TELEVISION

Wednesday, September 28 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A toast, in film clips, to old Ski Nose's leading ladies, among them Dorothy Lamour, Lana Tur ner, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr and Arlene Dahl. Also appearing are Old Comrades Jerry Colonna and Bandleader Les Brown.

ABC STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). An original musical fantasy by Richard Adler, "Olympus 7-0000," concerns the trials and tribulations of men and gods con fronted with college football. Donald O'Connor plays Hermes, Larry Blyden a fumbling football coach, Phyllis Newman the coach's mythologically minded fiancee.

The New York Jets and a couple of goats figure strongly in the play.

Thursday, September 29 JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gia Scala and Nehemiah Persoff are guest stars in "Upbeat and Underground," in which the Jericho team tries to spirit the 100-man French National Symphony Or chestra out of its Nazi-occupied homeland.

THE HERO (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). In "Curiosity Killed a Key," a mysterious key turns up in the house of Sam Garret (Richard Mulligan) and becomes the talk of the neighborhood. As a topper, it is found to fit a somewhat improper lock.

Friday, September 30 THE TIME TUNNEL (ABC, 8-9 p.m.).

In "The Day the Sky Fell Down," a chill ing reunion takes place when the Time Tunnel transports Tony (James Darren) back to 1941 and Pearl Harbor, where he meets his father, who was killed during the attack. Tony tries to warn the older man of the coming disaster.

Saturday, October 1 N.C.A.A. FOOTBALL (ABC, 4:30 p.m. to conclusion). Missouri and U.C.L.A. pit their star quarterbacks, Charlie Brown and Gary Beban, against each other in Los Angeles.

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).

Impossible Mission Force, the counter espionage team, stages a counterplot to stave off the nuclear destruction of a U.S. city.

GUNSMOKE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Bette Da vis guest-stars as an embittered ranch wid ow who, with her four sons, holds Marshal Dillon and Kitty prisoners while plotting the marshal's death.

Sunday, October 2 SPECIAL CBS NEWS BROADCAST (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). The Hat, a much-acclaimed 1964 short cartoon about barriers between na tions narrated by Dizzy Gillespie and Dud ley Moore, is shown and then discussed for its social significance by an interfaith group of clergymen.

i BELIEVE (NBC, 4:30-5 p.m.). A doc umentary film on the work of a Prince of Peace Volunteers group in New York City slums. Walt Reiner, onetime University of Valparaiso football coach and now di rector of the Volunteers, tells about his 34 teams around the U.S. and overseas and his plans for the future.

NBC NEWS SPECIAL: THE AGONY OF TWO CITIES (NBC, 6:30-8:30 p.m.). NBC concentrates on Cleveland and Chicago for a filmed documentary about the social changes under way in the North and how white Northerners feel about it.

* All times E.D.T.

Monday, October 3

RUN, BUDDY, RUN (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Buddy (Jack Sheldon) eludes an arch-criminal's henchmen in a knife-throwing act; then the villain tracks our hero to a waterfront pier for a final confrontation.

THE RAT PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Kill or Be Killed Raid," on a mission against Rommel's Afrika Korps, the Rat Patrol's leader, Sergeant Sam Troy, played by Christopher George, is forced to attempt to kill one of his own men to prevent him from falling into German hands.

Tuesday, October 4

NATIONAL SPORTS AND PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Another "audience-involvement" broadcast, narrated by Harry Reasoner, examines the types of exercise programs being conducted throughout the country, from the Air Force Academy to exclusive women's resorts and high schools.

RECORDS

Spoken

LYSISTRATA (Caedmon). Disgusted with the 20-year-old Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes attacked the Greek "hawks" with volleys of ribaldry. In the celebrated tale of how women ended the war with a sex strike, Hermione Gingold slyly makes double entendres sound quadruple as the Athenian matron who urges the ladies to stay out of the bedrooms until their men get off the battlefields.

THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Caedmon). The Minnesota Theater Company, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie, gives a balanced rendition of Chekhov's complex last play. The playwright set out to write a comedy about the social types in a changing Russia, but his characters, while absurd in their inflexibility, are also elegiac in their ineffectuality. Jessica Tandy plays an aristocratic Ranevskaya, as flowery as her beloved orchard and just as fruitless. As the arriviste, Lee Richardson is believably ambivalent as he reluctantly reaps triumph over his former employers. Hume Cronyn, however, sounds too nasally shrewd to be the bumbling clerk.

YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO, BABII YAR AND OTHER POEMS (Caedmon). Russia's most prominent licensed nonconformist renders his role as rebellious poet in wax, and the impression is not flattering. A listener with no knowledge of Russian can have only an approximate sense of the quality of the original language in Yevtushenko's reading. The contents of the verses, however, can be judged in Alan Bates's English translation, and they do not seem to burn with artistic flame--they itch like inflammations. Except for the famous piece Babii Yar, which is more an emphatic speech than a poem about the slaughter of tens of thousands of Jews by German troops near Yevtushenko's Kiev, topics of recent years are often triumphs of trivia, his attitudes the aggravations of an adolescent.

ANTIWORLDS, THE POETRY OF ANDREI VOZNESENSKY (Columbia). Another Russian anti-laureate. Voznesensky at least writes poetry that is abundant in ingenious im ages and engaging lyricism. Goya is a grinding tribute to the painter's horror-filled canvases of war. Antiworlds is a semicomic speculation on an anti-universe of antimatter where there would be no women, just "anti-men." Read in fiery Russian by the poet, and in English by Stanley Kunitz, William Jay Smith, Richard Wilbur and W. H. Auden.

LSD (Capitol) is a documentary of degeneration, with historical data, current statistics, comments from "acidheads" on why they dig the drug, from "travel agents" on why they sell it, and from medical experts on its appalling effects. Against a background of psychedelic music and the hallucinatory laughter of "stoned" kids, the shattering screams of a young man on his 34th trip put into frightening perspective the never-never world of society's dropouts.

THE PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE (Broadside). Three of the pot religion's high priests (Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner) read from "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead" in droning, sullen voices that might be coming from the far side of the grave. "You are about to begin a great adventure, a trip out of your mind," Leary promises. What the listener is really about to begin is a dull record, with little to recommend it beyond a beautifully executed jacket drawing.

CARL SANDBURG READS FROM HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY "ALWAYS THE YOUNG STRANGERS" (Caedmon). In heartfelt tones, the ancient recorder of Americana shares his remembrances of a Midwestern childhood, school days, the neighborhood circus coming to the empty lot down the street, the daily pumping for water in the backyard, the parade marking the death of Ulysses S. Grant.

ALLEN GINSBERG READS "KADDISH," A 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN ECSTATIC NARRATIVE POEM (Atlantic). An unbeaten survivor of the beat generation croaks his way through one of his better-known works, a litany to his mother and to his own maturation process ("Once man disagreed with my opinion of the cosmos I was lost"). While various vignettes from a misery-filled family album are moving, overlong reels of domestic dreariness are merely that--dreary.

CINEMA

CRAZY QUILT. Written, directed, photographed and produced by John Korty, a 30-year-old TV producer, this minor masterpiece explores the nature of marriage as revealed to a man and woman with nothing in common except their inescapable destiny.

FANTASTIC VOYAGE. What better way to become acquainted with the human circulatory system than to travel through it? In a teeny-weeny submarine, a miniaturized crew of science-fictionees, assisted by Raquel Welch, go on a spine-tingling mission through inner space.

THE WRONG BOX. Survival of the fittest--Victorian style--leads members of a genteel British family to mayhem, murder and related shenanigans in an all-out effort to inherit a vast fortune.

HOW TO STEAL A MILLION and live happily ever after furnishes the amoral moral of William Wyler's Parisian comedy starring Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole as the serendipitous partners in crime.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? Bloodletting in the groves of academe. Two faculty couples (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis and George Segal) cut each other up with words, words, and more words in a deft screen version of Edward Albee's play.

THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Even those who don't know a pipeline from a wipeout will have no trouble following the action of this beautifully photographed odyssey of surfing.

BOOKS

Best Reading

CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. The author's fictional sense occasionally goes awry and his style turns turgid. But his reportorial eye is sharp in this big and topical book about domestic and international chicanery, which carries forward the cast of characters introduced in Advise and Consent.

GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Earth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world.

THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit.

THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A sprightly cold war suspense story that keeps the reader looking so long in the wrong direction that he almost forgets the ending is not entirely credible.

THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. The best first novel of the year and perhaps the most rollickingly funny World War II novel since Mister Roberts.

THE MUSIC SCHOOL, by John Updike. Twenty short stories that show Updike at his best, though old fans may feel that they hear echoes rather than original sounds.

THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier get a clean bill of health in this unsettling and probably oversimplified book.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)

4. The Detective, Thorp (4)

5. Giles Goat-Boy, Earth (5)

6. The Source, Michener (6)

7. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman (9)

8. The Double Image, Maclnnes (7)

9. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (10)

10. Tell No Man, St. Johns (8)

NONFICTION

1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. Games People Play, Berne (2)

3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (3)

4. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (5)

5. Rush to Judgment, Lane (9)

6. Flying Saucers--Serious Business, Edwards (6)

7. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (8)

8. With Kennedy, Salinger

9. The Last Battle, Ryan (4) 10. In Cold Blood, Capote (7)

-All times E.D.T.

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