television

THURSDAY: Richard III. (1955) Laurence Olivier as the villainous Duke of Gloucester heads an all-star cast in the film he directed of the William Shakespeare play. CH. 2. 8 p.m. Color. 3 hrs.

The Virgin Spring. (1960) Max von Sydow and Birgitta Valberg in Ingmar Bergman's Oscar-winning allegory of rape and homicide in the 14th century. CH. 38. 11 p.m. B-W. 90 min.

FRIDAY: Beckett. (1964) Peter O'Toole was the only actor ever to win two Oscars for the same role, Henry II, in this film and in "The Lion in Winter." Richard Burton portrays the Archbishop of Canterbury in this intelligent and energetic history. CH. 7. 11:30 p.m. Color. 2 hrs.

Screening Room. On the 75th birthday of acclaimed Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, Harvard professor Vladimir Petric, a noted expert on Eisenstein's films, discusses clips from "Ivan the Terrible," "Alexander Nevsky," "October," "General Line," and "Strike." CH. 5. 1:05 a.m. Color. 90 min.

The 400 Blows. (1959) Where the French Nouvelle Vague got its start (more or less). Director Francois Truffaut based the delinquent character Antoine on his own childhood recollections. CH. 5. 2:35 a.m. G-W. 2 hrs.

SATURDAY: Son of Frankenstein. (1939) Third of the famous Frankenstein series leads off Classic Horror with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. B-W. 90 min.

The Ghost of Frankenstein. (1942) Classic Horror II presents the fourth installment of the Frankenstein series with Lugosi as Ygor and Lon Chaney as the monster. CH. 5. 1 a.m. B-W. 90 min.

SUNDAY: Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John. Raymond Burr stars as Pope John XXIII in this Easter inspirational about saving little Jewish children from the Nazis. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color. 60 min.

MONDAY: Adventures of Don Quixote. Rex Harrison as the Knight of the Woeful Countenance. The score for this acclaimed special written by Oscar winner Michel Legrand. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs.

TUESDAY: CBS Playhouse. "The Lie," a TV drama written by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, stars George Segal and Shirley Hopkins as a suburban couple whose 10-year marriage is on the rocks. CH. 7. 9:30 p.m. Color. 1 hr. 50 min.

WEDNESDAY: Intermezzo. (1939) Ingrid Bergman's first American role in a love story adopted from an earlier Swedish film has her playing next to Leslie Howard in a bittersweet affair between a concert violinist and a young pianist. CH. 5 8:30 p.m. B-W. 90 min.