Television: Nov. 4, 1966

Television's finest hours seem to come when everyone focuses hotly on the same event. Tuesday, Nov. 8, is Election Day, and all three networks will be there competing from 7 p.m. on with their top correspondents and most expensive computers.

Wednesday, November 2 SHIPSTADS AND JOHNSON ICE FOLLIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Agent 86 (Don Adams) will be on hand as host to Smarten up this year's Folly.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Music and lyrics by the Fiddlers on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, add new dimensions to Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, featuring Sir Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Natalie Schafer. Tippy Walker and Peter (Herman of the Hermits) Noone.

Friday, November 4

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (ABC, 7:30-10 p.m.). The first ABC movie special, The Bridge on the River Kwai, unhorsed Bonanza in the Nielsen race, and now the network is gunning for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. with Sam Goldwyn's 1952 story of the fairy-tale-teller, starring Danny Kaye, Farley Granger and Jeanmaire.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Robert Vaughn and David McCallum are called in to rescue the wife (Diana Hyland) of a Senator with presidential aspirations when Thrush agents decide to program her brain for their wave length.

Saturday, November 5

ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Dr. Loren Eiseley examines the story of life on earth—how it began, multiplied and advanced from simple one-celled organisms to man.

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). More on evolution. "Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man" deals with Anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey and his family of fossil hunters in East Africa. After more than 30 years, the Leakeys have made such finds as Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature believed to have lived 1,750,000 years ago, and the 2,000,000-year-old Homo habilis, who was found among some of the earliest signs of "culture," and is believed to be a direct ancestor of modern man.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The All-Ireland Hurling championship from Dublin, and the National Air Races in Reno.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Roman Holiday (1953), all about a princess (Audrey Hepburn) on a good-will tour who slips out for a fling and finds a willing guide (Gregory Peck).

MISS TEENAGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). For those who have been wondering what the younger generation is coining to.

Sunday, November 6

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). "Jephthah's Daughter," an original ballet featuring Carmen de Lavallade and the John Butler Dancers.

LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). The first of a four-part series on

"Africa and the Church" examines churchstate relations on the Ivory Coast, focusing on the problems of integrating tribal groups into one community.

FACE THE NATION (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Edmund ("Pat") Brown, California's incumbent Democratic Governor, is the guest.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-,1:30 p.m.). More politics, with Senators Warren G. Maenuson (for the Democras), Thruston B. Morton (for the Republicans).