Wednesday, March 29

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Cliff Robertson, Jo Van Fleet, Michael Sarrazin, Michael Constantine and Bettye Ackerman star in "Verdict for Terror," the story of a bizarre trial and its aftermath--in which the son of an executed man tries to prove that the prosecuting attorney went too far in order to advance his political career.

ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). A. B. Guthrie's frontier saga, These Thousand Hills (1959), stars Don Murray, Lee Remick, Richard Egan and Stuart Whitman.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Diahann Carroll is Danny's guest.

Thursday, March 30

COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Roy Rogers and Dale Evans host the 1967 Pacific Championship Indoor Rodeo from Long Beach, Calif., with the New Christy Minstrels on hand to help things along.

THE CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Cliff Robertson again, this time as a hard-case hood out to avenge his father's gangland slaying in Underworld U.S.A. (1961).

THE BEAUTIFUL BLUE AND RED DANUBE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A trip down the oft-sung river, taking in the sights on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Maximilian Schell narrates.

Friday, March 31

THE CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:56 p.m.). The dramatic changes in human personality brought about by the stress of war are vividly portrayed in Carl Foreman's 1963 epic, The Victors. The cast: Vincent Edwards, Albert Finney, Melina Mercouri, Jeanne Moreau, George Hamilton, Eli Wallach, George Peppard, Elke Sommer, Peter Fonda, James Mitchum and Senta Berger.

Saturday, April 1

THE SMITHSONIAN (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.). "Catlin and the Indians," the life and works of George Catlin, famed painter of American Indians, with Bill Ryan as narrator.

THE $100,000 FIRESTONE-P.B.A. TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 3:30-5 p.m.). The Professional Bowling Association finals from Akron, Ohio.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Vail International Giant Slalom from Vail, Colo., and the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championship from Kent, Ohio.

Sunday, April 2

DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A sampling from the works of Israel's Nobel-prizewinning author, S. Y. Agnon.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Vice President Hubert Humphrey is interviewed by five members of the foreign press in London via the Early Bird satellite.

FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). The first of a four-part special on Protestantism, "The Church Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow." The opener, "Ashes of the Martyrs," deals with the Reformation.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The second annual CBS Billiards Classic, featuring four of the world's best players (Luther Lassiter, Cicero Murphy, Joe Balsis and Frank McGowan) in Manhattan. Plus an African safari through the Kilombero River Valley, Tanzania.

NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Nanette Fabray narrates "Theater of the Deaf," which takes a look at three leading directors (Arthur Penn, Joe Layton and Gene Lasko) working with deaf actors at the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation in Waterford, Conn. Scenes from Kismet, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, All the Way Home and South Pacific.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Deep Frontier" deals with all the new submarines, diving bells and other devices that scientists are developing to explore and utilize the ocean depths.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "A Salute to Alaska" is a tribute to the country's northernmost outpost on its 100th anniversary under the U.S. flag.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Mildred Dunnock and Lee J. Cobb recreate their original roles in Arthur Miller's prizewinning play. Repeat of an outstanding TV production, first done May 8, 1966.

Monday, April 3

SNAP JUDGMENT (NBC, 10-10:30 a.m.). The Tonight Show's Ed McMahon starts his own show, in which two teams play a word-association game. Premiere.

DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD (ABC, 10:30-11 a.m.). Joanna Barnes emcees a daily behind-the-scenes look at the lives of Hollywood stars. Premiere.

ONE IN A MILLION (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-ncon). A daily panel show emceed by Singer Danny O'Neil. Premiere.

FRANK SINATRA: A MAN AND HIS MUSIC--PART 2 (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). "The King" returns with his daughter Nancy as his sole support. Another excellent repeat.

Tuesday, April 4

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The National Science Test." Having already tested its viewers on driving, health, income tax and politics, CBS now wants to find out how much they know about the sciences.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Smoking Spiral." A report by special investigating teams sent to San Diego, Washington, New York, London, and Lexington, Ky., to find out what has happened since the Surgeon General's 1964 report on smoking. The investigators talk to legislators, doctors, tobacco-industry officials and smokers.

THEATER

On Broadway

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson uses sex to ski through four separate playlets, and the trip is thoroughly enjoyable--even if a trifle obsessive. Martin Balsam, Eileen Heckart and George Grizzard slalom through the comedy with dazzling grace, while Director Alan Schneider unfurls the humor in a blizzard of hilarity.

THE HOMECOMING. British Playwright Harold Pinter never shouts. He whispers, and his whispers echo endlessly. Performed by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Hall, his drama is as entertaining as it is compelling. Whispering of family, of love, of men and women, of exploitation, every word carries weight, every pause makes a point.

BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer, might be called "Blowout." A frantic two-timer and furniture snatcher (Michael Crawford) tries to salvage his romance and career in an antic blindman's bluff when the lights go out on a crucial, crowded evening.

THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY, with Rosemary Harris, offers a well-conceived, well-balanced dramatic diet for those who hunger for theatrical classics and hits of the past. School for Scandal, The Wild Duck, War and Peace and You Can't Take It with You are given felicitous revivals.

AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT. The humor of Michael Flanders and Donald Swann's revue resembles a martini: smooth, sly and definitely dry.

Off Broadway

HAMP. John Wilson probes the conflict between discipline and compassion in an absorbing drama about a court-martial amidst the guns of World War I. Robert Salvio's portrayal of Private Hamp, a pebble of innocence crushed by the inexorable wheels of the military machine is both sensitive and touching.

AMERICA HURRAH, by Jean-Claude van Itallie, erupts on the theatrical landscape, pouring a lava of satire, comment and invective over some questionable aspects of modern life. Three playlets, Interview, TV and Motel, are inventively directed by Jacques Levy and Joseph Chaikin and interpreted by a flawless cast.

EH? is Henry Livings' broad farce that asks whether a young man with a merry-go-round mentality can find happiness in a square world.

CINEMA

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor frolic through Shakespeare's salty salvo in the war between the sexes, expertly directed by Italy's Franco Zeffirelli, who mixes bawd and brio on a Renaissance palette.

FALSTAFF. Orson Welles is both director and star of this amalgam of scenes from five of Shakespeare's history plays in which the Bard's "bombard" of a buffoon dominates the stage. The film flickers with the glitters of genius--amid great stony stretches of dullness and incoherence.

PERSONA. Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman's 27th film (and first in 2 1/2 years) is a difficult but rewarding study of the psychological transference between an actress (Liv Ullman), who stops participating in life, and a nurse (Bibi Andersson), whose personality becomes enmeshed in that of her actress patient.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. A moderately successful reincarnation of the 1961 Broadway musical hit, with Robert Morse and Rudy Vallee still excellent in their original roles.

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. Peter Weiss's play, performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed by Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama, as this film version of it brilliantly demonstrates.

DUTCHMAN. Subways are not for sleeping in this 55-minute rendering of LeRoi Jones's racial shocker that slams through the spectator like a jolt from the third rail.

YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW. Both the faults and freshness of the custard-pie plot and wacky camera work that tell the story of a youth cutting loose in Manhattan stem from the vast, undisciplined energy of Director Francis Ford Coppola--a new talent worth watching.

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. Playwright Robert Bolt, Director Fred Zinnemann and Actor Paul Scofield have all been nominated for Academy Awards for their contributions to this excellent film about Sir Thomas More.

BOOKS

Best Reading

DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. An Oxford historian's excellent biography of the brilliant and irreverent Prime Minister whose gaiety and wit infuriated his Victorian contemporaries even as they illuminated the issues--and pretenses--of his time.

JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND, by Amos Elon. An Israeli journalist takes a long, thoughtful trip through Germany and writes of the "moral schizophrenia" and conflicting values that haunt the country a generation after the death camps.

THE UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. The 19-year-old novelist takes a fresh look at the passions and perils of early adolescence in a properly upsetting setting: a chaotic Girl Guide summer camp.

A SHORTER FINNEGANS WAKE, by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess. Novelist Burgess (A Clockwork Orange) has pulled Joyce's astronomical Dublin masterpiece into the general reader's field of vision simply by cutting out two-thirds of it. There is still plenty of wit and wordplay left.

THE SOLDIER'S ART, by Anthony Powell. War's brutal choreography, scored in the eighth novel of Powell's marathon masterpiece. Here, his central character, Nick Jenkins, dances mindlessly through the bumf (paper work) that accompanies all programmed violence--in this instance, World War II.

BLACK IS BEST, by Jack Olsen. A sharp-eyed biography of Cassius Clay that unerringly--and engagingly--separates fact from bigmouth chaff.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2)

3. Capable of Honor, Drury (3)

4. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

5. The Captain, De Hartog (4)

6. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (7)

7. All in the Family, O'Connor (9)

8. The Birds Fall Down, West (6)

9. Five Smooth Stones, Fairbairn

10. Tai-Pan, Clavell (10)

NONFICTION

1. Madame Sarah, Skinner (1)

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)

3. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (6)

4. Paper Lion, Plimpton (5)

5. Inside South America, Gunther (7)

6. The Jury Returns, Nizer (3)

7. Games People Play, Berne (4)

8. Rush to Judgment, Lane (10)

9. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey

10. The Arrogance of Power, Fulbright

* All times E.S.T.

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