television

THURSDAY: Advocates. Discussion of the three-year strike of the United Farm Workers led by Cesar Chavez against California iceberg lettuce growers. CH. 2. 8 p.m. Color. 60 min.

FRIDAY: Sticks and Bones. Special presentation of Tony award-winning drama about a blinded Vietnam veteran's haunted memories. CH. 7.9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. (Cancelled by CBS-ed.)

Liza with a Z. The Pud's Woman of the Year puts on a one-woman-of-the-year concert. Taped last May in New York. CH. 4.9 p.m. Color. 60 min.

Screening Room. Guests include Standish Lawder, Luce Visiting Professor of Film Study, and film maker Robert Nelson. Films: "Grateful Dead," "Off Hand Jape." CH. 5. 1:05 a.m. Color. 90 min.

SATURDAY: Long Day's Journey Into Night. Sir Laurence Olivier highlights an all-star British cast in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical play. CH. 5.8 p.m. Color. 3 hrs.

Topkapi. (1964). Merlina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov in a captivating caper about the theft of a gem-crusted dagger from an Istanbul museum. CH. 4. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. 30 min.

SUNDAY: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-up Zombies (1965). What can I say? CH. 38. 1:30 p.m. Color. 90 min.

Duty Bound. Glenn Brook (Ben Masters) returns from self-imposed exile to stand trial for draft evasion. In court, he requests amnesty on moral grounds. The television audience is asked to act as Brook's jury. CH. 4. 2 p.m. Color. 60 min.

There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown. A new Peanuts installment including an ill-starred museum field trip. CH. 7. 7:30 p.m. Color. 30 min.

MONDAY: The Singing Whale. Jacques Cousteau's amateur hour features the hit singing group: Humpback Whales. Filmed off Bermuda. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color. 60 min.

Wild Strawberries. (1958). Victor Seastrom plays an old man reliving his youth in one of Bergman's best. CH. 38. 11 p.m. B-W. 90 min.