Television: Sep. 6, 1968

Saturday, Sept. 7

KELLOGG PRESENTS THE BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR (NBC, 10:30-11:30 a.m.).* The Banana Splits, a quartet of rock musicians and comedians, whips up something new in the way of children's entertainment in a weekly series combining live action, sprightly comedy, music and cartoons. Premiere.

U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). The semifinals and finals of the first U.S. Open Tennis Championships from Forest Hills Stadium, New York. Continued tomorrow, 3-5 p.m.

WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Bob Goalby, Lee Trevino, Gary Player and Julius Boros, winners of the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open and P.G.A. respectively, play for $77,500 in prizes in a two-day, 36-hole tournament at the Firestone Country Club, Akron. Live coverage of the last five holes today and tomorrow at the same time.

N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Baltimore Colts v. Dallas Cowboys in a preseason exhibition. Live from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Sunday, Sept. 8

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Interview with Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew, G.O.P. vice-presidential candidate.

AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 2-5 p.m.). Boston Patriots v. Buffalo Bills live from Buffalo.

AROUND THE WORLD OF MIKE TODD (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Ethel Merman, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lowell Thomas, Art Buchwald and Elizabeth Taylor reminisce about the life and career of the late show-business entrepreneur. Orson Welles narrates.

Monday, Sept. 9

PREMIERE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Higher and Higher, Attorneys at Law." Dustin Hoffman, star of the motion picture The Graduate, plays a young district attorney prosecuting a young man on a homicide charge.

Check local listings for date and time of this NET program:

NET JOURNAL. "The Quiet Revolution." A documentary study of the economic, social and political reforms of Czech Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek that led to last month's Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. German, British and Czech films show the tense confrontation between Dubcek and Russia's Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev in August at Cierna.

THEATER

On Broadway

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. If the Bard and Beckett had ever collaborated on a play about what went on behind the scenes at Elsinore, this wry existential comedy might have been the result. John Wood and Brian Murray are marvelously adept as Tom Stoppard's confused duo.

PLAZA SUITE. Neil Simon comes to bat again and raps out three short hits. George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton are either hilarious or sentimental as they portray middle-aged couples in sometimes awkward, always amusing predicaments.

THE PRICE. Among the many dusty relics of the past in a family attic, the two brothers who are Arthur Miller's characters find living memories and smoldering emotions.

Off Broadway

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, one of Eugene O'Neill's last plays, laments a loveless trio. W. B. Brydon, Salome Jens and Mitchell Ryan give poignant portrayals of three emotional cripples hiding their numerous afflictions beneath much blather and rant. Theodore Mann directs a neatly tuned production at the Circle in the Square.