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“L.A. Law’s” Corbin Bernsen will beam up to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” as a member of the Continuum who restores the magical powers of Q (John de Lancie), the nemesis of Enterprise Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). The episode is scheduled to air next Sunday on KCOP Channel 13.

The late black writer Zora Neale Hurston will receive a tribute from “American Playhouse” with its production of “Zora Is My Name!” Ruby Dee, who adapted Hurston’s writings for the stage, stars with Louis Gossett Jr., Lynn Whitfield and Flip Wilson in the salute airing Feb. 14 in celebration of Black History Month.

Ten of the 20 contenders participating in the March cycle of competition in the syndicated sports show “American Gladiators” were chosen from recent Los Angeles tryouts. The six women and four men include stunt woman Suzzanne Rampe and 1992 Olympic boxing hopeful Richard Seymour. The show airs Sundays at 7 p.m. and Saturdays at 10 p.m. on KCAL Channel 9.

The Nashville Network will kick up its heels on Feb. 17 with “Tennessee Ernie Ford: 50 Golden Years,” an hourlong special examining his contributions through the eyes of celebrity friends who worked with him. They include Dinah Shore, George Gobel, Jim Lange, Della Reese and Minnie Pearl.

“Peter Gunn” soon will be cocked for television and loaded with color. An agreement was signed this month by Color Systems Technology and International Creative Exchange to colorize the classic TV series, which ran from 1958 to 1961. The detective series starred Craig Stevens as a tough, sophisticated private eye with a taste for the finer things in life.

Roddy McDowall will host Turner Network Television’s “International Film Festival,” a weekly salute to the best in film making outside the United States. The debut of the series will feature Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s samurai black comedy “Yojimbo” on Feb. 14 at 10 p.m.

Former “American Bandstand” bopper Dick Clark and “Entertainment Tonight’s” Leeza Gibbons have signed to host the “39th Annual Miss U.S.A. Pageant.” CBS will televise the show live from Wichita, Kan., on March 2.

Onetime MTV veejay Martha Quinn has joined the cast of CBS’ comedy series “The Bradys.” Quinn will play the love interest and future wife of all-grown-up Bobby Brady (Michael Lookinland) in the new hourlong series premiering with a two-hour movie Friday at 8 p.m.

On Feb. 12, the TV movie “The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage” will preempt “Murphy Brown,” “Designing Women” and “Newhart.” The two-hour voyage shoves off at 9 p.m. with Tom Bosley, Julia Duffy, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, Shanna Reed, Joe Regalbuto and Ted Shackelford.

The family documentary “Chimps Like Us,” featuring chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall demonstrating the striking similarities between man and monkey, is scheduled to premiere on Home Box Office in April.

Susan Blakely charts the death of husband Cliff Robertson aboard a luxury sailing yacht in perilous seas--with a little help from lover Rick Springfield--in “Dead Reckoning,” an upcoming USA Network cable movie.

The Disney Channel has announced that it will present the Oscar-winning blockbuster “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” on cable in June. The live action-animated comedy stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd and one of the largest cast of cartoon characters ever assembled, from Daffy Duck to Donald Duck.

Short stories from the classic science fiction novel “The Martian Chronicles” will be the basis of several proposed episodes of USA Network’s “The Ray Bradbury Theater,” which has been renewed for 12 new episodes.