Wednesday, July 12 BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Maximilian Schell, Claire Bloom, Nina Foch and Ralph Bellamy in "A Time to Love," an unsettling drama of a love match thwarted by suspicion. Repeat.
THE STEVE ALLEN COMEDY HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In a spooky spoof, Allen & Co. suggest that movie musicals be based on oldtime horror films. Tim Conway, Lou Rawls, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara help Steve with the ghost songs.
Thursday, July 13
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "I Am A Soldier," John Secondari's excellent documentary, follows Captain Theodore S. Danielson as he leads Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment in combat against the Viet Cong. Repeat.
Saturday, July 15
BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 to noon). The final round of the 96th British Open, live via satellite from the Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake, with everyone gunning for Defending Champion—and U.S. Open Kingpin—Jack Nicklaus.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Deborah Kerr, a widowed Red Cross volunteer, and William Hoiden, a tough Marine commander with no use for do-gooders, fight their own wartime battle on Guadalcanal in The Proud and the Profane (1956). Repeat.
Sunday, July 16
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). "This Is the Rill Speaking," an impressionistic one-act play for six voices, about small-town life in the Ozarks.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Roy Wilkins, the executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., discusses the latest eruptions of racial violence around the U.S.
Tuesday, July 18
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "How Israel Won the War," an hour-by-hour account of the six-day "lightning war" and the events leading to it. Mike Wallace and General S.L.A. Marshall will view battle zones and discuss the war with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Army Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin.
NET PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). The Victorians: The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Barrie Ingham plays a young Lancashireman who falls victim to a London crook, is wrongly accused of forgery and sent to jail. Free again on a "ticket-of-leave" for good behavior, he sets out to track the crook and settle accounts.
THEATER
Summer festivals have become a sta ple of the theatrical scene, and Shake speare is a staple of summer festivals.
Sometimes, the Bard shares the boards with other playwrights, but most often he plays alone.
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, New York City. The outdoor theater in Cen tral Park will be the scene of King John, July 5-July 29, and Titus Andronicus, Aug. 2-Aug. 26. Ben Jonson is getting a hearing with his Volpone, performed on a mobile unit around the five boroughs until Aug. 19.
AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Morris Carnovsky is Shylock in The Merchant of Venice; Cyril Ritchard doubles as Oberon and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Maria Tucci plays the title role of Jean Anouilh's Antigone until Sept. 10. Macbeth joins the repertory July 25.