Wednesday, November 22 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Dinah Shore, Ray Charles, Johnny Mercer and the Everly Brothers twanging away at "The Nashville Sound."

Thursday, November 23

THANKSGIVING DAY PARADES (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Arthur Godfrey (in Toronto), Bess Myerson and Mike Douglas (New York), Jack Linkletter and Marilyn Van Derbur (Philadelphia) and Fran Allison (Detroit) give curbside comment on a medley of parades.

MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, 10 a.m. to noon). From their vantage point in front of the world's largest department store, Lome Greene and Betty White observe the giant balloons, bands and entertainers (including Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes) passing by.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, noon to conclusion). The Los Angeles Rams v. the Detroit Lions, from Detroit.

N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 2:45 p.m. to conclusion). University of Oklahoma v. University of Nebraska, from Lincoln.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 6 p.m. to conclusion). The St. Louis Cardinals v. the Dallas Cowboys, from Dallas.

CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Cliff Robertson as Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy in PT 109 (1963).

Friday, November 24

TARZAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). This time it's Ethel Merman making her way through the jungle as leader of a religious sect that enlists Tarzan to guide them to the promised land in "Mountain of the Moon," Part 1.

SINGER PRESENTS HERB ALPERT & THE TI JUANA BRASS (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Herb's brass rings out from mountain to shore as the group plays its hits on location in Southern California. Repeat.

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtuoso Teacher" shows both aspects of Concert Violinist Joseph Fuchs's professional life: at work readying two of his Juilliard students for a music competition, and in concert with Yehudi Menuhin last summer at the Bath Festival.

Saturday, November 25 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Part 1, "People of War," focused on the village of Hoa Binh in South Viet Nam. Part 2, "People of War Revisited," takes a second look at the village nearly two years later to see whether its inhabitants' lives have improved and determine their current views on the war. Local times may vary with this program.

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Away we go with Bing Crosby, Liberace, Alan King and George Kirby.

Sunday, November 26

LOOK UP & LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). The concluding segment of "Choice--the Imperative of Tomorrow" deals with the agonizing process of decision making on international, national, local and personal levels.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Betty Furness, the President's Special Adviser on Consumer Affairs, is questioned by newswomen.

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLE-HEADER (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Boston Patriots v. the Houston Oilers in Houston, followed by the Buffalo Bills v. the Miami Dolphins in Miami.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). ABC presents its own production of The Diary of Anne Frank, with Diane Davila as Anne, supported by Max von Sydow, Lilli Palmer, Viveca Lindfors, Donald Pleasence, Theodore Bikel, Marisa Pavan.

Monday, November 27

THE FIRST ANNUAL ALL-STAR CELEBRITY BASEBALL GAME (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Leo Durocher's Celebrities (including Woody Allen, Bobby Darin, Steve Allen and Hugh O'Brian) take on Milton Berle's All-Stars (Willie Mays, Maury Wills, Don Drysdale, Jim Piersall and others) at Dodger Stadium. Jerry Lewis is sportscaster.

Check local listings for these NET specials:

A CONVERSATION WITH INGRID BERGMAN. Before heading for Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, Miss Bergman talked with Los Angeles Times Critic Cecil Smith about her career: her past training, her current role, and parts she would like to play.

PUBLIC BROADCAST LABORATORY. A $10 million experimental series dedicated to the proposition that noncommercial television can provide a meaningful alternative to commercial TV, PBL will program two hours of cultural and public affairs each Sunday night.

THEATER

On Broadway

HALFWAY UP THE TREE. Peter Ustinov, who wrote and directed this comedy, has chosen to view hippiedom as the social dawn of a new Jerusalem and hippies as long-haired Samsons of saintliness leaning against tlie temple of middleaged, middle-class hypocrisy. Unfortunately, the quality of the humor in the story of a pucka Sahib general (Anthony Quayle) who out-hippies his neoprimitive offspring is as strained as the plot.

MORE STATELY MANSIONS. Eugene O'Neill wanted the uncoordinated, lengthy manuscript of this play destroyed. Somehow a copy survived, and has been subjected to the surgery of Jose Quintero, who manages to make the great U.S. dramatist appear as inept as a summer-stock apprentice. As a husband, wife and mother fencing for one another's love, Arthur Hill, Colleen Dewhurst and Ingrid Bergman all appear lost in a disenchanted forest.

THE LITTLE FOXES. With Director Mike Nichols at the helm, Lincoln Center has launched a revival of Lillian Hellman's 28-year-old saga of a Southern family who snarl and claw their way toward a rich hoard. A galaxy of a cast, including Anne Bancroft, Richard Dysart, E. G. Marshall and George C. Scott, give gilt-edged performances.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD might be called Two Characters in Search of a Plot. British Playwright Tom Stoppard takes his protagonists from the wings of the Globe and sets them stage center to wonder, with coruscating wit and in spiritual desolation, who they are and what they are doing at Elsinore. Scintillating performances by Brian Murray and John Wood endow the evening with rousing theatricality.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, by Harold Pinter, is a celebration of sinister non sequiturs, a nightmarish reunion between Stanley, a nasty cipher of a man (James Patterson) and two agents of torment (Ed Flanders and Edward Winters). A 1958 play, Party may not have as many sparks of significance as Pinter's later works, but it crackles with his lightning bolts of speech.

Off Broadway

THE TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat.

IN CIRCLES. Nothing happens in this 1920 play by Gertrude Stein, but it happens wonderfully well. Bound together by the free-ranging, eclectic music of Al Carmines, guru of Judson Poets Theater, In Circles is a word salad in mid-toss.

SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman constructs a comedy of offhand cruelty. Forcing his audience to laughter while smashing their shibboleths, Actor Jerry Orbach is a one-man implosion as a super neurotic who spends his Riviera holiday stalking around a chateau in his bathrobe, screaming maledictions through the night at mankind in general and his wife and her Negro lover in particular.

CINEMA

COOL HAND LUKE. A cocky prisoner (Paul Newman) becomes a hero to his fellow inmates by repeatedly escaping and indomitably refusing to knuckle under to sadistic guards.

MORE THAN A MIRACLE. A beautiful peasant girl (Sophia Loren) brazenly steals a horse from the handsome prince (Omar Sharif), gets herself a job making omelets in the palace kitchen, beats out seven princesses after a dishwashing contest, finally catches the prince and lives happily ever after in this utterly mindless but totally delightful fairy tale.

THE COMEDIANS. The title belies the inexorably arid and sere setting in which an excellent cast of villains and victims (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) is touched by a vagrant grace.

WAIT UNTIL DARK. A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn), the nearly helpless victim of a trio of terrorists led by Alan Arkin, tries to even the score by removing all the light bulbs in her house but forgets the one in the refrigerator--with chilling results.

CAMELOT. Joshua Logan's re-creation of the fantasy land inhabited by King Arthur (Richard Harris), Queen Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave) and Lancelot (Franco Nero) is about as enchanting as a Hollywood back lot, despite the regal talents and rich voice of the leading lady.

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Screenwriter Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Oscar-winning Darling, now team to bring Hardy's brooding novel to the screen, with outstanding performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ISRAEL JOURNAL JUNE, 1967 and DEATH HAD TWO SONS, by Yael Dayan. From the 28-year-old daughter of General Moshe Dayan comes an exhilarating chronicle of the Israeli victory over the Arabs and a tough-minded, unsentimental novel peopled by ghosts of the Hitler era.

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF ANDRE MAUROIS. In 38 tales framed as conversations, recollections and letters, the late distinguished partisan in the battle of the sexes takes a deep look at women who are either wise or foolish, vital or declining, in love or remembering what it was like.

THE YEAR 2000, by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. Two practitioners of the art of futurism consider what the world may be like 33 years hence.

MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. During a crucial quarter-century of American-Russian relations, Diplomat Kennan was in official disfavor first for being "too harsh" toward the Soviets, then for being "too soft"; by hindsight, he was right more often than wrong.

THE SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. A mod family in Brisbane meets its moral fate in this lively social satire by an Australian craftsman of the novel.

THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. The author's fourth novel, a powerful, timely and imaginative reconstruction of a Negro slave uprising in 1831, installs his name at the top level of contemporary writers.

ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This last volume of their 38-year labor, The Story of Civilization, is one more proof that the Durants are the most readable historians around.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (1 last week)

2. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (2)

3. Topaz, Uris (3)

4. The Chosen, Potok (4)

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

6. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

7. A Night of Watching, Arnold (8)

8. The Arrangement, Kazan (5)

9. The Exhibitionist, Sutton

10. Christy, Marshall (9)

NONFICTION

1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3)

3. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (4)

4. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (2)

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

6. Incredible Victory, Lord (7)

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

8. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (10)

9. Too Strong for Fantasy, Davenport (9) 10. Rousseau and Revolution, W. and A. Durant

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