TELEVISION

Wednesday, June 15

THE UNDECLARED WAR (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A news special citing 79 instances of "overt hostilities"--meaning shots, soldiers and casualties--since World War II, with special emphasis on guerrilla skirmishes in Colombia, Guatemala and Peru, and the Panama Canal Zone riots of 1964.

Thursday, June 16

THE BAFFLING WORLD OF ESP (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Basil Rathbone narrates a study of extrasensory perception, using films of actual ESP experiences and lab experiments to explore telepathy, clairvoyance and the power of mind over matter. Among those interviewed are Menninger's Gardner Murphy and Yale's Henry Margenau.

THE DEAN MARTIN SUMMER SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The name of the star is the same, but the program is just a summer replacement, with Comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin filling in for the absent Dino. Then, to hold down the show's exploding population, the producers have halved the Smothers Brothers, presenting only Tom as guest star.

Friday, June 17

WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT BOB HOPE AND BING CROSBY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Canada's top comics, Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, have a little harmless fun with some of the century's most celebrated comedians in a series of film-clip profiles starting with Bob and Bing. Premiere.

Saturday, June 18

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). The Le Mans 24-hour endurance race for sports cars, one of the season's longest, and sometimes its grimmest grind. Live from France by satellite.

U.S. OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). South Africa's Gary Player defends his 1965 title at San Francisco's Olympic Country Club. More on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby is host, and his visitors include Tammy Grimes, Nanette Fabray, Jackie Mason and David Frost. Repeat.

Sunday, June 19

DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A compassionate look at the difficulties parents experience in bringing up deaf children, focusing on two teenagers: a girl who wants to be a gym teacher and a boy who leans toward botany.

SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Voyages to happy hunting and fishing grounds with tips on how to come home with the big ones. This trip is to Alaska and Argentina for big game and trout, and to reservoirs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for fresh-water bass. Premiere.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The startling similarities and important differences between the war in Viet Nam and the successful twelve-year British campaign against Communist guerrillas in Malaya are reviewed in "How to Fight a Guerrilla War." Repeat.

NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Naturalist-Author Joseph Wood Krutch is the guide for a trip through the Grand Canyon starting at the rim, taking a ride down the Colorado River rapids and stopping for a visit with the Havasupai Indians. Repeat.

THEATER

On Broadway

MAME is more lavish entertainment than great musical, but it looks good and has the brash assurance typical of Broadway when it does something well because it is familiar. Angela Lansbury plays kooky Auntie with gusto.

PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! When a man leaves home and country, he buries part of himself, and he is not likely to stand beside that grave dry-eyed. Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly are excellent as the public and private selves of a young Irishman on the eve of departure for Philadelphia and the New World.

SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive.

CACTUS FLOWER. French sex farces center around a door. Through it, one lover rushes. Behind it, the other lover hides. When it creaks open, it suggests suspicion. When it slams, it declares the end of the affair. In this latest Paris import, Actors Barry Nelson and Lauren Bacall and Director Abe Burrows make frequent and funny use of it.

RECORDS

Stage & Screen Music

MAME (Columbia). The Broadway season's biggest musical hit has spawned a surefire original-cast recording. Jerry Herman's score repeats his Hello, Dolly! success, this time with Angela Lansbury instead of Carol Channing. The title song contains its own review: "You charm the husk right off of the corn, May--mmm."

SWEET CHARITY (Columbia). Cy Coleman's score and Dorothy Fields's lyrics are spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver.

SUPERMAN (Columbia). Superproducer Hal Prince should have nipped into a phone booth and found himself some supermusic for his musical. As it is, both score and lyrics are decidedly Clark Kentish. Recommended only for indefatigable collectors of original-cast albums.

THE KATE SMITH ANNIVERSARY ALBUM (RCA Victor). So well have Kate's last two albums done (How Great Thou Art is still on the Billboard charts after 22 weeks) that Victor has borrowed Peter Matz from Columbia to rearrange 24 of her biggest hits in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the day--May 1, 1931--when she started her first radio series. The result is nostalgic easy listening.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (MGM). A 110-piece symphony orchestra, reinforced with 24 balalaika players and a section of Japanese instruments including a samisen, a koto and a 6-ft. gong (valued at $3,000), plus organ, novachord, electric sonovox, harpsichord, electric piano, tack piano and zither, plays Maurice Jarre's Oscar-winning score. The variety of instruments would be more interesting if the listener could pick them out, but they all seem to play at once. One haunting tune, Lara's Theme, emerges--but just barely.

NOTHING THRILLED US HALF AS MUCH (Epic). This reissue of The Best of Fred Astaire is decidedly a collector's item: original recordings of such favorites as Cheek to Cheek, Slap That Bass and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, sung and danced (the tapping is almost as expressive as the lyrics) by the master.

JEANETTE MACDONALD AND NELSON EDDY (RCA Victor). "Together again," as the previews of coming attractions used to say. Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, Indian Love Call, Rose-Marie--they're all here, the original recordings, most of them never before put on LP and one, Song of Love from Blossom Time, never released at all until now. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp to the nearest record store.

COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image.

CINEMA

"THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." As a Soviet sailor whose sub runs aground on an island off the New England coast, Broadway's Alan Arkin (Luv) makes light of cold war jitters in a rib-cracking feature film debut.

AND NOW MIGUEL. Growing up on a sheep ranch in New Mexico proves eventful for the ten-year-old hero (Pat Cardi) of a sturdy adventure film by the makers of such children's classics as Misty and Island of the Blue Dolphins.

LE BONHEUR. A happy French philanderer tacks blissfully between his wife and mistress in Director Agnes Varda's exquisite essay on young love, spelled out with considerable cynicism and art.

BORN FREE. The life and loves of Elsa the lioness are joyously re-created from the bestselling book by her biographer, Joy Adamson.

MANDRAGOLA. Machiavelli's ribald Renaissance classic about a Florentine lady's virtue, directed with plenty of low period humor by Italy's Alberto Lattuada and played as high comedy by Rosanna Schiaffino and a sporty cast.

LES BONNES FEMMES. In a perceptive drama by French Director Claude Chabrol (The Cousins), the pursuit of happiness leads four hopeful shopgirls into some of the most bizarre and horrifying byways of Paris.

MORGAN! Polished performances by Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner lend luster to an oddball comedy about an eccentric London painter who woos his former wife gorilla-style.

DEAR JOHN. Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren studies the sexcapade of a lusty sailor (Jarl Kulle) and a winsome waitress (Christina Schollin) who discover that a weekend abed can sometimes lead to love.

THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Under Nazi rule in Czechoslovakia, a Chaplinesque carpenter (Josef Kroner) endures a Kafkaesque nightmare when his friendship with a harmless old button seller (Ida Kaminska) is tested by an order for the deportation of Jews.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. Christ is part prophet, part social reformer in a memorable Bible epic, taken word for word from Scripture by Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian Communist.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction.

MEMOIRS 1945-53, by Konrad Adenauer. Der Alte's tone is often too dryly professorial, but in the first of two autobiographical installments he gives a highly readable account of Germany's rise from defeated enemy to much-courted ally.

IN MY FATHER'S COURT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. An old master at evoking fantastic and various visions of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry, Author Singer is at his engaging best remembering his boyhood in a Polish rabbi's household.

1066: THE STORY OF A YEAR, by Denis Butler. It is the year of Hastings, and the story of the battlefield where one king (William the Conqueror) was spawned and another (Harold I of England) died.

THE DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. In telling about a philologist hospitalized with a brain injury, British Humorist Burgess explores the real meaning that lurks behind mere words.

EARTHLY PARADISE, by Colette: edited by Robert Phelps. A life of sensualism and intellectual adventure is traced in Colette's random reminiscences; nothing in her own sensitive fiction is as fascinating as the story of her emergence from the shadow of a cynical, exploiting husband.

SELECTED POEMS, by Eugenio Montale. The most profound poet of modern Italy, Montale is at last given English translations (by Robert Lowell, Mario Praz and G. S. Eraser, among others) to match his European reputation.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. The Double Image, Maclnnes (3)

4. The Source, Michener (4)

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

6. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (5)

7. Those Who Love, Stone (6)

8. Menfreya in the Morning, Holt (10)

9. Columbella, Whitney

10. The Comedians, Greene (8)

NONFICTION

1. The Last Battle, Ryan (1)

2. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (2)

3. In Cold Blood, Capote (3)

4. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (6)

5. The Proud Tower, Tuchman (5)

6. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (4)

7. The Last 100 Days, Toland (8)

8. Games People Play, Berne (7)

9. The Big Spenders, Beebe

10. Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader (10)

*All times E.D.T.

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