Amy Grant, the gospel singer who also...

Amy Grant, the gospel singer who also has proven successful on the pop charts, will star in a musical special for NBC during the holiday season. The show will be filmed in Montana and will feature appearances by Dennis Weaver, Art Garfunkel and Ed Begley Jr.

Susan Sarandon and Kristy McNichol play U.S. prisoners of war in “Women of Valor,” a TV movie that CBS has scheduled for next Sunday. It’s set in the Philippines in 1942 as the Japanese take control and imprison the Americans. Terry O’Quinn portrays Sarandon’s husband.

“Jack Paar Comes Home” has been slotted for a Nov. 29 telecast date by NBC. Paar will showcase clips from his stints as host of “The Tonight Show” and “The Jack Paar Program,” featuring such personalities as Judy Garland, Oscar Levant, Robert Goulet, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

And coming Nov. 30 on CBS is “All Star Party for Clint Eastwood,” a salute to the film star on behalf of Variety Clubs International. Appearing on the hourlong program will be Bob Hope, Cary Grant, James Stewart, Marsha Mason, Don Rickles and Lucille Ball.

People: Tony Danza of “Who’s the Boss?” will be guest host on “The Tonight Show” Dec. 1. . . . David Carradine stars in the Nov. 24 episode of “Amazing Stories” on NBC. . . . Janet Leigh will be seen as an aunt to Scott (C. B. Barnes) in a future installment of ABC’s “Starman”. . . . Melvin Belli plays himself on Saturday’s episode of “Hunter,” on NBC.

Pat Sajak will change his hosting hats on Thanksgiving. Instead of overseeing “Wheel of Fortune,” he’ll be describing floats in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. It’s the third time he’s hosted NBC’s coverage of the event.

NBC’s news magazine “1986” has joined the ranks of prime-time programs that are captioned for the hearing impaired. The captioning process allows viewers who have purchased special decoding machines to see the program with subtitles. NBC is sharing the cost of having “1986” captioned with the Pew Memorial Trust.

David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “American Buffalo” and “Sexual Perversity in Chicago,” has written a script for NBC’s “Hill Street Blues.” The show, to be telecast later this season, features a role for his wife, Lindsay Crouse, reprising her character of Officer McBride.

KCET Channel 28 has taped a two-hour special paying tribute to composer Henry Mancini, which will be broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service next spring. “Mancini and Friends” will feature appearances by Julie Andrews, Dudley Moore, Quincy Jones, Andy Williams and James Galway, among others.

Candace Savalas, daughter of Telly Savalas, will appear with her father in “Kojak: The Investigation,” a new TV movie for CBS about the bald-headed police detective. Like her dad, she plays a cop.