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Friday, Mar. 31, 1967

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Wednesday, March 29

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Cliff Robertson, Jo Van Fleet, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Constantine and Bettye Ackerman star in "Verdict for Terror," the story of a bizarre trial and its aftermath—in which the son of an executed man tries to prove that the prosecuting attorney went too far in order to advance his political career.

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A. B. Guthrie's frontier saga, These Thousand Hills (1959), stars Don Murray, Lee Remick, Richard Egan and Stuart Whitman.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Diahann Carroll is Danny's guest.

Thursday, March 30

COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Roy Rogers and Dale Evans host the 1967 Pacific Championship Indoor Rodeo from Long Beach, Calif., with the New Christy Minstrels on hand to help things along.

THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson again, this time as a hard-case hood out to avenge his father's gangland slaying in Underworld U.S.A. (1961).

THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE AND RED DANUBE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A trip down the oft-sung river, taking in the sights on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Maximilian Schell narrates.

Friday, March 31

THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:56 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger.

Saturday, April 1

THE SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). "Catlin and the Indians," the life and works of George Catlin, famed painter of American Indians, with Bill Ryan as narrator.

THE $100,000 FIRESTONE-P.B.A. TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 3:30-5 p.m.). The Professional Bowling Association finals from Akron, Ohio.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Vail International Giant Slalom from Vail, Colo., and the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championship from Kent, Ohio.

Sunday, April 2

DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A sampling from the works of Israel's Nobel-prizewinning author, S. Y. Agnon.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Vice President Hubert Humphrey is interviewed by five members of the foreign press in London via the Early Bird satellite.

FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). The first of a four-part special on Protestantism, "The Church Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." The opener, "Ashes of the Martyrs," deals with the Reformation.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The second annual CBS Billiards Classic, featuring four of the world's best players (Luther Lassiter, Cicero Murphy, Joe Balsis and Frank McGowan) in Manhattan. Plus an African safari through the Kilombero River Valley, Tanzania.

NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Nanette Fabray narrates "Theater of the Deaf," which takes a look at three leading directors (Arthur Penn, Joe Layton and Gene Lasko) working with deaf actors at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation in Waterford, Conn. Scenes from Kismet, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, All the Way Home and South Pacific.