They're off and running in the 1966-67 ratings race with 28 premieres and a handful of holdovers from last season. The week's entries, plus some sports highlights and one-shot public affairs programs:
Wednesday, September 7
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).*Art Carney is first out of the gate as guest star, playing that robbin' hood, the Archer, in "Shoot a Crooked Arrow."
THE MONROES (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Five orphaned youngsters, from six to 18, struggle to survive and establish a homestead in the Wyoming wilderness of the 1870s. Michael Anderson Jr. and Barbara Hershey head the doughty band.
THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). In a new spy series, filmed entirely in Europe, Robert Lansing plays a U.S. secret agent and Dana Wynter takes the female lead.
THE FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty explains his idea of how to watch football by concentrating on the two "deep backs" in an offensive backfield, on the theory that they are the tip-off to 90% of the action.
Thursday, September 8
WONDERFUL WORLD OF WHEELS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A car buff's special revs up with a gallery of antiques, roars into futuristic creations and scenes from some history-making races.
TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ron Ely slips into the loincloth as Tarzan No. 15 in a new series.
STAR TREK (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A cruiser-size rocket ship, called the U.S.S. Enterprise and captained by William Shatner, investigates new worlds and unimagined civilizations in deep space. First episode: "The Man Trap."
THE TAMMY GRIMES SHOW (ABC, 8:309 p.m.). A contemporary comedy series starring Tammy in beyond-the-fringe situations, with Dick Sargent and Hiram Sherman.
THAT GIRL (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). As an aspiring young actress, Marlo Thomas finds herself hilariously misunderstood by her boy friend, poor chap, who simply doesn't realize when an actress is living her part.
THE HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The foible-filled private life of a TV-western idol who's absolutely terrified of horses and allergic to sagebrush, featuring Richard Mulligan.
HAWK (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Burt Reynolds plays a detective for New York's District Attorney; filmed in the city's eerie back alleys.
Friday, September 9
THE GREEN HORNET (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). The masked crime fighter and his ever-faithful Kato buzz into action against "The Silent Gun."
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE (NBC, 7:3010 p.m.). The new Miami Dolphins make their debut against the New York Jets at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
TIME TUNNEL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Two scientists surmount the barriers of the past and future in an adventure series starring James Darren and Robert Colbert.
THE MILTON BERLE SHOW (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Lucille Ball and Richard Harris are the first week's headliners.
Saturday. September 10
SPACE KIDETTES (NBC, 10:30-11 a.m.). A cartoon series of rocketing adventures.
COOL McCOOL (NBC, 11-11:30 a.m.). The sleuths are now after the kindergarten set with this cartoon series about a secret agent at war against international criminals.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). Cassius ("Muhammad Ali") Clay defends, so to speak, his world heavyweight title against Karl Mildenberger, who, if anything, has considerably less claim to prize fighting's most prestigious crown than Clay's two previous opponents, Britain's hapless Henry Cooper and Brian London. Live via satellite from Frankfurt, Germany.
THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jack Nicklaus, Billy Casper, Al Geiberger and Gene Littler in the first day of a 36-hole contest for $77,500 ($50,000 to the winner) at Firestone Country Club, Akron.
SHANE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The gunfighter is played by David Carradine; Jill Ireland costars.
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 8:30 p.m. to conclusion). Season's opening game. The champion Green Bay Packers, with Bart Starr and Paul Hornung, meet the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas at Milwaukee.
CLASS OF '67 (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). George Hamilton hosts a variety show dedicated to the "active generation"; guest stars include Nancy Sinatra.
THE MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (NBC, 10 p.m.-midnight). Bert Parks and Bess Myerson co-host the annual spectacle in Atlantic City.
Sunday, September 11
NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABC, 3-5 p.m.). The finals from Forest Hills, N.Y.
THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The last holes from Firestone Country Club, Akron.
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Election Day in Viet Nam," the balloting for a constituent assembly, is examined by Peter Kalischer and a team of correspondents. NBC, with Chet Huntley presiding, will put on a similar program (6:30-7:30 p.m.).
HEY, LANDLORD (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Will Hutchins and Sandy Baron star as a couple of girl-watching bachelor roommates in Manhattan.
THE GARRY MOORE SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The veteran variety man returns to the cameras with Jackie Vernon, John Byner and Eddie Lawrence heading a list of guest gagmen.
Monday, September 12 THE MONKEES (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). The misadventures of four long-haired, high powered teen-age rock-'n'-rollers.
IRON HORSE (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Empire Builder Dale Robertson wins a railroad in a poker game and then struggles to keep it going.
RUN, BUDDY, RUN (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). In a takeoff on chase shows, Buddy (Jack Sheldon) becomes a fugitive when he overhears some crime-syndicate secrets and is forced to run for his life when the cops don't believe the gang is after him.
THE ROGER MILLER SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:00 p.m.). In a new variety show, Miller plays host to Bill Cosby.
RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9:00 p.m.). Four Allied enlisted men wage a private commando war in North Africa against German General Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps.
THE FELONY SQUAD (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Dragnet's other half, Ben Alexander, in a new series as a police officer with his own ideas about law enforcement (TIME, Aug. 26).
THE ROAD WEST (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Barry Sullivan stars as the widower head of the Pride family, which moves from Ohio to the strife-ridden Kansas Territory of the 1870s. Their welcome is violent when George C. Scott arrives with a party of bushwhackers in the first of two parts of "This Savage Land."
FAMILY AFFAIR (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). A globe-trotting bachelor (Brian Keith) and his urbane valet (Sebastian Cabot) become unprepared parents to the bachelor's orphaned twin nieces and nephew.
THE JEAN ARTHUR SHOW (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). For a switch on The Defenders, Lawyers Patricia (Jean Arthur) and Paul (Ron Harper) Marshall play mother-and-son legal eagles. Mickey Rooney is their first client.
Tuesday, September 13 THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The female, naturally, is far more deadly, as U.N.C.L.E. Agent Stefanie Powers takes over Tuesday's Thrush threats.
OCCASIONAL WIFE (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A confirmed bachelor (Michael Callan) decides that the only way to succeed in business is married--so he makes a platonic arrangement for a wife when necessary.
CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Harry Reasoner reports on "Young Mr. Eisenhower," which follows Ike from Abilene to West Point.
RECORDS
Opera & Song
WAGNER: LOHENGRIN (5 LPs; RCA Victor). An ambitious production by Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony that is only partially successful. Leinsdorf manages crowd scenes like a musical DeMille, so that sequences like the gathering of the clans in the second act are wonderfully exciting. In the title role, Sandor Konya conveys a gentle, human Lohengrin, and William Dooley makes a rich-voiced, menacing Telramund. But the female roles--usually easier to fill--are not nearly so satisfying. Rita Gorr is cruelly miscast as Ortrud, and Lucine Amara's voice is not big enough for the crucial role of Elsa. The Wagner devotee will find here a superb rendering of the master's orchestration, but he will inevitably wonder why, with all their resources, Leinsdorf and RCA Victor let a definitive Lohengrin glide away like the swan down the River Scheldt.
BEETHOVEN: FIDELIO (2 LPs; Nonesuch). A less grandiose effort at another demanding opera is on the whole more satisfying. Beethoven's only opera draws much of its beauty from a succession of duets, trios and quartets; and all hands, under the direction of Carl Bamberger with Hamburg's Norddeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra, are nimble, experienced ensemble singers. As Leonore, Gladys Kuchta reaches everything but the heights of Abscheulicher!; Julius Patzak, who had been singing for 35 years when this record was made, still sounds fresh and sturdy as Florestan; the best performance on the record is Melita Muszely's Marzelline. The singular glories of Birgit Nilsson's Fidelio can't be found here, but listeners will enjoy a high level of musicianship.
BRITTEN: CURLEW RIVER (London). On a sojourn to the Orient in 1956, the composer was delighted by Japanese No plays, and one of them, Sumidagawa, is the inspiration for this one-act opera. It tells of a madwoman searching for her son, and her encounter with a boatman who explains his tragic death and shows her where he is buried. Scored for five male soloists, a chorus of nine and an orchestra of seven, Curlew River is a fragile work indeed, more tone poem than opera. Yet in a sedate, masquelike way, it has considerable melodic charm, and all its grace is underscored by the brilliant singing of Peter Pears and John Shirley-Quirk as the Madwoman and the Ferryman.
STRAUSS: FOUR LAST SONGS (Angel). On records, at least, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is still one of the supreme vocal artists of the day. Here she gives a seamless performance, as if all four songs were drawn on one breath. Her performance may not quite measure up to Lisa Delia Casa's classic recording of a decade ago, which is an irresistible blend of youthfulness and melancholy; yet Schwarzkopf sounds as if she had lived the life now ending and better understands the tragic resignation.
Cl NEMA
LA VISITA. An ad in a lonely-hearts column brings together a small-town spinster (Sandra Milo) and a middle-aged clerk (Francois Perier), who within a single day meet, quarrel, make love and go their separate lonely ways again.
THE WRONG BOX. Bryan Forbes, who directed King Rat, is now plotting a furiously funny race to kill off one of the two surviving members of a Victorian tontine, with John Mills and Ralph Richardson at the tender mercies of their loving heirs--Michael Caine, Nanette Newman, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
KHARTOUM. Laurence Olivier as the malevolent Madhi and Charlton Heston as the mystic General "Chinese" Gordon pit their gods against each other in an epic struggle for control of the Nile.
HOW TO STEAL A MILLION. Audrey Hepburn sets out to save the reputation of her father, a charming forger played by Hugh Griffith, and learns that crime can be beautiful with Peter O'Toole as an accomplice.
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis star in the screen version of Edward Albee's violently verbal shock treatment, subtly directed by Mike Nichols.
THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Riding the crest of surfing popularity, this beautifully photographed documentary follows two young Californians as they sample the world's beaches in quest of the perfect wave. They find it, too, and in the most unlikely place.
THE NAKED PREY. In a fearsomely dogged epic of survival, native man hunters chase after Director-Star Cornel Wilde as the lone survivor of a safari in scenic Africa of a century ago.
"THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." Cold war humor crackles on an island off New England when a Russian sub runs aground on a sand bar and its jittery crew, led by Broadway's Alan Arkin, inadvertently panic the populace in their hilarious efforts to get the tub launched again.
BOOKS
Best Reading
GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. In this novel, which might be called metaphysical science fiction, Barth takes a boy who might be a goat--or a goat who might be the protagonist--into a nightmare collegiate world, which, by flashes of phosphorescent light, might seem to resemble our own. A distinguished puzzle.
THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A lively spy story that hovers in the nervous neutralism of the cold war.
Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated and almost credible solution.
A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A crippling auto accident, which ended Welch's studies as a promising painter, launched a writing career that comes to flower in this terrible memoir of the in valid years that ended in death.
The midsummer has produced a bumper harvest of first novels far above the average in literary skill and temperamental resonance. Four are especially noteworthy. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, by Robert Crichton, probably the funniest war novel since Mister Roberts, is a rollicking account of how a poverty-galled Italian village keeps its cache of 1,320,000 bottles of vino out of the hands of the Germans during World War II. Beggars on Horseback, by James Mossman, is a savagely hilarious satire about a British legation, staffed with blimps and misfits, striving to keep its grip on a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom. Trust, by Cynthia Ozick, is an elephant of a book (568 pages) that reconstructs with irony the experience of American Jewry in the troubled '30s, when Marxism was embraced by many as the religion of social justice. Moss on the North Side, by Sylvia Wilkinson, is a lyrical evocation of a hardscrabble North Caro lina childhood, by one of the most talented young (26) Southern belletrists to appear since Carson McCullers.
Best Sellers
FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)
2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)
3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)
4. The Detective, Thorp (4) 5. The Source, Michener (5) 6. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth
7. Tell No Man, St. Johns (6)
8. The Embezzler, Auchincloss (9)
9. The Double Image, Maclnnes (7) 10. I, the King, Keyes (10)
NON FICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)
2. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (2)
3. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (4)
4. The Last Battle, Ryan (3)
5. Games People Play, Berne (5)
6. Flying Saucers--Serious Business, Edwards (6)
7. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (8)
8. In Cold Blood, Capote (7)
9. The Big Spenders, Beebe (9) 10. Incident at Exeter, Fuller (10)
*All times E. D. T.
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