Television: Sep. 23, 1966

Wednesday, September 21 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Jack Kelly in "Time of Flight," a live one about two murder victims who won't stay dead.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," an adaptation of John (The Spy Who Came In . . .) Le Carré's story about an ingenious escape plan from Communist East Berlin. Filmed in medieval West German towns, with James Mason, Hugh Griffith and Jill Bennett in the leading roles.

I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Lori," a Las Vegas singer (Nancy Wilson) is embroiled in international intrigue when her brother is marked for death.

Thursday, September 22 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and—Pow!" The Jericho team infiltrates German submarine pens, built in the shadow of an ancient French cathedral.

Friday, September 23 T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, ex-cat burglar turned gangbuster, does it again in The Sandman, as Cat (Robert Loggia) tries to save an old friend, a jewel thief, from his own kind.

Saturday, September 24 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 2:15 p.m. to conclusion). Purdue, looking for its first undisputed Big Ten title since 1929, pits Quarterback Bob Griese against Notre Dame's ferocious defense, at Notre Dame.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE REPORT (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Curt Gowdy hosts a new series of filmed digests of this season's A.F.L. games and plays.

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 pm.). Art Carney joins Jackie for the first of ten topical musical plays, this one called "The Politician."

Sunday, September 25 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A new ballet about Joan of Arc called "The Captive Lark," by Robert Starer, featuring Carmen de Lavallade as Joan and the John Butler Dancers.

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon).

"Discovery Visits Hong Kong" for a look at a family on a sampan and rural life a few feet from the Chinese border. First of two parts.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Another two-part show, on the history of China from 1930 to the present.

Part 1, "War in China," spans the period from the Japanese conquest of Manchuria until 1945. Walter Cronkite narrates.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Composer Gian Carlo Menotti acts as a guide for a visit to last summer's "Festival of Two Worlds" at Spoleto, Italy.

Among the guest artists are Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and John Browning, Soprano Shirley Verrett and Conductors Zubin Mehta, Thomas Schippers and Werner Torkanowsky.

IT'S ABOUT TIME (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). In a new series, Astronauts Hector (Jack Mullaney) and Mac (Frank Aletter) are rocketed aloft faster than the speed of light—and suddenly find themselves in the Stone Age. This week, the show's third, they continue their prehysterical adventures, with Imogene Coca playing a cave frau.

THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (ABC, 8-11 p.m.). Alec Guinness, William Hoiden and Jack Hawkins in the splendid 1957 Academy Award winner about the heroes, reluctant and otherwise, in a World War II Japanese prison camp.