Wednesday, November 24 FRANK SINATRA-A MAN AND HIS MUSIC (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Still another Sinatra special, this time a one-man musical show: no dancers, no comics, no production numbers--just the king, alone on his throne, singing.

PRO FOOTBALL: MAYHEM ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Van Heflin narrates a special on football that includes rare film clips of early games.

CONGRESS NEEDS HELP (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A report based on a study by a management-consultant firm that measured the operating methods of Congress against the best management practices in private industry. David Brinkley tells the sad results.

Thursday, November 25 THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE JUBILEE (CBS, 10 a.m.-noon). Four parades--Macy's in New York, Gimbel's in Philadelphia, Hudson's in Detroit and Eaton's in Toronto. Macy's gets fuller treatment from NBC in a two-hour show beginning at 10 a.m.

REMEMBER COLE PORTER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical tribute starring Maurice Chevalier, Robert Goulet and Nancy Ames.

A VISIT TO WASHINGTON WITH MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON--ON BEHALF OF A MORE BEAUTIFUL AMERICA (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The First Lady plumping for the cause.

Friday, November 26

THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF JAMES BOND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A look at the spy who became a mushroom-shaped clod--with clips from all the Bond movies and a filmed interview with the late Ian Fleming.

Saturday, November 27 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Surfing Championships at Huntingdon Beach, Calif., and the New York State Firemen's competition in Utica, N.Y.

N.C.A.A. COLLEGE FOOTBALL (NBC, 1-4:15 p.m.). The Army-Navy game.

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.; 7-7:30 p.m. in New York). "The Freedom Shuttle: Dilemma in Miami," a study of the problems created by the influx of Cuban refugees.

Sunday, November 28

WHO SHALL LIVE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A report on the artificial kidney.

THE DANGEROUS CHRISTMAS OF RED RIDING HOOD, OR OH WOLF, POOR WOLF (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). A musical special by Jule Styne, Bob Merrill and Robert Emmett. Cyril Ritchard plays Wolf, a hero in this version, and Liza Minnelli is the red (Riding Hood) menace.

THE JULIE ANDREWS SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The first of a series of musical specials with Miss Andrews. This one also has Gene Kelly and the New Christy Minstrels.

Monday, November 29 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Musical Atoms--A Study of Intervals," illustrated with performances of Brahms, Vaughan Williams and Wagner, accompanied by verbal explanations from Bernstein.

THEATER On Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Peter Shaffer's historical drama tosses a pebble of thought into a sea of spectacle. With consummate skill, Christopher Plummer plays a tortured Pizarro in search of Peruvian treasure and a rebirth of faith.

GENERATION. "Do-it-yourself" is the operative philosophy of a resolutely anti-conformist young couple in a Greenwich Village loft. They even plan to deliver their own baby--until Father-in-Law Henry Fonda flies in from Chicago, thwarts their plans and charms the audience.

HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero.

THE ODD COUPLE is odd indeed, as an impulsive slob and his compulsively antiseptic pal set up an all-male household after their wives have left them. Spats and laughs are the daily routine.

LUV. A trio of psychic swingers tries to worry themselves and each other to death as they trade neuroses and woes in Murray Schisgal's satire.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff pits a prudish book clerk against a free-living prostitute and injects each round with hilarity as the flesh triumphs over the spirit.

Off Broadway

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's minor-key drama strikes a tragic note as a longshoreman defies family tradition and society's mores because of an incestuous love for his niece.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio.

RECORDS

Choral and Song

BERLIOZ: REQUIEM (2 LPs; Columbia). This colossus of music honored the heroic dead of the July 1830 revolution. Inspired by St. Peter's in Rome, Berlioz wanted to match the grandeur of its architecture in sound. He nearly does so in this performance conducted by Eugene Ormandy. The Philadelphia Orchestra, augmented by extra horns, winds and percussion, and the Temple University Choirs of 250 voices are welded into an instrument of blockbusting power and variety: four brass bands blaze the summons to the Last Judgment, and the woodwinds whisper as Tenor Cesare Valletti sings the poetic Sanctus.

HANDEL: MESSIAH (3 LPs; Angel). Octogenarian Otto Klemperer has produced a Messiah that is spacious and well-ordered, yet moving and mysterious. He probes the emotional depths of Christ's story with perhaps more power than he uses to scale the jubilant heights. The Philharmonia

Orchestra and Chorus are outstanding and the soloists are good. They include Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jerome Mines, who sings majestically in spite of a few uncertain slides into home bass. Klemperer's sober new recording is musically the peer of Sir Thomas Beecham's big bright version with its heady hallelujahs (RCA Victor), and of Sir Adrian Boult's, which stars Joan Sutherland and her exquisite embellishments (London).

SCHOENBERG: GURRELIEDER (2 LPs; Deutsche Grammophon). Gurre is a castle where the maiden Tove and the Danish King Waldemar sing of love and death.

Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik.

ROSSINI: STABAT MATER (Columbia). Rossini had given up the stage by the time he wrote this setting for the sorrowful 13th century Latin text, but infectious operatic airs keep bubbling up in the most unlikely spots. And Thomas Schippers conducts the New York Philharmonic as though he were in the theater pit. The first tenor solo, "Her Unhappy Heart Grieved and Sorrowed," is as gay as the Toreador Song, and one could almost dance to "Is There One Who Does Not Weep?" sung by Soprano Martina Arroyo and Mezzo Beverly Wolff. The music fits the text near the finale, when it is a matter of expressing glory rather than grief.

PALESTRINA: STABAT MATER (Argo). Centuries apart from Rossini's work in time and spirit is Palestrina's flowing, mystical, many-voiced setting of the same verses. The choir of King's College, Cambridge, impeccably directed by David Willcocks, is divided into two choruses to give answering effects in the Stabat Mater and in four other sacred works by Palestrina.

CINEMA

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2), the Barnum of the avantgarde.

THE LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a serio-comic British strumpet, nearly loses her teen-aged husband (Colin Campbell) to his motorcycling mate (Dudley Sutton) in Director Sidney J. Furie's slice-of-life drama about an unsavory triangle.

NEVER TOO LATE. Repeating their Broadway comedy roles in what sometimes seems to be slow motion, Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ford are nonetheless winning as an old married pair with an unscheduled pregnancy.

KING RAT. The struggle for survival in a Japanese prison camp spells prosperity for an unscrupulous G.I. con man (George Segal) in Writer-Director Bryan Forbes's brutal drama, based on the novel by James Clavell.

REPULSION. This classic chiller by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) gathers images of horror from the shattered psyche of a lissome French manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) whose sexual fantasies drive her to murder.

THE HILL. Sean Connery matches wits with a sadistic sergeant major (Harry Andrews) and forcefully illustrates man's inhumanity to man at a British Army-stockade during World War II.

THE RAILROAD MAN. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style) plays the title role in his heartwarming 1956 drama about a 50-year-old train engineer whose life goes off the track.

TO DIE IN MADRID. Such passionate nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work of art.

BOOKS

Best Reading

AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD, by Peter Matthiessen. A splendid novel that is a compelling parable of religious rebirth as well as a superior adventure story about a primitive South American tribe and an American soldier of fortune.

THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST, by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. From 1805 to 1877, Oregon's Nez Perce Indians were engaged in an epic struggle to preserve their identity; 750 of them retreated across four states until they were surrounded by U.S. troops and forced onto reservations. Author Josephy has written a big, thoroughly researched account of the trek.

THE CENTURY OF THE DETECTIVE, by Juergen Thorwald. The author of The Century of the Surgeon expertly follows the fascinating history of criminology, illustrating it with a gallery of grisly crimes.

RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. A personal glimpse by one of the revolution's early leaders as he lived through the events leading to the rise and fall of Russia's short-lived democratic government.

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth.

BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. In this profoundly frightening novel, Maude Hutchins pulls the reader into the mad tangle of a deranged mind.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)

2. Those Who Love, Stone (4)

3. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2)

4. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (5)

5. The Green Berets, Moore (8)

6. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (7)

7. Hotel, Hailey (6)

8. The Honey Badger, Ruark (3)

9. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (10)

10. Thomas, Mydans (9)

NONFICTION 1. Kennedy, Sorensen (1)

2. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (4)

3. Games People Play, Berne (3)

4. The Making of the President, 1964, White (2)

5. Intern, Doctor X (5)

6. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6)

7. A Gift of Joy, Hayes

8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (8)

9. Waging Peace, Eisenhower (7)

10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln (10)

*All times E.S.T.

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