Wednesday, November 17 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* In "Russian Roulette," Hope stars as a famous comedian helplessly embroiled in a sinister spy plot during a cultural exchange visit in Moscow. Color.

I SPY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Agent Robinson falls in love with a beautiful magazine photographer, but his partner believes that murder is her goal. Color.

Thursday, November 18 CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Glenn Ford and Lee Remick in Experiment in Terror, a suspense drama about a criminal's campaign of fear against two sisters.

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Melvyn Douglas as the defense attorney and Ed Begley as the prosecutor in Inherit the Wind, the Scopes-trial drama of Broadway and movie fame. Color.

Friday, November 19 THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). 'The Cherry Blossom Affair." A Japanese film producer helps Solo and Illya search for a new Thrush device that is designed to frighten countries prone to volcanic eruptions. Color.

Saturday, November 20 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). A preview of the Nov. 22 Clay-Patterson World Heavyweight Championship fight, including film clips of their last fights and interviews with the principals.

TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Attorney O'Brien (Peter Falk) defends a man accused of murdering his cousin, in "Charlie's Got All the Luck."

GET SMART! (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). "Our Man in Leotards." A secret drug is stolen from CONTROL by a leaping thief, and Secret Agent 86 suspects a renowned Latin American ballet dancer. Color.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Please Don't Eat the Daisies, with Doris Day and David Niven, is about a drama critic who runs into trouble when a musical-comedy star takes a fancy to him. Color.

Sunday, November 21 THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner in Say One for Me, about a Broadway priest. Color.

Tuesday, November 23 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Tunnel of Love, with Doris Day and Richard Widmark. A young suburban couple pose as the epitome of respectability in their desperate attempt to adopt a baby.

THEATER

On Broadway THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, by Peter Shaffer, an eye-filling theatrical spectacular set in 16th century Peru, is fine when it sticks to tableaux of weary conquista dors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning.

GENERATION. "Do-it-yourself" is the operative philosophy of a resolutely anticon-formist young couple in a Greenwich Village loft. They even plan to deliver their own baby--until Father-in-law Henry Fonda flies in from Chicago, thwarts their plans and charms the audience.

HALF A SIXPENCE "is better than none" is Tommy Steele's theme in this younger-than-springtime musical, and the ubiquitous Steele is better than most of the breed as the singing-dancing-banjo-playing Kipps, a rags-to-riches-to-rags hero.

THE ODD COUPLE is odd indeed, as an impulsive slob and his compulsively antiseptic pal set up an all-male household after their wives have left them. Spats and laughs are the daily routine.

LUV. A trio of psychic swingers try to worry themselves and each other to death as they trade neuroses and woes in Murray Schisgal's satire.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Bill Manhoff pits a prudish book clerk against a free-living prostitute and injects each round with hilarity as the flesh triumphs over the spirit.

Off Broadway

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's minor-key drama strikes a tragic note as a longshoreman defies family tradition and society's mores because of an incestuous love for his niece.

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The fun and games that lurk beneath even the bleak surface of Depression and War are replayed in a revue of the lesser-known tunes in the Porter portfolio.

RECORDS

Folk Music JOAN BAEZ: FAREWELL, ANGELINA (Vanguard). Time and tax debts have not diminished Baez's haunting voice one iota, but they have changed her material. Forsaking her early ballads, she now warbles four Dylan tunes (including It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall), launches into French, and sings Where Have AH the Flowers Gone in German--as if her English would offend.

BOB DYLAN: HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED (Columbia). Having breathed new strife into folk music's repertoire, Dylan's muse seems a little winded, and some of his new delirious diatribes have a wheezy, hollow sound. Devotees will still enjoy his rasping version of his hit tune, Like a Rolling Stone, as well as his eleven-minute talking blues, Desolation Row, where "everybody is making love or else expecting rain."

TOM PAXTON: AIN'T THAT NEWS! (Elektra). Like many another contemporary folknik, Paxton writes his own songs rather than searching Appalachia for old, impoverished ones. The result is a running satire pegged on today's headlines. With a precise, Midwest enunciation and simple guitar accompaniment, he sings out against everything from Mississippi injustice to the subliminal threat of war toys.

DONOVAN: CATCH THE WIND (Hickory). At 19, Donovan (born Donovan Leitch) is already known as the British Dylan for his original composition, his crude, nasal voice and whining harmonica. Unlike Dylan, he is more blue than bitter, ignores contemporary complaints to mine the more traditional folk lode--unrequited love, loneliness and rootless ramblings.

THE WEAVERS: REUNION AT CARNEGIE HALL, PART 2 (Vanguard). If anyone has forgotten that the Weavers were once the pharaohs of folk, here is fresh proof. Recorded at a concert in 1963, this new release includes Frozen Logger, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Old Smoky and Rock Island Line, plus a ditty called I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter--bomb shelter, that is.

JUDY COLLINS' FIFTH ALBUM (Elektra). Armed with a powerful, needle-sharp alto, Judy Collins tilts against modern windmills--superhighways, jet planes--eloquently defends Negro riots and sit-ins in the name of civil rights, and pierces through to the heart of the poetry in Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man.

PETER, PAUL AND MARY: SEE WHAT TOMORROW BRINGS (Warner Bros.). Contrary to the prophecy of cynics, PP&M have stuck together in spite of marriages, babies and success. But, except for two songs that recall their former magic (The Rising of the Moon, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), their latest recording suggests that they have about played out their tune.

CINEMA JULIET OF THE SPIRITS. Marital infidelity activates the subconscious of Actress Giulietta Masina in this psychic three-ring circus staged with unbuttoned gusto by Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2), the Barnum of the avantgarde.

NEVER TOO LATE. Repeating their Broadway comedy roles in what sometimes seems to be slow motion, Maureen O'Sullivan and Paul Ford are nonetheless winning as an old married pair with an unscheduled pregnancy.

KING RAT. A cunning G.I. scavenger (George Segal) exploits his fellow prisoners of war for profit in Director Bryan Forbes's brutal, unforgettable essay on the morality of survival in a Japanese prison camp. Among those caught in the conman's toils, James Fox and Tom Courtenay struggle most impressively.

REPULSION. Men pursue a sexually repressed London manicurist (Catherine Deneuve) but seldom live to tell it in a horror classic by Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water).

THE HILL. More World War II injustice rages through a British army stockade in North Africa, where Sean Connery is the much-abused prisoner.

THE RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama is fired by a major talent: Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style), who plays the title role as an endearingly wrongheaded train engineer beset by commonplace woes.

TO DIE IN MADRID. Such passionate non-partisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work of art.

KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend him.

DARLING. Julie Christie is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity as a kooky, easy jet-set playgirl whose every misstep helps in the social climb.

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. Big money, beautiful women and sudden death await an ignorant peasant (played by Spain's Matador Miguel Mateo) in an angry, bloody drama about the bullring.

BOOKS

Best Reading THE CENTURY OF THE DETECTIVE, by Jiirgen Thorwald. The author of The Century of the Surgeon expertly follows the fascinating history of criminology, illustrating it with a gallery of grisly crimes.

RUSSIA AND HISTORY'S TURNING POINT, by Alexander Kerensky. An intriguing though somewhat sketchy eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution as seen by its first Prime Minister.

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. The first complete collection of stories by the author of Ship of Fools confirms her standing as a master stylist but suggests that her art is often wanting in human warmth.

BLOOD ON THE DOVES, by Maude Hutchins. An eerie journey into the depths of an insane mind, told with a skill that transforms psychiatry into living literature.

THE LIFE OF DYLAN THOMAS, by Constantine FitzGibbon. The Welsh poet's penchant for mooching, thievery, drunkenness and womanizing is not spared; yet this fine biography is an affectionate portrait of the man "who may have sponged on his friends economically, but spiritually it was more the other way about."

CONVERSATIONS WITH BERENSON, recalled by Count Umberto Morra, translated by Florence Hammond. The century's most celebrated connoisseur of Italian painting was also a dazzling conversationalist whose aphorisms and tidbits of gossip fortunately were recorded for posterity by Count Morra.

PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (2) 3. The Honey Badger, Ruark (3) 4. Those Who Love, Stone (10) 5. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart (4) 6. Hotel, Hailey (6) 7. The Man with the Golden Gun, Fleming (5) 8. The Green Berets, Moore (9) 9. Thomas, Mydans 10. The Looking Glass War, le Carre (7)

NONFICTION 1. Kennedy, Sorensen (1) 2. The Making of the President, 1964, White (4) 3. Games People Play, Berne (5) 4. Yes I Can, Davis and Boyar (6) 5. Intern, Doctor X (3) 6. A Gift of Prophecy, Montgomery (2) 7. Waging Peace, Eisenhower 8. Is Paris Burning? Collins and Lapierre (7) 9. Manchild in the Promised Land, Brown (9) 10. My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy, Lincoln (8)

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