen, Diahann Carroll, John Raitt and others devote themselves to the music of George Gershwin.

Monday, January 31

CBS EVENING NEWS WITH WALTER CRONKITE (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). In color for the first time.

THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW PRESENTS THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's awards for excellence in motion pictures and television, live from the Cocoanut Grove.

Tuesday, February 1

SAMMY AND HIS FRIENDS (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Sammy Davis' one-shot special, with Friends Edie Adams, Joey Heatherton, Count Basie and Top Friend and Platoon Leader Frank Sinatra.

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Robert Morse plays a guy who is jilted at the altar and therefore decides to take his pal (Robert Goulet) on the leftover wedding trip. Honeymoon Hotel is the name of the comedy, and MGM perpetrated it in 1964.

THEATER

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE, by Peter Weiss. Each theater seat becomes an electric chair as Director Peter Brook and the Royal Shakespeare Company sear the senses with a high-voltage production.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine and mangled by his all-too-painful awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Nicol Williamson nets all the screeching humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's whirlpool of words.