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At NBC they’re “spectaculars”; at CBS, “color specials,” but whatever you call the 90-minute-and-more shows, they add up to TV’s big news. Last year NBC monopolized the field; this year CBS is leaving no stone—or star—^unturned to join in. At last report CBS had only one series definitely scheduled besides the daddy of all 90-minute shows. The Big Ones Take Over ‘Spectaculars’ Or ‘Specials,’ Those 90-Minute Programs Will Make The Headlines Omnibus —the Saturday night Ford Star Jubilee, which begins tonight with Judy Garland’s TV bow; but its list assays high in quality. Among the Jubilee attractions will be Noel Coward’s TV debut in “Cafe de Paris,” and a 90-minute helping of the TV-shy Bing Crosby in “High Tor.” Slated, but undated, are a sec¬ ond Crosby opus, and two dramas written by—and starring—Coward: “Blithe Spirit, “Peace in Our Time.” Jubilee will also offer three items supervised by Paul Gregory, includ¬ ing “The Big Banjo” and “The Day Lincoln Was Shot”; a Christmas-time production of Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird”; and a new musical, “Wonder¬ ful World,” with songs by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. A non-Jubilee “special” will be Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker Suite,” with a libretto by playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack. In the on-again- off-again category are projects enlist- British film, 'The Constant Husband,' will ing Ken Murray and Orson Welles. Over at NBC, they’re promising “the greatest season in the history of any network,” with a long, long line-up of 90-minute-plus programs, includ¬ ing musical comedies, operettas, big- name movies never before screened in the U.S., classic and not-so-classic drama, documentaries, operas and bal¬ let. There will be 13 Max Liebman Presents, 13 Color Spreads, 13 Pro¬ ducers’ Showcases, eight Maurice Evans Presents, six operas, an alter¬ nate-week Wide Wide World and oth¬ er horizon-widening “telementaries.” 8