Wednesday, June 8

CHARLIE BROWN'S ALL-STARS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.).*The second animated special on Charles Schultz's Peanuts cartoon strip. The first, "Charlie Brown's Christmas," won an Emmy award for the best children's show of the 1965-66 season.

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER AWARD THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jason Robards is a drunken first mate, Hope Lange is a young widow, and they are shipwrecked on a desert island following the first atomic tests.

Thursday, June 9

CBS'S THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). There's no doubt that Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Joey Bishop and fans had great fun back in 1960 making Ocean's Eleven, in which the clan goes clam digging in Vegas. But now that ebb's set in, it's pretty mucky.

Friday, June 10

COURT-MARTIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Sexy Diane Cilento, who busted onto the scene a couple of seasons ago as both Tom Jones's black-eyed slattern and Sean Connery's real-life wife, plays a French schoolteacher-Resistance heroine accused of embezzlement.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). For those who can't get tickets to Broadway's latest hit--Mame--Angela Lansbury plays a different sort of swinging auntie in "The Deadly Toys Affair." Repeat.

AGES OF MAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Part 2 of Sir John Gielgud's readings from Shakespeare. Repeat.

Saturday, June 11

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Spring National Drag Racing Championships in Bristol, Tenn., and the World Invitational High Diving Championship in Las Vegas.

CONTINENTAL SHOWCASE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Yet another singing-dancing-variety summer replacement. This one is produced in Europe with Jim Backus as host. Premiere.

Sunday, June 12

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). A special on the Annual Conference of Mayors, broadcast live from Dallas and featuring interviews with New York's John V. Lindsay, Los Angeles' Samuel W. Yorty, Detroit's Jerome P. Cavanagh, Boston's John F. Collins, Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and New Haven's Richard C. Lee.

SENATE HEARINGS (NBC, 2:30-4 p.m.).

A summary of the air-pollution debates.

I AM A SOLDIER (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). John Secondaries excellent color documentary, which follows U.S. Army company commander Captain Theodore S. Danielsen as he leads his troops in several combat operations in Viet Nam. This program was one of TV's best efforts of the past season. Repeat.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Majestic Polluted Hudson," a report on the abuses of the river guaranteed to send New Yorkers round the bend. Repeat.

POLITICS: THE OUTER FRINGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley looks at the lunatics.

Tuesday, June 14

WALL STREET: WHERE THE MONEY IS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Or isn't. A special report on how it works.

THEATER

On Broadway MAME is more lavish entertainment than a great musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto.

MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! With a finger's twitch, an eye's mischief, a tongue's tartness, a mind's unblinking sagacity, Hal Holbrook evokes the memorable presence of America's fabled humorist.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! is the affecting portrait of a young Irish emigre struggling to free himself from the womb before he can enter the jet. Brian Friel paints him with sensitive shadings and honest brush strokes.

SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive.

CACTUS FLOWER. French sex farces center around a door. Through it, one lover rushes. Behind it, the other lover hides. When it creaks open, it suggests suspicion. When it slams, it declares the end of the affair. In this latest Paris import, Actors Barry Nelson and Lauren Bacall and Director Abe Burrows make frequent and funny use of it.

RECORDS

Orchestral

CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (Decca). Written in 1915, when the composer was deeply depressed by the grinding horror of trench warfare, this is at once more soulful and more fiery than most of Nielsen's work. It opens and closes with stupefying crashes and eerie shudders--and in between are slow somber passages from which the characteristic Nielsen touches (Scandinavian folk songs and dances) are absent. Max Rudolf and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra give a clear, energetic performance that is, if anything, a bit too brisk.

IVES: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (RCA Victor). Ever the unawed Yankee, Charles Ives referred to Wagner as "Richie" and thought he was a phony, but Richie was hovering at Ives's elbow when he wrote this early work. So was Brahms. Impeccably played by Morton Gould and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, this first recording makes pleasant listening for admirers of late 19th century orchestration, but it takes a sophisticated ear to recognize that Ives would shortly after push the frontiers of music out so far that modern composers are still colonizing his territory.

MOZART: EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK (Deutsche Grammophon). There have been airier recordings of this classic, and subtler ones as well, but there haven't been any that communicate so fully the joy of genius and the marvel in a masterpiece. Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic sound as if they had discovered it in an attic just last week.

STRAVINSKY: AGON; SCHULLER: SEVEN STUDIES ON THEMES OF PAUL KLEE (RCA Victor). Schuller's Themes are a delightful example of the eclecticism that enlivens the modern arts. From seven different Klee canvases, Schuller has distilled seven musical moods, from a scarifying "Eerie Moment" to a twittering "Twittering Machine." As plunked out by the Boston Symphony strings, this is a fine way to absorb youngsters in the zany ways of modern harmony. On the other side, Conductor Erich Leinsdorfs reading of the classic Agon is as plastic as the dance itself.

STRAVINSKY: FOUR ETUDES & LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS (Nonesuch). Pierre Boulez is a protean figure in postwar French music --a first-rate conductor and composer whose creative roots are in the music of Debussy and Stravinsky and the poetry of Baudelaire. No wonder, then, that his rendering of these classics has an almost uncomfortable intensity and excitement--almost as if they were being composed before the listener's ear. Boulez' musical aim is to expose "the naked flesh of feeling," and he does.

MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (Columbia). This glorious work contains Mahler's song "Das himmlische Leben," and George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra recreate the Teutonic paradise. Judith Raskin, who sings the three soprano solos, sounds warm and free, yet her precise technique never allows a hint of bombast. "St. Cecilia with all her relatives are the excellent court musicians," goes the final refrain of the song, and the Cleveland and Miss Raskin could not be better described.

CINEMA

LE BONHEUR. A fascinating Gallic fable of infidelity, drenched with springtime color and quite dispassionate in its point of view toward a handsome young carpenter who rather casually betrays his beloved first wife but finds equal happiness with her successor.

MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast.

LES BONNES FEMMES. In a perceptive drama by French Director Claude Chabrol (The Cousins), the pursuit of happiness leads four hopeful shopgirls into some of the most bizarre and horrifying byways of Paris.

MORGAN! David Warner and Vanessa Red grave brighten a black British comedy in which a fey young artist is destroyed by his emotional dependence on Karl Marx, King Kong and his former wife.

HARPER. A millionaire disappears, and Private Eye Paul Newman beats the perfumed shrubbery of Southern California to find him. Among the shady ladybirds he flushes in passing are Julie Harris, Lauren Bacall and Shelley Winters.

SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The vestiges of British influence in India color a wry, graceful comedy about a young actress (Felicity Kendal) who tours the provinces doing Shakespeare and finds her reallife romantic role more difficult to play.

BORN FREE. The life and loves of Elsa the lioness are joyously re-created in a movie version of the bestselling book by her biographer, Joy Adamson.

DEAR JOHN. Sex precedes love for a lusty sea captain (Jarl Kulle) and a lonely waitress (Christina Schollin) in a memorable film by Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren.

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Under Nazi rule in Czechoslovakia, a Chaplinesque carpenter (Josef Kroner) endures a Kafkaesque nightmare when his friendship with a harmless old button seller (Ida Kaminska) is tested by an order for the deportation of Jews.

BOOKS

Best Reading 1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. It is the year of Hastings, and the story of the battlefield where one King (William the Conqueror) was spawned and another (King Harold I of England) died.

THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. In this novel about a philologist hospitalized with a brain injury, British Humorist Burgess explores the real meaning lurking behind mere words.

EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband.

SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenic Montale. The most profound poet of modern Italy, Montale is at last given English translations (by Robert Lowell, Mario Praz and G. S. Eraser among others) to match his European reputation.

MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. In the first of two autobiographical installments, der Alte reviews the years from World War II to the Administration of Harry Truman, for whom Adenauer had deep respect.

IN MY FATHER'S COURT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Boyhood years in a Polish rabbi's household are evoked in energetic and engaging detail by Yiddish Writer Singer, now recognized as one of the great contemporary novelists.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week) 2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. The Double Image, MacInnes (4)

4. The Source, Michener (3)

5. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (5)

6. Those Who Love, Stone (7)

7. Tell No Man, St. Johns (6)

8. The Comedians, Greene

9. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman 10. Menfreya in the Morning, Holt (8)

NONFICTION 1. The Last Battle, Ryan (1)

2. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (3)

3. In Cold Blood, Capote (2)

4. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (9)

5. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (8)

6. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (4)

7. Games People Play, Berne (6)

8. The Last 100 Days, Toland (7)

9. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (10) 10. Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader (5)

*All times E.D.T.

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