TELEVISION

TODAY

Invisible Man. This new series started out a little better than most. David McCallum plays a conscientious scientist working on important research, but when it's a success and his thinktank decides to sell it to the Pentagon, he turns the research on himself and destroys the project. The project: invisibility. You might think its a big breakthrough for television to be dealing with such a controversial issue. But, when the students of the real issues are napalm-makers and poison gas developers aren't working on invisibility, they're working on laser-beam weapons and accurate nuclear weapons. But those aren't good for the story line, and after all, now the invisible man can infiltrate foreign embassies and exact his own form of foreign policy in a neitschian sort of way, (although the moral black and white of T.V. will never make that clear) as he does this week. Ch. 4, 8 p.m., 1 hour.

About Charles Ives. Ives seems like a pretty complex character--an insurance salesman who felt his work helped him "dig a little in real life," and a musician who celebrated in his works such diverse aspects of Americana as the transcend-entalists and the first and second world wars. He admired Emerson and once wrote that he "plunges to all roots at once." And it seems like maybe a profile of Ives could do the same thing, only the roots may be nearer the surface and the plunge could hurt if the profile is well done. Ch. 2, 8 p.m., 1 1/2 hours.

Notre Dame vs. Boston College. This is an opportunity for some freshmen to sit around drinking beer and accounting high school sports exploits; more significantly it is an opportunity to see who will eschew such male-oriented events for meeting people of both sexes.

TUESDAY

Good Morning! Sometime during your four years you will come up against this show, and now is the most painless time to do it. The hosts, John Willis and Janet Langhart are two facile, smiling zombies and perhaps their interview with Seymour Hersh, who reveals such people in the government, will reveal more about them. Ch. 5, 9 a.m. 1 hour.

WEDNESDAY

NBC News Special. Reporting on the Wyman-Durkin election run-off in New Hampshire on Tuesday. Read Why Wiley Will Win on the Ed Page today. Ch. 4, 11:30 p.m.

Good Morning! Again, I don't know why, but if they're shallow hosts, they have good subjects, especially for T.V. This time a feature on the problems women face in college. Could be interesting. Ch. 5. 9 a.m.

THURSDAY

Seven Days in May. One of Burt Lancaster's best performances about a military coup in the United States that flounders only because the general has an impeachable background (a woman), and the White House threatens to use it against him. Still very tense and even a little scary in its implications. Rod Serling wrote the script based on the novel by Knebel Bailey. I think the real credit goes to Bailey; Serling just knows a good thing when he sees it and only occasionally when he writes it. Ch. 56, 8 p.m., 2 1/2 hours. Black and white.