Television: Nov. 8, 1968

Wednesday, November 6

BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Guests: Barbara Eden and Ray Charles.

CAMPAIGN '68: WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A roundup of Election Night results, with Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, and a series of reports by regional correspondents around the U.S.

Friday, November 8

THE DON RICKLES SHOW (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Carol Burnett spars with Mr. Warmth.

Saturday, November 9

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 1:45-5 p.m.). Purdue v. Minnesota, at Memorial Stadium, Duluth.

HAWAIIAN INTERNATIONAL OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Jim Simpson, Charlie Jones and Pat Hernon describe the competition between top golfers, via satellite telecast, from Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Final holes tomorrow 6-7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). A young Alabama Negro is charged with rape, and Lawyer Gregory Peck comes to the defense. The film adaptation of Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer prizewinning novel won three Oscars.

Sunday, November 10

N.F.L. FOOTBALL (CBS, 4 p.m. to conclusion). New York Giants v. Dallas Cowboys in Dallas.

Check local listings for dates and times of these NET specials:

NET JOURNAL. "Appalachia: Rich Land, Poor People." NET examines the distressing failure of the federal poverty programs that were designed to halt the exodus of population from the coal-rich lands of Appalachia.

NET FESTIVAL. "Happy New Yves." French Entertainer Yves Montand sings, clowns and dances his way through 17 musical numbers. Dance accompaniment by the Dirk Sanders Ballet.

THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. "The Winners."

First of a twelve-part series on nature and science films: an exploration of the microworld of insects.

THEATER

On Broadway

ROCKEFELLER AND THE RED INDIANS. As a parody of all the cowboy movies ever made, this zany farce will seem either too silly for words or confoundedly hilarious. The British cast is super and contributes mightily to the sly, broad, and sometimes salacious flavor of the humor.

THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY whizzes through Moliere's The Misanthrope with airy grace and style but then unhappily gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic, psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party.

THE GREAT WHITE HOPE. Playwright How ard Sackler models his tragic hero on Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion. James Earl Jones gives a performance of leonine power, but otherwise the acting is American primitive—as is Edwin Sherin's staging.

THE MAN IN THE GLASS BOOTH. Donald Pleasence attacks his role as a Jewish tycoon who masquerades as a Nazi SS officer with a furious and brilliant intensity. But Robert Shaw's insights about victim and victimizer are transparent, and his drama superfluous.

LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS spins through four different steps in the mating dance. The first three playlets are gently amusing, and the fourth, enhanced by Richard Castellano as a beer-bellied slob whose marriage is a grind, foams with compassionate laughter.

Off Broadway