Wednesday, July 13
BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Highest Fall of All" has Stuart Whitman as a Hollywood stuntman trying to stay alive through a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge while his wife, played by Joan Hackett, tries to kill herself in the bathtub. Repeat.
Thursday, July 14
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). A bee taller than a man and a bird the size of a B-17 are Jules Verne's way of upscreening Michael Craig, Michael Callan and Gary Merrill in Mysterious Island.
Friday, July 15
WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT GEORGE BURNS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Not to mention Gracie Allen, Jack Benny, Bea Benadaret, Harry von Zell, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Bobby Darin, Carol Channing and Sergio Franchi.
Saturday, July 16
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Danny Kaye plays Jazzman Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols in The Five Pennies, a Hollywood biography that also manages to find "real life" roles for Barbara Bel Geddes, Harry Guardino, Louis Armstrong, Bob Crosby and Tuesday Weld.
THE HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Kate Smith is the hostess, and among her guests is Charles Aznavour. Repeat.
MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Some day this annual event will be broadcast from Venus with a bunch of Martians presiding, but in the meantime viewers will have to be content with Miami Beach, Pat Boone, June Lockhart and Jack Linkletter. In color for the first time, though.
Sunday, July 17
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). A repeat of professional tennis, with Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall showing the amateurs how to play the game, National Football League highlights from last year, plus a live broadcast of the Hollywood Gold Cup horse race from Hollywood Park, Calif.
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). "Black Marlin of Peru," "Arctic Fishing" and "Game Birds of Ireland" are on the agenda.
THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Best of Everything was rated just about the worst of anything when it first attempted to cram Hope Lange, Suzy Parker, Martha Hyer and Joan Crawford into Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel about girls who get their jobs through the New York Times and their kicks from Modern Romances. Now that it's dated, it's too funny to miss.
Tuesday, July 19 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). MGM, which in its golden years brought forth Boys Town and Andy Hardy and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, saw a new vision in 1960, called it Where the Boys Are. The town was Fort Landerdale, and one of the boys was George Hamilton.
THEATER
On Broadway
MAME was hilarious in a book, ebullient in a play, a delight on the screen, and in this musical she can sing and dance too. Angela Lansbury plays the most famous aunt since Jemima, with a winning mixture of the maternal and mad-hat.
PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! Irish Playwright Brian Friel, knowing that every man is his own toughest critic and most devoted fan, uses two actors to play the inner and outer selves of a youth torn between nostalgia and expectation on the eve of his departure for America. The device is stunning and absorbing.