Wednesday, September 13

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass play host for the first of this "series of specials" that will feature different hosts and guests each week. Guests on "And All That Brass" are Louis Armstrong, Jackie Vernon and Robin Wilson.

Thursday, September 14

IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr stars as Robert T. Ironside, a paraplegic who serves as a civilian consultant to the San Francisco Detective Bureau. For a starter, he takes a crossword collection of puzzling clues and fills out the solution to a race-track robbery. Premiere.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Steve McQueen, James Garner, James Coburn and Richard Attenborough star in The Great Escape (1963), a thrilling tale of Allied war prisoners trying to break out of a Nazi prison camp. Movies are getting longer than ever (2 hours 50 minutes for this one), so constant viewer will have to wait for CBS Friday Night Movies, 9-11 p.m., for the conclusion.

GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey takes a swing into Virginia for a chat with Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R., Ill.) and his wife, Louella, on their farm in Sterling.

Friday, September 15

ACCIDENTAL FAMILY (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new situation-comedy show, in which a Las Vegas-based comedian, Jerry Webster (Jerry Van Dyke), suddenly learns that he has custody--and all that entails--of his eight-year-old son, Sandy (Teddy Quinn). In the opener, Jerry's delight is tempered by the court's stipulation that he must raise the boy on a California farm, 300 miles from Las Vegas.

SUMMER '67: WHAT WE LEARNED (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A news special on Negro rioting in U.S. cities, focusing on Detroit and Newark. Daniel P. Moynihan, author of the Moynihan report on Negro family life, is among those interviewed.

Saturday, September 16

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:30-4 p.m.). The America's Cup Races, live from Newport, R.I., along with live coverage (via satellite) of the Karl Mildenberger-Oscar Bonavena heavyweight bout from Frankfurt.

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4-7:15 p.m.). The S.M.U. Mustangs meet the Texas Aggies at College Station, Texas, in the first televised game of the new season.

MAYA (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Two boys, one American and one Indian, join forces with an elephant, Maya, for an adventure-filled jaunt through India. Terry Bowen (Jay North, once "Dennis the Menace") arrives in Bombay where reports say his father has been killed by a tiger. As he sets out to prove rumor wrong, Terry is joined by Orphan Boy Raji (Sajid Khan) and his lifelong companion, Maya. Premiere.

MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Mike Connors stars as Joe Mannix, member of a highly specialized private-detective firm called Intertect. Joe Campanella is Lou Wickersham, Intertect's boss. Premiere.

Sunday, September 17

AMERICAN LEAGUE FOOTBALL (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Houston Oilers v. the Buffalo Bills and the Boston Patriots v. the Oakland Raiders, in a doubleheader from Buffalo and Oakland.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Atomic Medicine" explores ways that nuclear energy will be exploited for treatment and diagnosis of disease in the next century.

Tuesday, September 19

AFRICA (ABC, 9:30-10:30 a.m.). The first hour of ABC's four-hour "Africa" program. This segment features an introduction and narration by Gregory Peck and deals with the animals and the land, Anthropologist Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey's views on early man, and Africa's oldest and youngest independent nations, Ethiopia and Botswana.

RECORDS

Pop

What was once loosely labeled rock 'n' roll has gone far beyond the original formula. Today's groups give their listeners unexpected harmonic progressions, widely varied instrumentation, and cryptic, elliptic lyrics, along with photographs of flowers on album covers--symbols of the hippies' flower power.

SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (Capitol). The Beatles, of course, introduced most of the new subtleties to the pop scene. Their eleventh gold record (over 2,000,000 sold) is a polished program with carnival trappings but also poetic snapshots of contemporary life: a girl silently leaving home ("We gave her everything money could buy"), a bit of psychedelic romancing ("Lucy in the sky with diamonds"), a dronelike hippie hymn ("We're all one, and life flows on within you and without you"). Most memorable is the hauntingly disjointed coda, A Day in the Life, with its wild electronic crescendo following the proposal "I'd love to turn you on."

FLOWERS (London). Even the Rolling Stones are coming up roses--with a picture of posies on the album, that is. Otherwise, the mixture is much the same as before and includes five hits from earlier albums: Ruby Tuesday; Let's Spend the Night Together; Lady Jane; Mother's Little Helper; Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? The Stones do pay their respects to the Detroit world of rhythm 'n' blues, to which they owe so much, by singing Smokey Robinson's My Girl. And they have a quiet ballad that would make any woman sing the blues: "Don't want you part of my world/Just you be my back-street girl."

BEEGEES' 15T (Atco). Would you believe a rock-'n'-roll Gregorian chant? And a wavy-haired hero named Craise Finton Kirk? Then there is Cucumber Castle, with a Pinkerton man in the wings ("Be ever so humble, it's home"). The fresh, inventive Bee Gees most surely have a future, and even a past--of sorts--though they are still in their teens. They are the three English-born Gibb brothers who moved to Australia and have been writing their own songs for years. Two Australian friends , have joined in for resonance.

SO GOOD (Epic). Don And The Goodtimes recently emerged from the Pacific Northwest carrying their harpsichord and clavichord, in the new genteel manner. Nevertheless, they sound like rather raw understudies to the Beatles, their favorites, when they sing Good Day Sunshine, along with a bouquet of other sweet-smelling songs, such as their hit single, / Could Be So Good to You.

LOVE IS ALIVE AND WELL (Tower). This is an effort by Kim Fowley, songwriter, singer and professional hippie, to collect pollen from various flower arrangements (Flower City, Flower Drum Drum, Flowers, Super Flower, Me). The spirit is willing, but the songs are weak.

LET'S LIVE FOR TODAY (Dunhill). The Grassroots have blossomed into flower people of a sort. Love, mostly the personal kind, is their pitch, and Rob Grill is their melodic and persuasive pitchman. His cheerful proposal: "May others plan their future/I'm busy loving you/Sha la-la-la-la-la/Live for today."

EVOLUTION (Epic). An internationally popular quintet of sentimentalists from the north of England, the Hollies have a hit in Carrie-Anne. They remember their school days ("I played a janitor--you played a monitor"), and how they used to press their noses against the panes of Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe. Their nicest bit is Stop Right There, an arresting, minor-keyed ballad with violin obbligato.

CINEMA

THE THIEF OF PARIS. French Director Louis Malle (The Lovers) could have used a first story for this disjointed film about a fin de siecle second-story man. Even so, there are a few stolen treasures, including Jean-Paul Belmondo's performance.

THE BIG CITY. Director Satyajit Ray expertly dissects a slice of Indian life and shows how a young Bengali couple cope with Calcutta's mechanized realities while bound to an ancient morality.

UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis re-creates with considerable grace the tyro schoolmarm of Bel Kaufman's bestselling novel about a "problem area" high school.

THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Adultery--Italian style, by Divorce--Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi supplies the sugar and spice. Really quite nice.

THE WHISPERERS. An old, retired domestic on the dole in an English industrial town is the somewhat sociological subject of this film, which nevertheless rises to uncommon heights because of a soaring performance by Dame Edith Evans.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE COLD WAR AS HISTORY, by Louis J. Halle. A clear, compelling tracery of U.S. and Russian maneuvers from 1945 to 1962, by a former State Department aide who effectively peels away the participants' emotions to reveal one of history's most significant conflicts.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novelist writing about low life in New Orleans shows a particular gift for well-developed characters and dialogue.

NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1. New American Library. Fiction by Philip Roth, criticism by Stanley Kauffmann and poetry by Louise Glueck highlight Volume. No. 1 of this lively and commendable attempt to revive what is best described as the paperback-book magazine.

GOG, by Andrew Sinclair. A facile British historian mounts a time machine and takes a wild ride through history in this formidable fable about an amnesiac who makes a pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself.

DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V.S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. Poetic photography adds luster to a distinguished prose picture of Dublin's streets and people.

STAUFFENBERG, by Joachim Kramarz. In a readable full-length biography, a German historian tells the story of the aristocratic colonel whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by freakish chance.

AN OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. A fast-paced World War II sea yarn that dramatizes the futility of applying humane law to war.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons.

BEARDSLEY, by Stanley Weintraub. A skillful biography of the fabulous young Victorian whose extraordinary style was a clear forerunner of art nouveau.

RIVERS OF BLOOD, YEARS OF DARKNESS, by Robert Conot. Through the inchoate words and deeds of the Watts rioters, a Los Angeles newsman evokes the agonies of the big city ghetto.

INCREDIBLE VICTORY, by Walter Lord. By rebalancing the Pacific campaign on the fulcrum of the Battle of Midway, a noted teller of sea stories (Night to Remember, Day of Infamy) shows why Japan lost World War II.

THE DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The adventures of a fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along the way.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week)

2. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8)

3. The Plot, Wallace (3)

4. The Chosen, Potok (5)

5. The Eighth Day, Wilder (2)

6. A Night of Watching, Arnold (7)

7. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6)

8. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (4)

9. An Operational Necessity, Griffin

10. The King of the Castle, Holt (10)

NONFICTION

1. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1)

2. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (2)

3. Our Crowd, Birmingham (3)

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

5. Everything But Money, Levenson (6)

6. Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet, Stearn (7)

7. Incredible Victory, Lord

8. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (5)

9. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie

10. The Lawyers, Mayer (8)

* All times E.D.T.

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