Wednesday, September 20 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Diller, Kaye Stevens and Jack Jones join Old Ski Nose for his first show of the season.
HE & SHE (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Happiness is not being a New York landlord, as Paula Prentiss and Dick Benjamin discover in the latest chapter of this marital situation comedy.
DUNDEE AND THE CULHANE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). As if one fight weren't enough, in the midst of an Indian raid, Dundee (John Mills) stages a retrial of a lost case with the trapped Indian fighters as gallery in "Dead Man's Brief."
Thursday, September 21 IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). In "The Leaf in the Forest," Raymond Burr as Robert T. Ironside ensnares a psychopathic strangler who preys on lonely old women. Eve Whitfield, disguised as a 70-year-old spinster, acts as foil.
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:30 p.m.). 1960's Academy Award winner, The Apartment, with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.
GOOD COMPANY (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Attorney F. Lee Bailey casts his cross-examiner's eye on the living habits of Playboy Prince Hugh Hefner at home in his 48-room Chicago pad.
Friday, September 22
OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Filmed at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in South Africa, "Rhino" recounts the capture of two rare white rhinos and other veld-roaming wild beasts in danger of extinction. Harry Guardino, Shirley Eaton and Robert Gulp star.
CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). John Ford's classic western, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), with James Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Vera Miles.
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). In "The Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet," four pairs of stars from four performing arts interpret the famous balcony scene: Jason Robards and Claire Bloom (theater), Sandor Konya and Anna Moffo (opera), Erik Bruhn and Carla Fracci (ballet), Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence (American musical theater).
Saturday, September 23 MANNIX (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In "Skid Marks on a Dry Run," a politician hires Mannix (Mike Connors) to do a "dry run" investigation on him, anticipating that his political opponent might try to discredit him. Instead of vindicating the politician, Mannix discovers that he is Mafia-connected.
Sunday, September 24
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE DOUBLEHEADER (NBC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The Boston Patriots v. the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo, and the New York Jets v. the Den ver Broncos in Denver.
THE 21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.).
Part I of a two-part series about the impact of "The Computer Revolution" on today's society. This segment looks at an air-traffic-control center, computerized steel mill and typesetting machines.
HOLIDAY ON ICE (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Jonathan Winters hosts the ice-travaganza featuring such figure-skating champions as The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra and Germany's Marika Kilius and Hans-Jurgen Baumler. From Frankfurt's Festhalle.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (ABC, 8-11:30 p.m.). Marlon Brando as Mr. Christian, with Trevor Howard, Richard Harris and Hugh Griffith (1962).