TELEVISION

Wednesday, November 8 ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).*Susan Hayward and Bette Davis in the screen adaptation of Harold Robbins' bestseller, Where Love Has Gone.

CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A band of comedians (Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Jack Carter and Bill Dana) fights to rescue the TV badlands from a notorious gang of cowboy heroes led by James Drury (The Virginian). Bobbie Gentry sings along with the action in "ShootIn at NBC."

Thursday, November 9 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). The Seventh Dawn finds William Holden, Susannah York and Capucine romantically entangled in guerrilla-war-torn Malaya.

THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Dean's guests include Phil Harris, Cabaret Star Joel Grey and singers Lainie Kazan and Don Cherry.

Friday, November 10

THE HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT SPECIAL: JUST A YEAR TO GO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The NBC news team watches President Johnson, Richard Nixon, George Romney, Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan waging their campaigns and non-campaigns on this first program of a new series.

Saturday, November 11

THE $150,000 WASHINGTON, D.C., INTERNATIONAL (NBC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Former Jockey Eddie Arcaro and Sportscaster Jim Simpson follow the horses in this 16th running of the l 1/2mile invitational race that matches the best foreign-trained flat racers against the best from the U.S. for "Horse of the World" honors.

WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Pacific Southwest Cross-Country Motorcycle Championship from the Mojave Desert. 1967 world figure skating champions, featuring America's Peggy Fleming, from Vienna.

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Based on John Hersey's novel and Paul Osborne's Broadway play, this TV edition of A Bell for Adano features John Forsythe, Kathleen Widdoes and Murray Hamilton.

MISS TEENAGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). The winner will be chosen from 64 finalists, culminating six months of competition among teen-agers in more than 60 major U.S. cities. Jimmy Durante, Jane Powell and Dean Jones preside over the annual festivities broadcast from Dallas.

Sunday, November 12 LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). How should we use atomic energy? Should we create, prolong or alter life? How do we educate for a technological society? In the search for answers to such difficult questions, man is faced with "Choice, the Imperative of Tomorrow." Part 2 of a series.

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 to noon). "Monsters of the Ocean Deep" takes a look at such aquatic creatures as the shark, the sting ray and the octopus, which do not always live up to their dangerous reputations.

Monday, November 13 SHIPSTADS & JOHNSON ICE FOLLIES OF 1967 (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Ed Ames breaks the ice with songs and patter, as the annual skating extravaganza glides into its 31st year.

A MAN AND HIS MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The equation yields a salute to rhythm. Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Brazil's Antonio Carlos Jobim sing the standards, old and new.

Tuesday, November 14 WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Since his TV conversation with Eric Sevareid just two months ago, Eric Hoffer's salty comments on the contemporary scene have been quoted by the President and the man on the street alike. Tonight, a rebroadcast of "Eric Hoffer: The Passionate State of Mind."

THEATER

On Broadway THE LITTLE FOXES. An admirable revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 play in Lincoln Center demonstrates how securely bricks of character can be sealed together wilh the mortar of plot. Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Richard Dysart and Margaret Leighton are expertly guided by Director Mike Nichols through gilt-edged performances as members of a family afflicted with a vulpine itch for plunder in the turn-of-the-century South.

WHAT DID WE DO WRONG? A ponderous put-down of the contemporary foibles of young and old falls on its face as it peers into the generation gap. Devotees of Paul Ford may be amused by their idol in a hippie getup, but others will consider Wrong? more absurd than theater.

HENRY, SWEET HENRY lured theatergoers into picking up $400,000 worth of tickets in advance of its opening. These venture-capitalists have a dismally disenchanting evening in store for them. The musical concerns itself with a pair of schoolgirls who spend off-hours spying on a concert-stage idol (Don Ameche). When he is not pounding the keyboard, he dallies carnally with suburban and urban matrons. The music is tuneless, the lyrics witless, and the dances could pass for mass hopscotch. What less can one ask?

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Every-men 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 heartbeat 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 is nine years old and Harold Pinter's first full-length play. Brought to Broadway for the first time, it is as highly individualistic, if not as technically poised, as his later works. The playwright cuts through the conventions of accepted stage behavior and the rules of the well-made play to expose the cruel and the comic, the frighteningly familiar and the terrifyingly unknown in each man's existence.

AFTER THE RAIN is an eggshell of a play from an egghead playwright. John Bowen borrows and embalms theatrical modes and ideas from Bertolt Brecht, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Peter Weiss and colors them in a fashionable shade of apocalypstick. As the tyrannical leader of a Noah-like band of survivors from the flood of 1969, Alec McCowen is convincingly diabolical as he plucks open the soul of a power maniac.

Off Broadway

SCUBA DUBA is in the tradition of the "new comedy" that draws its laughs not from funny-ha-ha but from funny-peculiar. Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, A Mother's Kisses) puts one of his pop-skulled, Mom-obsessed neurotics in a chateau on the Riviera during the night his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro. Jerry Orbach is wildly, excruciatingly believable as a modern victim-persecutor, one minute hiding under the coats in the closet, the next brandishing a threatening scythe at his enemy, the world at large.

STEPHEN D. replays the symphony of sound composed by James Joyce in his two autobiographical novels. While not sufficiently theatrical--the images called up by Joyce's words are more vivid than the vignettes seen on the stage--the production provides a pleasant, literate evening on the banks of the Liffey.

CINEMA

THE COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long.

WAIT UNTIL DARK. A blind woman (Audrey Hepburn) who has become the nearly helpless victim of a trio of terrorists led by Alan Arkin tries to equalize the situation by removing all the light bulbs in the house; but she forgets the one in the refrigerator--with chilling results.

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

ELVIRA MADIGAN. A Swedish cavalry officer (Thommy Berggren) deserts his wife, children and career to spend a summer of delirious happiness with a tightrope walker (Pia Degermark) in this spare and remarkably sensitive pastoral film.

FINNEGANS WAKE. A surprising number of James Joyce's Eire-borne visions survive in the screenwriter's version of the screedwriter's novel, thanks to Director Mary Ellen Bute's audacious dream sequences and witty collages and montages.

BOOKS

Best Reading

MEMOIRS: 1925-1950, by George F. Kennan. A close-up look at a crucial quarter century of U.S. diplomacy by a man who was one of the first to see the cold war coming, and who was also one of the first to predict a thaw.

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 powerfully projects his own sense of exile, while demonstrating that he has the credentials of a major novelist, in this tragicomedic account of the changes that rack a Victorian Polish-Jewish family.

THE SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading novelists tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society.

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--that 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 Kennedy has going for and against him in his bid for the presidency. Conclusion: there may be some formidable obstacles.

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, by Joyce Carol Gates. A painful and naunting 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.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (3 last week)

2. Topaz, Uris (1)

3. The Gabriel Hounds, Stewart (2)

4. The Chosen, Potok (4)

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

6. A Night of Watching, Arnold (7)

7. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (6)

8. The Arrangement, Kazan (8)

9. An Operational Necessity, Griffin 10. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson (9)

NONFICTION

1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (1)

2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (2)

3. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (3)

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

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

6. Incredible Victory, Lord (4)

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

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

9. The Beautiful People, Bender

10. Rousseau and Revolution, W. and A. Durant

* All times E.S.T.

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