Television: Jul. 12, 1968

Friday, July 12

CBS FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.).* "I Want to Live!, Susan Hayward's Academy Award-winning performance as a girl who, they said, murdered in hot blood. Death-cell drama based on a factual California murder case.

Saturday, July 13

BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 10:30 a.m. to noon). It's the Early Birdie that catches the winning putt on this live telecast from Carnoustie Golf Links, Scotland. The 97th British Open, oldest golf championship in the world, will be rebroadcast 3:30-5 p.m.

Sunday, July 14

LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "We Will Speak, Who Will Answer?" The people of Portland, Ore., speak and answer in this second part of a series that studies the ways in which eight different cities are handling race relations, housing and other problems through community action.

Monday, July 15

ONE LIFE TO LIVE (ABC, 3:30-4 p.m.). Soap operas don't necessarily have to wash all white any more. In this new serial set in and around Philadelphia, one of the central figures is a black intern who wants to live it like it is. Premie're.

TIME FOR AMERICANS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The fourth show in this series, on "Prejudice and the Police," interviews Mayor Louie Welch of Houston, and his chief of police, shows direct confrontation with cops and members of minority communities. Psychological refereeing is provided by Drs. Melvin P. Sikes and Sidney Cleveland.

Check local listings for date and time of these NET programs:

NET JOURNAL (Shown on Mondays). "Justice and the Poor" or, more properly, injustice and the poor, is the subject of a tough-hitting documentary that shows how, all too often, the law can confuse rather than comfort the poor man.

BLACK JOURNAL (Shown on Wednesdays). This week the magazine program includes a look at all-black Roosevelt City, outside Birmingham; a report on Howard University's research on sickle-cell anemia, the debilitating blood disease indigenous to the Negro; interviews with Actor William Marshall and Playwright Ed Bullins, with an extract from the latter's A Son Comes Home; and a fascinating look at children's games compiled by Leon Bibb.

THEATER

Across North America, the festival season is in full voice, with accents ranging from Elizabethan to modern:

AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Stratford, Conn. Two comedies, As You Like It and Love's Labour's Lost, provide the light moments, while Richard II deals with weightier affairs of men and state. A dash of Shaw is offered in Androcles and the Lion. Through Sept. 15.

STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont. Romance runs rampant with Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, while Tartuffe adds Gallic spice to the Elizabethan fare. On July 22, The Three Musketeers swashbuckle their way on stage, and on July 23, some Chekhovian melancholy is introduced in The Seagull. Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot provides a 20th century touch beginning Aug. 13. The season ends Oct. 12.

CHAMPLAIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, Burlington, Vt., from July 22 through Sept. 21. Macbeth, All's Well That Ends Well, and Henry IV, Part 2, are the Shakespearean entries, counterpointed by Waiting for Godot.