Today

Sonya Hamlin. Muckrakers Woodward and Bernstein discuss Watergate and plug their book. ch. 4, 9 a.m. 1 hour.

The Way it Was. The first in a series of 13 flashbacks to "sports events that made history." Tonight: The Giant's Robby Thomson beats the Brooklyn Dodgers with his home run heard around the world in the 1951 National League playoffs. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour.

Men Who Made the Movies. One of critic Richard Schickel's first-rate portraits of film directors and their work. Tonight: Howard Hawks ("The Dawn Patro," "Red River," "To Have and Have Not," "The Big Sleep.") Ch. 44, 8 p.m. 1 hour.

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man [1939]. W.C. Fields. Ch. 38, 10 p.m. B/W, 1 1/2 hours.

FRIDAY

Bullit [1968]. Fair detective movie, great chase scene. Ch. 7, 8:30 p.m. Color, 2 hours.

SATURDAY

Baseball Play-off. The Dodgers vs. the Pirates for the National League championship. Ch. 4, 1 p.m. Live.

The Unquiet Death of Jullus and Ethel Rosenberg. An examination of the Rosenberg A-bomb case, using newsreel footage and trial transcripts to explore some of the moral and legal questions involved. Ch. 44, 9 p.m. 1 1/2 hours.

SUNDAY

You're a Big Boy Now [1967]. Director Francis Ford Coppola's first movie, and along with "The Godfather," his only good one. A comedy about some strange people in New York. Music by the Lovin' Spoonful. Ch. 56, 4 p.m. Color, 2 hours.

Kojack. (Ch. 7, 9 p.m. 1 hour) and Columbo (Ch. 4, 9 p.m. 2 hours) are competing in the same time-slot this season, another example of public-spirited network programming. Why not screw both networks and watch ABC? It offers a strong movie at 9 p.m. See below.

The Last Picture Show [1971]. Peter Bogdanovich's black-and-white film about coming of age in a dying Texas town, set in the early 1950s. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. 2 1/2 hours.

MONDAY

Not For Women Only. Julie Nixon Eisenhower takes her feet out of her mouth and puts them in Barbara Walters's shoes as the substitute moderator this week. Her guest today: Barry Goldwater's son Barry Goldwater. Ch. 56, 10:30 a.m. 1/2 hour.

The White House Transcripts. A dramatization, using actors who resemble the real co-conspirators. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 1/2 hours.

Key Largo [1948]. Edward G. Robinson holds Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart prisoner in a Florida hotel during a hurricane. Ch. 56, 10 p.m. B/W

WEDNESDAY

Men Who Made the Movies. The second offering this week. Critic Richard Schickel examines the work of director Frank Capra ("It Happened One Night," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", and the original, non-schlock "Lost Horizon.") Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1 1/2 hours.