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Weekend TV : Circuses, TV Movies Featured as Networks Air Their Final February Sweeps Spectacles

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The networks will trot out the last of their February ratings sweeps spectaculars on Sunday night.

ABC takes aim at the small screen audience with Mary Hart’s new series “Great Circuses of the World” at 7 p.m. (7)(3)(10)(42). Frank Sinatra, Shelley Long and many other celebrities will then celebrate “The 75th Anniversary of Beverly Hills” at 8 p.m., while Don Adams and Barbara Feldon return at 9 p.m. as Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 in the new TV movie, “Get Smart, Again!”

CBS (2)(8) will counter at 9 p.m. with Victoria Principal and James Farentino in the made-for-TV movie “Naked Lie.” Top-ranked NBC, meanwhile, hopes to continue its winning ways with “The Revenge of Al Capone,” Sunday at 9 p.m. (4)(36)(39). Ray Sharkey plays the infamous gangster and David Carradine stars as the FBI agent out to nail him.

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For more cultured fare, KCET Channel 28 offers an afternoon of Stephen Sondheim musicals. “Follies in Concert” begins Sunday at 1 p.m. and “Sunday in the Park with George,” starring Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, follows at 2:30.

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