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TVM Sunday Special trt- but. Philadelphia's Franklin Institute in a hatt-bour color, doa Institute: Three new half hour pro- including popular "Marvel Superheroes" and die "Storybook Spectacular," will be telecast Saturday afternoons by KYW-TV, Channel 3, beginning today. The "Marvel Superheroes" will be telecast at 4:30 p.m. and include the animated color exploits of the fearless five Captain Marvel, The Sub-Mariner, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and The Mighty Tbor. The "Marvel Superheroes" have become a nationwide craze and some 50,000 people from throughout the country have already become members of the Merry Marching Society.

The stories about; the. costumed Sup- erheroes are "the rage of college campuses. Channels BARBARA BAIN costars as Cinnamon on "Minion: Impossible" on WCAU-TV, Channel 10, 9 p.m. Saturdays. Believable Spies Featured on Show Ingenuity, careful analysis and planning, imaginative thinking and steel nerves are the key elements in "Mission: Impossible," CBS-TV's hour long action-adventure series shown at p.m.

Saturdays on WCAU- TV, Channel 10. Unlike "The Man from U.N.- C.L.E." and other Bond-like series and spy spoofs, "Mission: Imposssible" Is believable, realistic drama. The missions fall to a private group of specialists known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF)TGeneralty the IMF's mission are of counterespionage nature. The client may be a government agency, a company, an individual or an organization such as me Red Cross. Invari- abry the tasks accepted by the IMF seemtobe insuperable.

force; steel courage, not gadgetry. The challenges thrown at the group in the initial episodes include "liberating" two nuclear warheads from a hostile Caribbean country, undermining a political regime in an Iron Curtain country, and rescuing a political prisoner from an impregnable prison in Eastern Europe. The bead of the IMF is Dan Briggs (Steven Hill), a 'headed human behavior analyst. Completing the nucleus of his team are: Cinnamon (Barbara Bain), a seductive blonde who functions principally as diversion; Barney (Greg Morris), young Negro electronics expert and linguist; Willy (Peter Lupus), world weight-lifting champion; Rollin. Hand (recurring guest star Martin Landau), an.

expert to tiM fields, ot Oration, Channel Wlih TV10-J Herb Clarke as host, tne'program explores tow The Franklin Institute has, lor ,142 years; challenged the minds of die young, and presents in their own" what science lives of peosie. With SMim takestto Ihe rtad to show la Delaware Valley scientificeihibtoitbey may nev- VMWWft WIU in tM 'country watching i demonstration Spectacular" series in color, in- eluding such i as, White," i ng-Beauty," Seven Dwarfs to the.Res- cue," "Hansel and- Gretel," "Panda and the Magic and "The Littlest Warrior." The premier program in the series will be "Gulliver's Dr. Loren C. Eiseley, professor' of anthropology and the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, will be host of "Animal Secrets," to be telecast at 1 p.m. Saturdays.

itiesr A to'the 'Institute's Science Teaching MuseunVshows the ease with which- scientific phenomena are demonstrated through the mere' pushing of a button. the'- unique "poonovision," viewers see how the future is anticipated and explained to iwlnilhe on plants. ln will visit iwiyaheacfol their school Jev: el in science activities. Viewers A major portion of the pro- will'-see eJementiry'school-age -gram involved with The youngsters working with cbem- Franklln Institute's supplemen- Istry, junior high children in a probability workshop, and senior high level boys and girls on a tary educational" activities, designed to bring science into the COLOR SPECIAL trip to NASA's Goddard flight Oentar Mai where Ceater Director Or: John Clark tens them bow he became interested science through ao- ttvitites of The Frankunbistt- tato. The program, closes with an Interview with Dr.

Wynn Lawrence LePage, president of The Franklin Institute, who expnss- the belief that the Institute, making science exciting for young rtpds, is not just trahlng but cvaattng JTVMSBliday Special: ita Institute: Launching Pad to is a presentation of the TVlorcommumty programs de- paflment The program is pro- Scldby Lew Barlow, directed by Don Matticks and written by MatCbew T. Robinson. Cinematography is by Ed Tycenskl and CharS. T. Gindhart, with sound by-Ralph Rodlo and Bill Ludes.

Film editor is Walter Stephen. Executive producer for the TV10 Sunday Special series is toes Gottlieb. Prisons to Be Probed Each year 109,000 Americans enter prisons, and another 100,000 come out--almost half of them destined to be sent back some day. What our prisons are doing wrong--and, what they're doing right-will be toe subject of a color special on CBS-TV called "Men in Cages." The program will be seen at 10 p.m. Tuesday, on WCAU-TV, Channel 10.

To film "Men In Cages" producer writer Warren Wallace took bis cameras to 10 penal institutions in various parts of the country. Among them were ones experts rate as "worst" and "best" Viewers will an unusual look at what life'is like inside the prison walls. They will see bow prisoners are admitted; how they spend their time, how they themselves feel about prison as a deterrent to crime. Viewers will see ex-convicts at a half-way bouse in California, an attempt by mat state's prison system to ease the first difficult step in freedom. Elsewhere in California, the camera visits a prison where convicts take jobs during the day and return to their prison at night In Texas, we visit both an old- fashioned jail where prisoners have nothing to do but wait and a new kind of institution where trusted inmates are allowed to ride range freely as herders.

At the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, convicts are seen earning their own money at jobs outside the walls, where they work side by side with ordinary members of the community. CBS-News Correspondent Roger Mudd talks to the inmates as well as to the men who run the system. With each group, he asks whether our prisons are schools tor habitual crime or if they can help men to change for the better. Among die experts who speak out during this program are Myrl Alexander, director of the Bureau of RrlWfs, who nitt, chaplain at Missouri'State Penitentiary, who analyzes the community's tear of criminals. Fred T.

Wilkinson, director of the Missouri State Department of Corrections, discusses why young people go wrong and the WEEKDAYS sort of person who up behind Tars. The convicts themselves offer some startling advice on how penal institutions can be improved, showing particular concern jor youthful first offenders. 2 Daytime Shows ToBePremiered Two new daytime Monday- through-Friday entertainment series In color "the Pat Boone Show" and "The Hollywood Squares" will premiere KYW-TV, Channel 3, "The Pat Boone Show," seen at 11 a.m. will present Boone as host and performer in an informal musical variety show featuring guest stars each day, unannounced appearances of his show business friends, and comedy in a relaxed atmosphere. With his new NBC-TV series, which will be a dally blend of music and mirth, Boons, a star of TV, films, and records, returns to the medium which catapulted him to fame.

"The Hollywood Squares," at 11:30 a.m., a game show played more for fun than profit, will star Peter Marshall as host and Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie and Abby Dalton as celebrity regulars. It also will present four stars in week-long appearances. "The Hollywood Squares" utilizes an eye-arresting, people- size board divided into nine squares with each compartment occupied by a celebrity. To play the game, two studio contestants compete to determine who will be first to place his mark in three consecutive squares ther horizontally, Terttcafly asked a question designed to evoke ad-lib humor as well as information. The contestant is then asked to rule on the correctness of the star's answer, which may be flip, facetious or false.

If the contestant's judgment is right, his mark is placed in the star's square; if be is wrong the box is awarded to his adversary. Each game is worth $290 to the winner and two out of three games will determine the champion, who will continue to compete until defeated. Boone brings to his new assignment the easy-going professionalism of fwo other NBC-TV singing stars, Perry Como and Andy Williams. Boone, who has been responsible for such song bin as "Ata't That a Shame," "Frieiioly Persuasion," "April Love" and "Love Letters in the attracted a national following as featured vocalist on the old Arthur Godfrey TV variety show. He starred for three years on his own TV series.

As host of "The Hollywood Squares," Marshall is admirably equipped to match quips with the show's celebrity players, who will be among the quickest wits in the entertainment world. He co-starred as Julie Harris' leading man in the Broadway musical, beaded the London comply of "Bye Bye BWto" starWn musical.