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Elizabeth Montgomery plays a paleontologist who travels to Africa in search of the remains of a 3 million-year-old man, but must first get past miner Robert Foxworth, in “Face to Face.” The “Hallmark Hall of Fame” production airs Jan. 24 on CBS.

“Late Night With David Letterman” will celebrate its eighth anniversary with a 90-minute prime-time special Feb. 1 on NBC.

Music Television recently was launched in Yugoslavia, continuing its move eastward, having already debuted in Hungary, the Soviet Union and East Berlin. MTV is currently available in 16 countries.

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Graham Kerr, better known as “The Galloping Gourmet,” is returning to television in a new fall cooking show being offered to stations for first-run syndication.

Ray Sharkey, playing a Miami detective who took a bad turn and spent time in prison, has a tough time getting his life back on track in “The Take,” an upcoming USA Network cable movie. Lisa Hartman co-stars.

Albert Finney stars in two new cable movies airing later this month. He’s a disillusioned correspondent on a hit newsmagazine TV show in “The Image,” a Home Box Office movie debuting Jan. 27 and co-starring John Mahoney, Kathy Baker, Swoosie Kurtz and Marsha Mason. A few days earlier, he plays a British agent trying to solve a mysterious death in “The Endless Game” Jan. 21 on Showtime. George Segal is an American agent who may have the crucial information he needs.

James Arness is shocked to find his long-lost love’s ranch ablaze and a 21-year-old daughter he has never seen (played by Amy Stock-Poynton) in “Gunsmoke II: The Last Apache.” The CBS movie, filmed in Texas, co-stars Richard Kiley, Michael Learned and Joe Lara.

Cable’s Discovery Channel has reached an exclusive three-year agreement to air some of the British Broadcasting Corp.’s most popular programming in the United States. The shows include the 13-part history series “America” and “The Making of a Continent,” about the effect American genealogy has on the course of human life.

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