TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 12 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A wealthy socialite (Jean Simmons) plays loving patroness to a sculptor (Bradford Dillman) who abandons art for money in "Crazier Than Cotton."

FRIENDS AND NABORS (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Jim Nabors, star of Gomer Pyle hollered a "y'all come" to his country cousins for a special musical night. Answering the call are Andy Griffith, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Marilyn Home and Shirley Jones.

Thursday, October 13

THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Peppard, Eli Wallach, George Hamilton, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger.

THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Dean welcomes George Burns, Jonathan Winters, The Pair Extraordinaire, Dinah Shore and Wisa d'Orso.

Friday, October 14

TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). To establish a native girl as the rightful queen of her tribe, Tarzan (Ron Ely) faces a crocodile, a cobra and quicksand in "The Three Faces of Death." Fate smiles down on him--you may too.

Saturday, October 15

THE SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). A new weekly series exploring the Smithsonian Institution and its widespread research centers. The premiere will explore the treasures found under the sea in the San Antonio, a Spanish galleon that foundered on the reefs off Bermuda in 1621.

Bill Ryan is narrator.

ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). In another new series designed to give ETV a run for its audience, Anthropologist Dr. Loren Eiseley hosts a weekly investigation of such natural phenomena as why bees buzz and how fish talk. The first study: how animals learn to survive as the sea and land around them change. Premiere.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The National Tourist Trophy Motorcycle Championships in Peoria, 111., and the World Roller Skating Championships in Essen, Germany.

BRIGADOON (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A special adaptation of Lerner and Loewe's fairy tale about a Scottish village that comes to life once each century. Starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, Sally Ann Howes and Edward Villella.

Sunday, October 16 THE CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.).

"The Priest," the first of a three-part series, this one dealing with a middle-aged priest who is confused and troubled by all the many recent changes within the church and longs for the simple days of his youth.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). .Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey provides the answers on current issues for ABC's Howard K. Smith.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "A Portrait of Van Cliburn" follows the pianist from rehearsal to performance and during rare relaxation.

Monday, October 17

THE PAT BOONE SHOW (NBC, 11-11:30 a.m.). Boone presides over a morning variety show aimed, he says, "at the young married woman." Premiere.

THE HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (NBC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). Peter Marshall hosts a new game show played more for pleasure than profit, featuring Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Morey Amsterdam, Rose Marie and Abby Dalton as regulars. Premiere.

Tuesday, October 18

THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.LE. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Searching for three missing scientists, U.N.C.L.E.'s girl (April Dancer) poses as a matador-smitten jet setter in "The Horns of the Dilemma Affair." The Latin American Thrush leader (Fernando Lamas) captures April and forces her to play toro to his matador.

CBS REPORTS: "MEN IN CAGES" (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). CBS News Correspondent Roger Mudd visits inmates and officials at some of the best and worst penal institutions in the U.S. to examine the problems and discuss their cause and prevention.

THEATER

On Broadway MAME is spangles and clinking glasses from Prohibition cocktail parties. Mame was Patrick Dennis' Aunt. Mame was a funny book, a funny movie and a funny play. Mame is now a pleasing musical. Angela Lansbury is a pleasing Mame.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Severing the skeins to one's past is the theme in

Brian Friel's delicate tapestry of a young

Irishman taking farewell of his homeland.

SWEET CHARITY is all sincerity, one of those few and foolish women who don't know that honesty may be the worst policy. In an inventively staged musical, Gwen Verdon is a dance-hall doxy who is too direct to be devious, then wonders why she can't find the best bait to hook her man.

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

WAIT A MINIM! There are two sets of stars in this musical revue from Johannes burg: a talented octet of young South African satirists, dancers and singers, and the mbira, timbila, kalimba, tampura drone, and other jungle instruments so primitive they are supersophisticated, so ancient they seem avant garde.

RECORDS

The Groups

THE MONKEES (Colgem). A monkee is a species of trained beatle, of which four have been assembled for a zany new TV series. Their first album begins with their television theme song: "We're the young generation, and we've got sumpin' to say." Actually, they don't say so much (This Just Doesn't Seem to Be My Day, Buy Me a Dog) but they do have some engagingly catchy songs, notably Lust Train to Clarksville.

THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS (Dunhill). The hottest new group of the past year consists of Contralto Cass Elliot, Tenor Denny Doherty, Soprano Michelle Phillips and her husband John Phillips, baritone and songwriter. Like their first album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, this one has relatively sophisticated sliding harmonies and an adjustable beat that appeals not only to kids but also to other mamas and papas. The group even works over that song of middle age, My Heart Stood Still.

REVOLVER (Capitol). If the Beatles are slipping, their record sales provide no clue, for Revolver popped straight up the record charts. It includes a haunting, folklike ballad, mostly by Paul ("Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church Where a wedding has been"), and Yellow Submarine, a bright, repetitive ditty delivered by Ringo. The album has considerable variety in mood, harmony and orchestration--including Oriental overtones provided by a tabla in Love You To, and violins, violas and cellos for poor Eleanor Rigby.

AFTERMATH (London). The Rolling Stones still choke on raw emotion (Paint It Black) and holler Beach-Boyish insults over a throbbing beat (Stupid Girl). But on occasion, now, the wild-eyed quintet become as refined--if not as inventive--as the Beatles, and back up their ballads with dulcimer, sitar or harpsichord.

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF (RCA Victor). Jefferson Airplane, as everyone in San Francisco ought to know by now, is not a flying machine but five men and a girl, powered only by the usual assortment of guitars and drums. They are billed as producers of a jet-age sound which, in spite of its high-voltage twang, can be disarmingly gentle and folk-flavored. Their best ballad, Come Up the Years, celebrates the sorrows of a too-old lover so sweetly as to suggest that he may be about 15 and his girl ten.

ClNEMA

THE SHAMELESS OLD LADY. The heroine of this winsome French film is a cheeky septuagenarian who wins a new lease on life when her husband dies. In the title role, French Stage Star Sylvie, 81, develops a yen for TV, movies, horse races and ice-cream sundaes, ends up spending 18 brief but glorious months of self-indulgence before death overtakes her.

KALEIDOSCOPE. Love and larceny in the 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 Resqui and Ina Mela) spend ten uncompromising years together before learning to cherish their differences.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE. In this highly entertaining science-fiction adventure, five crewmates, traveling in a tiny, nuclear-powered submarine, chart a hazardous course through man's circulatory system. After several unexpected stopovers in the lung and inner ear, the microscopic crew reaches its disembarkation point: the human brain. THE WRONG BOX. Somewhere hidden among the plot machinations of this Victorian spoof is a wrong box, upon which most of the action hinges. The box is a coffin--unoccupied--although Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, John Mills and Ralph Richardson are more than anxious to find a suitable corpse to fill it.

BOOKS

Best Reading

WINDS OF CHANGE, by Harold Macmillan. Britain's former Prime Minister 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 society of the 1920s and '30s.

GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. All the world's a college campus, and practically every philosophy is 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 style is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in keen focus in this novel about chicanery in high places.

THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A Jew in Czarist Russia was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy; it was a cause celebre out of which Malamud has constructed a memorable tale of one man's nightmare.

THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. The nervous neutralism of the cold war provides Amis with a theme for this slightly outrageous suspense story.

THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. A joyously funny fable about Italian villagers who have a ball keeping their precious vino out of the hands of the Germans during World War II.

THE BIRDS FALL DOWN, by Rebecca West. In her first novel in ten years, Dame Rebecca dissects that most unscrupulous of all traitors, the double agent--although she does not add substantially to readers' understanding of the meaning of treason.

Best Sellers

FICTION

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

2. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)

3. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

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

5. Capable of Honor, Drury (10)

6. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (5)

7. The Fixer, Malamud (7)

8. The Source, Michener (6)

9. The Detective, Thorp (8)

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

NON FICTION

1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. Rush to Judgment, Lane (2)

3. Everything But Money, Levenson (7)

4. With Kennedy, Salinger (6)

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

6. The Passover Plot, Schonfield

7. Games People Play, Berne (4)

8. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (5)

9. Flying Saucers--Serious Business, Edwards

10. The Search for Amelia Earhart, Goerner

*All times E.D.T.

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