TELEVISION

Wednesday, August 2

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Murder is the plot, money and marriage are the motives in "Nightmare," with Julie Harris and Farley Granger.

Thursday, August 3

SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Nurses: Crisis in Medicine" studies the alarming shortage of nurses, the changing nature of health-care services, and the day-to-day problems that specialized nurses face. Among others visited by Narrator Eddie Albert: Dr. Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

Friday, August 4

WILD, WILD WEST (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Agnes Moorehead plays Emma Valentine, a socialite who seems to be involved in murdering some of the West's wealthiest men. Repeat of the show that won her a 1967 Emmy Award.

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau and Frank Overton are the pivotal characters in Fail Safe (1964), that point-of-no-return thriller. Repeat.

COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). Heisman Trophy Winner Steve Spurrier leads the College All-Stars against pro football's Green Bay Packers in the 34th annual game. Live from Soldier Field in Chicago.

Saturday, August 5

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Now that Cassius Clay is no longer recognized as heavyweight champion of the world, the rest of the boys are slugging it out in an "elimination tournament" to find a new champ. On this card: Leotis Martin (ninth-ranked) v. Jimmy Ellis (ranked eighth), and Ernie Terrell (fourth-ranked) v. Thad Spencer (fifth-ranked). Live from Houston's Astrodome.

Sunday, August 6 CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.).

"The Seven Aspects of Shaw," Part 1. Ac tress-Director-Producer Margaret Webster examines the many facets of G.B.S., read ing excerpts from his Man and Superman, Candida, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion. Repeat.

SOCCER GAME OF THE WEEK (CBS, 3:30-5:30 p.m.). Toronto plays Oakland at Oak land, Calif.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).

Will there ever be a city free from air pollution, slums and traffic jams? Walter Cronkite looks into the possibilities in "Cities of the Future." Repeat.

THE DOCUMENTARIES OF TED YATES (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A tribute to Ted Yates, NBC's outstanding TV reporter who was fatally wounded while covering the recent Arab-Israeli war. Chet Huntley narrates the films, showing Yates at work in San to Domingo and the Congo.

THE ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Jane Fonda, Tony Franciosa and Jim Hutton in Hollywood's version of Broadway's Period of Adjustment (1962), a rare Tennessee Williams comedy about newlyweds in the first difficult months of adjustment. Repeat.

Tuesday, August 8

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-10:54 p.m.). Another Hollywood adaptation, this time Gore Vidal's Broadway hit, Visit to a Small Planet (1960), featuring Jerry Lewis as a curious spacenik who spins in from the stratosphere and tries to become an earthling. Repeat.

NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Disordered Mind." Two studies of psychological disturbances in children: a boy who rejects school and a girl who flirts with danger.

THEATER

The summertime fare at country playhouses always includes a sprinkling of new works, some by established authors testing ideas for Broadway, but most of them by relatively unknown writers, who otherwise might not see their efforts on stage. Either way, it makes for adventuresome theatergoing.

SPIDER'S WEB, a chiller by Agatha Christie, with Joan Fontaine, will be luring audiences to the Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass., from Aug. 7 through Aug. 12. From there, it goes to the Pocono Playhouse, Mountainhome, Pa., Aug. 14 through Aug. 19, and the Candlewood Theater, New Fairfield, Conn., Aug. 21-26.

PASTERNAK HIGHWAY, a love story set in contemporary Russia, by Alex Parnis, will be at the Playhouse, Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 21 through Aug. 26.

DOES A TIGER WEAR A NECKTIE?, a drama by Don Petersen set in a school for juvenile drug addicts, is the last entry of the Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, Mass., Aug. 22-Sept. 2.

ALL THE BETTER TO KILL YOU WITH, a New England mystery by Fred Carmichael, will be testing at the Playhouse, Dorset, Vt., Aug. 24-27.

A WALK ON THE WATER, about a group of ineffectual Irish revolutionaries, by Playwright Hugh Leonard, will have its American debut at the Playhouse, Boothbay, Me., Aug. 22-26, after a successful run in Dublin.

DOUBLE IMAGE, adapted from a short story by Roy Vickers, ran in Paris for 4-c- years as Gog and Magog, and then played in London. Scheduled for Broadway in December, the comedy about look-alikes opens one-week engagements at the Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Me., July 31, the Playhouse in Ivoryton, Conn., Aug. 7, and the Mineola Theater, Mineola, N.Y., Aug. 15. Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marisa Pavan head the cast.

THE SEVEN DEADLY ARTS, a comedy about a latent swinger by Harold Kennedy and Robert Koesis, will be at the Playhouse on the Mall, Paramus, N.J., Aug. 1-13, the Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn., Aug. 14-19, and the Playhouse, Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 21-26. Cesar Romero plays the lead.

PEG, a musical version of Peg o' My Heart starring Eartha Kitt, will be tuning up at the Music Fair, Westbury, N.Y., Aug. 1-13.

THE PENTHOUSE PERSPECTIVE features Betsy von Furstenberg and Carlton Carpenter as a young couple who meet in Greenwich Village in a two-character comedy by Myron Levy: at the Red Barn Theater, Northport, N.Y., Aug. 1-27.

A SINGULAR MAN, by Novelist J. P. Don-leavy (The Ginger Man), starring E. G. Marshall as a detached, uncommunicative businessman, opens at the Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn., Sept. 4.

HENRY, SWEET HENRY, a musical based on The World of Henry Orient, starts a four-week trial run at the Fisher Theater in Detroit, on Aug. 21, before going to Philadelphia from Sept. 19 to Oct. 7, and then to Broadway. Don Ameche and Carol Bruce have the starring roles.

ELEANORA DUSE, a study of the renowned actress by Italian Playwright Mario Fratti, will be playing at the Asolo Theater Festival at Sarasota, Fla., until Sept. 9.

DUMAS AND SON! is a romantic musical based on the book by Jerome Chodorov and a score adapted from Saint-Saens' Camille. Constance Towers, Hermione Gingold and Edward Everett Horton are among the cast. At the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, Aug. 1-Sept. 16; the Curran Theater, San Francisco, Sept. 19-Nov. 6.

CINEMA

DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds are brave enough to appear unattractive and unsympathetic as well as funny in this slick, cynical film about a marital split.

FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. Those who like their westerns Italian style--full of narrowed eyes and curled lips--will appreciate this sequel to A Fistful of Dollars, with Expatriate American Actor Clint Eastwood repeating his comically cool impersonation of a bounty hunter.

EL DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum both get shot in this old-style oater--but it just gives them a chance to prove that two old pros are better on one good leg apiece than most of the younger stars are on two.

THE FAMILY WAY. John Mills is superb as a loutmouthed father whose newlywed son (Hywel Bennett) and daughter-in-law (Hayley Mills) are unable to consummate their marriage.

THE DIRTY DOZEN. A World War II major (Lee Marvin) is ordered to transform twelve criminals and psychopaths from the camp stockade into a fighting unit fit for a suicide mission behind enemy lines. The denouement is loud and bloody.

TO SIR, WITH LOVE. This film about a British Guianian (Sidney Poitier), who takes a teaching job at a London slum school, attempts to blend realism with idealism--an unstable mixture saved only by Poitier's catalyzing warmth.

A GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. A sprightly scenario, the taut direction of Gene Kelly, and the uncommon acting talent of Walter Matthau turn this into one of the best sex comedies of the season.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford do well by Neil Simon's Broadway comedy about newlyweds settling down in a six-flight walkup.

BOOKS

Best Reading

NABOKOV: HIS LIFE IN ART, by Andrew Field. The 29-year-old American critic thinks that Nabokov would be more easily understood if U.S. readers knew his Russian work as well as his English. So he analyzes all of Nabokov and makes a persuasive case that he is the best novelist now writing.

TO MOVE A NATION, by Roger Hilsman. Candid memoir, controversial history and complex political theory are unevenly combined in this Kennedy policy reprise, by a provocative and polemical member of the State Department under J.F.K.

OUR CROWD, by Stephen Birmingham. New York's great Jewish families--the Warburgs, Guggenheims, Strauses, Lehmans, Goldmans, Loebs--once maintained a social structure as exclusive in its way as Mrs. Astor's. Author Birmingham renders an affectionate portrait of what he calls Manhattan's "other Society."

STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING, by Samuel Beckett. Beckett's characters measure out their lives in toothpicks instead of spoons, but there is considerable gallows humor in their remorseless decline.

SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Against a backdrop of Gaullist France near the end of the Algerian war, a writer plods his slow march to lunacy. In her sixth novel, Author Mallet-Joris again demonstrates her ability to create worlds that readers accept instantly.

SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This careful selection shows that the great Welsh poet was incapable of writing badly--and just as incapable of living well.

A PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. Turning to autobiography after 51 years as critic, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and novelist, Wilson draws entries from a journal begun in 1914. The result is a rich account juxtaposing his growth as a writer with the breakdown of his snug prewar world.

SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Translating the old story into contemporary idiom, Barthelme goes wild with words. His amusingly refurbished novel of the absurd is as episodic and pointless as a kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2) 3. The Plot, Wallace (3) Washington, 4. D.C., Vidal 5. The Chosen, Potok (4) 6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6) 7. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (7) 8. The King of the Castle, Holt (9) 9. Tales of Manhattan, Auchincloss (8) 10. Fathers, Gold (10)

NONFICTION 1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (4)

2. Everything But Money, Levenson (2)

3. The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1)

4. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (7)

5. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (8)

6. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (6)

7. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Steam 8. The Death of a President, Manchester (3)

9. Our Crowd, Birmingham

10. Games People Play, Berne (9)

* All times E.D.T.

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