TELEVISION
Wednesday, August 11 ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "VD: Epidemic!" A report on the resurgence of venereal disease in the U.S. Repeat.
Thursday, August 12
THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Redford plays an escaped convict trying to prove his innocence. Repeat.
Friday, August 13
INTERNATIONAL BEAUTY SPECTACULAR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Finals of the weeklong International Beauty Pageant in Long Beach, Calif., with representatives of 50 states and 50 foreign countries competing for the title of Miss International Beauty.
Saturday, August 14
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Third round of the golf classic from the Laurel Valley Country Club in Ligonier, Pa.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Trial, MGM's 1955 film about a university instructor (Glenn Ford) who defends a young boy (Rafael Campos) accused of murder.
Sunday, August 15
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 4-6 p.m.). Final rounds.
NBC SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). World Surfing Championships at Waikiki and Kontiki, mountain climbing in the Peruvian Andes. Color.
THE TALL AMERICAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A Project-20 portrait of Gary Cooper, including film clips from old movies and home movies. Repeat.
Monday, August 16
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Thrush agents plan brain surgery on Napoleon Solo in "The Green Opal Affair." Repeat.
SUMMER PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Another pilot that never became a series—this one stars Mercedes McCambridge as a college sorority housemother.
Tuesday, August 17
TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Never So Few (MGM, 1959) stars Frank Sinatra as a World War II captain in North Burma. To see how M-G-M gets a marble-tub bath scene by Gina Lollobrigida into the film is one reason to see it.
THEATER
Though many marquees go dark in summer, some of the most worthwhile shows of recent seasons stay on to enliven the doldrums. Highlights:
On Broadway
THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Director George Keathley's revival of Tennessee Williams' autobiographical story vividly re-creates the death of a family's dreams and the birth of a writer.
HALF A SIXPENCE, a musical minted from H. G. Wells's Kipps, gets its glitter from Tommy Steele, a toothy grin that sings and dances with the infectious exuberance of a young cockney Chevalier.
THE ODD COUPLE. Walter Matthau and Art Carney, on leave from unhappy marriages, try to set up a menage a deux, and their farcical failure makes hugely successful comedy.
LUV. Murray Schisgal displays three contemporary ids indulging in a slapstick conversational orgy, in the process brilliantly satirizes the playwrights of the absurd.
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In this screechingly funny comedy, Diana Sands is more panther than puss as a prostitute who unstuffs a stuffy clerk (Alan Alda).
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel gives body to a spirited hit musical derived from Sholom Aleichem's tale of Tevye and his five daughters, their joys and troubles in a czarist Russian village. Mostel will be replaced by Luther Adler Aug. 16.
Off Broadway