Television: Oct. 22, 1965

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Gemini 6, if launched on schedule Monday, Oct. 25, will be exhaustively covered on all three networks.

Wednesday, October 20

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* Eagle in a Cage stars Trevor Howard as Napoleon in exile on St. Helena.

MY NAME IS BARBRA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of Barbra Streisand's Emmy-winning show. From Mother Goose Park to Bergdorf Goodman in song.

I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Eartha Kitt helps Robert Gulp and Bill Cosby to break up a Hong Kong narcotics ring.

Thursday, October 21

TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). O'Brien is involved in the case of a woman who is being tried a second time for the murder of her husband.

Friday, October 22

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "The Re-Collectors Affair" Solo and Illya track down four Nazis attempting to make a profit out of stolen art.

Saturday, October 23

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Water Ski Kite-Flying championships in Austin, Texas, share the bill with the Charlotte, N.C., National "400" Stock Car championships.

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m. in the New York area, nationally 10:30-11 p.m.). "The Men Around L.B.J." Aides Jack Valenti, Bill Moyers, Lawrence O'Brien and others are interviewed.

GET SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Washington 4, Indians 3," intrepid Agent Maxwell Smart is sent to dissuade a band of Indians intent on getting their country back by use of a secret weapon.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Stalag 17, the 1953 prisoner-of-war movie to end all prisoner-of-war movies. William Holden won an Academy Award for this one.

Sunday, October 24

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Victor Borge is host, and the guests are Joan Sutherland, Benny Goodman and Ballet Dancer Jacques D'Amboise.

THEATER

The new season is under way, but so far only one Broadway production (Generation) warrants more than desultory interest. The best of the rest are holdovers.

On Broadway

GENERATION. Playwright William Goodhart measures the distance between gen erations in a comedy imbued with fond regard for the humor implicit in human nature. In one of his ablest performances, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role but substance to a man.

HALF A SIXPENCE and one Tommy Steele stir up a light, bright froth of song and dance.

THE ODD COUPLE. On leave from unhappy marriages, Walter Matthau and Paul Dooley try to set up a masculine menage a deux; their farcical failure makes for highly successful comedy.

LUV. Satirist Murray Schisgal pokes at the self-seriousness of a society and theater weaned on analysis and fed by Freud.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Alan Alda is an "author" (i.e., book clerk) and Diana Sands a "model" (i.e., prostitute) in this ironic version of the mating game.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Sholom Aleichem's story of a Russian village in 1905 becomes a lively musical with Luther Adler as Tevye, a dairyman who has wit, compassion, and five daughters.

Off Broadway