Television: Aug. 8, 1969

Thursday, August 7

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* David Hemmings stars in Auto-Stop as a young man who goes on a hitchhiking trip across Europe to impress an older woman. Repeat.

MASTERS OF POP: INNOCENCE, ANARCHY AND SOUL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). This rock special features the talents of Lulu, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity, Lance LeGault, Chris Farlowe, Don Lang and Lonnie Donegan.

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Black Fiddler: Prejudice and the Negro" is a report on community control of public schools highlighted by a Brooklyn junior high school production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Saturday, August 9

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Japanese All-Star Baseball Game from Tokyo.

Sunday, August 10

A.A.U. TRACK AND FIELD (CBS, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). U.S. r. West Germany in Augsburg, Germany.

N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 6 p.m. to conclusion). The Cleveland Browns, Eastern Conference champions, meet the San Francisco 49ers in Seattle.

HEE HAW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Clever country corn with contributions from Guests Conway Twitty and Jerry Lee Lewis.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Rex Harrison and Charlton Heston spar as pope and painter in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).

Monday, August 11

NET JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "Fasten Your Seat Belts" is a report on our snarled airports and hazard-ridden skies as air traffic outdistances the construction of new ground facilities. Repeat.

Tuesday, August 12

THE MOD SQUAD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

Ida Lupino is featured as an adoption racket queen in "Child of Sorrow, Child of Light." Repeat.

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Fathers and Sons" is a report by Charles Kuralt and John Laurence on the generation gap in four families and the attempts to bridge it.

STRAW HAT

During summer months, Broadway favorites flood the countryside where they are performed by members of the original cast, summer stock troupes or local players. Among this season's most frequent productions:

MAME cavorts in her inimitable style, with Janis Paige playing Auntie in North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 4-9; Wallingford, Conn., Aug. 11-23. Elaine Stritch stars in Hyannis, Mass., Aug. 11-16; Edie Adams in Devon, Pa., Aug. 11-23. The musical is also on view in Brunswick, Me., Aue. 18-30: Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 5-17; and Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 5-10.

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE visits its laughter on East Hampton, L.I., Aug. 4-9; Nyack, N.Y., Aug. 11-16, with Tammy

Grimes; Paramus, N.J., Aug. 12-24; Jennerstown, Pa., Aug. 11-16; New Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 18-23; Philadelphia's Playhouse in the Park, Aug. 25-30; and Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 25-29.

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING brings its three droll and touching playlets to Dennis, Mass., Aug. 4-9; Nashville, Tenn., through Aug. 10; Los Angeles Gallery Theater through Aug. 15; Fish Creek, Wis., Aug. 12-17; Reading, Pa., Aug. 13-24; Woodstock, Vt., Aug. 19-23; Ogunquit, Me., Aug. 18-23; ancf Skowhegan, Me., Aug. 25-30.

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