TELEVISION

After interminable months of reruns, the networks in the next weeks will show what they've been up to all summer. Sunday night, NBC premieres a new suspense series, The Rogues, which follows the adventures of two families of well-mannered international con men and stars David Niven, Gig Young and Charles Boyer. On the same night, as a sort of house ad for its new season's stars, ABC stages an hour-long special. Then, using the buckshot approach, ABC will screen four of its new shows in the same week. They are: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, an adventure series detailing the missions of an a'omic-powered submarine in the year 1973; No Time for Sergeants, based on the 1955 Broadway hit about a bungling Army recruit: The Tycoon, a comic look at the trials of a corporation chairman and his difficult president: and Peyton Place, a family-laundered version of the late Grace Metalious' bestselling dirty-linen list. CBS will be heard from in late September.

Wednesday. September 9 AT HOME WITH MRS. GOLDWATER (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.)* The wife of the G.O.P. candidate conducts a tour of the family home outside Phoenix, chats about her life and children--and Barry.

Thursday, September 10 LETTERS FROM VIET NAM (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Fifty combat missions and 20 days in the life of a young American helicopter pilot in South Viet Nam.

A CONVERSATION WITH MRS. GOLDWATER (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Another face-to-face in Phoenix.

Friday, September 11 THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC. 10:05-11 p.m.). Guests include Author Mary McCarthy, Pianist Liberace, Fighter Cassius Clay. Color.

Saturday, September 12 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.). The Diary of Anne Frank, 20th Century-Fox's poignant 1959 film starring Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters and Joseph Schildkraut.

MISS AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). The annual rite of autumn from Atlantic City will surely look better--at least--than the recent Democratic gabfest.

Sunday, September 13

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE TELECAST (CBS, approx. 1:05-conclusion). First games of the season, televised regionally feature Baltimore at Minnesota, Chicago at Green Bay, Cleveland at Washington, Detroit at San Francisco, Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, New York at Philadelphia.

NATIONAL SINGLES TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS (NBC, 2-4:30 p.m.). Men's finals telecast live from the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N.Y.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Bing Crosby plays host to Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, Anthony Franciosa and George Burns.

THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). David Niven and Robert Coote attempt to bilk a wealthy shipowner. Walter Matthau, Dina Merrill and Alfred Ryder guest-star.

Monday, September 14 VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Richard Basehart and David Hedison take their ship on an important mission to the North Pole.

NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Recruit Will Stockdale tries to improve the Army's food.

Tuesday, September 15 THE TYCOON (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Corporation President Wilson clashes with Board Chairman Andrews (Walter Brennan) and other directors over a deal to acquire property.

PEYTON PLACE (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A New York doctor moves to a small New England town and lays siege to Dorothy Malone, a widowed bookstore owner.

RECORDS

Spoken

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (2 LPs: Caedmon). First of a new series that aims to record "the masterpieces of all the great playwrights" from Aeschylus to lonesco. Though it is a rather fragile choice, the play's apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall performances recapture the poignancy of the 19-year-old play that was Williams' first success.

MARTIN DUBERMAN: IN WHITE AMERICA (Columbia). A sharply etched historical sketch of the U.S. Negro from slave days, drawn from letters, speeches and reminiscences. Narrated by six actors, it has been running off Broadway for nearly a year, and it makes compelling if painful listening. Thomas Jefferson describes the differences between blacks and whites as he sees them. During the Civil War, a South Carolina white woman nervously describes her slaves "going about in their black masks," sensing freedom in the air. John Brown, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Father Divine, Walter White are all heard from, but the most moving lines of all are those of a teenager, Elizabeth Eckferd, recalling the day she went to Central High School in Little Rock.

VINCENT VAN GOGH: A SELF-PORTRAIT (Caedmon). Credit for this vivid auto-analysis must go first to Van Gogh for writing such searching, searing letters to his brother Theo, second to Lou Hazam for an artful job of editing, third to Lee J. Cobb for reading life into the result.

AN ALBUM OF MODERN POETRY (3 LPs: Gryphon). Anthologist Oscar Williams has selected 76 short works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement--"the passion of modern poetry"--rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values," has a voice as deep as doom.

CINEMA

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Science fiction and scientific fact plausibly commingle in this stimulating attempt to imagine the problems of an astronaut who is spaceship-wrecked on Mars.

GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Rita Tushingham is a young English actress with charm and talent to burn, and in this story of a shopgirl's passion for a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) they give a lovely light.

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles are here, they're really much more intelligent than they look, and this is the trample-proof way to see them.

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. Director John Huston, with his customary competence, has turned Tennessee Williams' morbidly amusing play into a morbidly amusing picture. Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner perform with skill. Richard Burton plays with style.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. A wild and wacky travesty of the average film thriller, directed with way-out wit by Philippe (Th& Five-Day Lover) de Broca, from France, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo.

A SHOT IN THE DARK. Sellers of the Suerete sets a new style in sleuthing: let the murderer get away, but try to make the audience die laughing.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Director Pietro Germi, who made Divorce--Italian Style the most ferociously funny film of the decade, tells another story of life in Sicily. But this time there is less fun and more ferocity.

ZULU. A bloody good show based on a historical incident that occurred in 1879: the siege of a British outpost by 4.000 African tribesmen.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this stylish, often superlative British satire.

BECKET. The tragedy of St. Thomas of Canterbury, one of the great dramatic themes of the Middle Ages, is cleverly treated in this cinema adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh. Richard Burton as the Archbishop at times seems uncertain how to seem uncertain as he struggles with his conscience, but Peter O'Toole is often fascinating as the king. If the film lacks style, it certainly has manner, the grand manner that makes a merely vivid picture seem in sections a remarkable one.

BOOKS

Best Reading

GERMANS AGAINST HITLER, by Terence Prittie. Historians have been curiously reticent about the Germans who fought Hitler from the pulpit, in pamphlets and by direct action--mostly at the cost of their lives. Prittie's book does belated justice to those who battled Nazi totalitarianism.

A COFFIN FOR KING CHARLES, by C. V. Wedgwood. This cool, precise account of the infamous trial and execution of England's Charles I does not take sides between the King and Oliver Cromwell, but history has already decided the case: Charles is noble and brave, and Cromwell remains the ambitious, dour man who made revolution and regicide popular.

MOZART THE DRAMATIST, by Brigid Brophy. A brilliant interpretation of Mozart's operas, written so gracefully as to disarm criticism of its heavily Freudian outlook.

A MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. The author of the widely praised Stern faced even worse problems than most second novelists in confronting his cult. But Kisses is as funny as its predecessor on the same subject: a man dominated by a driving mother.

THE COMPLETE WAR MEMOIRS OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (1940-1946). A moving chronicle of one man's fighting faith in France in his blackest hour. De Gaulle was grimly aware of the price of total commitment, and far more accurately than Roosevelt and Churchill, he gauged the realities of the postwar world.

THE VALLEY OF BONES, by Anthony Powell. Though it is the seventh of a twelve-volume series, this novel about England between the wars is not so labyrinthine as it sounds. Readers who awakened late to Powell's powerful work can still follow the characters. The earlier books made Marienbad of time; from now on they will follow it.

THE GAY PLACE, by William Brammer. Those who wonder if the energies of our ear-pulling President have been exaggerated in the press should turn to this roman `a clef about Johnson. Ex-Aide Brammer has caught the voice, the idiom, the excesses, but most of all the Protean vigor of the President.

THE OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. The history of oyster culture from Roman times to the present day is told with accuracy and dedication by Miss Clark. But her word portraits of Bretons who do this arduous work practically steal the show from the mollusk.

CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING. With the 1964 America's Cup races near the starting line, the armchair skipper as well as the sailor can bone up on the intricacies of the sport. Shields, a great yachtsman, writes plainly but never writes "down."

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (2 last week)

2. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1)

3. Armageddon, Uris (3)

4. Julian, Vidal (4)

5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (5)

6. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (6)

7. This Rough Magic, Stewart (7)

8. The 480, Burdick (8)

9. The Spire, Golding (9)

10. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (10)

NONFICTION

1. Harlow, Shulman (2)

2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (3)

3. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)

4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4)

5. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (5)

6. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (6)

7. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (7)

8. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (8)

9. Herbert Hoover, Lyons

10. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (9)

*All times E.D.T.

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