By now most of the corpses of shows that did not survive the autumn slaughter have been tidily interred, and new recruits have been mobilized. ABC this week is trooping out three new series (see below) for what it calls a "second season," but might be more aptly dubbed first aid.

Wednesday, January 12

BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* By day he is Foppish Playboy Bruce Wayne, but at night he dons his puce long johns and his black bat hat and makes war on the diabolical denizens of the dark underworld. Adam West plays Bruce/Batman, and Burt Ward is Dick Grayson (alias Robin the Boy Wonder) in this revival of the 1940s comic strip. Premiere.

BLUE LIGHT (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Robert Goulet has turned in his operetta cloak for a dagger, stars in this new series about an American who renounces his citizenship to become a Nazi spy. In reality, however, Goulet is a double agent hated and hunted by the very country for which he is risking all, etc., etc. Premiere.

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). An actress (Simone Signoret) and a playwright (George Maharis) feud over a script.

Thursday, January 13

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF HENRY PHYFE (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Another ring in the spiraling spying craze, this features Red Buttons as a mild accountant whose C.P.A. is merely a cover for the CIA. Premiere.

Saturday, January 15

AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALL STAR GAME (NBC, 1:30 p.m. to conclusion). The A.F.L.-Champion Buffalo Bills play an all-star squad made up of the best players of the other A.F.L. teams.

THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Phil Harris is host and Alice Faye (Mrs. Harris) is a guest.

Sunday, January 16

"IN THE BEGINNING, GOD" (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A concert of sacred music taped on Christmas Day at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church by Duke Ellington, his orchestra and four choirs.

DISCOVERY '65 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). "The Vanishing Jungle," a study of African wildlife in the Nairobi National Park and the Masai Amboseli Game Reserve.

Tuesday, January 18

CBS NEWS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The National Health Test: Part 1"--for those who found out that they couldn't drive ("The National Drivers Test") and shouldn't vote ("The National Citizenship Test"), a chance to learn how they're ruining their health.

THEATER

On Broadway

MARAT/SADE shreds the nerves, flays the skin and vivisects the psyche. In a display of directorial virtuosity, Peter Brook has expanded Playwright Peter Weiss's metaphor of the world as a madhouse, and the superb Royal Shakespeare players envelop the playgoer in a disturbing, enthralling theatrical experience.

INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. In the dock of self-accusation, a man charges that his life has become an obscenity. In the middle years, John Osborne's antihero has lost his way but not his wittily vituperative voice, and Nicol Williamson brings this character to memorable life in the most powerful male performance Broadway has seen in more than a decade.

CACTUS FLOWER. Adapter-Director Abe Burrows gives a fast spin to a French sex farce that sets a reluctantly spinsterish nurse, a determined roue of a dentist, and his beatnik mistress in a romantic whirl. Lauren Bacall is appropriately sharp as a late-blooming lovely.

YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU. The eccentric Sycamore family once again cavorts on a Broadway stage in an inspired revival by the APA repertory company. Still funny after 30 years, the zany Moss Hart-George Kaufman comedy now has the added appeal of nostalgic wholesomeness and pervasive human warmth.

THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN. Brilliant plumage and clever choreography give this historical drama the shifting, colorful splendor of a kaleidoscope, but Playwright Peter Shaffer fails to inform the story of Conquistador Pizarro in Peru with a coherent dramatic or philosophical content.

RECORDS

Virtuosos

ARTUR RUBINSTEIN has recorded Chopin's Polonaises twice before, but now at 76, he gives them an especially noble performance (2 LPs; RCA Victor), as though taking national pride in their challenging rhythms. With authoritative timing, he shapes each familiar piece so that the listener feels both suspense and the recognition of rightness.

WANDA LANDOWSKA, as an exceptionally musical child in Poland, saw a farm girl milking a cow to a 2/4 beat while singing a mazurka in 3/4 time. Landowska has captured on her harpsichord the unexpected rhythms and sharp colors of the Dances of Ancient Poland (RCA Victor), including old folk songs like The Hop, a traditional wedding mazurka. She also plays selections by little-known composers such as Prince Michael Oginski, an 18th century soldier and poet whose Polonaises Chopin took as models.

VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY, 28, has been the young Russian pianist to watch since he started winning contest prizes eleven years ago. Playing Chopin's Four Ballades and Trois Nouvelles Etudes (London), he is in great form, master of the most melting lyricism as well as of virile technique and a big tone.

NATHAN MILSTEIN plays Mozart's Violin Concertos No. 4 and 5 with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Angel). These are two of the five violin concertos Mozart wrote at 19. After playing the Fourth, Mozart bragged that his performance "went like oil." Milstein, too, spins out the bright tunes effortlessly, though coolly.

PETER SERKIN is only 18, but his solo recording debut makes it clear that he is musically mature, as one would expect of Rudolf's son. Young Serkin can play both piano and harpsichord, but chose piano for Bach's Goldberg Variations (RCA Victor), twisting the Air into its thirty metamorphoses with imagination and a pleasing playfulness.

JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, having recorded all of Bach's and Mozart's flute sonatas, now turns to Handel's (2 LPs; Epic). Both he and Harpsichordist Robert Veyron-Lacroix tastefully embellish, in 18th century syle, the stately, singable melodies.

JASCHA HEIFETZ grandly and brilliantly plays the third and biggest of Brahms's three romantic sonatas for violin and piano (reissued by RCA Victor). Such virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It was on his way to California to complete recording the Brahms triptych with Heifetz that the 31-year-old Kapell was killed in a plane crash twelve years ago.

CINEMA

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. Omar Sharif in the title role and Julie Christie as his Lara head an impressive cast in Director David Lean's thoroughly romantic version of Boris Pasternak's epochal bestseller.

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD. Director Martin Ritt (Hud) has made John le Carre's novel into a masterly spy thriller, with Richard Burton giving his best movie performance as the worn-out British intelligence hack on a fateful mission.

VIVA MARIA! Photography by Henri Decae enhances the allure of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot, who do what they can with Director Louis (The Lovers) Malle's rather slapdash farce about a pair of dance-hall girls involved in a Central American revolution.

THUNDERBALL. In his fourth film outing, easily the most spectacular to date, James Bond (Sean Connery) claims his quota of girls, gadgets and bogus glamour while hunting for stolen atom bombs in the briny deeps near Nassau.

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. The inner life of a bourgeois matron (Giulietta Masina) becomes a psychic three-ring circus as Director Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2) puts milady's past, present and future through the hoops in flamboyant style.

REPULSION. This chilling case study by Writer-Director Roman Polanski describes how a tormented blonde manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) retreats into a nightmare world, working considerable mischief along the way.

THE LEATHER BOYS. Motorcycling, teen marriage and homosexuality complicate the life of a seriocomic British strumpet (Rita Tushingham) whose young husband prefers to spend all his evenings out with the boys.

DARLING. Director John Schlesinger views the jet set through a glass brightly, focusing mainly on Julie Christie's shimmering performance as a go-go playgirl who finds scruples a handicap for big-league fun-and-games.

BOOKS

Best Reading

A THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In this topnotch and for the most part balanced retrospective, Historian Schlesinger has done full justice to his craft and to the President he loved and served.

MY LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS, by David Meriwether. Old David Meriwether is firmly fixed in U.S. history as a two-fisted early Governor of New Mexico Territory, but this autobiography, dictated to a granddaughter and published for the first time some 72 years after his death, gives a grim but fascinating account of his early days as a knockabout on the wild frontier.

SELECTED LETTERS OF MALCOLM LOWRY, edited by Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry. A tragic novelist shows in his letters the courage and dedication to his craft that enabled him to produce his single masterpiece, Under the Volcano, a modern version of Dante's Inferno.

THE SAVAGE STATE, by Georges Conchon. This scorching satire on race politics in Africa is written with an acetylene torch, should be read through goggles.

QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL, by Elizabeth Bishop. One of the finest descriptive poets now at work presents a magnificent album of verbal snapshots, the best of them taken in Brazil.

TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Illustrated with 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection accompanied by a lively text, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives to describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, covers the period from the slaying until his body was laid to rest in Springfield.

THE BEGGAR, by F. M. Esfandiary. In this ghastly little parable, an Iranian-in-exile ironically illustrates the intrinsic injustice of human justice.

THE TEXAS RANGERS, by Walter Prescott Webb. A century of legalized carnage is described with scholarly precision and boyish glee in this definitive history--republished for the first time since 1935--of a rootin', tootin', shootin', lootin' and generally low-falutin' organization that enforced the law and other unpopular prejudices during the wild and woolly winning of the Southwest.

VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Source, Michener (1 last week)

2. Those Who Love, Stone (2)

3. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (4)

4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (3)

5. The Lockwood Concern, O'Hara (6)

6. Hotel, Hailey (5)

7. Thomas, Mydans (7)

8. The Honey Badger, Ruark (8)

9. The Rabbi, Gordon (9)

10. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (10)

NONFICTION

1. A Thousand Days, Schlesinger (1)

2. Kennedy, Sorensen (2)

3. A Gift of Joy, Hayes (5)

4. Games People Play, Berne (3)

5. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (4)

6. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (7)

7. The Penkovskiy Papers, Penkovskiy (6)

8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (8)

9. Intern, Doctor X (10)

10. World Aflame, Graham (9)

* All times E.S.T.

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