Neil Diamond will star in a TV...

Neil Diamond will star in a TV special for CBS May 25. “Neil Diamond . . . Hello Again” is his first TV show in nine years and will feature Carol Burnett and Stevie Wonder as guests.

Leslie Caron and her daughter, Jennifer Caron Hall, will play mother and daughter on a two-hour “Love Boat” episode next season. Also appearing in the ABC show, which will have a Christmas theme, will be Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Franciosa, Peter Scolari and John Byner.

NBC plans to cover the World Cup soccer tournament in Mexico this year. Starting May 31 with the game between Italy and Bulgaria, the network will telecast seven of the championship games, including the World Cup Final on June 29.

CBS has a special planned for May 13 about “The Orphan Animals of Tsavo,” focusing on the work in Kenya of Daphne Sheldrick. She has spent more than 20 years there raising a family and caring for wild animals in the Tsavo National Park.

Geraldine Page, who recently won an Academy Award for her performance in “The Trip to Bountiful,” will appear with Farrah Fawcett and Tom Conti in a TV movie for ABC, “The Beate Klarsfeld Story.” It’s about a German woman (played by Fawcett) who dedicates herself to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Page will play a woman whose husband and children were Nazi victims.

Showtime has ordered a one-hour comedy special based on a character from its “Bizarre” series. “The Life and Times of Super Dave Osborne” will star Bob Einstein as “Super Dave,” a comical daredevil. Einstein produces “Bizarre” for the pay-TV network with partner Alan Blye.

“T.J. Hooker,” which has been running in a late-night slot on CBS this season, returns to prime time May 21 with a two-hour installment called “Blood Sport.” In it, the police officers portrayed by William Shatner, Heather Locklear and James Darren travel to Hawaii to protect a U.S. senator (played by Don Murray).

The Annenberg/CPB Project to develop television courses for college credit has allotted nearly $4.5 million to new telecourses dealing with history and archeology and to the pilot for another program about chemistry, “The Chemical World.” “Master Teacher: Western Civilization” will feature 26 hourlong programs based on the lectures of UCLA professor Eugen Weber. “New Directions in Archeology” will include an eight-part TV series.

“Liberty,” a three-hour TV movie about the building of the Statue of Liberty, has been scheduled for broadcast June 30 on NBC, just ahead of the major festivities planned for the Fourth of July weekend to celebrate the statue’s 100th anniversary. The film stars Frank Langella, George Kennedy, Carrie Fisher, Chris Sarandon, Claire Bloom and LeVar Burton.