Best Sellers: Jul. 30, 1965

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Wednesday, July 28

ABC SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "Westerns, European Style," a documentary featuring the filming of The Sheriff Doesn't Shoot, a Spanish-Italian cowboy picture being made at Rome's Cinecitta.

Thursday, July 29

THE DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Emlyn Williams and Ossie Davis in a drama about a murderer who bases a plea of self-defense on extrasensory perception. Repeat.

Saturday, July 31

FIFTH ANNUAL AMERICAN-SOVIET TRACK MEET (ABC, approximately 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live from Kiev via Early Bird satellite.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Leo Durocher-san will try out his Japanese lip giving the play-byplay of the Japanese All-Star baseball game in Tokyo.

Sunday, August 1

AMERICAN-SOVIET TRACK MEET (ABC, approximately 12:30-1:30 p.m.). See above.

NBC'S SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The famous Etonian "Wall Game" from England and the National Collegiate Rodeo from Laramie, Wyo.

THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Gambit by the Golden Gate," an episode in which Marcel St. Clair (Charles Boyer) tries to appropriate a painting from an art collector (Broderick Crawford). Repeat.

Monday, August 2

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Madlyn Rhue guest-stars as a desperate lovely who asks Solo and Illya for H.E.L.P. Repeat.

THEATER

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The usual formula for warm-weather theater is as fluffy as cotton candy. But in a few playhouses, more substantial offerings can be found.

BOOTHBAY, ME., Boothbay Playhouse: The Physicists. Three atomic scientists in an insane asylum try to outmad each other. Swiss Playwright Friedrich Duerrenmatt probes the problem of the trio's moral responsibility for the destructiveness of their discoveries.

NEW HAVEN, CONN., Long Wharf Theater: The Hostage. The late Irish playwright and scourge Brendan Behan is at his bawdy best, using ribald humor to outrage and amuse—and to reveal the depths beneath human shenanigans—in the story of a young English soldier kept as hostage by the I.R.A. in a Dublin brothel.

BROCKPORT, N.Y., Arts Festival: J.B. Archibald MacLeish's contemporary version of the Book of Job is dramatically striking and philosophically provoking as he searches for the brand of faith to sustain modern man in the face of stunning disasters.

MIDDLESEX, N.J., Foothill Playhouse: The Night of the Iguana is spent in the heart of the Mexican jungle—and of the human condition—by a typically tormented Tennessee Williams quartet. The intensity of the drama is more focused and frightening in its original stage form than in last year's screen version.

GETTYSBURG, PA., Summer Theater: The Playboy of the Western World is a timid young Irishman whose moments of rebellion earn him first adulation and then scorn. John Synge's 40-year-old comedy remains an ironic and telling tale.

MIDDLETOWN, VA., Wayside Theater: The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's dramatization of the struggle of Annie Sullivan to unlock the mind of the deaf-mute and blind child Helen Keller has become an enduring parable of perseverance and courage.