TELEVISION

World Series fans will claim the tube, at least in the afternoons, and NBC will have it all in color. The rest of the week on TV:

Wednesday, October 5 BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* Shelley Winters is a guest villainess as the matriarch of a gaggle of gunmen in "The Greatest Mother of Them All." Throw her in jail, and before anyone can say "Gleeps!" she takes over the pen--warden and all. Fear not. The dynamic duo bat down this Mommaniac.

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Comedy tonight, when Chris Nye (Angie Dickinson), top New York fashion model, and her super-adman husband Will (Cliff Robertson) decide to junk their careers and head for the hinterlands, where he can fulfill his life's ambition to be a crusading editor.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Kennedy Wit," a sentimental montage of J.F.K., pasted together with still photos, film clips and tapes by Jack Paar. His guest will be David Francis Powers, who served as confidant, friend and occasional court jester to the late President.

Thursday, October 6

F TROOP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). When the pilfering at Fort Courage gets out of hand, who should turn up to set things right? None other than Uncle Miltie Berle, dropping back from his Friday night slot to Sherlock around Indian-style.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Audrey Hepburn in Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) with Patricia Neal and Mickey Rooney.

Friday, October 7

THE GREEN HORNET (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Cast as "The Shadow" in movie serials, Guest Victor Jory turns terrible as a murder-minded yachtsman in Hornetland.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Shelley Berman slips in to take on Napoleon and Illya as the mad film director who decides to drop a ten-ton stink bomb on Las Vegas for a super-colossal finish to a film about sin.

Saturday, October 8

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). The University of Tennessee will be out to repeat last year's 21-7 victory over Georgia Tech.

PISTOLS 'N' PETTICOATS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Hank Hawks (Ann Sheridan) and Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) put a stop to a stagecoach holdup, not realizing that it was carefully planned by Fellow Passenger Sir Richard (Patrick Horgan). He learns he will have to corral the Hawks family if he is going to succeed in the crime business.

Sunday, October 9

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). "Discovery Goes to Israel" for a tour of the port city of Haifa and a look into family life in Rama, an Arab village 30 miles to the north.

THE FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). For those who missed this September special or are still missing the ball, Chris Schenkel explains how to tell an umbrella from a red dog.

AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 4:30-7.30 p.m.). To practice what Schenkel explained, watch the Miami Dolphins play the Oakland Raiders.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Part 1 of The Young Lions (1958), with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift in outstanding performances as German and American soldiers during World War II. Remember carefully--the second part won't be aired until next Sunday.

ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy's guests are Anthony Newley, Bobby Darin, Nancy Wilson and Herb Shriner.

CAROL AND COMPANY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a musical variety special, Carol Burnett calls in Rock Hudson, Ken Berry and Frank Gorshin for company.

Monday, October 10

THE ROGER MILLER SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). "King of the Road" Miller hosts Arthur Godfrey.

Tuesday, October 11

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). "A Birdseye Tour of Scotland," with Harry Reasoner from a whirlybird.

THEATER

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 Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America.

SWEET CHARITY. 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 is a transplanted sex farce from Paris about the ticklish romantic situations a roue dentist (Barry Nelson) gets into and the dental assistant (Lauren Bacall) who extracts him.

Off Broadway

HOGAN'S GOAT is Playwright William Alfred's melopoetic study of the political animal in brawling Irish Brooklyn at the turn of the century.

THE MAD SHOW gives a passing nod to Alfred E. Neuman's mad mag, but concentrates its satiric discourtesies on fringes of life and society more foolish than lunatic.

RECORDS

Low-Priced Classics

A cheaper LP is not necessarily an inferior one, as buyers of RCA Victrola, Everyman, Richmond and Nonesuch recordings long ago discovered. This fall three more companies--Angel, Philips and Epic--using various economies, are releasing dozens of performances, some old, some new, at about $2.50 an LP.

Of the three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwaengler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupre) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings:

PUCCINI: LA BOHEME (2 LPs; Seraphim). The recording dates from 1956, a wonderful year to catch Soprano Victoria de los Angeles as the purest of Mimis, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as the most poetic of Rodolfos, and Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as an expressive Puccinist. The album was produced by the European firm EMI and originally sold by RCA Victor in the U.S. When EMI severed ties with Victor, the album was dropped from Victor's catalogue, only to be resurrected now with its new trademark of little seraphim wings. Mono only.

MOZART: EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (Seraphim). Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in a performance that has become a collector's item in the years since it was first released in 1954. Her hallelujahs are triumphant in the Mozart motet and then shower forth brilliantly again in the Bach cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen.

DELIUS: SUMMER EVENING and PRELUDE TO IRMELIN (Seraphim). Sir Thomas Beecham again, magically confecting these drifting, dreaming selections by the blind composer whose works he espoused. Sir Thomas also conducts the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius, a masterly evocation of the forest god Tapio and his mysterious Finnish woodlands.

JANACEK: STRING QUARTETS NOS. 1 AND 2 (Crossroads). Chamber music, particularly that of the 20th century, is often an acquired taste. But Leo Janacek wrote hummable, folk-flavored and dramatic pieces for strings. His first quartet was inspired by Tolstoy's chilling story The Kreutzer Sonata and is played with special eloquence and style by the Janacek String Quartet.

FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici.

CINEMA

KALEIDOSCOPE. Love and larceny in the biggest gambling casinos of Europe. Warren Beatty makes the scene as a rich American playboy with a surefire method for breaking the bank, and Susannah York is the breezy British bird who helps him spend the loot.

HOW TO STEAL A MILLION. Another high comedy that treats thievery as an art form. This time the thief is Audrey Hepburn, her nimble accomplice is Peter O'Toole, and the setting for all the charming duplicity is Paris.

CRAZY QUILT. When a realist and a romantic join in holy matrimony, the union is likely to be stormy and unpredictable. In this almost perfect little film, a husband and wife (Tom Rosqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE. What better way to become acquainted with the human circulatory system than to travel through it? In a tiny nuclear-powered submarine, a miniaturized crew of science-fictionees, assisted by Raquel Welch, go on a spine-tingling mission through inner space.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play.

BOOKS

Best Reading

WINDS OF CHANGE, by Harold Macmillan. Former Prime Minister Macmillan has written his autobiography, not his memoirs, and this first volume ends as warbling air-raid sirens signal the start of World War II. Historians will find it a must; other readers will be intrigued by the glimpses into the tweed and broadcloth British world.

GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is out in the pillory in this bizarre novel about a boy who aspires to become the messiah of a new religion.

CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's fictional sense is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in fine focus in this novel about chicanery in high places.

THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit.

THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A sprightly cold war suspense story that keeps the reader looking so long in the wrong direction that he almost forgets the ending is not entirely credible.

THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. The best first novel of the year and perhaps the most rollickingly funny World War II novel since Mister Roberts.

THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)

4. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (9)

5. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (5)

6. The Source, Michener (6)

7. The Fixer, Malamud

8. The Detective, Thorp (4)

9. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman (7)

10. Capable of Honor, Drury

NONFICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. Rush to Judgment, Lane (5)

3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (3)

4. Games People Play, Berne (2)

5. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (4)

6. With Kennedy, Salinger (8)

7. Everything But Money, Levenson

8. The Last Battle, Ryan (9)

9. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (7)

10. In Cold Blood, Capote (10)

* All times E.D.T.

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