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Eighteen years after the last “The Andy...

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Eighteen years after the last “The Andy Griffith Show” episode, Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Aneta Corsaut and Betty Lynn reprised the roles they made famous for the 1986 TV movie “Return to Mayberry” (Sunday at 7:35 a.m. on TBS), which finds Andy returning to Mayberry to run for sheriff only to discover that Barney Fife also is in the race. Following the movie are two episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show” (10:05 a.m.) highlighting the escapades of Barney Fife.

TBS kicks off “The Best of Television” (Sunday at 4 p.m.), a 10-week festival featuring selected episodes from some of TV’s best series. Comedian Louie Anderson introduces each episode with his personal memories of each show. The festival begins with four episodes of “I Love Lucy,” including “Lucy’s Italian Movie,” “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” and “Lucy Goes to the Hospital.”

TBS’s tribute to the late Michael Landon features two-part episodes of his long-running NBC series “Little House on the Prairie” (Monday-Friday at 7:05 a.m. and Wednesday at 5:05 p.m.) and selected episodes of “Bonanza” (Monday-Friday at 10:05 a.m.), the legendary NBC Western which first brought Landon to fame as Little Joe, the youngest son of Ben Cartwright.

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KTTV adds repeats of the old ‘60s “Batman” series (Sundays-Fridays at 5:30 p.m.).

Repeats of the popular comedy “One Day at a Time,” which aired on CBS from 1975-84, join the TBS afternoon comedy lineup (beginning Wednesday at 2:35 p.m.). Bonnie Franklin, Valerie Bertinelli, MacKenzie Phillips and Pat Harrington star.

Nickelodeon repeats the pilot episode of “Flipper” (Friday at 3 p.m. on Nickelodeon), which originally aired Sept. 19, 1964 on NBC.

Those residents of 1313 Mockingbird Land, the Munsters, travel to England after Herman inherits a manor house in the 1966 feature, “Munster, Go Home” (Friday at 7 p.m. on the Family Channel).

Ed bids for his mother at an auction when he discovers his mom has been working as a plow horse on a farm on “Mr. Ed” (Saturday at 5 a.m. on Nickelodeon).

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