Mark Harmon is making a movie for...

Mark Harmon is making a movie for CBS, “After the Promise.” He plays a man whose four sons are taken from him by social workers during the Depression. He then spends eight years trying to regain custody. Diana Scarwid portrays Harmon’s second wife.

And speaking of fathers, Lee Majors will play a man with three sons in “Austral Downs,” a TV movie that NBC will be broadcasting. The film is being shot in Australia and features Majors as a horse breeder.

Paul Duke, normally seen as the moderator on PBS’ “Washington Week in Review,” will be the correspondent on “This Honorable Court,” a two-part series about the Supreme Court. It’s being produced by WETA-TV in Washington as part of the bicentennial of the Constitution. The series will run on public television early next year.

The next “Hallmark Hall of Fame” will air April 26 on CBS. It’s called “Pack of Lies” and stars Ellen Burstyn and Ronald Hines as a British couple in London who are approached by a government intelligence agent (Alan Bates) who wants to use their home to spy on some neighbors of theirs, played by Teri Garr and Daniel Benzali.

Home Box Office is readying a TV drama called “The Chicago Conspiracy Trial,” based on the famous 1969 trial in which Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale and four others were accused of conspiring to disrupt the previous year’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The cast will include Peter Boyle, Elliott Gould, Martin Sheen, Robert Carradine, Michael Lembeck, Carl Lumbly, Robert Loggia and Barry Miller.

The USC football team is scheduled to make two appearances on ABC in September. The network says it will broadcast the Trojan-Michigan State game on Sept. 7 and the Trojan-Boston College matchup Sept. 19.