Television: Oct. 7, 1966

World Series fans will claim the tube, at least in the afternoons, and NBC will have it all in color. The rest of the week on TV:

Wednesday, October 5 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Shelley Winters is a guest villainess as the matriarch of a gaggle of gunmen in "The Greatest Mother of Them All." Throw her in jail, and before anyone can say "Gleeps!" she takes over the pen—warden and all. Fear not. The dynamic duo bat down this Mommaniac.

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Comedy tonight, when Chris Nye (Angie Dickinson), top New York fashion model, and her super-adman husband Will (Cliff Robertson) decide to junk their careers and head for the hinterlands, where he can fulfill his life's ambition to be a crusading editor.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Kennedy Wit," a sentimental montage of J.F.K., pasted together with still photos, film clips and tapes by Jack Paar. His guest will be David Francis Powers, who served as confidant, friend and occasional court jester to the late President.

Thursday, October 6

F TROOP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). When the pilfering at Fort Courage gets out of hand, who should turn up to set things right? None other than Uncle Miltie Berle, dropping back from his Friday night slot to Sherlock around Indian-style.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Audrey Hepburn in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) with Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney.

Friday, October 7

THE GREEN HORNET (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Cast as "The Shadow" in movie serials, Guest Victor Jory turns terrible as a murder-minded yachtsman in Hornetland.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman slips in to take on Napoleon and Illya as the mad film director who decides to drop a ten-ton stink bomb on Las Vegas for a super-colossal finish to a film about sin.

Saturday, October 8

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). The University of Tennessee will be out to repeat last year's 21-7 victory over Georgia Tech.

PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Hank Hawks (Ann Sheridan) and Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) put a stop to a stagecoach holdup, not realizing that it was carefully planned by Fellow Passenger Sir Richard (Patrick Horgan). He learns he will have to corral the Hawks family if he is going to succeed in the crime business.

Sunday, October 9

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Discovery Goes to Israel" for a tour of the port city of Haifa and a look into family life in Rama, an Arab village 30 miles to the north.

THE FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). For those who missed this September special or are still missing the ball, Chris Schenkel explains how to tell an umbrella from a red dog.

AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 4:30-7.30 p.m.). To practice what Schenkel explained, watch the Miami Dolphins play the Oakland Raiders.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Part 1 of The Young Lions (1958), with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift in outstanding performances as German and American soldiers during World War II. Remember carefully—the second part won't be aired until next Sunday.

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