Television: Oct. 30, 1964

Thursday, October 29 BEWITCHED (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.).* Guest Shelley Berman plays a candy king whose plans to incorporate broomstick uglies into his Halloween advertising campaign arouse the ire of housewifely Witch Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery).

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Speech by Barry Goldwater. (Also election eve, same time.)

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In the first of this season's seven Como specials, Perry offers Anne Bancroft, Stanley Holloway and Victor Borge.

Friday, October 30

INTERNATIONAL SHOWTIME (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Berlin Ice Revue glistens with European skating champions, skating comedians, acrobats and lavish production numbers.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Halloween with the Addamses is suitably ghoulish when Morticia and Gomez welcome bank robbers to their cobweb-hung manse as trick-or-treaters.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Excerpts from Julius Monk's rollicking and timely Plaza 9 revue, Bits and Pieces. Color.

Sunday, November 1

SUNDAY (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Voter-in-the-street interviews and a review of precampaign and campaign statements by the presidential candidates.

THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A last-minute glance at the various political races.

ELECTION PREVIEW (CBS, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). An evaluation of the 1964 campaign, the issues involved, and the outlook for Election Day.

Monday, November 2

THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paid political broadcast, whose format is not yet settled.

Tuesday, November 3 ELECTION COVERAGE (ABC, CBS, NBC, 7 p.m. to conclusion). All three networks tune in where the campaign tunes out to compute, analyze and dissect the returns. Anchormen for ABC are Edward P. Morgan and Howard K. Smith, and for NBC, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. CBS, having officially abandoned the title Anchorman, heads its team with "National Editor Assigned to Integrate and Summarize the Overall Election Story" Walter Cronkite.

THEATER

CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A band of incredibly funny young Cambridge graduates, with a revue that thinks small and carries a big slapstick. Laughter is all but incessant, and the most hilarious sketch of the evening is a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd British courtroom trial involving a dwarf.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR is an animated documentary that grins like a skull at the follies of World War I. Adding humor and song to pity and terror, Lovely War

*All times E.S.T. achieves a catharsis hardly to be believed of a musical. The hand that guides it is Joan Littlewood's; the guiding spirit is Bertolt Brecht's.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Incredibly, this musical discovers high theater and infectious gaiety in the funny-sad story of Tevye and his five daughters in a Russian village prior to the 1905 revolution. Zero Mostel is a million rubles worth of joy.

ABSENCE OF A CELLO. This amusing farce breezes along on the proposition that the corporate image is a fright mask.

RECORDS

Virtuosos