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Robert Mitchum and Wilford Brimley star as friends on the opposite sides of the law in “The Last Run,” a TV movie that will air on CBS. Mitchum plays a convict who is being escorted to prison by a law enforcement officer (Brimley) who is an old friend. When the convict escapes, the lawman must track him down.

Imagine Boy George meeting Mr. T. It’s going to happen. Boy George, the unusually dressed pop singer, will portray himself in an episode of “The A-Team” that NBC plans to broadcast in February. He’ll sing as well as act on the show.

The abuse of older parents by their grown children will be the subject of a movie for CBS, “A Family of Strangers.” Tuesday Weld and Geraldine Fitzgerald portray the daughter and mother who have the problem. Peter Bonerz plays Weld’s husband.

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Linda Lavin, late of “Alice,” and Bruce Solomon, who ran off with Louise Lasser in “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” are cast as a married couple in “Maricela,” a drama that KCET is producing for public television’s “Wonderworks” series. The story focuses on their teen-age daughter, played by Lisa Marie Simmon, and her relationship with the daughter of their live-in maid from El Salvador. Carlina Cruz plays the other girl.

George C. Scott, who starred recently in the TV biography of Benito Mussolini, will be back Dec. 22 in a repeat of last year’s acclaimed movie version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” The film, in which Scott portrays Ebenezer Scrooge, also stars Roger Rees, Frank Finlay, Susannah York, David Warner and Edward Woodward.

Did the Trojan War described in Homer’s “The Iliad” really happen? Or is it a myth? That’s the subject of a six-part series that PBS plans to broadcast next year. “In Search of the Trojan War,” produced by the BBC in England, is described as an historical detective series.

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