Time Listings: CINEMA

From Hollywood Damn Yankees. Gwen Verdon, as the nimblest dancer in this or other worlds, and Ray Walston, as a button-down Beelzebub, in a bouncy remake of the Broadway musical.

Me and the Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a gentle, indestructible Polish refugee outwitting and outrunning the Wehrmacht.

The Defiant Ones. Stanley Kramer's black and white drama about a chain-gang escape, with Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier.

The Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall in a wonderful peek at Mayfair manners and amorals.

Indiscreet. Cary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman in a funny, freewheeling romance.

From Abroad

Premier May (French). A skinny-shanked French boy (Yves Noel) and his Papa (Yves Montand) make a low-keyed, humorous pair as each, in his own way, adds to his knowledge of the facts of life.

The Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel.

La Parisienne (French). Brigitte Bardot, leaning voluptuously on the sure comic talents of Charles Boyer and Henri Vidal, finally makes a film that is as funny as it is fleshy.

TELEVISION

Wed., Oct. 15

The Ginger Rogers Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).-Grand news: Old Hoofer Rogers kicks up her heels on TV, with the uplifting presence of Ray Bolger to help her over the jumps. The antique Ritz Brothers may need even more help as they try to parody Russia's superb Moiseyev Dance Company. Unfortunately missing from the party: Fred Astaire, who starts his own new show this week (see below).

The Patti Page Show (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Talented Singer Steve Lawrence, at present a U.S. Army private at Fort Dix, uses up part of his furlough time warbling with Smoothie Songstress Page.

Thurs., Oct. 16

Little Women (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Question: Which side will win in the contest between Richard (Damn Yankees) Adler's tunes and Louisa May Alcott's sentimentalities, in this musical adaptation of the 1868 novel. The cast is not so much well-rounded as well-scattered: the Met's Rise Stevens as Marmee, toothy Comedienne Jeannie Carson as Jo, grown-up Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien as Beth (who will not die in this version).

The Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie ankles back with more of his dexterously aw-shucked corn and with City Slicker Ernie Kovacs as his guest.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, who snapped to dramatic attention as Gooper in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays a reserve officer, retreaded for the Korean war, involved in a bitter tangle with a martinet colonel.

Fri., Oct. 17

An Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The dancing master, still loose as a goose at 59, launches on his first network TV flight; with him is Barrie Chase, lis new partner. In color.

Sun., Oct. 19