Wednesday, July 12 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Maximilian Schell, Claire Bloom, Nina Foch and Ralph Bellamy in "A Time to Love," an unsettling drama of a love match thwarted by suspicion. Repeat.

THE STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs.

Thursday, July 13

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I Am A Soldier," John Secondari's excellent documentary, follows Captain Theodore S. Danielson as he leads Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment in combat against the Viet Cong. Repeat.

Saturday, July 15

BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 to noon). The final round of the 96th British Open, live via satellite from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake, with everyone gunning for Defending Champion--and U.S. Open Kingpin--Jack Nicklaus.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Deborah Kerr, a widowed Red Cross volunteer, and William Hoiden, a tough Marine commander with no use for do-gooders, fight their own wartime battle on Guadalcanal in The Proud and the Profane (1956). Repeat.

Sunday, July 16

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "This Is the Rill Speaking," an impressionistic one-act play for six voices, about small-town life in the Ozarks.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Roy Wilkins, the executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., discusses the latest eruptions of racial violence around the U.S.

Tuesday, July 18

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "How Israel Won the War," an hour-by-hour account of the six-day "lightning war" and the events leading to it. Mike Wallace and General S.L.A. Marshall will view battle zones and discuss the war with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Army Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Barrie Ingham plays a young Lancashireman who falls victim to a London crook, is wrongly accused of forgery and sent to jail. Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts.

THEATER

Summer festivals have become a sta ple of the theatrical scene, and Shake speare is a staple of summer festivals.

Sometimes, the Bard shares the boards with other playwrights, but most often he plays alone.

NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City. The outdoor theater in Cen tral Park will be the scene of King John, July 5-July 29, and Titus Andronicus, Aug. 2-Aug. 26. Ben Jonson is getting a hearing with his Volpone, performed on a mobile unit around the five boroughs until Aug. 19.

AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Morris Carnovsky is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Cyril Ritchard doubles as Oberon and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Maria Tucci plays the title role of Jean Anouilh's Antigone until Sept. 10. Macbeth joins the repertory July 25.

STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July 25.

SHAW FESTIVAL, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. G.B.S. comes into his own here, with Arms and the Man until July 15, and Major Barbara from Aug. 16 through Sept. 10. Maugham's The Circle will be performed July 19 through Aug. 12.

CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt. Love's Labor's Lost, King Lear, Henry IV, Part 1 will be playing in repertory until Sept. 23.

COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Boulder, Colo. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Henry VI, Part 1, and Titus Andronicus. Aug. 5 through Aug. 20.

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, Shakespeare in the streets. From July 14 until Sept. 3, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night will be played at 22 locations throughout the Twin Cities.

SAN DIEGO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, in its 18th year, will present Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well and Othello, from a replica of the 16th century Globe Theater, until Sept. 10. Musicians, tumblers, dancers and madrigal singers entertain before each performance.

OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Ashland, Ore., is one of the oldest on the continent. To celebrate its 27th season, it presents Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew and Richard HI, on a rotating basis from July 22 through Sept. 10.

RECORDS

Instrumental

IVES: PIANO SONATA NO. I (1902-1910) (RCA Victor). Charles Ives was such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor.

PETER SERKIN: BARTOK: PIANO CONCER TOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (RCA Victor). It requires tremendous energy to beat out Bartok's spooky rhythms on a piano, and 19-year-old Peter Serkin spares not an ounce of vigorous intensity. But not all of the album's music is composed of harsh explosions of frenetic percussion; the "night music" in the Third Concerto was inspired by the bird and insect sounds of Asheville, N.C., where Bartok sketched out the music during a visit in 1944. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, 31, matches Serkin's youthful sympathy with Bartok's still-new ideas.

E. POWER BIGGS PLAYS THE HISTORIC OR GANS OF EUROPE/SWITZERLAND (Columbia). A tour through nearly 900 years of musical history, from the circa-850 Sic gloria Domini, in plainsong style, to J. S. Bach's sophisticated Prelude and Fugue in B Minor. Appropriately enough, the vast range of compositions are played on ancient and venerable Swiss instruments: the oldest resides in the church of Notre-Dame-de-Val-ere in Sion, Switzerland, and was built around 1390. The elegant simplicity of old organ music underscores the fallacy that complications must mean progress.

TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Melodiya-Angel). An extraordinary father-son act: David Oistrakh, 58, conducts the Moscow Philharmonic, while his son Igor, 35, fiddles. David, long considered one of the world's great violinists, now proves himself, after only five years on the podium, a conductor of major talent, while young Igor shows every indication of keeping the Oistrakh name in the annals of superior violinists. Together, they exploit every nuance in Tchaikovsky's eternally popular concerto, an exercise in wild conversation between the persistent, articulate voice of the violin and the rumbling, colorful orchestra.

PROKOFIEV: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN G MI NOR; SIBELIUS: CONCERTO IN D MINOR (RCA Victor). Itzhak Perlman, the 21-year-old Israeli violinist, has already made an impressive name for himself in the concert circuit. This is his recording debut, and it confirms his growing prestige. He manages to make Prokofiev's percussive, rather frantic concerto sing, and his considerate understanding of Sibelius' darkly sad Romanticism is powerful. Conductor Erich Leinsdorf's Boston Symphony gives Perlman rich support.

MOZART: FANTASIA AND SONATA IN C MINOR AND SONATA NO. 8 IN A MINOR (Westminster). Daniel Barenboim, the peripatetic Israeli prodigy who, at 24, travels all over the world meeting the insatiable demand for recitals, plays three of the most brilliant, and saddest, of Mozart's works for the piano. The album offers great music well played--which is something to cheer about.

CINEMA

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. Sean Connery is back as Agent 007, this time blowing up a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. haunt hidden in the cra ter of a Japanese volcano. But the Bonds --which have grossed $125 million to date --are beginning to tarnish a bit around their gilt edges.

THE DIRTY DOZEN. A tough film about a misfit World War II major (Lee Marvin) who trains a squad of case-hardened criminals and psychopaths for a suicidal mission behind enemy lines.

TO SIR, WITH LOVE. Sidney Poitier in the role of an engineer-turned-teacher in a London slum school. The interim job becomes a dedication to turning hippies and chippies into grownups.

THE DRIFTER. Director Alex Matter and Photographer Steve Winsten make the ordinary something to celebrate in this fragile film about a young vagabond.

A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau, as a suburban husband looking for greener grasses and keener lasses, proves that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits--and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are as crisp as the script.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE WOBBLIES, by Patrick Renshaw. The rise and fall of the Industrial Workers of the World as seen by a British scholar. There is a fine cast of anarchists and eccentrics, many of whom died at the hands of lynch mobs but not before saying a few memorable last words.

THE SAILOR FROM GIBRALTAR, by Marguerite Duras. An early novel that tells a shaggy-dog story about a mysterious woman, rich and beautiful, who roams the seven seas looking for a long-lost lover.

SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful sampling of the letters of the tragic poet-genius contains some of his best prose and proves that in his heart he was far less irresponsible than his outrageous behavior indicated.

A PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. The critic's early career as a wide-ranging man of letters, as well as the end of the cozy, pre-1914 world he grew up in, are both reflected in this fascinating memoir.

HAROLD NICOLSON: THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL. II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. Author-Politician Nicolson's gossipy jottings not only give a crisp and sharp picture of embattled Britain, but establish him as a brilliant Boswell to his age and peers.

SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. The old fairy tale gets a dizzy and often funny retelling in an oddball and very contemporary idiom. As Snow White puts it: "Oh, I wish there were some words in the world that were not the words I always hear." She gets her wish.

Best Sellers

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

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)

3. The Chosen, Potok (5)

4. The Plot, Wallace (4)

5. Washington, D.C., Vidal (3)

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

7. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (8)

8. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (7)

9. Capable of Honor, Drury (10) 10. Fathers, Gold

NONFICTION 1. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (2)

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (1)

3. The Death of a President, Manchester (3)

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

5. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman

6. Madame Sarah, Skinner (5)

7. Games People Play, Berne (6)

8. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, White, ed.

9. A Man Called Lucy, Accoce and Quet (7)

10. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower

-All times E.D.T.

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