Television: Sep. 2, 1966

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Thursday, September 1 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). * Spencer Tracy and Frank Sinatra in familiar roles: the former a priest, the latter a criminal in The Devil at Four 0'Clock (1961), an adventure on a Pacific island.

THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). In "The Town of No Return," the Avengers set out to discover what evil befell four fellow spooks who vanished without a trace from a bleak coastal village.

Friday, September 2

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 10 p.m. to conclusion). The Dallas Cowboys, one of the N.F.L.'s preseason favorites for the Eastern Division crown, meet the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth and last warm-up exhibition.

Saturday, September 3

U.S. MEN'S AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). The final rounds, from the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). At last, after knocking themselves—and their parents—out since early spring, the Little Leaguers play for the world championship at Williamsport, Pa.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tin Star (1957), starring Henry Fonda as a onetime sheriff turned bounty hunter who is drawn into a showdown of strength-between a gunman and an inexperienced lawman, played by Tony Perkins.

Sunday, September 4

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NBC, 4:30-7:30 p.m!). The season's opener in the A.F.L.: the defending-champion Buffalo Bills v. the runner-up San Diego Chargers, at San Diego.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite looks at "Nehru: Man of Two Worlds," his background, schooling, return to India and his efforts in the struggle for world peace. Repeat.

THE ROUNDERS (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). The premiere of a modern horselaugh opera recounting the adventures of two cowboys, their wheeler-dealer ranch boss and a horse called "Old Fooler," who would rather sit than buck. Chill Wills stars as the rancher, with Ron Hayes and Patrick Wayne as the cowpokes. Old Fooler up stages them all in "A Horse for Jim Ed Love."

THE PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Phyllis Diller as the widowed head of the poor but proud Pruitts of Long Island. The first episode, "Phyllis Goes for Broke," chronicles Uncle Ned's (Reginald Gardiner) efforts to marry Phyllis off to moneyed stuffiness, General Cannon (John McGiver). Gypsy Rose Lee plays a noisy neighbor.

LOVE ON A ROOFTOP (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Newlyweds in San Francisco make $85 a week seem like a fortune and their windowless apartment like the Hall of Mirrors in this new comedy romance featuring Judy Carne as an art-student wife and Peter Deuel as an apprentice architect. Premiere.

THEATER

Straw Hat

Leave 'em laughing, the old vaudevillian philosophy, is still the thing along the straw-hat circuit. Some situation comedies chosen for the closing weeks of summer productions:

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, Kennebunkport Playhouse, Kennebunkport, Me.; Star Playhouse, Ephrata, Pa.; Green Hills Theater, Reading, Pa.; Tappan Zee Playhouse, Nyack, N.Y.

THE COFFEE LOVER, Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, Me.

DEAR ME, THE SKY IS FALLING, Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass.

RATTLE OF A SIMPLE MAN, Warwick Playhouse, Warwick, N.Y.