“Little House on the Prairie” meets “Cheers”...

“Little House on the Prairie” meets “Cheers” in “Over the Edge,” a movie for NBC. It stars Melissa Gilbert, formerly of “Little House,” and Woody Harrelson, the naive bar keeper on “Cheers.” They play a couple of hospital employees who are caught up in a legal case after a mental patient (played by Fernando Lopez) is released and kills his boss.

The episode of “Frank’s Place” that recently won a Humanitas Award for writer Hugh Wilson will be repeated on CBS Sept. 3. The show concerns Frank’s restaurant being sued by relatives of a man who they say died because he’d been allowed to drink too much there. The Humanitas Awards go to writers of programs that are judged to contain values that enrich the audience.

People: Robert Stack has been named to host the NBC series “Unsolved Mysteries,” a job he filled on the specials that spawned the weekly show. . . . Jackie Cooper, who played Perry White in the “Superman” films, will be directing three episodes of the new syndicated “Superboy” series. . . . Anthony Franciosa plays a cop-turned-author in Wednesday’s repeat of “Jake and the Fatman” on CBS.

David Copperfield has taped a new magic special for ABC. It’s called “The Secret of the Phantom of the Opera” and was shot entirely at night in Paris’ famed Place de l’Opera. The show will air next season.