Television: Mar. 11, 1966

All three networks will provide live coverage of the Gemini 8 launch scheduled for Tuesday, March 15, and, if all goes as planned, will follow the three-day mission with films of the farthest and fastest walk in history—one and a half times around the world in 2 hr. 40 min.

Thursday, March 10

OPERATION SEA WAR: VIET NAM (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* Movie Actor Glenn Ford narrates this color documentary on the U.S. Navy's role in Viet Nam.

THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis and Shelley Berman are among the guests.

Friday, March 11

BALLET FOR SKEPTICS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This special, filmed in Paris, was choreographed by Roland Petit for his wife Zizi Jeanmaire. Yves St. Laurent designed the costumes.

Saturday, March 12

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The N.C.A.A. Indoor Track and Field Championships in Detroit, plus the National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championship in Gardena, Calif.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Movie Director George Stevens has filed a $2,000,000 lawsuit against NBC and Paramount Pictures for this airing of A Place in the Sun, a film that won him an Oscar in 1951. Network continuity cuts and commercial interruptions, says Stevens, constitute a "rape" of the film.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire is host, and his visitors include Ethel Merman, Jack Jones and French Mime Marcel Marceau.

Sunday, March 13

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). ABC News Correspondents Peter Jennings and Bill Sheehan interview Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A report on an experiment begun in 1962 when the Nevada State Prison allowed Synanon, an association of former drug addicts similar to Alcoholics Anonymous, to try to rehabilitate criminals who were not necessarily addicts.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Ray Bolger presides over a program devoted to music from motion pictures.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Carousel, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, given a Hollywood spin by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones.

Monday, March 14

PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The three-month homicide trial of Rodney Harrington, accused of killing Joe Chernak in an off-the-cuff scuffle, culminates in a verdict.

Tuesday, March 15

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). For Two Lovers, MGM built New Zealand in Culver City, cast Shirley MacLaine as a spinster schoolmarm who has this frigidity problem with men — like Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins. The result is somewhat Metro-Goldwyn-Maori.

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "I.O.U. $315,000,000,000," a balance sheet on consumer debt.

THEATER

On Broadway

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is an honest and lyrical, sentimental and humorous account of a young Irishman's preparations to leave his homeland for America. A uniformly excellent cast is headed by Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, who play the hero's inner and outer selves.

SWEET CHARITY. As a taxi dancer in search of lasting love, Gwen Verdon is Terpsichore's darling and fortune's foil. The choreography by Bob Fosse sizzles, but Neil Simon's book is a burnt-out case.