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Long before Barbara Eden starred on “I...

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Long before Barbara Eden starred on “I Dream of Jeannie,” she appeared in a 1957 episode of “I Love Lucy” (Tuesday at 3:05 a.m. on TBS) as a sultry blonde who becomes the object of Fred and Ricky’s affections at a club dance. And on Thursday at 3:05 a.m., relive the last weekly episode of the series, which originally aired May 6, 1957.

James Arness, Eva Marie Saint and Bruce Boxleitner headline “How the West Was Won” (Tuesday and Wednesday at 5:05 p.m. on TBS), a four-hour miniseries based on the 1962 hit film.

Morgan Fairchild plays Mindy’s old high-school rival, who makes a date with Mork on “Mork & Mindy” (Tuesday at midnight on Nickelodeon).

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Johnny Carson has a cameo as a train conductor on “Get Smart” (Wednesday at 9 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Danny Thomas guests as a thumbless alien with an eye in the back of his head who eats walnuts on one of the best episodes of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” (Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Lassie is a collie on a mission, seeking revenge on the reckless driver who ran down her good friend, a raccoon, on “Lassie” (Thursday at 6 and 9 a.m. on Nickelodeon).

Mark Miller (“Please Don’t Eat the Daisies”), the father of actress Penelope Ann Miller, plays a lawyer who interns as a deputy in Mayberry on “The Andy Griffith Show” (Thursday at 3:35 p.m. on TBS).

ABC dusts off the first Peter Falk “Columbo” TV-movie, “Prescription: Murder” (Thursday at 8 p.m. on ABC), which originally aired on NBC on Feb. 20, 1968; Gene Barry is Columbo’s nemesis.

Hey, hockey puck! Don Rickles returns as the wild Native American Bald Eagle on “F Troop” (Thursday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode in which Capt. Parmenter gives him a birthday party.

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The wonderful Thelma Ritter guests on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (Thursday at 10:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in a thriller about a woman who is questioned by the police after they discover she was baby-sitting for an elderly woman the night she died.

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