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Joe McGinniss’ current best-selling novel “Blind Faith,”...

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Joe McGinniss’ current best-selling novel “Blind Faith,” about a model husband and father suspected by his three teen-age sons of murdering his wife, will be adapted into a four-hour NBC drama for airing in 1990 by the producers of the Emmy-winning miniseries “Fatal Vision.”

Actresses Crystal Bernard and Mary Bergmann discover that their grandfather, who was found dead in a superhero costume, was actually the crime-fighting Paraclete of Justice in an NBC movie tentatively titled “Strange Bedfellows.” The upcoming TV movie also stars Stewart Granger, Terry Kiser and Richard Burgi.

After an ex-Marine (Patrick Cassidy) wrecks his Jeep chasing jack rabbits in the desert, he makes a new life for himself with a crusty old woman, her retarded son and an abandoned Vietnamese girl in NBC’s “Walk Me the Distance.” The TV movie, to be shown next year, co-stars Frances Sternhagen and Catherine Mary Stewart.

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David L. Wolper is producing “The Plan to Kill Hitler” for CBS. The TV movie, now shooting on location in Yugoslavia, stars Brad Davis and Madolyn Smith.

Max Von Sydow portrays a German priest and Judd Nelson plays a captured American soldier in Hiroshima in an NBC movie tentatively titled “Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes.”

A psychotic hotel killer selects her lonely victims through newspaper personal ads in an upcoming USA Network movie called “Personals,” starring Jennifer O’Neill and Stephanie Zimbalist.

“Entertainment Tonight” co-host Mary Hart, with the help of Paramount Pictures, has established a production company to produce the first of several prime-time television specials in which she will appear. The first one is expected sometime in January.

Sarah Miles, Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar are set to star in TNT’s upcoming adventure “A Ghost in Monte Carlo.”

Clint Eastwood will serve as the host and narrator of the TNT cable retrospective “Gary Cooper: American Life, American Legend,” which premieres next Sunday.

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“It’s Garry Shandling’s Show” begins its fourth season with new cast member Jessica Harper as Shandling’s girlfriend. The Showtime season premiere arrives Nov. 10 at 10:30 p.m. The comedy series, which is also carried by the Fox Broadcasting Co., will make its debut on KTTV Channel 11 in January.

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