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...with Love is a British expedition into the blackboard jungle-territory sometimes assumed to be exclusively American. The plot is primer-simple. A refugee engineer (Sidney Poitier) from British Guiana's black, bored jungle takes an interim teaching job in a London slum school to tide him over until he can find an opening in his field. He meets with little race prejudice; the students hate him-less for the color of his skin than for the shade of his opinions. Stiff-necked, prim, always dressed in a starched white shirt, he tries to turn the kids into adults...
...Thursday, April 6 NBC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier is host of the Harry Belafonte production "A Time for Laughter," which flashes back through 100 years of bittersweet Negro humor. Comedy sketches and songs by Belafonte, Diahann Carroll, Dick Gregory, Redd Foxx, Godfrey Cambridge...
Friday, April 7 CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Long Ships (1964), a period piece aswash with buckle. Sidney Poitier, leader of the Moors, and Richard Widmark, the Viking chief, clash in their search for lost treasures...
...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier in his Academy Award-winning role of an ex-G.I. who lends a helping hand to five German immigrant nuns in Lilies of the Field...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "PORGY AND BESS" (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), with Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey...