TELEVISION

Wednesday, January 22 VOYAGE TO THE ENCHANTED ISLES (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* This essay, which is partially narrated by Prince Philip, examines the strange Galapagos Islands, where the climate permits penguins and flamingoes to coexist in undisturbed splendor along with other primitive forms of wildlife.

Thursday, January 23 THE LIONS ARE FREE (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Bill Travers revisits the pride of lions that returned to its natural habitat after starring in his 1966 film, Born Free.

NET PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9 p.m.). Milo O'Shea and Jack MacGowran star in a com edy about a young postulant in a Trappist monastery who discovers that even monks have their little weaknesses. "Silent Song" is played almost entirely with out dialogue.

Friday, January 24 THE FRENCH-AMERICAN CHALLENGE CUP (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Members of the French and American professional ski teams compete for the Challenge Cup on the slopes of Aspen, Colo.

Saturday, January 25 UNTAMED WORLD (NBC, 12:30-1 p.m.).

Philip Carey recalls the myths and leg ends surrounding the world of reptiles, and shows film of snakes as they charm and chomp their fellow creatures.

SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Doug Sanders, Charles Sifford and David Thomas compete at the Singapore Island Country Club in Singapore.

BING CROSBY PRO-AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 6-7:30 p.m.). The third round from Pebble Beach, Calif. Fourth round Sunday from 5-7 p.m.

DOWN ON THE FARM (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The role of the American farmer, past and present, is explored; then the cam era looks at the mechanical marvels of to morrow that will send more country folk swarming to the cities.

Sunday, January 26 DISCOVERY '69 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon).

"Stockholm -- The Town Between the Bridges" is a comparison of the 20th century city with the Swedish capital as it was in centuries past.

CBS CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). "Clown and Other Stories" are three award-winning French short films about the fantasies of childhood.

AMERICAN SPORTSMAN (ABC, 4-5 p.m.).

In a fin and fur doubleheader, Lee Wulf fishes for tuna in Newfoundland and Rick Jason guns for grizzly bear in the wilds of British Columbia.

BOTH OUR HOUSES-- THE NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS (NBC, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). NBC looks at the makeup of the new Congress and assesses what it hopes to achieve.

MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Marlin Perkins joins Explorer-Naturalist Jim Fowler in the Peruvian Andes to search for one of nature's grandest gliders, the Andean condor.

THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).

"Tomorrow -- Today" is a look at how scientists simulate the future in order to solve pressing technological problems of the present.

Monday, January 27

NBC MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) takes out after a murderer with a preference for photographic models in World Premiere: Dragnet.

Tuesday, January 28

ARCTIC ODYSSEY: THE DAVID HUMPHREYS POLAR EXPEDITION (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A close-up study of an Arctic expedition that changed the map of the world. The odyssey follows the project from its planning stage through its 109 days on the polar ice.

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).

Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer chats again with Eric Sevareid on many subjects, including politics, the urban crisis, intellectuals, writing and death.

THEATER

HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fantasy and fact in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, a would-be priest who dreamed of being called first to the cloth and then to the throne of St. Peter--becoming the second English Pope in history. With an outstanding command of technique and a wealth of small mannerisms under perfect control, Alec McCowen displays Rolfe's narcissism and cunning, his insincerity, vulnerability and genuine religious obsession. His performance may well be one of the major theatrical events of the decade.

FORTY CARATS is a comedy with Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee and Marco St. John as the young man who successfully woos her with ouzo. Directed with crisp agility by Abe Burrows, the play is never less than civilized fun.

PROMISES, PROMISES is an imitation of past successes, with a plot from the Wilder-Diamond film The Apartment and a structure borrowed from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Jerry Orbach and Marian Mercer turn in the best performances of the evening.

JIMMY SHINE. Playwright Murray Schisgal, attempting a journey through mood, psyche and character, fails to go anywhere. But Dustin Hoffman is so obviously pleased with himself that it is difficult for anyone in the audience not to be just as satisfied.

ZORBA, Producer-Director Harold Prince seems to have tried to fashion a sequel to his Fiddler on the Roof, thinly camouflaged with a Greek accent. But Zorba isn't Jewish, and the miscasting and bogus bouzouki music scarcely ever evoke the characteristic tone of Levantine lament.

KING LEAR is the best work that the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered. Lee J. Cobb, aided by a supporting cast that truly supports, gives the best performance of his career in the title role.

Off Broadway

LITTLE MURDERS. This revival of Cartoonist Jules Feiffer's first full-length play still suffers from being a series of animated cartoons spliced together rather than an organic drama. What Feiffer does achieve, with the aid of Alan Arkin's masterful direction and a remarkably resourceful cast, is social observation that is razor sharp.

DAMES AT SEA. This friendly parody of the old Busby Berkeley-type movie musicals of the '30s, has a thoroughly engaging cast headed by Bernadette Peters, and some of the most ingenious staging currently on or off Broadway.

TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK is a warm, loving tribute to the late Lorraine Hansberry, put together from her own writings. The interracial cast, ably directed by Gene Frankel, works well as an ensemble to thread an elegiac mood through the range of comedy, rage, reminiscence and introspection.

TEA PARTY and THE BASEMENT. In all Harold Pinter plays, the surface is never the substance, and the meaning lies in the eye and mind of the beholder. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is pushed into what may be his death throes by the interactions of his secretary, his wife, and his wife's brother. The Basement deals with the relations of two men and a girl who share a basement flat.

CINEMA

THE SHAME. Ingmar Bergman's 29th film is a tonal allegory involving a nameless war, a broken marriage, and existential doubt. The performances by such Bergman regulars as Max von Sydow and Gunnar Bjornstrand are letter perfect, but Liv Ullman, newest member of the Bergman company, portrays the whole range of feminine response with a special brilliance.

THE FIXER. "I'm the kind of man who finds it perilous just to be alive," says the reluctant hero of this grueling and often moving adaptation of Bernard Malamud's novel. Under the meticulous direction of lohn Frankenheimer, the cast performs with a power that gives the film an almost Dostoevskian force.

FACES. John Cassavetes wrote and directed this grim and gritty study of the vicissitudes of love and marriage at middle age. The film is alternately powerful and dreary, and demands more sympathy for its characters than many members of the audience will want to give.

THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S is a surprise: a funny, affectionate valentine" to old-time burlesque. Songs, dances and moldy jokes are all delivered with appropriate irreverence. The actors, including Jason Robards and Norman Wisdom as a couple of seedy comics, Britt Ekland as an innocent young thing in the big city, and Joseph Wiseman and Harry Andrews as concerned fathers, all perform with dedicated energy.

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is a friendly musical that drags a bit in the first half, but picks up once Dick Van Dyke, who plays a pixilated inventor, gets his children, his girl friend (Sally Ann Howes) and his car airborne.

THE FIREMEN'S BALL. Under the direction of Milos Forman (Loves of a Blonde), a group of firemen stage a party in honor of their retiring chief, and act out a neat parody of Communist bureaucracy.

YELLOW SUBMARINE is an elaborate animated cartoon adventure starring the Beatles. Although Graphics Designer Heinz Edelmann brings off a series of visual puns, the overall result tends to bog down at times.

BULLITT is a cops-and-robbers movie that moves the audience's viscera, particularly during a chase scene up and down the hills of San Francisco. Steve McQueen stars as a detective with impeccable cool.

FUNNY GIRL. Barbra Streisand makes her movie debut in a loud musical biography of Fanny Brice. Miss Streisand is on screen most of the time, which will delight many fans, but may give others a sense of uneasy familiarity.

COOGAN'S BLUFF. This story of an Arizona sheriff (Clint Eastwood) who comes to New York on a man hunt, amply justifies Director Don Siegel's reputation as a minor film genius.

WEEKEND. Jean-Luc Godard gives the bourgeoisie a good drubbing in a satire that might be sharper if its Maoist political harangues were not so dull.

PRETTY POISON. Homicide can be fun, as Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld prove in this stinging satire on violence in America. Direction is by Noel Black, 31, whose previous experience has been mostly in educational and commercial shorts.

OLIVER! They've removed Dickens' reformist zeal, but substituted some colorful period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart, and some stunning sets by John Box. The result is the best musical of 1968. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with precision.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ALEXANDER POPE, by Peter Quennell. A lucid biography of the great 18th century poet, a proud and petulant man who used words as sticks and stones in his savage satires.

THE VALACHI PAPERS, by Peter Maas. A painstaking account of one man's career in the Mafia, made the more fascinating by the author's observation: "If the Cosa Nostra's illegal profits were reported, the country could meet its present obligations with a 10% tax reduction instead of a 10% surcharge increase."

JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The first full-scale biography of the late-blooming author of The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised reveals his vision of the world as a struggle between creative man and organized authority.

SILENCE ON MONTE SOLE, by Jack Olsen.

In the fall of 1944, Nazi SS death squads rounded up, shot down, grenaded and then burned more than 1,800 inhabitants of the villages around Monte Sole in north central Italy. Author Olsen performs a journalistic feat as he records this atrocity, which was only a footnote to the history of the Italian campaign.

MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. A measured, complex view of the private lives of the Victorian genius John Ruskin and his wife that reads as smoothly as an old-fashioned novel of manners.

THE ARMS OF KRUPP, by William Manchester. The "smokestack barons" of the Ruhr, whose arsenal armed Germany in two world wars, are portrayed in an encyclopedic history of their powerful and eccentric family.

TURPIN, by Stephen Jones. Beginning with the murder of a golden retriever and lurching from ludicrous deaths to outrageous depravities, this savagely comic novel bares the terrors that hide beneath the surface of apparently calm minds.

THE BEASTLY BEATITUDES OF BALTHAZAR B, by J. P. Donleavy. A rich, dreamy young man drifts rudderless through a series of touchingly humorous misadventures. The author's best novel since The Ginger Man.

O'NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. In the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer examines the emotional factors in the playwright's family history.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (1 last week)

2. A Small Town in Germany, le Carre (2)

3. Airport, Hailey (3)

4. Preserve and Protect, Drury (4)

5. The First Circle, Solzhenitsyn (6)

6. And Other Stories, O'Hara

7. Force 10 from Navarone, MacLean (5)

8. The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, Donleavy (8)

9. The Hurricane Years, Hawley (7)

10. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (10)

NONFICTION 1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (1)

2. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester (2)

3. Instant Replay, Kramer (3)

4. The Day Kennedy Was Shot, Bishop (4)

5. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (7)

6. On Reflection, Hayes (8)

7. Soul on Ice, Cleaver

8. Sixty Years on the Firing Line, Krock (5)

9. Anti-Memoirs, Malraux (6)

10. The Joys of Yiddish, Rosten (10)

*All times E.S.T.

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