TELEVISION
Wednesday, June 1
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Irate Manhattan citizens form a vigilante committee to fight a series of robberies and muggings in elevators. Their attempts to relive the Old West on the Upper East Side do not give Chief Assistant District Attorney Robert Ryan a lift.
Thursday, June 2
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Experiment in Terror has Bank Teller Lee Remick practically cashiered by a psychopathic embezzler, but G-Man Glenn Ford withdraws her.
Friday, June 3
LONDON PALLADIUM SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). No. 2 in a series of six shows in the music hall. Kate Smith is a moony mountain of an M.C.
COURT MARTIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett, perhaps nostalgic for the good old days of The Defenders and The Nurses, guest-stars as an Army nurse involved in a murder trial.
AGES OF MAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Part 1 of Sir John Gielgud's Shakespeare.
Saturday, June 4
THE BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The 98th running of the racing classic, third event in the Triple Crown, live from Aqueduct Race Track, Ozone Park, N.Y.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Gymnastics Championships in Bartlesville, Okla.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:25 p.m.). Please Don't Eat the Daisies, the winceable film version of Jean Kerr's bestselling book about elf-life in Larchmont. Doris Day and David Niven manage to turn sweetness and light to Sucaryl and glare.
Sunday, June 5
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "The Year of the Rookie," first of a series of 15 shows featuring highlights of the past National Football League season. Premiere.
RED CHINA: YEAR OF THE GUN? (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A documentary that includes color film footage recently shot in China and interviews with assorted China experts. Repeat.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "What a Way to Run a Railroad," a report on new superspeed trains around the world. Repeat.
THE AGE OF KENNEDY (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Part 2 of NBC's White Paper covers the years in the White House.
Monday, June 6
THE KRAFT SUMMER MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Singer John Davidson is host of this new musical-variety series which will include, as regulars, Comedian George Carlin, Singers Jackie and Gayle, the Five King Cousins and the Lively Set. Premiere.
THE AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).
U.N.C.L.E. may end up crying aunt as Steed (Patrick Macnee) and his partner Mrs. Peel (Diana Rigg) kick up all kinds of heels on this fine British import series.
Tuesday, June 7
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Anti-Americans," an attempt to measure the image again, this time using Mexico, Thailand, Russia and England as standard-branders.
THEATER On Broadway
IVANOV is the first of the Chekhovian unheroic heroes, who fall not from grace to sin but from enthusiasm to ennui, who do not so much lose their souls as their spirit. John Gielgud's listless acting and direction unfortunately seem infected with a similar malaise.