TELEVISION

Wednesday, November 1

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The Craighead twins, John and Frank, noted ecologists and conservationists, take viewers on a search for Ursus horribilis, the most dangerous of North American animals, in "Grizzly!"

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Benny stops in to host "Fiddler on the Loose" with such guests as Concert Violinist Michael Rabin, Brazilian Singer Astrud Gilberto, Pianist Liberace and "The Waukegan String Quartet," which includes violins bowed by Rabin, Benny and Comedian Henny Youngman and cello by Morey Amsterdam.

Thursday, November 2

THE FLYING NUN (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The network calls this one, a bit about Sister Bertrille and her colleagues going into the grape-juice business, "The Days of Nuns and Roses," a pun-down on the CBS offering listed below.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick and Charles Bickford in Days of Wine and Roses (1963).

Friday, November 3

OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Andrew Duggan narrates "Untamed World," a documentary on the primitive peoples who still exist in far-off corners of the globe. Among them: the Eskimos in Northern Canada, the Pygmies in the Congo, natives of Melanesia and New Guinea, and the Indians of the Xingu River in Brazil.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream.

Saturday, November 4

1967 HAWAIIAN OPEN (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A $100,000 pro golf tourney, live via Lani Bird satellite from the Waialae Country Club in Honolulu. Final round Sunday, 6-7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Sean Connery and Tippie Hedren star in Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964).

Sunday, November 5

CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). James Macandrew interviews Pianist Abbey Simon about his early life in the U.S., his training at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, and his work in Europe, where he built a successful career.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m. to noon). In a visit to the Midwest, Discovery goes to an Illinois "State Fair," a tradition in which farm families mix business with pleasure. With stops at the vegetable exhibit, horse race and stock judging.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Starting its 20th year on the air, Meet the Press plays inquisitive host to George F. Kennan, foreign affairs expert and former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and to Yugoslavia.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Florida Governor Claude Kirk attempts to parry the thrusts.

ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon star in The Leopard (1963), a tale of Italy's aristocracy during the 1860s.

Monday, November 6

GUNSMOKE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A young gunsmith from the East, Newly O'Brien (Buck Taylor), moves to Dodge City, but en route is abducted by a border cutthroat (John Saxon) who thinks O'Brien is a doctor. Marshal Dillon rescues him and brings him to town, where he becomes a regular and adds youth to the cast.

LOVE ANDY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The first Andy Williams special includes Guest Stars Erroll Garner, Henry Mancini and Andy's wife, Claudine Longet.

Tuesday, November 7

TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Marlon Brando and David Niven use their considerable charm to con money from wealthy women like Shirley Jones in Bedtime Story (1964).

THE CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Where We Stand in Viet Nam, Part II," a progress report by Charles Collingwood on what the South Vietnamese are--or are not--doing to solve their own problems.

NET PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). An Evening's Journey to Conway, Massachusetts is the TV premiere of Poet Archibald MacLeish's play, which was written for his hometown's bicentennial celebration last June. It deals with a boy who hates living in Conway and wants to leave town forever. By getting him to examine and evaluate the town's past, MacLeish re-creates the major events of Conway's history.

NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Russia: The Unfinished Revolution." On the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, NET Reporter Colette Shulman goes to Moscow to take a long, thoughtful look at the strong points and growing pains of the Russians. Included are talks with Poet Andrei Voznesensky, the late writer Ilya Ehrenburg, Nobel-Prizewinning Physicist Igor Tamm and Economist Alexander Birman.

THEATER

On Broadway

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Everymen of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heart-beat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a 1958 play written prior to The Caretaker and The Homecoming. Party lacks the dramatic sophistication of tone, tempo and themes of the two later plays; yet the telltale stigmata are all here--dread, panic, menace, mocking comic absurdity, the evasive unwillingness of people to level with each other. Except for Edward Flanders, the American cast is often blunt and plodding when it should be sardonic, cutting and athletic, but Pinter nevertheless provides prickly excitement and a tantalizing quota of questions without answers.

Off Broadway

SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past.

STEPHEN D. is Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard's attempt to dramatize James Joyce's autobiographical tale of Stephen Dedalus. While the richly lyrical Joycean prose pleases the ear, the play is a series of vignettes that fails to bring to life the Artist as a Young Man who vows to "forge the conscience of my race" in "silence, exile and cunning." While Stephen Joyce (no kin) gives a competent performance as the writer-hero, Stephen remains dead, alas.

ClNEMA

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Scenarist Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now join in bringing Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen--with the help of solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp.

ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with outstanding sensitivity of texture, color and light.

FINNEGANS WAKE. American Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, has made a brave effort to translate James Joyce's monumental work, and does remarkably well within the confines of 94 minutes.

OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE. This splendid, moody film takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture in a London suburb, where seven orphaned children cover up the death of their mother and try to maintain their old life with a mixture of love of one another and fear of the outside world.

THE TIGER MAKES OUT. From the brittle material of his off-Broadway play, The Tiger, Murray Schisgal has fashioned a cinematic cornucopia filled with enough laughs to supply an entire season of TV comedies.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, by Mikhail Bulgakov. Satan saunters through Moscow in this manic farce, which, after 25 years of suppression, has again seen light in Russia and received two new translations in the U.S.

CAUGHT IN THAT MUSIC, by Seymour Epstein. A distinguished novel set in New York City in the years just before World War II. The hero may stun today's war protesters: to become a "whole man," he enlists in the U.S. Army.

THE MANOR, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A popular Yiddish storyteller proves that he also has the insights of a major novelist in this tragicomedy about the changes that wrench a Polish-Jewish family in the late 1800s.

THE SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. An Australian family of intellectuals tests its illusions against a philistine society; told by a satirist who may be her country's best woman novelist since Christina Stead.

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A chilling and brilliant exploration of the mind and life of the mad, messianic Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion in 1831.

THE PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme--all men inherit the evil of their ancestry.

ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress across the span of 20 civilizations proves once again that the Durants are unique historians.

THE HEIR APPARENT, by William V. Shannon, examines the things that Bobby has going for and against him in his bid for the presidency, and concludes that there might be some formidable obstacles.

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Oates. A haunting and painful Dreiserian story of a poor little girl who acquires everything except happiness.

A HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. One of the best first novels of the year deals with three characters on the periphery of vagrancy in New Orleans.

THE NEW AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, edited by Theodore Solotaroff. An exceptionally good anthology of recent writing --skilled, readable, varied.

O THE CHIMNEYS, by Nelly Sachs. At 75, Nelly Sachs, who lives in Sweden, writes in German, and was rescued from almost total obscurity by a 1966 Nobel Prize, appears as a powerful singer of the fate of the Jewish people.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Topaz, Uris (5 last week)

2. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (3)

3. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron

4. The Chosen, Potok (1)

5. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (7)

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (2)

7. A Night of Watching, Arnold (6)

8. The Arrangement, Kazan (4)

9. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson

10. The Eighth Day, Wilder (9)

NONFICTION

1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3)

3. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (2)

4. Incredible Victory, Lord (6)

5. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (5)

6. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (4)

7. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (7)

8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (9)

9. The Lawyers, Mayer (8)

10. Everything But Money, Levenson

*All times E.S.T.

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