Television: Jul. 26, 1963

Wednesday, July 24

Reckoning (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Drama set in the Air Force survival school in the Nevada desert, with Dane Clark.

Thursday, July 25

The Lively Ones (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a summer musical show with Vic Damone as host. Among his first guests are Joanie Sommers, Count Basic and Benny Goodman.

The World of Sophia Loren (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Perkins, Anatole Litvak, and Vittorio De Sica are among the on-camera commentators in this nicely assembled film biography. Repeat.

Friday, July 26

The Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Oscar Levant, the Smothers Brothers, Comedian Jackie Mason. Repeat.

Sunday, July 28

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The early life of the late U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Repeat.

Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A gusty semi-documentary about a fictional Hurricane Hannah, which flattens much of Florida and Texas. Repeat.

Sunday Night Movie (ABC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). John Wayne and William Holden in The Horse Soldiers (Civil War story).

ABC News Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). When the United Mine Workers threatened to close four of six union hospitals in eastern Kentucky, violence resulted in the coal fields. This program records it. Repeat.

Monday, July 29

Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Prince Valiant (1954), with Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Brian Aherne, plus James Mason as the Black Knight.

David Brinkley’s Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). The first half treats the skill of getting off to a good start in a speech; the second has a quick look at the dictatorship in Paraguay.

Tuesday, July 30

Focus on America (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A visit to the rehabilitation center for narcotics addicts at Westport, Conn.

* All times E.D.T.