Mel Harris, who plays the mother of...

Mel Harris, who plays the mother of an infant on ABC’s “thirtysomething,” will host an hourlong documentary about child care for the Lifetime cable channel. Scheduled to be shown Jan. 23, “Hush Little Baby: The Challenge of Child Care” will look at the problems that many Americans encounter today as they attempt to find qualified people to look after their children.

Barbara Eden, seen already this season in the TV movie “The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick,” is going to make another one for NBC. In “Your Mother Wears Combat Boots,” the former star of “I Dream of Jeannie” will be seen as a mother who doesn’t want her son to finish Army parachute jump school.

Lysette Anthony and Hugh Grant have the title roles in “The Lady and the Highwayman,” a romantic movie based on a Barbara Cartland novel that will be broadcast Jan. 24 on CBS. Also in the cast are Oliver Reed, Michael York, Claire Bloom, John Mills, Gordon Jackson, Robert Morley, Emma Samms and Christopher Cazenove. The story is set in 17th-Century England.

In between the two installments of ABC’s “War and Remembrance,” Robert Mitchum will turn up on NBC in “Brotherhood of the Rose,” a two-part drama about international espionage. Scheduled to be shown Jan. 22 and 23, the film also stars Peter Strauss and David Morse as CIA operatives who were raised as brothers by Mitchum. Connie Sellecca co-stars.