Television: Oct. 3, 1969

Wednesday, October 1 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). * Admirers as varied as Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Don Drysdale and Jack Benny participate with Roastmaster Alan King as "The Friars Club 'Roasts' Milton Berle."

Thursday, October 2

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). An updated version of Carl Zuckmayer's 1936 movie, Rembrandt tells the story of the artist's life through long years of sorrow and loneliness, when his paintings went unsold and unwanted. With Richard Johnson, Jill Bennett and Terri Stevens.

THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Out at her beach house, a free soul (Elizabeth Taylor) enchants a minister headmaster (Richard Burton), and causes his wife (Eva Marie Saint) a lot of grief in The Sandpiper (1965).

Saturday, October 4

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Gold Cup Powerboat Race from San Diego, Calif., and National Parachuting Championships from Tucson, Ariz.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). A message written in hieroglyphics pulls Ancient Languages Professor Gregory Peck into a wild adventure, with Sophia Loren as part of the stakes in Arabesque (1966).

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Mississippi's Rebels meet Alabama's Crimson Tide at Birmingham.

Sunday, October 5

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Interview with Vice President Spiro Agnew.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Splendid Edwardian adventure, with Stuart Whitman, Terry-Thomas, Sarah Miles and planeloads of other stars sky larking their way through Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965).

THE FORSYTE SAGA (NET, 9-10 p.m.).

This dramatization of John Galsworthy's sequence novel of a large, nouveau-riche English family begins in 1879, and carries them through 50 years — and 26 weekly installments — of scandal, true love, success and misunderstanding. The series, with Kenneth More, Eric Porter and Nyree Dawn Porter, became a "national obsession" in Britain, where it first played.

Monday, October 6 NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Speak Out on Drugs" brings together eight 15-to-20-year-olds who talk about their experiences with marijuana, LSD and "speed" (amphetamine). Questions phoned in by viewers will be answered and discussed by an M.D., a lawyer and a psychologist.

Tuesday, October 7 FROM HERE TO THE SEVENTIES (NBC, 8:30-1 1 p.m.). The problems of today (race, environment, hunger, overpopulation) and the concerns of the future (sexual permissiveness, space, today's youth grown up) are given serious consideration by twelve top news commentators, including John Chancellor, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Barbara Walters, Elie Abel, Aline Saarinen. Actor Paul Newman is the viewer's guide through the thicket of subjects.

CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An original script by Earl Hamner, "Appalachian Autumn" stars Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright and Estelle Winwood.

THEATER

On Broadway

FORTY CARATS features Julie Harris as a 40-year-old divorcee wooed by a lad in his 20s, while her teen-age daughter runs off with a widower of 45.