Wednesday, October 18 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Host Lorne Greene gets assistance from the Baja Marimba Band, Jerry Van Dyke, Barbara Eden, Lou Rawls and Bobby Van to show "How the West Was Swung," a song-and-dance tale of the frontier and its rough-'n'-ready folk.

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). James Mason, Susan Hayward and Julie Newmar take a ride on The Mar riage Go-Round (1961).

Thursday, October 19 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Two chain-gang fugitives (Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis) are shackled together during a five-day flight in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones (1958).

DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Bing Crosby, Lena Home and Dom De Luise drop by to visit.

Friday, October 20

OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first half of Lili (1958), starring Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Mel Ferrer. Tune in next week for the conclusion.

CANADA FACES THE FUTURE: AMERICAN PROFILE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sander Vanocur explores the U.S.'s northern neighbor--vast, diverse, sometimes troubled, always promising.

Saturday, October 21 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4 p.m. to conclusion). The Texas Longhorns v. the Arkansas Razorbacks, from Little Rock, Ark.

Sunday, October 22

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Part 2 of "Sometimes I Like Even Me" fo cuses on the Lewis-Wadhams School and asks what is worth learning and how does one learn.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). On a journey to the Florida Keys--a pirates' hideout in the 1700s--Discovery takes a look at the history and mystery surrounding such infamous characters as Henry Morgan, Black Caesar and Captain Kidd.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

THE CATHOLIC HOUR (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Third in a series of original teleplays, The Sister is a comic fantasy about a reform-minded young woman who creates chaos in a convent.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Bats, Birds and Bionics" is a study of the application of biology to electronics and how it will figure in man's future. Film clips include shots of devices for astronauts that were copied from bats and electronic aids for the blind modeled on the dolphin's sonar system.

JOHNNY BELINDA (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Mia Farrow stars as the victimized deaf-mute in a TV production of Johnny Belinda. With Barry Sullivan, Ian Bannen and David Carradine.

Monday, October 23 COACH BRYANT: ALABAMA'S BEAR (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Chris Schenkel narrates this special on one of college football's most successful--and controversial-coaches.

THE LONG CHILDHOOD OF TIMMY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An updated version of last year's excellent documentary, winner of the Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Award, about a mentally retarded ten-year-old and the sacrifices of his family.

THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Diahann Carrol, Richard Kiley and the Smothers Brothers are guests.

Tuesday, October 24

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (NBC, 7:30-9:15 p.m.). Richard Lester's highly acclaimed musical fantasy tracing 36 hours in the lives of the Beatles (1964).

KISMET, (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). A special television adaptation of the Broadway musical starring Jose Ferrer, Barbara Eden, Anna Maria Alberghetti, George Chakiris, Hans Conreid and Cecil Kellaway.

CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Collingwood narrates a news special: "Viet Nam: Where We Stand."

RECORDS

Opera, Choral & Oratorio

Two recent releases resurrect the ghosts of GERALDINE FARRAR (Everest/Scala) and MARY GARDEN (Odyssey), titans of opera's "golden age" who died early this year. These old, faint and scratchy performances used to be collector's items before being reissued; they are still priceless to those who are nostalgic about the history of glorious, if defiantly individualistic, singing.

PROKOFIEV: IVAN THE TERRIBLE (Melodiya/ Angel). Prokofiev composed this music for Sergei Eisenstein's movie Ivan the Terrible in the early 1940s, but his means (oratorio-like) and aims (monumental) hardly allow it to be described as background music. Much of it is so impressive as to provide ammunition for those who predict that the best new music will be composed expressly to serve other arts. Yet the other arts can overwhelm--as sometimes in this case, when the narrator in Ivan (theatrically intoned in lyrical Russian by Aleksander Estrin) makes the work sound to non-Russian-speaking listeners rather like an Eastern OrthoHox church service. The Moscow State Chorus and the U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra meet all of Prokofiev's grandoise requirements.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IS A DIRTY OLD MAN (Epic). Mozart has acquired a pristine aura of impeccable glory, but, like Abraham Lincoln, he loved dirty jokes and puns--which he enjoyed setting to utterly fastidious music for the eternal amusement of the world's musicologists. Now ordinary fans can snicker along, for this album provides everything from Leek mich am Arsch! Goethe . . . (Kiss My Behind! Goethe . . . ) to Liebes Mandel, wo ist's Bandel? (Lovey-Dovey, Where's My Glovey?). The English translations may be rough, but then so are the sentiments; Norman Luboff directs a crew of singers who appropriately sound as if they had rehearsed in a rathskeller.

CARL ORFF: CATULLI CARMINA (Columbia). Gee whillikers! Such classical music and such libidinous Latin! Actually Orff's version of The Songs of Catullus is one of the most fascinating pieces of music composed in this century (completed in 1943). Its explicit text by Catullus (847-54 B.C.) is a delightfully, powerfully pagan ode to the joys and heartbreaks of love and lust. Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra and the Temple University Choirs understand and communicate the wild spirit of the piece.

PUCCINI: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Angel). Although nicknamed "Madama Butterball" by her more pernickety listeners, Renata Scotto still does her best to fulfill the image of the 15-year-old Japanese teenager, and has successfully made the role one of her specialties. Her rather metallic intonations are warmed by the richness of Rolando Panerai's baritone and Carlo Bergonzi's tenor, while Conductor Sir John Barbirolli exposes enough colors in the opera's palette to prove that it may not be so smart to sneer at Puccini's musicality.

GILBERT & SULLIVAN: THE SORCERER (London). It was a grand spoof to write an opera about a prim English garden party where a wicked magician pours a love potion in the guests' tea, but G. & S. popped the bubble before it left their pipes. Wordiness obscures their wit in spite of the chopping and splicing that at least halves The Sorcerer on this heavily edited recording. Nevertheless, if anyone can do Gilbert & Sullivan's third opus, D'Oyly Carte can, and it does.

VERDI: LA TRAVIATA (RCA Victor). It is amazing that Verdi's most intimate and affecting opera is so popular, for it is nearly impossible to find perfect performers for it. The consumptive heroine-courtesan must have the brains of a Mme. de Stael, the temperament of a Bernhardt, and three voices that resemble the best of a Pons, Tebaldi and Callas. Although Montserrat Caballe may look like a three-in-one soprano, she has but one exceptionally beautiful voice.

ClNEMA

OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE. Out of a modern Gothic tale of innocence and evil, Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) has created an adult morality play with the aid of seven children, each an accomplished scene-stealer.

THE TIGER MAKES OUT. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson repeat their rollicking performances in Murray Schisgal's off-Broadway play The Tiger, with an expanded scenario that overflows with sight and sound gags.

THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS. A cinema-verite-stye recounting of the Algerian guerrilla war against the French during the '50s, in which Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo has used not one frame of actual documentary film footage, yet manages to make the movie explosively real.

THE CLIMAX. The trials of trigamy, as related by Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce, Italian Style), with Ugo Tognazzi in the role of a man lost in the labors of love.

CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS. A Czech tragicomedy about a World War II railway apprentice who never gets his signals right and a carefree train dispatcher with an express schedule of seductions.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. This brooding, mythic "meditation on history" takes the reader into the heart of the Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion in 1831.

THE PYRAMID, by William Golding. A deceptively simple story of a man's simultaneous rise and fall, absorbingly told by Golding and buttressing his view that original sin is an anthropological fact.

ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. The final volume of their 38-year labor on the story of civilization once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling.

THE HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, is an often critical, usually dispassionate but at times frankly sympathetic assessment of Bobby and his attempt to bring about a Kennedy Restoration.

O THE CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. At 75, Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German and was rescued from almost total obscurity by a 1966 Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people.

TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND, by Svetlana Alliluyeva. Stalin's daughter shines her beam of light into dark Kremlin corners as she tells how her friends and family were scythed by purges.

YEARS OF WAR, 1941-1945: FROM THE MORGENTHAU DIARIES, by John Morton Blum, traces the last term in office of F.D.R.'s Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and the birth of the "Morgenthau Plan" for conquered Germany, which cost the crusty hawk his Cabinet post.

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. Miss Gates is a throwback to Dreiser--a realistic novelist, telling an old-fashioned story about a girl who put success before virtue.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. From an unpromising cast of New Orleans drifters and wastrels, the author has fashioned a vibrant first novel.

THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. An exceptionally good anthology of recent writing --skilled, readable, varied.

STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. A distinguished biography of the aristocratic Wehrmacht officer who led the attempt to kill Hitler and overthrow Nazism.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. Although his sentimental observations will undoubtedly nettle historians, Massie admirably humanizes the tragic couple who presided over the last days of the Russian Empire.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Chosen, Potok (1 last week)

2. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (5)

3. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (6)

4. The Arrangement, Kazan <2)

5. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (3)

6. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson

7. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4)

8. Topaz, Uris (9)

9. The Eighth Day, Wilder (7)

10. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (10)

NONFICTION 1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (2)

2. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3)

4. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (4)

5. Incredible Victory, Lord (5)

6. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (8)

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

8. Happiness Is a Stock That Doubles in a Year, Cobleigh

9. The Lawyers, Mayer (9) 10. Everything But Money, Levenson (10)

*All times E.D.T.

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