Television: Dec. 30, 1966

Wednesday, December 28

YEAR END REVIEW: A DINNER AT HOWARD K. SMITH'S (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* ABC correspondents gather at the Maryland home of their colleague to discuss and analyze the major news events of 1966. Among them: Edward P. Morgan, William Lawrence, John Scali, Sam Jaffe, Charles Arnot and George Watson.

Thursday, December 29

THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Five Finger Exercise (1962), the film version of Peter Shaffer's play, starring Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins and Maximilian Schell.

Saturday, December 31

FOOTBALL (from noon on). Because New Year's Day falls on a Sunday—and also because the pros will pre-empt the tube for their championship game on Jan. 1—the colleges and networks have decided to split the bowl games, with some Dec. 31 and the rest on Jan. 2. Today's lineups:

GATOR BOWL (ABC, noon). Syracuse v. Tennessee, from Jacksonville, Fla.

COTTON BOWL (CBS, 2:15 p.m.). S.M.U. v. Georgia, from Dallas.

EAST-WEST SHRINE GAME (NBC, 4:30 p.m.), for the senior all-stars not playing in one bowl or another, from San Francisco.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Cole Porter's classic Anything Goes (1956) is crooned to life again by Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, Jean-maire, Mitzi Gaynor and Phil Harris.

Sunday,January 1

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME (CBS, 4 p.m.).

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The First Ladies of Opera," with Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland and Renata Tebaldi in separate sequences highlighting their unique styles.

Monday, January 2

THE 1967 MUMMERS PARADE (CBS, 10:30-11:30 a.m.). Allen Ludden acts as host for the 66th annual Mummers parade from Philadelphia.

FOOTBALL (from 11:30 a.m. on). All three networks will cover the Tournament of Roses parade, but only NBC will have the game itself—sandwiched in between two other bowls.

SUGAR BOWL (NBC, 1:45 p.m.). Alabama v. Nebraska, from New Orleans.

ROSE BOWL (NBC, 4:45 p.m.). U.S.C. r. Purdue, from Pasadena.

ORANGE BOWL (NBC, 7:45 p.m.). Florida v. Georgia Tech, from Miami.

Tuesday, January 3

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). A poverty-stricken British naval commander (James Mason) concocts an ingenious plot to have the newspapers call him a traitor so he can sue for libel in A Touch of Larceny (1960), co-starring George Sanders and Vera Miles.

THE NATIONAL CURRENT EVENTS TEST (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Now where can a man win $947,400 on a 52¢ bet? Don't know? Too bad. That's really worth remembering.

In coming weeks check your educational TV stations for:

N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). La Marmite, which means "Pot of Gold," follows the fortunes of a disagreeable old miser who lives in fear of losing his gold.

N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Opium Trail" shows how the narcotic is grown in the interior of Southeast Asia and then moved to Hong Kong for distribution throughout the world.

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