CASTING AROUND

Robyn Douglass joins the cast of the CBS January replacement series “Houston Knights.” The actress will portray the superior officer of cops Michael Beck and Michael Pare. Melissa Sue Anderson and Levar Burton play lovers and drug dealers in “Bad Girl,” the first episode. . . . Singer Michael Des Barre (from Power Station) is an egocentric rock star who’s pursued by Pam Dawber’s sister in an episode of her CBS series “My Sister Sam.” . . . Harvey Keitel does a rare TV turn when he guests as a businessman-turned-author on “The Ellen Burstyn Show.” . . . Wayne Rogers is a greedy developer who rapes the land and his wife in “A Perfect Stranger.” The feature, which just began shooting last week in Northern California, co-stars Beau Bridges and Keiffer Sutherland. . . . Faye Dunaway is negotiating to re-join “Three Musketeers” co-star Richard Chamberlain in a mini-series based on the life of Casanova. It will shoot in Madrid for ABC. . . . Michael Douglas and Glenn Close co-star in an untitled thriller--about a married man’s one-night stand that results in deadly complications--for Paramount, which began filming last week in New York. Adrian Lyne (“Flashdance,” “9 1/2 Weeks) directs. . . . Calling all Grouchos: Two actors are sought to portray Groucho--one for a pilot (“Groucho and Me,” with angel Groucho sent back to Earth to learn some manners from a clean-cut Yuppie), the other to replace a Groucho character departing the Universal Studio Tour. Actors in appropriate costumes should go to the Universal Studio tour booth at 9:30 a.m. this Friday.