Television: Apr. 5, 1968

Wednesday, April 3

THE ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 pm)* Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe and Edmund Gwenn have trouble disposing of a corpse in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955)

Thursday, April 4

CALIFORNIA GIRL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Now it's the girls who are going West, and this documentary studies all the many attractions that make California not so much a state as a state of mind for Hollywood hopefuls and others.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Don Murray demonstrates the power of positive thinking in One Man's Way (1964), the story of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.

Friday, April 5

AMERICAN PROFILE: HOME COUNTRY, USA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley discusses the belief that the strength of the U.S. rests in its grass roots. Camera crews roam the countryside recording the lives of Americans from East Boothbay Harbor, Me., to Bozeman, Mont.

Saturday, April 6

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championship from Gardena, Calif ; N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championships from State College, Pa.; N.C.A.A. Skiing Championships from Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Sunday, April 7

PALM SUNDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 11 a.m.-noon). Roman Catholic Mass telecast live from St. John the Evangelist Church m Deer Park, Ohio.

GRAND PRIX OF SKIING (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Highlights of the Governor's Cup competition from Lake Tahoe, Calif.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Human Heart." Walter Cronkite questions South African heart surgeon Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and other heart specialists on the moral and legal implications of transplanting human organs. Surviving heart patients, including Dr. Philip Blaiberg, will appear.

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Hud (1963) starring Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas and Brandon de Wilde.

Monday, April 8

40TH ANNUAL AWARDS PRESENTATION OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (ABC, 10 p.m. to conclusion). Angie Dickinson, Macdonald Carey, Barbra Streisand, Audrey Hepburn, Warren Beatty, Kirk Douglas and Carol Channing join Bob (still-waiting-for-an-Oscar) Hope in this year's presentations. of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works.

THE CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Great American Novel." Eric Sevareid discusses the contemporary relevance of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt (1922) and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939). Pat Hingle and Richard Boone read selections from the two works.

NET PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Sir Michael Redgrave, Rosemary Harris and Max Adrian star with Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier in his celebrated 1962 production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

THEATER

On Broadway

LOOT. Black comedy has spawned black farce, and this is a saucy, irreverent, unremittingly amusing play that spews its lightly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers, marriage, the Roman Catholic Church and police brutality. As a birdseed-brained flatfoot from Scotland Yard, George Rose pilfers the show.