Television: Feb. 14, 1964

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Wednesday, February 12 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).Those zany British "Beyond the Fringers"—Jonathan Miller, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore—offer a spoof of Jules Verne's 1864 novel From the Earth to the Moon.

Thursday, February 13

PERRY COMO'S KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Guests are Dean Martin and Lena Home.

Friday, February 14

THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Guests are Julie London, Anne Bancroft and Janet Leigh.

Saturday, February 15 DO YOU KNOW? (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). The study of archaeology, based on two books by Ronald Jessup and Dorothy and Joseph Samachson. CHALLENGE GOLF (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Arnold Palmer and Gary Player challenge Tony Lema and Phil Rogers at the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas. Color. THE BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). For his second special this season, Bing has recruited Wife Kathryn, Singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney, and Comedian Bob Hope.

Sunday, February 16

FRONTIERS OF FAITH (NBC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Dr. Hagen Staack, professor of religion at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa., discusses Joshua.

ISSUES AND ANSWERS (ABC, 2:30-3 p.m.). Guest: Governor Rockefeller.

PARIS: A STORY OF HIGH FASHION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The secret and hysterical preparations behind a couturier's presentation, filmed at Pierre Cardin's salon as he got ready for his current collection. Color.

Monday, February 17

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The use of film as a propaganda instrument.

THEATER On Broadway AFTER THE FALL. Arthur Miller's return to the stage, after more than eight years of silence, is a torrent of self-revelation. The Furies who pursue the playwright are chiefly his mother and Marilyn Monroe, his second wife. Miller's version of the truth of these relationships is morally and artistically questionable but fascinating.

DYLAN chronicles the U.S. reading-tour years of Dylan Thomas' expiring life, when the poet was already posthumous but the hell raiser was very much alive.

In a display of his own greatness, Alec Guinness conveys the special hell from which the man found no exit.

HELLO, DOLLY! Clowning Carol Channing promotes a mismatch into an apparently matchless duo in this handsome, happy musical of yesteryear New York.

NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS. By adding nonstop wit and a lovable caddishness to the standard picture of a TV wheelerdealer, Playwright Ronald Alexander has boosted the industry's ratings—at least on Broadway's laugh meter.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon, spends most of its time five flights up in the company of a couple of six-day newlyweds who are warming their Manhattan flat with love and tiffs, and furnishing it with zany laughter.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, by Peter Shaffer, listen attentively and watch sympathetically as the young and the not-so-young cope with the pangs, hopes, defeats, comedies, illusions and tenacities of love.