Friday, November 29 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Conductor Leonard Bernstein opens this series' seventh year on television with a glowing tribute to teachers, his own and others'.

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Barbra Streisand and Dody Goodman.

Saturday, November 30 THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An ex-boxer (Lou Antonio) finds his estranged wife with another man and accidentally kills him.

THE JERRY LEWIS SHOW (ABC, 9:30-11:30 p.m.). Tonight's guests are Singer Pearl Bailey and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson.

Sunday, December 1 DISCOVERY (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Leslie Caron conducts the remains of a two-part tour of London.

NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). David Brinkley hops from Andorra to San Marino, Monaco, Liechtenstein and Malta. Color.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest is West Germany's new Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Color.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). First of a three-part telecast of Disney's 1960 movie Pollyanna, starring Hayley Mills. Color.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Sullivan turns over the show to the wonderful Obratsov Russian Puppets.

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOWMAN (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). The fabulous career of Cecil B. DeMille, with excerpts from his most famous movies and appearances by some of his stars, including Betty Hutton, Gloria Swanson, James Stewart and Bob Hope. Color.

Monday, December 2 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A look at the lavish musicals of the '20s and '30s.

Tuesday, December 3 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Singers Maurice Chevalier and Jacqueline Francois and Pianist Philippe Entremont. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE is a wan retracing by Playwright Edward Albee of Carson McCullers' dark fable about the strange and obsessive attractions of love, with Colleen Dewhurst, Lou Antonio and Michael Dunn, a malapert actor-dwarf, locked in a luckless triangle of yearning and rejection.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. In a bizarre newlyweds' nook, Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford have only love to keep them warm--but Playwright Neil Simon stokes the evening with a fire of laughs.

JENNIE subjects Mary Martin to the terrors of waterfall and torture wheel, but these are comic larks compared to the book and lyrics of this musical that glooms through the early days of Laurette Taylor.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife.

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING, by Arnold Wesker, fights the class war between the Establishment and the proles in a peacetime R.A.F. training camp. The play takes the blight off its agitprop wash with its rollicking good humor.

THE REHEARSAL. Neither the 18th century costumes they wear for a play within this Anouilh play nor their witty words can hide the motives of aristocrats intent on destroying a pure--and classless--love.

LUTHER, by John Osborne, seethes with the inner violence of a religious passion, but stutters rather than stirs when it comes to theological insights. As Luther, Albert Finney struggles tortuously and awesomely for his truth.

Off Broadway CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, relentlessly builds to an unheard scream of conscience that resonates in the soul of an evil justice until he takes the first unsteady steps toward repentance.

THE ESTABLISHMENT. Nothing is sacrosanct to this sextet of deceptively urbane Britons except their right to boil big names and bigger isms in a cauldron of laughter.

CINEMA KNIFE IN THE WATER. Aboard a sloop go two bristling males, one with a knife, one with a wife--and Director Roman Polanski runs a taut ship in this first-rate thriller from Poland.

THERESE. This adaptation of Francois Mauriac's 1927 novel about a woman who poisons her husband because he is so thoroughly provincial offers visual beauty, literate dialogue, and a truly stunning performance by Emmanuele Riva, heroine of Hiroshima, Man Amour.

TOM JONES. Merely the best comedy in years. A lusty lad's progress through 18th century England is sometimes Hogarthian, always hilarious, and acted to the hilt by Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith and supporting company under the masterful direction of Tony Richardson.

MURIEL. France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad) embarks on an original, ambitious but ultimately tiresome trip down memory lane, with Marienbad's luminous Delphine Seyrig in brilliant form as an aging widow who yearns to recapture a long-lost love.

MARY, MARY. A soupcon of wisdom, a lot of wit are laced into Jean Kerr's zingy comedy about marriage-on-the-rocks. Debbie Reynolds and Barry Nelson star in the screen version of the play.

THE MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) examines the affectingly human decline and fall of a proud, fat, foolish old Bengali aristocrat.

MY LIFE TO LIVE. A young wife turned prostitute seeks her strangely satisfying salvation in the pursuit of pleasure, a racy theme developed with unblemished artistry by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, maker of Breathless.

THE HOUSEHOLDER. In this gentle comedy from India, a pair of newlyweds find their period of adjustment rather difficult, especially when the young husband (Shashi Kapoor) gets the bright idea of sending home for Mother.

BOOKS Best Reading

THE FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. The artist's life was like his murals: colorful, complicated and done on a grand scale. Though he was a loudly enthusiastic Communist for most of his life, his work was espoused by critics and capitalists rather than the masses, and Wolfe records every fierce conflict with both.

A SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. By capitalizing on his gift for fantasy and his necrophilic imagination, Donleavy (The Ginger Man) has written another wild and funny novel.

THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. Twenty-four more masterful short stories by the most accomplished as well as the most prolific practitioner of the art.

DOROTHY AND RED, by Vincent Sheean. Novelist Sinclair Lewis and globetrotting Dorothy Thompson made a glamorous couple, but their marriage was stormy, and it ended in a bitter divorce. Miss Thompson recorded every detail, from the giddy courtship to the last wrathful grape, and Sheean squares the famous family circle with some superfluous amateur analysis of his own.

A SENATE JOURNAL, by Allen Drury. As a U.P. reporter, Senate Watcher Drury (Advise and Consent) kept a meticulous journal of the Senate during the crucial war years 1943-45. The result is a very human account of legislators fighting each other, the war and the President.

THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. Most of these letters were written in the late '30s, when socially militant literati considered Fitzgerald an anachronism left over from a bankrupt era. Though poor and puzzled, the author did some of his best writing then--some of it in this volume.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week) 2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2) 3. The Living Reed, Buck (9) 4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (3) 5. Caravans, Michener (4) 6. The Venetian Affair, Maclnnes (7) 7. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (5) 8. The Three Sirens, Wallace (8) 9. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (10) 10. City of Night, Rechy (6)

NONFICTION 1. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (1) 2. The American Way of Death, Mitford (2) 3. Rascal, North (3) 4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (4) 5. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (5) 6. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower 7. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (9) 8. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (6) 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis 10. The Education of American Teachers, Conant (8)

* All times E.S.T.

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