The bulk of the new season's shows premiere this week, along with more not-yet-purchased pilot offerings that NBC will air as it continues its series of Hollywood-style sneak previews.

Wednesday, September 6 CUSTER (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).*Lieut.

Colonel George Armstrong Custer (Wayne Maunder) is the hero of this new hoss-sol-diers-and-Injuns adventure. Premiere.

THE SECOND HUNDRED YEARS (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A situation comedy about a lusty 33-year-old Alaskan sourdough (Monte Markham) who thaws out after being frozen for 67 years, goes to live with his 67-year-old son (Arthur O'Connell) and conformist 33-year-old grandson (also played by Markham). Premiere.

HE & SHE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). He is a cartoonist (Richard Benjamin), She is his wife (Paula Prentiss), there's a fop actor (Jack Cassidy) who poses for the strip, and the name of the game is situation comedy. Premiere.

DUNDEE AND THE CULHANE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Distinguished British Actor John Mills stars in a western series about an attorney and his quick-fisted partner (Sean Garrison). Premiere.

Thursday, September 7 THE FLYING NUN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

Sally Field plays Sister Bertrille, a 90-lb.

novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne.

Premiere.

CIMARRON STRIP (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.).

Stuart Whitman plays a U.S. marshal who patrols a vast, wild borderland somewhere between Kansas and Indian territory. Premiere.

GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.).

Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who defended Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Boston Strangler and Carl Coppolino, among others, takes on a new profession--person-to-person style cross-examination of celebrities. First defendants: Tony Curtis and his wife, Christine Kaufmann. Premiere.

Friday, September 8 OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Animated cartoon characters based on The Wizard of Oz will introduce child-oriented movies, beginning with Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (MGM, 1965). Premiere.

THE HARDY BOYS (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

The pilot of a possible series based on Franklin W. Dixon's never-ending (1927 to present) procession of boys' books.

Sneak preview.

HONDO (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hondo Lane (Ralph Taeger) is a tough Army scout in this show based on the old (1953) John Wayne movie of the same name. Premiere.

THE GHOSTBREAKER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Kerwin Mathews plays a college professor who is an expert on parapsychology (ESPecially mind reading) and spends his spare time investigating alleged supernatural incidents. Anne Jeffreys, Orson Bean, Larry Blyden, Kevin McCarthy and Margaret Hamilton are among the guests on this pilot. Sneak preview.

THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Walter Brennan stars as a frontiersman searching for his gunfighter son.

Premiere.

POLICE STORY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Steve Inhat stars in the pilot of a plainclothes cops-and-robbers series. Sneak preview.

JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Texas, land of outlaws and disorder, is the place where flamboyant Criminal Lawyer Clinton Judd (Carl Betz) hangs up his shingle. Premiere.

THREE FOR DANGER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).

Three guys own an elegant 95-foot schooner called The Quest, which they charter to anyone rich enough to pay the fare--and get into trouble. Sneak preview.

Saturday, September 9 U.S. TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). The semifinal round, live from Forest Hills, N.Y. Finals: Sunday, 2-4 p.m.

THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Champions Jack Nicklaus (U.S.

Open), Gay Brewer (Masters), Don January (P.G.A.) and Roberto de Vicenzo (British Open) compete for $50,000. Live from Firestone Country Club in Akron.

Final round: Sunday, 5-6:30 p.m.

WEEKEND (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). The pilot of a situation comedy about what teenagers do from 3 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m.

Monday. Sneak preview.

CAMPO 44 (NBC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Prisoners-of-war comedies are getting to be more camp than Kampf. This pilot is situated in Italy. Sneak preview.

ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host the pilot of a comedy-variety series.

Sneak preview.

THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, 10 p.m.-midnight). Telecast live from Atlantic City, N.J.

Sunday, September 10 HALL OF KINGS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A repeat of the excellent, Emmy award-winning documentary about Westminster Abbey.

AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases--sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator.

GENTLE BEN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). A 650-Ib. black bear is the star of this adventure series set in the Florida Everglades. Premiere.

THE MOTHERS-IN-LAW (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.).

Eve Arden and Kaye Ballard square off in the family circle. Premiere.

THE HIGH CHAPARRAL (NBC, 9-11 p.m.).

Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell as two tough-talking, hard-living brothers who settle in southern Arizona in the 1870s, up against Apaches and Mexican bandits. Premiere.

Monday, September 11 COWBOY IN AFRICA (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). North America is getting so crowded with TV series that Chuck Connors has moved to a game ranch in Africa for this new veld-West show. Premiere.

THE DANNY THOMAS HOUR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Phil Silvers, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray and Tennessee Ernie Ford join Danny for the first of six musical-variety specials that will leaven this new dramatic-anthology series. Premiere.

THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The weekly bill of fare will include singing, dancing, production numbers, comedy skits and guest stars. This week's guest: Jim Nabors. Premiere.

Tuesday, September 12 THE JERRY LEWIS SHOW (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Comedy-variety. Opening-night guest: Lynn Redgrave, who will star opposite Jerry in a comedy sketch. Premiere.

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The New Left," an examination of the rebellion against not simply "the right" but society in general, via interviews with a dozen or so New Leftists (including Ramparts Managing Editor Bob Scheer, Yale's Staughton Lynd, SNCCers Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown) as well as Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan.

THE THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance.

THE BIG CITY. Out of the disarmingly simple story of a Calcutta housewife forced to seek employment and the effect this has on her and her family, Indian Director Satyajit Ray has fashioned a quietly superlative epic.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis re-creates with considerable grace the tyro schoolmarm of Bel Kaufman's bestselling novel about a "problem area" high school.

THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS.

Adultery--Italian style, by Divorce--Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi is one of the Italians.

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A Negro policeman from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a Mississippi backwater town by the local police chief (Rod Steiger), who eventually discovers that a good cop is a good cop, regardless of color.

THE WHISPERERS. An old, retired domestic on the dole in an English industrial town is the somewhat sociological subject of this film, which nevertheless rises to uncommon heights because of a soaring performance by Dame Edith Evans.

BOOKS

Best Reading

NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1. New American Library. Fiction by Philip Roth, criticism by Stanley Kauffmann and poetry by Louise Gliick highlight Volume No. 1 of this lively and commendable attempt to revive what is best described as the paperback-book magazine.

GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A facile British historian mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history in this formidable fable about an amnesiac who makes a pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself.

DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose.

STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. An engrossing biography of the mystical and aristocratic Wehrmacht colonel whose daring attempt to assassinate Hitler with a bomb brought him speedy execution by a Nazi firing squad.

AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. This spare juxtaposition of a crisis at sea and a crisis of conscience during World War II is so far the year's best adventure novel.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. In telling the tragic story of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the last of the Romanov dynasty, Author Massie stresses the crucial role of Rasputin in discrediting the imperial family in the people's eyes.

BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A splendid evocation of the life and times of the foppish young British artist whose decadent eccentricity and extraordinary style have today won him belated recognition as one of the most fabulous of all the Victorians.

RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. The 1965 Watts riot, model for the urban violence of today, is painfully and poignantly dissected to uncover the cancer of Negro despair.

INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. The 1942 Battle of Midway, refought through the recollections of survivors on both sides in a manner that conveys the dizzying tilt of every sinking ship.

END OF THE GAME, by Julio Cortazar. Fifteen eerie stories, among them the brief vignette that ballooned into the movie Blow-Up. All of them deal with today's fashionable fictional hang-ups: Did it happen or didn't it? Is this a daydream or a nightmare?

THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.

NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. This intelligent if somewhat unyielding study of all Vladimir Nabokov's literary production firmly consolidates his claim to succeed James Joyce as the Old Artificer of English.

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

2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (5)

3. The Plot, Wallace (2)

4. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (7)

5. The Chosen, Potok (3)

6. Washington, D.C., Vidal (4)

7. A Night of Watching, Arnold (8)

8. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (6)

9. When She Was Good, Roth (10) 10. The King of the Castle, Holt (9)

NONFICTION 1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)

2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)

3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)

4. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (6)

5. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (4)

6. Everything But Money, Levenson (5)

7. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (8)

8. The Lawyers, Mayer

9. Games People Play, Berne (10) 10. The Death of a President,

Manchester (7)

*All times E.D.T.

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