TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 13 I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).* The Chinese mafia is running a poppy-dust racket, and Spies Gulp and Cosby break it up.

Thursday, October 14

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Houseboat, one of the few good films Sophia Loren ever made in Hollywood, perhaps because Old Smoothie Cary Grant is aboard.

THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests include Pearl Bailey, George Gobel and a new rock-'n'-roll group: Dino, Desi and Billy (Martin Jr., Arnaz Jr., and a friend named Hinshe).

Friday. October 15

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Solo, Illya and Mr. Waverly himself raid a Thrush fruggery in "The Discotheque Affair."

Saturday. October 16

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC. 5-6:30 p.m.). World Roller Skating championships in Madrid and the World Timber Carnival in Albany, Ore.

TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Roger (The Saint) Moore dates O'Brien's exwife, so O'Brien, the devil, sets him up as a pigeon to trap a killer.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Boys' Night Out, in which Kim Novak plays a student researching a thesis on sex, and James Garner and Tony Randall play index cards.

Sunday. October 17

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). Television premiere of William Bergsma's oratorio. Confrontation from the Book of Job.

DISCOVERY '65 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A documentary about the California Gold Rush.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Eisenhower discusses his new book, Waging Peace, and Lyndon Johnson's domestic and foreign policies.

THE CAPITOL: CHRONICLE OF FREEDOM (NBC. 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A special on the national Capitol building as a symbol and as an art treasure. Repeat.

Monday. October 18

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT, 1964 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). A David Wolper production (the first non-CBS-produced news show ever broadcast by the network), based on T. H. White's bestseller.

THE STEVE LAWRENCE SHOW (CBS. 10-11 p.m.). Guests are a rare pair--Liberace and Phyllis Diller.

RECORDS

Jazz Best Sellers

THE IN CROWD (Argo) that collects around the solidly welded, ten-year-old Ramsey Lewis trio is quite a sizable mob. This LP, recorded live at the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C., has soared up the pop charts, past such rock 'n' run regulars as the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. The title song has the usu al rocking beat, but Pianist Lewis also dispenses old-fashioned swing, bland harmonies and light-fingered embellishments in such well-worth-repeating pieces as Duke Ellington's Come Sunday and Buddy Johnson's Since I fell for You.

MONSTER (Verve) contains some threadbare titles (Goldfinger, the theme from The Ministers, St. James Infirmary), but the arrangements by Oliver Nelson are highly charged by the most electric of the electronic jazz organists, Jimmy Smith, with the powerful help of a reed and woodwind band.

ORGAN GRINDER SWING (Verve), except for the title piece, has little of the excitement of Monster and is for fanciers of the Hammond organ only. Jimmy Smith's trio (Kenny Burrell on guitar, Grady Tate on drums) plays nine minutes of so-so blues, a bright and shiny Satin Doll, and a wheezing travesty of Greensleeves.

SOUL SAUCE (Verve) features the brittle tracery of Cal Tjader's vibes and some Cuban percussion. Tjader plays in Latin dance halls, and his combo maintains a steady, inesthetic drive in pieces like Afro-Blue, Tanya and Joao.

GETZ/GILBERTO (Verve) is the still-selling smash hit in which the Brazilian father of bossa nova, Singer Joao Gilberto, was upstaged by his softspoken, hitherto unknown wife Astrud singing The Girl from Ipanema. The big bestseller sprouted a number of smaller bestsellers, a kind of family tree of albums:

GETZ AU GO GO (Verve). Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz and Mrs. Gilberto again (One Note Samba, Corcovado).

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ANTONIO CARLOS JOBIM (Warner) features the young Brazilian composer who wrote most of Getz's best numbers. Backed by Nelson Riddle's band, Jobim picks up the mike himself to sing, in a husky, rueful, rather monotonous voice, some of his subtle and insinuating songs (Useless Landscape, She's a Carioca, A Felicidade).

THE SHADOW OF YOUR SMILE (Verve). Mrs. Gilberto adds another LP to the family, this time featuring American standards like Fly Me to the Moon and Day by Day. The title song is the love theme from The Sandpiper, which is infectious when hummed but sickening when sung: "A teardrop kissed your lips and so did I."

CINEMA

REPULSION. Poland's Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) proves himself a master of menace in the case study of a fragile French psychopath (Catherine Deneuve) who works by day in a London beauty salon, spends her off-hours immersed in sexual fantasies and gruesome deeds.

THE RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama owes its vitality to a major talent. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned) who also takes on the leading role as a hell-for-leather railroad engineer brought to a dead end by family problems.

DARLING. Julie Christie's stunning presence enhances this glittering tale of a jet-set playgirl who finds that the road to ruin leads straight to the top.

TO DIE IN MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, power fully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil war of 1936-1939.

KING AND COUNTRY. A private's progress from firing line to firing squad is the substance of Director Joseph (The Servant) Losey's painful, stirringly played World War I drama about an inarticulate deserter (Tom Courtenay) and his anguished defender (Dirk Bogarde).

HELP! The Beatles--romping through poison gas, trap doors, flamethrowers and Buckingham Palace in a custom-made comedy that is long on sight gags, short on spontaneity, but just funny enough to keep the legend alive for another season.

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. With Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo as the hero driven by tragic economic necessity, Italian Director Francesco Rosi rues the lot of a great bullfighter in a film of brutal and unnerving beauty.

RAPTURE. In an astonishingly subtle performance, Patricia Gozzi (the disturbing nymphet of Sundays and Cybele) plays a lonely, imaginative girl with a fixation for a handsome criminal (Dean Stockwell). The girl's embittered father (Melvyn Douglas) and a slatternly servant (Gunnel Lindblom) agree to harbor the fugitive for reasons of their own.

THE IPCRESS FILE. An insubordinate British secret agent (Michael Caine) stumbles through bureaucratic red tape into some no-nonsense adventures that often seem pointedly anti-Bond.

THE KNACK. The art of seduction looks like group therapy in this mad improvisation based on the off-Broadway stage hit, with Rita Tushingham as the resident virgin in a lively London bachelors' den.

SHIP OF FOOLS. Grand Hotel afloat, with such passengers as Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner expertly rocking Katherine Anne Porter's boat.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND, by the Rev. C. L. Dodgson. The Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Dormouse and Ugly Duchess may be absent in the original version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but this charming facsimile of the preliminary manuscript is laced with Dodgson's (nom de plume: Lewis Carroll) own penmanship and fanciful, spidery sketches of White Rabbit, Mock Turtle and Alice as he first conceived them.

THE JOB HUNTER, by Allen R. Dodd Jr. Every career man's secret fear nightmarishly materializes in the ordeal of one Manhattan executive, abruptly ousted from his high-salaried berth in an ad agency. Dodd's palpable masterpiece of terror shadows the desperate job hunter on his grim rounds as he shrinks from breadwinner to abject pleader.

REPORTED TO BE ALIVE, by Grant Wolfkill with Jerry A. Rose. Prisoner-of-war horrors are only the setting for NBC Cameraman Wolfkill's personal account of his 15-month imprisonment by the Communist Pathet Lao. The real story lies in the details of a human being's contest with himself and his sanity while at the mercy of the merciless.

THE AMERICANS: THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE, by Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work.

AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the supposedly myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador.

MRS. JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. Isabella Stewart Gardner, amasser of a magnificent Renaissance art collection, whose portrait was painted by Sargent and whose tea was sipped by Henry James, was in fact a most improper Bostonian--as Mrs. Tharp's sparkling biography proves.

THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. The hero of this bleak, mordantly humorous novel is a dreamy young man in Belfast who shirks worldly responsibilities to listen to the inner music of the Wallace Stevens poems that he knows by heart. But during a World War II air raid, the world of here and now becomes acutely clear to him; as he helps in the sickening cleanup, he becomes a man.

NEVER CALL RETREAT, by Bruce Cation. Author Catton manages to find fresh facts and fresh emotion in the oft-repeated tale of the Civil War's end. The heart of his book is a thorough analysis of what was at stake, morally and economically, at the close of 1864, and a review of the characters of Lincoln and Lee that reaf firms their place among the U.S.'s toughest and most realistic heroes.

THE GARDENERS OF SALONIKA, by Alan Palmer. Salonika's gardeners were discarded tacticians sent off by World War I commanders in chief to dig trenches on the forgotten Macedonian front. But when French General Franchet d'Esperey landed among the political eastern's, he clearly recognized a strategic advantage and sent his neglected troops slicing toward the heart of Germany through the Balkans, thus hastening the Kaiser's downfall.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)

2. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (4)

3. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (7)

4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2)

5. Hotel, Hailey (3)

6. The Green Berets, Moore (5)

7. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (6)

8. Thomas, Mydans

9. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (9) 10. The Rabbi, Gordon (8)

NON FICTION 1. The Making of the President, 1964, White (1)

2. Intern, Doctor X (2)

3. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4)

4. Kennedy, Sorensen

5. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln (5)

6. Games People Play, Berne (6)

7. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (3)

8. Never Call Retreat, Catton (8)

9. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (7)

10. Markings, Hammarskjold (9)

* All times E.D.T.

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