Wednesday, September 21 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Jack Kelly in "Time of Flight," a live one about two murder victims who won't stay dead.
ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," an adaptation of John (The Spy Who Came In . . .) Le Carre's story about an ingenious escape plan from Communist East Berlin. Filmed in medieval West German towns, with James Mason, Hugh Griffith and Jill Bennett in the leading roles.
I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "Lori," a Las Vegas singer (Nancy Wilson) is embroiled in international intrigue when her brother is marked for death.
Thursday, September 22 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Jug of Wine, A Loaf of Bread and--Pow!" The Jericho team infiltrates German submarine pens, built in the shadow of an ancient French cathedral.
Friday, September 23 T.H.E. CAT (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, ex-cat burglar turned gangbuster, does it again in The Sandman, as Cat (Robert Loggia) tries to save an old friend, a jewel thief, from his own kind.
Saturday, September 24 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 2:15 p.m. to conclusion). Purdue, looking for its first undisputed Big Ten title since 1929, pits Quarterback Bob Griese against Notre Dame's ferocious defense, at Notre Dame.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE REPORT (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Curt Gowdy hosts a new series of filmed digests of this season's A.F.L. games and plays.
THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 pm.). Art Carney joins Jackie for the first of ten topical musical plays, this one called "The Politician."
Sunday, September 25 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A new ballet about Joan of Arc called "The Captive Lark," by Robert Starer, featuring Carmen de Lavallade as Joan and the John Butler Dancers.
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon).
"Discovery Visits Hong Kong" for a look at a family on a sampan and rural life a few feet from the Chinese border. First of two parts.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Another two-part show, on the history of China from 1930 to the present.
Part 1, "War in China," spans the period from the Japanese conquest of Manchuria until 1945. Walter Cronkite narrates.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Composer Gian Carlo Menotti acts as a guide for a visit to last summer's "Festival of Two Worlds" at Spoleto, Italy.
Among the guest artists are Pianists Sviatoslav Richter and John Browning, Soprano Shirley Verrett and Conductors Zubin Mehta, Thomas Schippers and Werner Torkanowsky.
IT'S ABOUT TIME (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). In a new series, Astronauts Hector (Jack Mullaney) and Mac (Frank Aletter) are rocketed aloft faster than the speed of light--and suddenly find themselves in the Stone Age. This week, the show's third, they continue their prehysterical adventures, with Imogene Coca playing a cave frau.
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (ABC, 8-11 p.m.). Alec Guinness, William Hoiden and Jack Hawkins in the splendid 1957 Academy Award winner about the heroes, reluctant and otherwise, in a World War II Japanese prison camp.
Tuesday, September 27 THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), the Man from U.N.C.L.E., drops by to help Stefanie Powers get started as a female version of himself. In "The Mother Muffin Affair," they very nearly end up as wax figures in a house of horrors presided over by Mother Muffin played by Boris Karloff.
On Broadway
MAME. This musical comedy has the shine of professionalism and the sharpness of a finely honed skate blade. Angela Lansbury is graciously glossy as Patrick Dennis' most celebrated relative.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young Irishman who is about to take a one-way journey to America.
SWEET CHARITY. A piquant tale of the bitter life of a taxi dancer (Gwen Verdon) who is tired of being for hire but can't find a man for forever.
CACTUS FLOWER. It's tricky business when a man has a mistress and tells his wife. It's trickier when a man tells his mistress he has a wife--and doesn't. How to turn the trick when mistress insists on meeting nonexistent wife is the question at the center of this labyrinthian French sex farce.
RECORDS
Chamber Music
MOZART: STRING QUARTETS IN B FLAT AND F (RCA Victor). Formed only two years ago at Vermont's Marlboro Festival under the inspiration of Alexander Schneider, the Guarneri Quartet is the newest as well as the youngest (average age: 32) major chamber group in the U.S. Its members are abundantly gifted virtuosos. In their recording debut, they toss off two Mozart masterpieces like men who have weathered years of playing constantly together. Technical wizardry, of course, has become relatively common among today's young musicians, but few can combine it with the wisdom and serenity the Guarneris show in the slow movement of the Quartet in F.
HAYDN: SIX QUARTETS (London). The Welle r Quartet is another group new to records and only a bit older than the Guarneris. They are Viennese, and seem to have an instinctive sympathy for the inventive Haydn. All six quartets are from Opus 33--the beginning of the composer's richest period--and the intricate constructions are hidden behind easy, playful phrases. The Wellers display the warm sound and comfortable elasticity of tempo that are the clearest differences between American and European playing; Americans are militant in front of a score, Europeans more relaxed.
BACH: BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS (Nonesuch). There are now 22 interpretations of these masterpieces available on records, which puts them one ahead of both the Moonlight Sonata and the Prelude to Lohengrin, and proclaims that the Baroque boom continues. This version, by the Chamber Orchestra of the Saar, conducted by Karl Ristenpart, offers clear phrases, no-nonsense tempos, and experienced ensemble players. The Baroque style is impeccable, with no romantic blandishments or obfuscations. The Saar group may lack Scherchen's elegance or Karajan's fireworks, but it gives a better-balanced reading than the famous but eccentric versions by Casals and Munch.
BRITTEN: SINFONIETTA, OPUS 1 and HINDEMITH: OCTET (1957-58) (London). Very early Britten--facile and mannered--before he methodically stripped his musical imagination down to its sparest, starkest forms. It is charming, almost pretty music, and vastly different from the sophisticated complexities of the Hindemith, in which key themes are introduced, transposed in various ways, and then replayed in reverse order. Handled with elan by members of the Vienna Octet.
MOZART: CLARINET QUINTET IN A, AND OBOE QUARTET IN F (Deutsche Grammo-phon). The literature for these instruments, two of the most important in the orchestra, is very limited. These pieces are among their chief showcases. Lothar Koch plays the oboe with spirit in the early, conventional Mozart quartet. Karl Leister is oddly restrained and diffident in the clarinet quintet, and is often overshadowed by the other players, especially Siegbert Ueberschaer's viola. All the performers are with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
CINEMA
CRAZY QUILT. Written, directed, photographed and produced by John Korty, a 30-year-old TV producer, this minor masterpiece explores the nature of marriage as revealed to a man and woman with nothing in common except their inescapable destiny.
FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this preposterous, but highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, four men and a girl are reduced to the size of bacteria and injected into the bloodstream of a prominent scientist. Despite opposition from white cells, antibodies and other microscopic villains, they manage to complete their assignment: the removal of an inoperable blood clot in the scientist's brain.
THE WRONG BOX. Doddering old John Mills attempts mayhem on his doddering old brother, Ralph Richardson, in a hilarious race to see which branch of the family will inherit a large fortune.
KHARTOUM, where the White and Blue Niles meet, is the site of one of history's classic confrontations--between the Christian mystic, General "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) and his fanatic Moslem opponent, the Mahdi (Laurence Olivier).
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION and live happily ever after furnishes the amoral moral of William Wyler's Parisian comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole as the serendipitous partners in crime.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal play truth-and-consequences and other savage games in this screen version of Edward Albee's baleful, brutally funny Broadway play.
THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Even those who don't know a pipeline from a wipeout will have no trouble following the action of this beautifully photographed odyssey of surfing.
BOOKS
Best Reading
CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Dairy. The author's fictional sense occasionally goes awry and his style turns turgid. But his reportorial eye is sharp in this big and topical book about domestic and international chicanery, which carries forward the cast of characters first exhibited in Advise and Consent.
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world.
THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A great tragic novel is probably in Malamud, and this stark, metaphorical tale of a Jew in Czarist Russia--condemned to die for a murder he didn't commit--comes powerfully close to that achievement.
THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The precarious balance of the cold war provides the ambiance for this spy story by a writer who happily feels neither limited nor depressed by the form.
Generally speaking, first novels don't have to be read, and they aren't; their average sale falls under 1,500 copies. In this season's batch, however, are a dozen or more first efforts that are not only worth reading but worth remembering. Among them: Robert Crichton's The Secret of Santa Vittoria, a wry war parable in which Crichton, who is mostly a black humorist, nevertheless keeps his cool; Monique Wittig's The Opopanax, in which the simple story of a little girl growing up is told without false gravity or sentimentality; Mario Vargas Llosa's The Time of the Hero, in which a Peruvian military academy suggests allegorically the tribulations of life in Peru; and James Moss-man's Beggars on Horseback, a brilliant satire on the British colonial spirit.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)
2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)
3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)
4. The Detective, Thorp (4)
5. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (5)
6. The Source, Michener (6)
7. The Double Image, Maclnnes
8. Tell No Man, St. Johns (9) 9. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman 10. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton
NONFICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)
2. Games People Play, Berne (3)
3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (2)
4. The Last Battle, Ryan (5)
5. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (4)
6. Flying Saucers--Serious Business, Edwards (6)
7. In Cold Blood, Capote (7)
8. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (8)
9. Rush to Judgment, Lane (9) 10. The Big Spenders, Beebe
*All times E.D.T.
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