Wednesday, August 9
SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* NBC Moscow Bureau Chief Kenneth Bernstein tours a frontier city of 480,000 deep inside Siberia. Repeat.
Thursday, August 10
CBS THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Sidney Poitier in his Oscar-winning role (1963) in Lilies of the Field as a footloose ex-G.I. who encounters five German nuns in the Arizona desert and winds up building their chapel.
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Is there life elsewhere in the universe? The question is explored in a journey through the heavens with the narrative aid of Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Harold Urey.
Friday, August 11
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guest Star Abbe Lane wriggles to the exotic rhythms of the Algiers casbah, while Napoleon and Illya wrest a secret code from Thrush agents. Repeat.
Saturday, August 12
AMERICAN GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Champion Al Geiberger defends his crown in the $100,000 event at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Final round, 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The first Americas-v.-Europe track meet, pitting the best from both sides of the Atlantic against each other in 31 events. From Montreal's Autostade.
Sunday, August 13
DISCOVERY '67 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). For animal lovers, it's a journey into the wonderful world of kittens, puppies, horses and all their four-legged cousins. On a tour of New York's A.S.P.C.A., viewers will see how animals are cared for at the world's biggest doghouse.
SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). Ted Williams, onetime baseball great and now a fishing demon, gives some tips on how to catch Florida's elu-I sive bonefish; from there, Host Curt Gowdy travels north to Canada for some wonderful salmon fishing with a pair of winsome lady anglers.
THE 215T CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The "Class of '01" discusses new ways to teach students in the universities of tomorrow. Repeat.
Tuesday, August 15
CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The Italians, their manners and morals, vices and virtues, are examined by Journalist, Legislator and Author Luigi Barzini, who visits an Italian wedding, funeral, opera and parade. Repeat.
THEATER
Perhaps the most significant American contribution to theatrical tradition is the musical, and there is generally at least one outstanding show even in Broadway's barren years. Some good ones, currently touring the strawhat circuit:
LAKEWOOD THEATER, Skowhegan, Me.
Half a Sixpence, based on an H. G. Wells rags-to-riches-to-rags story, stars Hal Holden as the singing and dancing cockney lad who moves blithely from one class and one fortune to another. Aug. 7-13.
MUSIC THEATER, Brunswick, Me. Funny Girl, the story of Fanny Brice, who could make men laugh more easily than make them love, until Aug. 12. Then Aug. 14-19, it will be On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Alan lay Lerner's musical trip through the worlds of the extrasensory, the clairvoyant, and the reincarnated, followed by The Music Man and his 76 trombones, Aug. 21-Sept. 2.
CAPE COD MELODY TENT, Hyannis, Mass. Dorothy Collins stars in Do I Hear a Waltz? as the spinster who finds love on the lagoons of Venice, Aug. 14-19.