WEEKEND TV : Musical Reminiscences From MTV and Motown

If it’s a holiday weekend, television programmers believe that we’re ready to be stuffed with musical nostalgia and all kinds of parades.

MTV kicks off the festivities today at 10 a.m. with a reunion of all the original video deejays who ushered in a new channel and a new era in popular music way back in 1981. Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman, Nina Blackwood, J.J. Jackson and Martha Quinn will be on the air throughout the weekend, reminiscing and playing a slew of early video hits.

“Motown 30: What’s Goin’ On” reaches even further back into the pop music archives Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channels 2 and 8. Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Patti LaBelle, the Temptations and the Four Tops will all be on hand to help celebrate 30 years of music from the record label that made Detroit famous for something other than the Edsel.

On the parade front, the 59th annual “Hollywood Christmas Parade” will roll down Hollywood Boulevard Sunday at 6 p.m. and Channel 5 will broadcast it live. Arnold Schwarzenegger is this year’s grand marshal.

And for the bizarre, Channel 13 will televise the Doo Dah Parade, Pasadena’s annual spoof of the dignified Rose Parade, at 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

Other weekend shows include:

TODAY Quincy Jones guests on “America’s Black Forum,” 6:30 a.m.(9). . . .

New York Gov. Mario Cuomo is interviewed on “Evans & Novak,” 9:30 a.m. and 9:30 p.m. CNN. . . .

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) joins “The Capital Gang,” 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. CNN.

SUNDAY “Sunday Today” reports on a nursing service in Kentucky and gleaning in harvested fields to feed the homeless, 7 a.m. (4)(36)(39). . . .

Holiday economics and tough times is the topic on “Newsmaker Sunday,” 7:30 a.m. CNN. . . . “Sunday Morning” reports on a church network that helps the homeless, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conductor David Zinman, a Maine band that plays old seafaring songs and portrait photographer Fabian Bachrach, 8 a.m. (2). . . .

Foreign policy experts Zbigniew Brzezinski and Jeane Kirkpatrick are guests on “Meet the Press,” 8:30 a.m. (4)(36)(39). . . .

Julian Bond interviews Marion Barry on “America’s Black Forum,” 8:30 a.m. (9). . . .

“The McLaughlin Group” talks about Margaret Thatcher’s resignation and President Bush’s visit to Saudi Arabia, 9 a.m (4), 5:30 p.m. (50). . . .

“Tony Brown’s Journal” looks at the closing of black colleges, 9:30 a.m. (28). . . .

Rep. Julian Dixon (D-L.A.) and Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove) discuss Congress’ role in a war with Iraq on “Newsmakers” 10:30 a.m. (2). . . .

“American Interests” looks at the high anxiety over the Geneva trade talks, 10 a.m. (28). . . .

Comedian Jackie Mason discusses business and economics on “Business World,” 11 a.m. (7)(3)(10). . . .

A look at the Thatcher Era and an update on the Persian Gulf crisis by National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft on “This Week With David Brinkley,” 11:30 a.m. (7)(3)(42), 10:30 a.m. (10). . . . “Midday Sunday” examines the public’s fascination with the criminal mind, 11 a.m. (11). . . .

“Signs of the Times” looks at unnecessary surgeries often performed on women, 11:30 a.m. (11). . . .

“The West” checks out the battle over the Alaskan wilderness, a dental scam and breast cancer treatment, 2:30 p.m. (4), 4:30 p.m. (10). . . .

On “60 Minutes,” a convicted murderer claims he only witnessed the crime; writer-director Oliver Stone is interviewed; the popularity of high-school football in Odessa, Tex., 7 p.m. (2)(8). . . .

“The Los Angeles History Project” presents a documentary on the turn-of-the-century battle over where to build the Los Angeles Harbor, 8 p.m. (28). . . .

“Jesse Jackson” talks with blacks in the entertainment business, 8 p.m. (9).