Brad Silverman, whose life story was the...

Brad Silverman, whose life story was the subject of an “ABC Afterschool Special,” and several other handicapped actors will guest on Sunday’s episode of the ABC series “Life Goes On.” The story line finds Corky (Christopher Burke) encouraging a boy with Down’s syndrome to participate in a local Special Olympics.

Betty White, Phylicia Rashad and Robin Givens are set to star in three separate movie-of-the-week projects under development at Fries Entertainment. In their upcoming roles, White will play a woman with six months left to live, Rashad an attorney in an interracial marriage and Givens a tough assistant D.A. in the urban squalor of the Bronx.

William Schallert, who played a teacher in the early 1960s on “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis,” will play a retired journalism teacher who tries to capitalize on his former and now-famous student’s name in Monday’s episode of “Murphy Brown” on CBS.

Comedian John Mulrooney is scheduled to be the first guest host of “The Pat Sajak Show” this week. The late-night talk show will begin featuring guest hosts on Friday nights, with Sajak maintaining his post Mondays through Thursdays.

“The Kids Are All Right,” a new hourlong drama series from Patrick Hasburgh, the creator of “21 Jump Street,” has begun production in Canada. The Fox Broadcasting series is a rite-of-passage drama about four high school friends played by Brad Pitt, Spike Alexander, Evan Mirand and Nicholas Kallsen.

Michael Tucker, who plays a tax attorney on “L.A. Law,” portrays a defense lawyer in a new TV movie. He defends a 15-year-old girl (Juliette Lewis) facing the death penalty for murder in NBC’s “Too Young to Die?” The two-hour film airs Feb. 26.

Soap opera news: Richard Roundtree, the tough private eye in the “Shaft” movies and TV series, will join the cast of NBC’s daytime soap “Generations” . . . . Jack Wagner and Kristina Malandro, who play Frisco and Felicia on ABC’s “General Hospital,” are on a six-week leave of absence. . . . Roscoe Born has left his role of Robert Barr on NBC’s “Santa Barbara.”

Former body building champion Lou Ferrigno will Hulk out for the last time in “The Death of the Incredible Hulk.” The two-hour NBC movie, also starring Bill Bixby, airs next Sunday.