Television: Jul. 22, 1966

Wednesday, July 20

SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*NBC News focuses on the sprawling Siberian city, 2,600 miles from Moscow, a once frontier trade center which now boasts close to 500,000 inhabitants and a building boom. Concentrating on the people who have helped build the city, NBC interviews a woman surgeon and a Trans-Siberian Railroad engineer.

Friday, July 22

SUMMER FUN (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Seven different comedy shows fill in until fall, and the first stars Cliff Arquette as a contraption-inventing druggist in "McNab's Lab."

WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT THE WESTERNS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). To judge from the number of westerns this week, they picked the proper time.

Saturday, July 23

P.G.A. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Jack Nicklaus and his buddies knock it around for $150,000 in the last of pro golf's Big Four tournaments, at Firestone Country Club, Akron. Continued on Sunday 5-7 p.m.

Sunday, July 24

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Off to Kenya's Nairobi National Game Park to examine Africa's vanishing wild life and the efforts being made to preserve it.

SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). The hunt includes "Wyoming, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play" and "Arctic Goose Hunt."

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Woman Doctor in Viet Nam" tells of Dr. Pat Smith's war against disease among the Montagnard tribesmen in the central highlands. Repeat.

LASSIE (CBS, 7-7:30 p.m.). The doggie-wonder goes it alone with an all-animal cast in this humanless, narrationless, dialogueless Lassie-venture. Repeat.

Tuesday, July 26

CBS NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Belgium." Robert Trout does a study of those "everything included" package tours.

THEATER

Straw Hat As usual, summer theaters consist of young aspiring actors entirely surrounded by a few Broadway veterans and hordes of movie-TV refugees with more or less recognizable names. Some of the names:

OGUNQUIT, ME., Ogunquit Playhouse: Dennis Weaver in the comedy-mystery Catch Me If You Can.

FALMOUTH, MASS., Falmouth Playhouse: The Bronx seeks cooler climes with Gertrude Berg in Dear Me, the Sky Is Falling.

WESTBURY, N.Y., New Westbury Music Fair: Jayne Mansfield adds an exclamation point to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

SYRACUSE, Famous Artist Playhouse: Durward Kirby plays a perplexed father in The Impossible Years, a product of the past Broadway season.

NYACK, N.Y., Tappan Zee Playhouse: June Allyson is trying out a new play called Good-By Ghost.

PHILADELPHIA, Playhouse in the Park: Life with Father starring Tom Ewell as good old Dad.

NEW HOPE, PA., Bucks County Playhouse: The later, but not at all declining years of Eleanor of Aquitaine are chronicled in Lion in Winter, with Colleen Dewhurst as the queen and George C. Scott as King Henry II.

WARREN, OHIO, Kenley Players: Juliet Prowse boop-boop-bee-doops it in The Boy Friend.

KANSAS CITY, MO., Starlight Theater: Betty White plays the role that Judy Holliday made famous in the 1956 musical Bells Are Ringing.