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SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES-WORLD PREMIĒRE (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). In Rod Serling's trilogy of strange human relation ships, Night Gallery, each tale focuses on a painting and the people involved with it. The first picture is of a tortured Jew in a concentration camp; Richard Kiley stars as an ex-Nazi. The second features Joan Crawford as an art-collecting blind woman who will do anything for a few hours of sight. The last painting shows first one, then several open graves, after Roddy McDowall decides to hurry the death of his rich uncle...
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Curiously, yet another ABC première last week, Movie of the Week, led off with a plane crash. In this one, seven blind people survived, only to be done in by the tricky, pseudopsychological script. That disaster may or may not have been a harbinger of ABC's remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson...
...stage mother who says with a straight face that wearing a scarf that was the wrong color one day "cost me the part that made Rita Hayworth." It is theoretically possible that a shoddier and more tiresome series than Bracken will emerge in the second week of premières, but it is almost inconceivable...
MUNICH (through Aug. 5) is an opera-lover's paradise, with no fewer than 13 works by composers ranging from Mozart, Verdi and Wagner to Native Son Richard Strauss and a première by Czechoslovakia's Ján Cikker. For chamber music buffs there will be Liederabende by Baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey. Another series of chamber music by Bach, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and Scarlatti will be presented by small instrumental and vocal ensembles in the elegant 18th century Nymphenburg Palace (through July...