Wednesday, March 30 ALICE IN WONDERLAND, OR WHAT'S A NICE KID LIKE YOU DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS?

(ABC, 8-9 p.m.).* A Hanna-Barbera animated-cartoon special. Sammy Davis Jr. provides the voice of the Cheshire cat, Zsa Zsa Gabor that of the Queen of Hearts, Bill Dana the White Knight, and the late Hedda Hopper Madame Hatter.

COLOR ME BARBRA (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The second Streisand special, which deliberately duplicates the successful format of the first. This time Streisand dances through a fantasy in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, swapping places with the paintings; she also clowns around a circus, doing a dance with some penguins, and winds up with a concert.

Thursday, March 31

THE SOUTH (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Music Man Robert Preston tours South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida, and Richard Kiley and Joan Fontaine read excerpts from the love letters of Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel.

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A program originating entirely in London, transmitted by Early Bird satellite and taped in the U.S. for slightly delayed replay. NBC News London Bureau Chief Elie Abel reports, and the Rt. Hon. David Brinkley translates.

Friday, April 1

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). It hadda happen: "The Bat Cave Affair."

TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tammy Grimes plays a nun who gets involved in a murder. This series, now on reruns and canceled for next season, got into ratings difficulty early in the season when it was opposite Get Smart! CBS, to give it the "benefit" of a more favorable time slot, moved it opposite U.N.C.L.E. Would you believe Bonanza?

Sunday, April 3

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Integration in the Military," the history of integration in the U.S. armed forces, which began in the mid-1940's under the late James Forrestal, the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense. The program also features filmed interviews with Negro and white soldiers in Viet Nam.

-MARY MARTIN AT EASTERTIME WITH THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gower (Hello, Dolly!) Champion directs Mary (Hello, Dolly!) Martin as the spirit of spring, a nun, a Rockette and a magician. Goodbye, Radio City!

Tuesday, April 5

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Another of those tests, this time on income taxes.

THEATER

On Broadway WAIT A MINIM! is a South African musical revue that is light of heart, flip of wit, and full of such wondrously exotic instru ments as the mbira, timbila and kalimba.

The five-man, three-woman, all-white cast is so remarkably gifted that it may never see Johannesburg again.

3 BAGS FULL, by Jerome Chodorov. Written in mock-Edwardian, directed like a six-day bike race, this adapted French farce is irresistibly droll, thanks chiefly to that dour master of ludicrous mayhem, Paul Ford.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Brian Friel applies the saving sponge of humor to the Irish sentiment that pours from his play, and Dubliners Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford, as twin images of the hero, stir up a fine farrago of laughter and tears.

SWEET CHARITY. Gwen Verdon, danseuse distinguee of the U.S. musical stage, is fetchingly exuberant as a taxi dancer searching for a wagon for her unhitched star. Bob Fosse's choreography pumps vitality into Neil Simon's flabby book.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Middle age, joyless loves and his own irredeemable mediocrity have given John Osborne's anti-hero a screaming case of psychic jitters. Yet the play is armed with irascible wit, and Nicol Williamson's whiplash acting raises laughs as well as welts.

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DI RECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. With the cool ferocity of a mad scientist, Director Peter Brook conducts a controlled experiment in audience anxiety. Result: exciting theater that may scare the living daylights out of playgoers.

CACTUS FLOWER. France is fertile soil for sex farces, and Director Abe Burrows has deftly pruned this recent sprout to make it thrive in the Broadway landscape. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson reap a rich harvest of giggles and guffaws.

RECORDS

Instrumentalists

BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK 1 (3 LPs; Columbia). Glenn Gould is now halfway through Bach's magnificent "exercises," performing the first 24 preludes and fugues on the piano. There are times when Gould hams it up, and there are certainly too many of his infamous hums, but he makes the pieces spring to life with bold overall conceptions, marvelous technique and vaulting lines.

SAINT-SAENS: CONCERTOS NOS. 2 AND 4 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Columbia). The 31-year-old French pianist Philippe Entremont tosses off both virtuoso works with steel-fingered bravura. Saint-Saens' flashy climaxes are mostly rhetoric, but as Entremont plays them they are satisfying to the ear; in the lyrical passages, he is able to draw a fine melodic line between melancholy and pathos. The brilliant splashes of orchestral color are furnished by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting.

DVORAK: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). Filled with Slav melodies and sharp folk rhythms, Dvorak's only violin concerto is nevertheless grandly designed, and is given a spirited, full-bodied performance by Edith Peinemann, a 29-year-old German violinist with a singing tone and a dancing bow. With the Czech Philharmonic.

SCARLATTI: 51 SONATAS (3 LPs; Cambridge). Harpsichordist Albert Fuller has made a representative but unhackneyed selection of 16 early, 17 middle and 18 late sonatas (though all were published after Scarlatti was 54). The pieces, paired like Bach's preludes and fugues, are miniature marvels--many with a flamenco flavor--and Fuller dashes them off with robust energy and vivid coloration. His interpretations, however, lack the poetry and variety that Fernando Valenti brings to Scarlatti. Valenti has recorded 29 LPs (346 sonatas), most of which are available on Westminster.

MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS VOL. 1 (3 LPs; Epic). The Hungarian-born Mozart specialist Lili Kraus plans to record all the piano concertos, Mozart's crowning achievements in instrumental music. She has begun with Nos. 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 26, all written after Mozart, renowned as Austria's greatest pianist, moved to Vienna. His playing was famed for its singing touch and exquisite taste. Eschewing broad contrasts and romantic rubato, Miss Kraus emulates the 18th century master.

BRAHMS: SONATAS FOR CELLO AND PIANO, NOS. 1 AND 2 (Mercury). Cellist Janos Starker and Pianist Gyorgy Sebok play the duets with the broad range of feeling demanded, especially in the great F major sonata (No. 2). But they never rhapsodize. Among his fellow romantics, Brahms was a classicist; so, one gathers from these banked fires, is Starker.

CINEMA

DEAR JOHN. Love is considerably more than sin-deep in this tour de force of erotic realism by Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren. Jarl Kulle plays a sea captain, Christina Schollin the cafe waitress with whom he has a one-night affair that, oddly, ennobles them both.

THE GROUP. Under the expert tutelage of Director Sidney Lumet, eight captivating young actresses rediscover the Roosevelt era in an irresistible drama based on Mary McCarthy's bitchy, college-bred bestseller about what happened to Vassar's class of '33 after commencement day. Joan Hackett, Jessica Walter, Shirley Knight and Joanna Pettet are the most active alumnae.

SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. The sunset of colonialism in modern India colors a wry, wistful and poetic film by U.S. Director James Ivory, who delicately explores a love triangle among a young man (Shashi Kapoor), a native film star (Madhur Jaffrey), and an ingenue (Felicity Kendal) touring the provinces with an English Shakespeare troupe.

THE LAST CHAPTER. Quietly narrated by Theodore Bikel, this collection of rare film clips avoids the chamber-of-horrors approach in recalling the almost unbearably poignant history of Poland's Jews.

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. This Czech drama hurls the question of universal guilt into a tranquil, Nazi-occupied Slovakian village in 1942. The case concerns a little Aryan nobody (Josef Kroner) who is put in charge of the business, and the fate of a shinlngly innocent old Jewish shopkeeper (Ida Kaminska).

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW.

A contradiction in terms: a truly faithful Biblical film made by a Communist, Italian Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who employs only nonprofessional actors and uses a script based entirely on Holy Writ.

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX. How to make a little plane out of a big one that has crashed in the Sahara. Surprisingly well-paced and acted by an international troupe of pros, including James Stewart, Hardy Kruger and Richard Attenborough, who struggle for survival against the sun, the sand and themselves-

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. A grainy, gritty double exposure of the spy racket on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Richard Burton is brilliant as a Western burned-out case; Oskar Werner is his pre-eminent prey from the East. Martin Ritt (Hud) is responsible for the superb direction.

BOOKS

Best Reading

TOO FAR TO WALK, by John Hersey. Author Hersey's finely tuned reportorial ear is near-perfect, though his fictional sense is slightly askew, in this Faustian spoof about a morose sophomore who temporarily strikes a bargain with the Devil.

THE DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen Maclnnes. This is Master Spywriter Maclnnes' 13th book, and it continues her tradition of bestsellers. As usual, she throws a hero armed only with good manners and innocence up against a diabolical and murderous gang of international spies. A first-rate suspense tale.

BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Although his collected works fill 20 volumes, Harte (1836-1902) is best remembered today for a couple of short stories and one humorous poem. Biographer O'Connor gives Harte his due both as a literary figure and as a silken-mustachioed rascal, who was once variously described by Mark Twain as a coward, a liar, a swindler, a born loafer and an s.o.b.

THE SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. Once again Black Humorist Donleavy (Ginger Man) proves that he can make something of nothing--in this case, a non-hero who has worn out his Viennese psychiatrist and baffled a predatory countess and a girl tourist in his Kafkaesque progress to nothingness.

AUSTERLITZ, by Claude Manceron, is a rousing re-enactment of the 1805 campaign in which Napoleon's battlefield genius, at the summit of its powers, shattered the combined forces of Russia and Austria.

GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES, by Christopher Hibbert. Author Hibbert has drawn a clear and coherent portrait of the red-shirted romantic who led Italy from confusion to nationhood a century ago.

Best Sellers

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

2. The Double Image, Maclnnes (3)

3. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

4. Those Who Love, Stone (4)

5. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (2)

6. The Comedians, Greene (6)

7. Tell No Man, St. Johns (10)

8. The Billion Dollar Brain, Deighton (7)

9. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (8) 10. The Lockwood Concern, O'Hara (9)

NONFICTION 1. In Cold Blood, Capote (1)

2. Games People Play, Berne (5)

3. The Last 100 Days, Toland (3)

4. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (4) 5. The Last Battle, Ryan 6. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (2)

7. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (6)

8. Kennedy, Sorensen (7)

9. The Penkovskiy Papers, Penkovskiy (9)

10. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (8)

* All times E.S.T.

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