Rosanna Arquette and Judge Reinhold play a...

Rosanna Arquette and Judge Reinhold play a married couple in “Promised a Miracle,” a movie that is scheduled to air on CBS May 17. The film is based on a 1974 case in which the parents of an 11-year-old diabetic boy sought spiritual rather than medical help for their son’s illness and wound up being charged with manslaughter after he died.

May is shaping up as biography month on television. ABC will dramatize the life of Aristotle Onassis in a miniseries beginning May 1. . . . Stacy Keach stars as novelist Ernest Hemingway in a two-part movie on KCOP Channel 13, beginning May 4. . . . PBS has “The Trial of Bernhard Goetz” scheduled for May 11. . . . Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. and his son, Elmo Zumwalt III, are profiled in a dramatic film on CBS May 19. . . . Aviatrix and author Beryl Markham is the subject of a two-part movie on CBS, beginning May 22. . . . May 22 is also the date for ABC’s movie about the case of “Baby M.”

Briefly noted: The continuing success of the “Police Academy” movies has spawned a TV version: “Police Academy--The Animated Series.” It begins this fall on KCOP Channel 13. . . . Highlights from The Judds’ USO tour of Cuba will be seen in an hourlong program on cable’s Nashville Network May 14. . . . Billy Joel will be seen in a special on ABC in June.