ON THE COVER

Come fall, Jack Palace will begin his fourth year of exploring “the strange, the bizarre, the unusual,” as host of “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” Sundays at 7 p.m. on ABC. And starting with the new season, he’ll have a new co-host: Marie Osmond.

While the show has traveled ‘round the world in its past seasons, the coming year will bring the first showing of film sequences made available from the People’s Republic of China and the U.S.S.R.

Closer to home, Palance will be looking at such things as whose faces appear on money (as seen on the cover), visiting a Tibetan shrine in Colorado and checking out new discoveries in medicine, devices for the disabled and accident research.