Wednesday, January 25

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell and Betty Field star in Bus Stop (1956), the film adaptation of William Inge's Broadway hit.

Thursday, January 26

COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A smorgasbord of sports spectaculars starting this week with a visit to the New Vienna Ice Extravaganza at Brussels' Cirque Royal. Hugh O'Brian hosts, and Herman's Hermits will be his special guests. Premiere.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Military Churchill." Ike calls up his memories of Britain's wartime leader.

Friday, January 27

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In his eighth annual Young Performers program, Lenny introduces seven young soloists--two violinists, a cellist, bassoonist, accordionist, oboist and basso.

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead sets out to scare Stefanie (U.N.C.L.E.'s girl) Powers to death in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) based on the bestseller Nightmare and directed by Silvio Narizzano (Georgy Girl).

Saturday, January 28

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Figure Skating Championships from Omaha.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). A hard-case city editor (Clark Gable) falls for a journalism teacher (Doris Day) and enrolls in her classes so he can become Teacher's Pet (1958).

HOLLYWOOD STARS OF TOMORROW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows host the 14th annual Awards Ball at the Hollywood Palladium, where "Tomorrow's Star" is selected from among ten young actresses.

Sunday, January 29

LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). The work of Composer Antonio Vivaldi in "A Concert of Angels," with Narrator John Heffernan, Soprano Roberta Peters and the CBS Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Alfredo Antonini.

DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "That Was the Lower East Side" reviews the history of New York City's melting pot from 1870 to 1924.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The U.S. Skeet-Shooting Finals, the National Rodeo Championships and a twelve-minute film clip of the 1910 Johnson-Jeffries Heavyweight Champion ship fight.

THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). It's man against fin, fang and claw as Bing Crosby and Joe Brooks fish for English Atlantic salmon, Rex Allen rounds up Oklahoma rattlesnakes, and Archer Fred Bear hunts Alaskan polar bears.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Walter Cronkite explores the far-out ways scientists are developing to transmit words, pictures -- even thoughts -- in "The Communications Explosion." Helping Walter get the message across are M.I.T.'s Computer Scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke, Automation Expert John Diehold. Premiere.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC. 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of San Francisco" examines the musical life of the city. Appearing are Opera Director Kurt Herbert Adler, Pianists Peggy and Milton Salkind and Patricia Michaelian, the John Handy Quintet, Ballet Director Lew Christensen, Ballerina Lynda Meyer, Symphony Conductor Josef Krips and a folk-rock group, the Jefferson Airplane.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Return of the Gunfighter, starring Robert Taylor, Chad Everett and Ana Martin, is another in the series of movies made for TV premiering.

CBS PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9-10:30 p.m.). "The Final War of Oily Winter" is an original play written for CBS by Ronald Ribman. Ivan Dixon portrays a G.I. who is trapped behind Viet Cong lines and finds it easier to escape the enemy than the well-meaning attentions of a lovely, lonely Vietnamese girl (Tina Chen). Premiere.

THE ROYAL PALACES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sir Kenneth Clark, noted art critic, is host for a special tour of Britain's treasure domes: Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, Edinburgh's Palace of Holyrood and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton.

Tuesday, January 31

CBS REPORTS: THE FARTHEST FRONTIER (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Kuralt reports on the promise and problems involved in the use of the new drugs that twist and untwist minds. Originally scheduled for Jan. 10, "Frontier's time was pre-empted by the President's State of the Union address. In coming weeks, check your educational TV stations for:

N.E.T. PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "The World of Carl Sandburg." Uta Hagen, Fritz Weaver, Folk Singer Carolyn Hester and a singing group known as the Tarriers get together for an informal recitation of Sandburg's poetry and prose with musical interpolations from Sandburg's American Songbag.

N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "France Is Dead: Long Live France!" Since the end of World War II France has become a land of the very old and the very young--today one-third of all Frenchmen are under 20. Reporter David Schoenbrun talks to the French about the New France, their goals, De Gaulle and the war in Viet Nam.

THEATER

On Broadway

THE WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light.

THE HOMECOMING. It is distinctly unlikely that Broadway will see a play surpassing this Harold Pinter masterwork during the current season. The mesmeric drama is innately primitive, Oedipal, conjugal, and its mythic war between the sexes ends as that war aways does: no winners, all wounded.

AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT is a visit with an urbane, engaging pair of hosts, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, who invite those devoted to civilized wit in for a bit of a daft do.

THE STAR-SPANGLED GIRL. Two earnest, impoverished and slightly manic intellectuals (Anthony Perkins and Richard Benjamin) are brought to their knees by an All-American girl swimmer (Connie Stevens) who has muscles in her head as well as her arms. While the whip of wit does not crack as in Neil Simon's past hits, he remains an agile jokemaster in the Broadway ring.

I DO! I DO! has an undone book, badly done music, and smashingly done performances by two megatons of the U.S. musical stage, Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The Fourposter, on which this tale of a long-married, much-loving couple is based, is little more than a prop for their talents.

WALKING HAPPY, a low-voltage musical based on Hobson's Choice, is switched on brightly by British Comedian Norman Wisdom. Louise Troy is his ever-loving, ever-perfect foil, and Danny Daniels' choreography makes it all jolly good fun.

CABARET utilizes expressionistic techniques to re-create the frenzied, bitter gaiety of prewar Berlin. While its framing is brilliantly brassy, its moods strikingly defined, the subject matter of the book is dull and amorphous.

SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Eighteenth century Londoners frequented Richard Sheridan's classroom of comedy to be taught their three Rs: the Risque, Rumor, Revenge. The APA go through their lessons with a flick of their wits.

Off Broadway

EH? And what if Godot had arrived? And what if he were even more absurd than the Beckett boys who awaited him? He probably would have come as Valentine Brose, the nonsenstential anti-hero of Henry Livings' balmy farce.

AMERICA HURRAH. Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie casts a searing eye and scathing glance at the contemporary American landscape for an inventive, rewarding evening of modern theater.

CINEMA

GRAND PRIX. With the help of Cinerama, Metrocolor and Super Panavision, Director John Frankenheimer has captured most of the excitement--and all of the noise--of last year's nine-race Grand Prix competition for Formula One racing cars. Top billing goes to Yves Montand, James Garner, Eva Marie Saint and Franchise Hardy, but the true stars are the cars, performing in some of the most spectacular sequences ever filmed of metal in motion.

BLOWUP. A young, successful pop photographer casually takes some pictures of an amorous couple strolling in the park, and against his will is drawn into a mystery that totally absorbs and challenges him. The director is Italy's Michelangelo Antonioni, filming for the first time in England and in English.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Acclaimed as one of the best films of 1966, this screen adaptation of the Broadway play chronicles the tragic story of the conflict between Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield), a noble Christian who must stand fast on his principles, and Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), a childlike king who must have the obedience and approval of his subjects.

GAMBIT. The perfect crime in this frenetic suspense comedy is described twice--first, as a criminal imagines it will happen; second, as it actually does happen. Both times around, Michael Caine plays the crook and Shirley MacLaine his larcenous accomplice.

GOAL! This two-hour documentary helps to explain why soccer is the world's most popular spectator sport. Cameras from all angles have captured the ferocious spirit, footloose genius and demonic will to win of the 16 teams that competed in England last summer for the 1966 World Cup.

BOOKS

Best Reading

DEATH ON THE INSTALLMENT PLAN, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. This scabrous recollection of a wretched Parisian childhood, first published in 1936, has become the schoolbook of black humorists from Genet to Bruce Jay Friedman. The new, unexpurgated translation is by Ralph Manheim. RAKOSSY, by Cecelia Holland. A wild fictional ride through 16th century Hungary in which Magyar does in Magyar until the Turkish invaders put a temporary end to it all at the battle of Mohacs.

LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The letters provide the only-explanations Joyce ever offered about his revolutionary techniques in the novel, and also reveal the bohemian artist as doting husband and father.

PAPER LION, by George Plimpton. The lowly Detroit Lions of 1963 may outlive proud Green Bay, enshrined as they are in Plimpton's elegant and humorous prose. Plimpton tried out for the team with disastrous results, but his memoir of pro football is a long gainer for the fan and the nonfan as well.

HAROLD NICOLSON: DIARIES AND LETTERS, 1930-1939, edited by Nigel Nicolson. One might as well try to put aside chocolates as this aristocrat's account of the fashions and foibles of prewar London.

SPEAK, MEMORY, by Vladimir Nabokov. Robbed of his Russian youth by the revolution, Novelist Nabokov has tirelessly caressed his memories of it in this autobiography, now published in its final form --a hymn to childhood.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (1 last week)

2. Capable of Honor, Drury (2)

3. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (3)

4. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (4)

5. The Birds Fall Down, West (5)

6. The Fixer, Malamud (6)

7. A Dream of Kings, Petrakis (10)

8. All in the Family, O'Connor (8)

9. Tai-Pan, Clavell (7)

10. The Adventurers, Robbins

NONFICTION

1. Rush to Judgment, Lane (4)

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (1)

3. Paper Lion, Plimpton (5)

4. Games People Play, Berne (2)

5. With Kennedy, Salinger (6)

6. The Jury Returns, Nizer (7)

7. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (10)

8. Random House Dictionary of the English Language (8)

9. The Boston Strangler, Frank (3)

10. Winston S. Churchill, Churchill (9)

* All times E.S.T.

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