Wednesday, July 19

THE AVIATION REVOLUTION (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Chet Huntley examines six pressing problems of commercial aviation: aircraft safety, crew fatigue, noise abatement, air traffic control, terminal congestion, and the jumbo and supersonic jets that will soon make their appearance. Repeat.

Thursday, July 20

HIT THE SURF (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). ABC surveys the sport of "hanging ten," from the California beaches to Oahu, Hawaii.

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The tragic never-never world of young addicts is explored during a group therapy session at Staten Island's Daytop Village in "Marathon: The Young Drug Users."

Friday, July 21

MALIBU U (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Rick Nelson is "Dean of Drop-Ins" at a mythical college that offers a weekly course on the music and manners of the Now Genera tion. Premiere.

Saturday, July 22

P.G.A. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). Al Geiberger defends his crown at the Columbine Country Club in Denver. Conclusion of the tourney on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Sunday, July 23

SOCCER GAME OF THE WEEK (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Chicago at Baltimore.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Deep Frontier" examines the tools and methods man is using to investigate ocean depths. Taking part are Jacques Yves Cousteau, Jon Lindbergh and Scott Carpenter. Repeat.

THE SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). "American Folk Art" from the collections of the Smithsonian, with Bill Ryan as host. Repeat.

ANIMAL SECRETS (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). Dr. Loren Eiseley shows how animals, though they cannot reason, put past experiences to use in "Levels of Learning." Repeat.

THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson and Julie Harris are the ghost watchers in The Haunting (1963).

Monday, July 24

CORONET BLUE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Jack Cassidy stars as a shady character who sets out to frame Michael Alden (Frank Converse) for murder. Brian Bedford and Brenda Vaccaro are also featured guests.

Tuesday, July 25

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Anderson Platoon. An excellent study of young Americans at war, which is being repeated by popular request.

NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: Two Roses. The powers and danger of money are brought home to Digby Grant when he suddenly finds himself a rich man.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Thailand" and "The Unknown War" both deal with the conflict in Southeast Asia. "Thailand" studies the effect of the U.S. buildup on the country's people and economy. "The Unknown War" takes an intimate look at a rebellion in the making when a British film team joins a group of Burmese guerrillas.

THEATER

Some of the most worthwhile theater this summer will be presented by resident companies that are giving actors and directors an opportunity to exercise their crafts within a repertory framework before local audiences. A sampler of the groups performing this summer:

THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON will be at the University of Rhode Island for the Kingston Summer Theater Festival until Aug. 27 with Tango, by Polish Playwright Slawomir Mrozek, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, two one-acters by Murray Schisgal, The Typists and The Tiger, and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

THEATER OF THE LIVING ARTS, Philadelphia's resident troupe, is touring with the 1937 American farce, Room Service. They will be at the Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Conn., July 17-29; the Mineola Theater, Mineola, L.I., July 31-Aug. 12; and the Playhouse on the Mall, Paramus, N.J., Aug. 14-26.

PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, will have Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode's Escurial until July 29, followed by Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Aug. 3-26, and then Anatol, a musical by Tom Jones, Aug. 31-Sept. 23.

MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, Minn. Shoemakers' Holiday, by Thomas Dekker, Anouilh's farce, Thieves' Carnival, and a new play, Harpers Ferry, by Barrie Stavis will be in repertory at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater until Oct. 27. The House of Atreus, adapted by John Lewin from Aeschylus' Oresteia, will be added to the playbill on July 21; Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Visit debuts on Sept. 11.

ALLEY THEATER, Houston, Texas. Harold Pinter's The Caretaker is scheduled from July 18 to Aug. 5.

CENTER THEATER GROUP, Los Angeles, Calif. The Sorrows of Frederick, a new play about Frederick the Great of Prussia by Romulus Linney, will be performed at the Mark Taper Forum until Aug. 6, with Fritz Weaver in the title role. From Aug. 25 until Oct. 8, Duerrenmatt's The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi will be presented.

ASSOCIATION OF PRODUCING ARTISTS, Hollywood, Calif. The APA returns to the Huntington Hartford Theater for a ten-week season ending Sept. 16. The program includes Ibsen's The Wild Duck, the Pirandello puzzler, Right You Are If You Think You Are, George Kelly's The Show-Off, and the American premiere of Pantagleize, by De Ghelderode.

RECORDS

Soul

They used to be called race records. They were usually crude, gutsy blues recorded as they were being composed, a highly emotional outpouring of troubles that appealed to Negro listeners. Now, in increasing numbers, the soul singers are reaching beyond their original limited audience, and their records, rather more polished but still intensely expressive, regularly become bestsellers. Among the best:

OTIS REDDING, 25, a onetime Georgia well driller, made his first recording in 1962, has since successfully toured England and France and drew frenzied applause from an audience of 7,000 at this spring's Monterey Pop Festival. On King & Queen (Stax), he shares the throne with Carla Thomas. With rich growls and husky shouts Otis mixes jokes and blues, first down tempo, then up tempo, almost missing the beat and then catching it at precisely the right fraction of a second.

CARLA THOMAS, 25, daughter of a Memphis disk jockey, was recently voted the favorite singer of U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, an honor won last year by the Supremes. Like the Detroit trio, Carla usually persuades by gentleness on The Queen Alone (Stax). Her voice is slightly husky, although at times she hones it to a piercing cry that cuts straight through the rocking under rhythms.

ARETHA FRANKLIN, 25, got an early start on the gospel circuit with her father, a Detroit minister, and still knows how to shout. A good pianist, she accompanies herself on her best collection of blues, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (Atlantic), which leads off with Otis Redding's hit, Respect. Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits (Columbia) mixes pop songs with some blues.

RAY CHARLES, 36, is the quintessence of soul: it's not what he sings but the way that he sings it. On Listen (ABC), the blind musician charges some tired songs (Love Walked In, How Deep Is the Ocean), with his peculiar high voltage, all without raising his voice much above a whisper. The first hit single from the album is the simple, dreamy Here We Go Again.

LOU RAWLS, 31, has graduated from the small Negro nightclub "chitlin circuit" into supper clubs on the strength of the audience he has won with his four latest albums. In Too Much! (Capitol), Rawls manages to be convincing in love even though his voice is nearly smothered by the overelaborate arrangements of a big band. He also does a monologue about the Chicago dead-end street where he was born, and delivers some incredibly rapid-fire barroom chatter.

NINA SIMONE SINGS THE BLUES (RCA Victor) with every dramatic trick in the book. At 34, she is just now coming into her own commercially with a voice that is deep and harsh in protest ("Do you think that all colored people are just second-class fools?"), pleading and sultry in love (I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl), fast and loose in The House of the Rising Sun.

CINEMA

THE FAMILY WAY. From the raw material of a young couple (Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett) unable to consummate their marriage, Producer-Directors Roy and John Bolting have fashioned a delicate comedy.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. The latest James Bond effort with Sean Connery back in his Beretta harness comes to only 006 3/4.

THE DIRTY DOZEN. This is the definitive enlisted man's picture of World War II, in which all officers are hypocritical or stupid, and only Lee Marvin is tough enough to win respect.

TO SIR, WITH LOVE. A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing subtle warmth into the part of a starchy teacher in a slum school.

A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau creates a triumph of taste in a role that could have been merely low down in this film about a husband bent on an adulterous bender.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. A happy transition to the screen of Neil Simon's comic Broadway hit with Original Cast Members Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick and the addition of Jane Fonda.

BOOKS

Best Reading

STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING, by Samuel Beckett. In 16 stories and fragments, Beckett restates his eternal theme -- that the ravages of time are unending.

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.

SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully -- and touchingly --reveals that his chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in everything he did.

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 also establish him as a brilliant Boswell to his age and peers.

SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. The old fairy tale gets a dizzy 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."

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)

3. The Plot, Wallace (4)

4. The Chosen, Potok (3)

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

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

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

8. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (7)

9. When She Was Good, Roth

10. The King of the Castle, Holt

NONFICTION

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

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)

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

4. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1)

5. By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, White, ed. (8)

6. The New Industrial State, Galbraith

7. Games People Play, Berne (7)

8. Madame Sarah, Skinner (6)

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

10. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (5)

*All times E.D.T.

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