Whether or not the AFTRA strike continues into this week, all shows listed below are scheduled to appear. The specials have been taped in advance, and supervisory personnel stand ready to replace the commentators on live sports programs.

Wednesday, April 12

DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).-Danny Thomas throws an old-fashioned "Block Party" on a street populated by Irish, Mexicans, Italians and Negroes. Vic Damone, Sammy Davis Jr., Jimmy Durante, Jane Powell and Ricardo Montalban help mix it up.

Thursday, April 13

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan in About Mrs. Leslie (1954), a story of two people who meet during World War II and spend a holiday together in California. Every year thereafter the idyl is repeated, and each year he vanishes until the next.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Legend of Marilyn Monroe," a portrait of the star and the woman--how her friends remember her, as well as clips of her movies. Narrated by John Huston. Repeat.

Friday, April 14

THE INVESTIGATION (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Peter Weiss's 1966 Broadway play revolving around the Frankfurt trials of Nazis accused of committing atrocities at Auschwitz. With the original Broadway cast, including Russell Baker, Leslie Barrett, Peter Brandon. To be repeated Sunday, April 16, 3:30-5 p.m.

Saturday, April 15

THE SANDY KOUFAX SHOW and NBC'S MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The ex-Dodger great tosses out the season's first ball in a 15-minute pregame show before Los Angeles takes on the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis.

TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 3:30-5 p.m.). Top golf-purse winners of the 1966 season compete for the $100,000 stakes at the Stardust Hotel golf course in Las Vegas. Coverage continues Sunday, April 16, 4-6 p.m.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Eartha Kitt guest-stars as a contortionist who lends her improbable talents to the Impossible Missions Force in an effort to catch a defector with nuclear secrets.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Rear Window (1954), Alfred Hitchcock's chiller starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly.

Sunday, April 16 NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL SOCCER. GAME OF THE WEEK (CBS, 2:30-4:30 p.m.). Live from Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Jack Whitaker will try to make things clear to U.S. sports fans as the Atlanta Chiefs and the Baltimore Bays kick the ball around.

Games will be presented for the next 21 Sundays.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). In "Cities of the Future," Walter Cronkite surveys the alternatives to chaos for to morrow's urban dwellers. Such city planners as Buckminster Fuller and Constantinos Doxiadis offer their comments.

THE VIEW FROM EUROPE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). NBC's London Bureau Chief Elie Abel reports on the sharp change in European attitudes toward the U.S. and Americans. He covers Germany, Denmark, France and Switzerland, as he talks with educators and politicians about Viet Nam, NATO, U.S. businesses abroad.

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's lively adventure in a three-part series. Part 1, "The Pauper King," features Sean Scully in a dual role--Prince Edward Tudor of England and his lookalike, Pauper Tom Can-try, who change places for a taste of each other's lives.

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). After arriving in Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize, Paul Newman finds himself collecting other things--such as Elke Sommer and a pack of trouble in The Prize (1963).

Monday, April 17

ROBERT SCOTT AND THE RACE FOR THE SOUTH POLE (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Filmed on location in Antarctica, a re-creation of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's epic and ill-fated journey to the South Pole in 1910.

Tuesday, April 18

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sophia Loren plays a European actress touring the Wild West of the 1880s v/ith a theatrical troupe led by Anthony Quinn in Heller in Pink Tights (1960).

THEATER

On Broadway

YOU KNOW I CAN'T HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson's characters share a universal preoccupation: sex. As an element of shock in art, a waning force in middle age, a matter of concern to parents, a misty memory of the aged, sex links these four consistently droll, frequently hilarious and occasionally touching playlets.

THE HOMECOMING. Awarded the Tony as the season's best play, Harold Pinter's drama melds the mystique of the surreal with relentless honesty in the examination of interpersonal relationships. Flawlessly performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company, it binds the audience in a puzzled spell while catching it up in heated controversy.

BLACK COMEDY is a slambang comedy--literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit--agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness.

THE APA REPERTORY COMPANY. The mix in the company's current dramatic bag is set in the English drawing room and the Norwegian household; it is also culled frcm the Russian epic and the American farce. Rosemary Harris leads the highly competent group in School for Scandal, The Wild Duck, War and Peace and You Can't Take It With You.

Off Broadway

HAMP. A sweet but Simple Simon gives in to panic at the front during World War I, and is punished by a military machine that cannot afford to temper steeliness with compassion. Robert Salvio gives a most sympathetic interpretation of Private

Hamp as he faces court-martial.

EH?, by Henry Livings, is about Valen-ine Brose. He lives in a boiler room. He is

a nit. His wife lives in there too. She is a

nut. He is funny. She is funny. So is the

play.

RECORDS

Pop Hits

IN CASE YOU'RE IN LOVE (Atco) finds Sonny and Cher, that wildly caparisoned, dank-haired first family of folk-rock, crooning simple love ballads to each other. "You look to me like misty roses/ Too soft to touch but too lovely to leave alone," sighs Sonny, closing his eyes to her op-art bellbottoms. "You and me is what I see and that's the way it's gonna stay," chimes Cher. Meanwhile, "The drums keep pounding rhythm to the brain."

SURREALISTIC PILLOW (RCA Victor). Jefferson Airplane (i.e., Grace, Paul, Jorma, Jack, Spencer and Marty) takes a trip to the accompaniment of psychedelic clatter and barely audible chatter about blowin' their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision.

YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia). The Byrds first took wing as interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair).

THERE'S A KIND OF HUSH ALL OVER THE WORLD (MGM). Anyone who listens to rock 'n' roll on the radio can't help hearing about hearing that hush--"the sounds of lovers in love." The sunny troubadors are Herman's Hermits who also sing such post-nursery rhymes as Little Miss Sorrow, Child of Tomorrow, If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin' and No Milk Today.

THE DOORS (Elektra), a new group from Los Angeles, tend to keep the decibels down and spread the shivers with a shuffling beat, a spooky kind of bluesy undercurrent and free, Freud-laden verse. The End, for example, which lasts eleven minutes, spells out the Oedipus legend: "Father, I want to kill you. Mother, I want to. . ." Shrieks ensue.

CINEMA

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Julie An drews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and Bea Lillie flip through some oh-you kidding dialogue and some ricky-ticky tunes in an otherwise lackluster musica set in the '20s.

LA VIE DE CHATEAU. French Screen writer Jean-Paul Rappeneau (That Mar From Rio) makes his directorial debut with a fresh and funny farce about th German Occupation and the French pre occupation--sex.

ULYSSES. An honest, mildly sensational and for the most part intelligent precis o James Joyce's masterpiece--although th film suffers from Director Joseph Strick' decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images.

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Italian Director Franco Zeffirelli has breathed new life into Shakespeare's bawdy comedy with a brash and breezy style and lusty performances from Burton and Taylor.

PERSONA. Swedish Actress Bibi Andersson and Norwegian Actress Liv Ullman look alike, and from this similarity Director Ingmar Bergman has woven a deep, dark story of merging personalities.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. Hollywood has broken the (Bobby) Morse code and delivered a good reproduction of the Broadway musical.

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. An excellent film rendering of the Royal Shakespeare Company stage production of Peter Weiss's play, with laurels again to Director Peter Brook.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. The 19-year-old novelist, a great-granddaughter of Elinor Glyn, takes the reader on a hilarious guided tour of a Girl Guide summer camp, where chaos reigns unrestrained and girlish tears flow often.

JOURNEY THROUGH A HAUNTED LAND, by Amos Elon. An Israeli journalist visits the scenes of genocide and writes a thoughtful study of postwar Germany.

DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. The author constructs a mosaic of minutiae about one of the most brilliant and complex figures in British history, Victoria's favorite Victorian, Benjamin Disraeli.

FATHERS, by Herbert Gold. A long, loving search, both forward and backward, for the essence of parenthood; a tribute to that most neglected figure in American fiction--the Jewish father.

THE MURDERERS AMONG US: THE WIESENTHAL MEMOIRS, edited by Joseph Wechsberg. In a style as spare and striking as Dashiell Hammett's, dogged Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal recounts the career that brought 800 war criminals (including Adolf Eichmann) to justice, and made of Wiesenthal a kind of Intercontinental Op.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (3)

3. Capable of Honor, Drury (2)

4. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (5)

5. The Captain, De Hartog (4)

6. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (6)

7. Tai-Pan, Clavell (10)

8. The Birds Fall Down, West (7)

9. The Time Is Noon, Buck

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

NONFICTION 1. Madame Sarah, Skinner (1) 2. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam (2) 3. Inside South America, Gunther (6) 4. Everything But Money, Levenson (3) 5. Paper Lion, Plimpton (4) 6. The Jury Returns, Nizer (7) 7. Games People Play, Berne (5) 8. Rush to Judgment, Lane 9. Disraeli, Blake (8) 10. The Arrogance of Power, Fulbright

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