Wednesday, August 14
ABC WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* A New Kind of Love (1963). Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Maurice Chevalier in a romantic comedy about a playboy correspondent and a standoffish career girl in Paris.
Friday, August 16
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Young adults representing a cross section of opinion discuss the nation's unrest. Edwin Newman moderates. Last of a four-part series.
Saturday, August 17
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The 100-mile U.S. Auto Club Championship for big, Indianapolis-type racers. Live, from Springfield, Ill.
Sunday, August 18
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Atomic Medicine." What nuclear scientists at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratories are doing to harness the atom for medicine.
ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m. to midnight). Cecil B. DeMille's Academy Award-winning The Greatest Show on Earth (1953), with Charlton Heston, James Stewart, Betty Mutton, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour, and a three-ring supporting cast of circus performers.
Monday, August 19
N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). The Chicago Bears and World Champion Green Bay Packers limber up for the coming pro football season. From Milwaukee.
Tuesday, August 20
SINGER PRESENTS THE SOUNDS OF '68 (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Ed Ames hosts a pop-music special featuring nine finalists of a summer-long talent hunt. Soul Singer Aretha Franklin is guest star.
Check local listings for dates and times of these NET programs:
BLACK JOURNAL. Included in this month's "black magazine" are stories on the semantics of color, a profile of Negro Film Director Melvin Van Peebles, and a report on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which four years ago challenged the all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention and this year joins a Mississippi coalition of dissidents to renew its appeal.
NET JOURNAL. "Never a Backward Step." Documentary on Lord Thomson, whose press empire comprises 149 papers in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Thomson discusses the press with Media Medium Marshall McLuhan and conducts an interview with Stalinist Antonin Novotny while he was President of Czechoslovakia.
THEATER
Straw Hat
Laughter is welcome any time of year, especially as an antidote to summer doldrums. Some of the comedies scheduled for this week:
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS., Berkshire Theater Festival. Elaine May, Woody Allen and Terrence McNally each contribute one-acters to Next, featuring Gabriel Dell, James Coco and Arnold Stang.
OGUNQUIT, MAINE, Playhouse. Vivian Vance plays a do-gooder, named Mother of the Year, with five sons in P.W. camps, in Everybody's Girl, a new work by John Patrick (Teahouse of the August Moon). Complications spring from the fact that she's never been married.