Television: Oct. 24, 1969

Wednesday, October 22 GOODBYE, CITY HALL (NET, 9-10 p.m.).* Outgoing Mayors Jerome Cavanagh, Detroit, Joseph Barr, Pittsburgh, Arthur Na-talin. Minneapolis, and Allen Thompson, Jackson, Miss., discuss municipal pressures, problems and palliatives at the executive residence in Detroit.

Thursday, October 23

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8:30-10 p.m.). The Battle of Culloden is a documentary reconstruction done in newsreel fashion of the last battle to be fought on British soil and its aftermath. Repeat.

IT TAKES A THIEF (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Senta Berger and Nigel Patrick are the guest stars in a comic caper, "Flowers from Alexander."

Saturday, October 25

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). A boxing match between the U.S. and Russia is covered live from Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith, Dame Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood and Diane Cilento in the many-Oscared film version of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1963). This romantic romp in 18th century England was directed by Tony Richardson.

Sunday, October 26

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The Shah of Iran takes on members of the Fourth Estate.

DEDICATION CONCERT AT JUILLIARD (CBS, 5:30-7 p.m.). Live coverage of the dedication concert from Alice Tully Hall, featuring performances by Van Cliburn, Shirley Verrett, Itzhak Perlman, with Leopold Stokowski and Jean Morel sharing the direction of a 70-piece symphony orchestra.

LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Sugar Ray Robinson is a trumpet-playing giant who promises freedom to the crew of a wrecked spaceship if Copilot Don Marshall will agree to give him jazz lessons on the horn.

IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN, CHARLIE BROWN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Let's all gather in the punkin' patch and see if the Great One will appear this year. Repeat.

THE BOLD ONES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A convicted murderer is given a retrial after seven years of imprisonment on Death Row in "If I Should Wake Before I Die." District Attorney Washburn (Hari Rhodes) and the deputy chief (Leslie Nielsen) disagree on his guilt.

Monday, October 27

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). The New York Giants v. the Dallas Cowboys in Dallas.

Tuesday, October 28

THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso track California Grey Whales.

THE RED SKELTON SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). John Wayne celebrates his 40th year in movies by joining Red in a few familiar-sounding skits like "The High and the Flighty" and "Hominy and True Grit." The Baja Marimba Band makes music for the occasion.

NET FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "ACT Now" goes backstage to examine the professional training program of William Ball's American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

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