Wednesday, July 30
SPECTRUM (NET, 8-8:30 p.m.).* "The Alcoholic American" looks at why people drink heavily, how it affects their lives, and what types of treatment are available.
Thursday, July 31 DEAN MARTIN PRESENTS THE GOLDDIGGERS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Cheerful stuff.
Friday, August 1
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital and almost a member of the Nixon team, Dr. John Knowles is featured on "The Right to Live," an examination of Medicare and Medicaid.
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). The New York Jets meet the best of last season's collegiate seniors at Soldier Field in Chicago.
CBS SPECIAL NEWS REPORT (CBS, 11:30 p.m. to midnight). "The President Abroad," tonight's report from New Delhi and Lahore via satellite. Saturday from Bucharest, 7:30-8:30 p.m., and a summary of the world trip on Sunday, 6-6:30 p.m.
Saturday, August 2
WESTCHESTER GOLF CLASSIC (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Top pros vie for $250,000 at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, N.Y. (Finals Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m.)
Sunday, August 3
A.A.U. INTERNATIONAL TRACK AND FIELD (CBS, 3:30-4:30 p.m.). Western Hemisphere athletes v. Europe, from Stuttgart, West Germany.
Monday, August 4
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). "Ferment and the Catholic Church."
Tuesday, August 5
DON'T COUNT THE CANDLES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Lord Snowdon's Emmy-winning essay on aging is perhaps the most outstanding documentary from last season.
STRAW HAT
The charm of a familiar tune or the lure of a new melody will draw summer the atergoers to barns, tents and playhouses this week:
SKOWHEGAN, ME. Lakewood Theater. Essentially a family album of George M. Co han's music, George M! gives its regrets to Broadway for an era that has passed; it's the sort of show to which the audience comes already humming the songs, most of which hold up remarkably well.
Hal Holden stars.
HYANNIS, MASS. Cape Cod Melody Tent.
Petite Molly Picon, who played the role on Broadway, leads a band of widows searching for second love in Israel, the land of Milk and Honey.
NEW FAIRFIELD, CONN. Candlewood Play house. Rodgers and Hart's caddish antihero, Pal Joey, picks up a girl as easily as he orders a drink. Arlene Francis plays the rich lady who picks up the tab.
LATHAM, N.Y. Colonie Summer Theater.
In the new musical Hello, Sucker, Mar tha Raye plays Texas Guinan, famed speak-times E.D.T. easy hostess of the '20s, whose forthright greeting gives the show its name. Wilson Stone created the score for this pre-Broadway show, with story line by Larry Marks and Robert Ennis Touroff.
WOODSTOCK, N.Y. Playhouse. Maine is fast becoming everybody's favorite aunt —at least since Charley's—attacking every adventure from fox hunting to mountain climbing with uncompromising verve.
GREENPORT, L.I. Summer Playhouse. Adam and Eve face newlywed adjustments, a warrior must choose between his love and a tiger, and a chimney sweep is transformed into a movie star in The Apple Tree, three episodes with music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, the team who did Fiddler on the Roof.