TODAY’S NEWS, TOMORROW’S TELEVISION : Look! Up in the sky, it’s Super Dave! And Simpsons dolls! And the Checkout Channel?

SERIES

Television personality Bob Hilton has been named to host NBC’s revival of the game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” which joins NBC’s daytime lineup July 9. Hilton has announced such shows as “Win, Lose or Draw,” “The Dating Game,” “Jokers Wild,” “The Newlywed Game,” “Card Sharks” and “Tic Tac Dough.”

“Memories. . .Then and Now,” a half-hour weekly nostalgia series produced by NBC News Productions, is scheduled to make its national syndicated debut Sept. 15 in more than 60% of the country-including KNBC in Los Angeles.

“Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” TBS’ new animated environmental series, is set to debut this fall in more than 100 syndicated markets, including KTTV in Los Angeles. The series, featuring a gaggle of celebrity voices, including Tom Cruise, focuses on a superhero and his five international Planeteers who battle environmental villains out to destroy the Earth.

Writer-producer Bob Einstein will reprise his role as Super Dave Osborne for 25 new episodes of “Super Dave,” Showtime’s comedy-variety series about a daredevil stuntman’s tireless attempts at unsuccessful stunts. The new installments, now shooting in Los Angeles and Toronto, will debut later this year.

MINISERIES

Linda Lavin will executive produce “The Sunset Gang,” a three-part “American Playhouse” miniseries about a group of old folks living in a Florida retirement community. The production, based on a short story collection by Warren Adler, who wrote the book “The War of the Roses,” will air in October.

MOVIES

Jill Eikenberry, already distressed by an emotional breakdown, is kidnaped by Michael Tucker in “Archie’s Wife,” a CBS movie shooting in Denver for future broadcast. Tucker, an incompetent bank robber on the run from the law and two slimy loan sharks, drags Eikenberry from one hiding place to the next-including the home of his ex-wife (Elaine Stritch).

Production has been completed on “Babies,” a lighthearted NBC drama starring Lindsay Wagner, Dinah Manoff and Marcy Walker as three women whose biological time clocks are ticking out of control. The movie is scheduled for telecast in the 1990-91 season.

Michael York, Alison Doody, Ben Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin and Billie Whitelaw will star in the TNT movie “Duel of Love,” a romantic adventure based on Barbara Cartland’s novel. The story follows Doody, a high-spirited London debutante in 1821, whose evil cousin, played by York, is bent on killing the man she loves. The movie, now shooting in London, will air later this year.

SPECIALS

Florence Henderson has been signed to host the sixth annual “Mrs. World Pageant,” a two-hour syndicated television special taping Aug. 11 at Hong Kong’s Academy of Performing Arts. Current Mrs. World, Lucila Boggiano of Peru, will crown the winner of the pageant. Henderson has hosted the showhowr the past three years.

NEW CHANNELS

TBS and ActMedia, an in-store marketing company, have announced the launch of Checkout Channel, a national television network that will satellite-deliver live programming to supermarkets across the country. Beginninggearly next year, Checkout Channel will place televisions at checkout lines in more than 5,000 markets, featuring news, weather, sports, business and consumer information programming from TBSU cable news networks, CNN and Headline News.

LICENSING AGREEMENTS

America’s favorite animated family, “The Simpsons,” will step into consumers’ homes in three-dimensional form this fall thanks to an exclusive toy licensing agreement announced by Mattel Toys and Twentieth Century Fox. The worldwide agreement calls for Simpsons action figures, vehicles, play sets, dolls, preschool products and child-size accessories.

Players International has signed an exclusive licensing agreement to produce “Jeopardy!S and “Wheel of Fortune” telephone games beginning next month in select markets. By dialing a 900 number, callers can participate in telephone versions of the popular TV game shows at a cost of $1 to $2 per minute. A minimum of $100,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded each month.