Wednesday, May 10

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A private eye (Ricardo Montalban) focuses on a privae secre- tary (Joanne Dru) during the search for murder cles in "To Sleep. Perchance to Scream."

Thursday, May 11

THE COLGATE COMEDY HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Thirteen first-ranking comedy stars bring back the routines that made them famous. Bob Newhart reverts to his hilarious role as "The Driving Instructor," Shelley Berman repeats "Is Your Mommy Home?" and Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks revive their "2,000-Year-Old Man." Phyllis Diller, to absolutely no one's surprise, just does what comes naturally.

Friday, May 12

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Country Girl (1955), with Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and William Holden.

Saturday, May 13

THE SAM SNEAD GOLF SHOW (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Slamming Sam, possessor of one of the game's smoothest swings, demonstrates the fine art of driving from the tee. Filmed at the Firestone Country Club in Akron.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). On land, sea and in the air: the National A.A.U. Gymnastics championships from Northwestern State College, Natchitoches, La.; the World Invitational High Diving championships from Las Vegas; the International Parachuting championships from Varna, Bulgaria.

Sunday, May 14

WHITSUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An original oratorio, Galileo, has been commissioned to commemorate the appearance of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on this seventh Sunday after Easter. Libretto by Joe Darion, score by Ezra Laderman, and featuring Basso Ara Berberian as the troubled astronomer.

DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Viewers join oceanographers and marine biologists in exploring "The World Beneath the Sea" via underwater films, lab tests of a shark's hearing and vision, and talk about the sea as a source of food, oil and diamonds.

THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE AND RED DANUBE (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A ride down the storied river for a look at both sides of the Iron Curtain. Austrian Actor Maximilian Schell is the guide. Repeat.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Mighty Atom" discusses all the new uses for atomic energy, and what lies in store three decades from now.

NBC CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops Orchestra brings Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of Animals to life for an audience of youngsters in Boston's Symphony Hall. Hugh Downs narrates.

THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Recent nominees for a TV "EMMY" AWARD. Dickie and Tommy team up in comedy and song with another popular pair: Simon and Garfunkel, the poets of folk rock.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Marlon Brando, the sensitive German lieutenant, and Montgomery Clift, his American counterpart, portray The Young Lions (1958), whose paths fatefully and fatally cross during World War II.

JACK PAAR AND A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HOLLYWOOD (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Jack gives Hollywood the back of his hand, recalling some classic film bloopers, running early screen tests of famous stars, lampooning overworked dialogue, and chatting with Guests Judy Garland and Bob Newhart.

Monday, May 15 TOWN MEETING OF THE WORLD (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Attitudes of the World's Youth Toward World Problems," a trans atlantic panel discussion via Early Bird satellite between a group of students from English universities on one hand and California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York Senator Robert Kennedy on the other. Charles Collingwood directs the give-and-take from London.

Tuesday, May 16 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Lover Come Back (1962), with Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall and Edie Adams.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A TV crew recently staged its own four-week live-in in San Francisco's Haight-Asbury district to film this daily diary of "The Hippies."

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Eton." A tour of England's prestigious prep school allows the visitor to mingle with the collared-and-gowned boys, visit rowing and cricket practice, attend a debate on North Viet Nam, assess the old customs and the new look in curriculum.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The 5 1/2-day court-martial of ten Bounty mutineers in 1792 is the subject of "Acquit or Hang." an original play by Stanley Miller.

THEATER

On Broadway

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson taps a rich vein of comedy--sex--in four playlets that deal with sex on the stage, in middle age, as a parental concern, as a dimming memory. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard give a high polish to each nugget of humor.

THE HOMECOMING. In his play about the prodigal family of a visiting son, Harold Pinter uses words as the sea uses waves, catching his audience up in an inexorable rhythm, washing over them with sound, bringing forth currents and undercurrents of meaning.

BLACK COMEDY. Fireworks are best in the dark, and when the lights blow out in a London flat, a situation fraught with friction sets off sparks of hilarity. An agile and acrobatic cast keeps Peter Shaffer's latest dramatic exercise in amusing motion.

THE APA COMPANY, directed by Ellis Rabb, offers dramatic works for practically every taste this season in its repertory: War and Peace, The Wild Duck, Right You Are if Yon Think You Arc and You Can't Take It with You.

Off Broadway

HAMP tries a British youth for deserting when the blood and din of World War I overwhelm him. Though innocent of evil, he is guilty of breach of duty, and must be condemned. Robert Salvio is movingly effective as the frightened Private Hamp.

AMERICA HURRAH takes the temperature of urban U.S.A. and finds an icy emptiness at the core. Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie deep freezes moments of modern American life in a chilling, stirring theatrical evening.

CINEMA

NAKED AMONG THE WOLVES. The story of the concentration camps has been filmed before--and with greater skill--but the theme of the indomitable prisoners bears frequent retelling. This East German tale of the inmates of Buchenwald attempting to hide a three-year-old boy from their Nazi torturers gives credence to the hope for civilization's ultimate survival.

ACCIDENT. The scene is Oxford. The story involves a wan don (Dirk Bogarde) who tries to be a Don Juan with a nubile undergraduate while his wife (Vivian Merchant) is pregnant. Harold Pinter wrote the cryptic, skeletal dialogue, Joseph Losey directed.

LA VIE DE CHATEAU. French Director Jean-Paul Rappeneau has an appetite for the absurd and an unerring eye for casting in this fresh and funny farce about how in Gaul all marriages seem to be divided into three partners.

PERSONA. Ingmar Bergman is deliberately difficult, but nonetheless fascinating, in this study of two women (Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullman) whose personalities merge.

ULYSSES. James Joyce's masterpiece is a short story that exploded into a summa of 30 centuries of Western culture. Joseph Strick's adaptation is merely a pictorial precis of some of the principal episodes--but a good one.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Shakespeare possibly would not have recognized his comedy, but he certainly would have enjoyed watching Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Franco Zeffirelli's lusty, sensuous production.

FALSTAFF. Orson Welles may be the first actor in the history of the theater to appear too fat to play Shakespeare's "huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak bag of guts." In his compilation of five of the Bard's plays, some Wellesian genius flickers but does not burn brightly enough to illuminate the long dull stretches.

BOOKS

Best Reading

A MAN CALLED LUCY, by Pierre Accoce and Pierre Quet, recounts the career of Swiss-based Master Spy Rudolf ("Lucy") Roessler, who accurately warned the Allies of every invasion from Poland to Russia itself--and was not believed.

JUST AROUND THE CORNER: A HIGHLY SELECTIVE HISTORY OF THE THIRTIES, by Robert Bendiner. A wry recollection of the not-so-long-ago days of 3.2 beer, 5-c- apples. $4-a-month domestics and the Great Depression.

LANGUAGE AND SILENCE, by George Steiner. At 38, Steiner has earned a name as one of the leading U.S. literary critics and a possible successor to Edmund Wilson. This collection of eloquent essays shows why.

MAY WE BORROW YOUR HUSBAND? AND OTHER COMEDIES OF THE SEXUAL LIFE, by Graham Greene. Though sex is the comic ingredient in this collection of short stories, Greene artfully proves that there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

A MEETING BY THE RIVER, by Christopher Isherwood. In his usual charming, disarming way, Isherwood tells of a dissembling rascal who tries every psychological wile to keep his saintly brother from taking his final vows as a swami.

THE CHOSEN, by Chaim Potok, pits a pair of Jewish teen-agers against one another with a backdrop of Brooklyn in the closing days of World War II.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. Old (94) Mathematician-Philosopher Russell's own witty account of his dour and dotty early life and career never explains--but does help people understand--why he is such a conundrum.

A SPORT AND A PASTIME, by James Salter. While his characters fall in love, the author has a love affair of his own with rural France. A fine and beautifully written novel.

FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A nostalgic search for the essence of Jewish fatherhood by a loving son who tempers sentiment with just the right amount of irony and cynical insight.

THE UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends, but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity.

JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND: THE NEW GERMANY, by Amos Elon. A searching and compassionate study of today's Germany by an Israeli journalist who never forgets that he could have been a victim.

DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. The wiles and wit of Britain's most prodigal Victorian Prime Minister, whose life as recounted in this excellent biography proves even richer than the many versions of its myth.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (3)

3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2)

4. Capable of Honor, Drury (4)

5. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (6)

6. Fathers, Gold (8)

7. The Captain, De Hartog (7)

8. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

9. Go to the Widow-Maker, Jones

10. Under the Eye of the Storm, Hersey

NONFICTION 1. The Death of a President, Manchester (1)

2. Madame Sarah, Skinner (2)

3. Everything But Money, Levenson (3)

4. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (4)

5. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (8)

6. Games People Play, Berne (5)

7. The Jury Returns, Nizer (9)

8. Paper Lion, Plimpton (6)

9. Division Street: America, Terkel

10. Inside South America, Gunther (7)

* All times E.D.T.

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