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Fonzie is discovered by a Hollywood talent scout, but won’t take a screen test unless his friends come with him to Hollywood on a three-part “Happy Days” (Sunday at 9:50 a.m. on TBS).

“The Best of Television” (Sunday at 4 p.m. on TBS) presents four splendid episodes of “All in the Family”: “Sammy Visits,” with Sammy Davis Jr.; “Edith’s Winning Lottery Ticket”; “Maude,” with Bea Arthur, and “Archie’s Chair.”

Matt Dillon will either die or be paralyzed for life unless a bullet is removed from the area near his spine on “The Bullet,” a three-part episode of “Gunsmoke” (Tuesday at 7:35 p.m. on TBS).

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A pre-”MASH” Jamie Farr guests on “Get Smart”(Tuesday at 9 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode in which Max professes his love for Agent 99 when the two get trapped in a TV control booth.

The late, great British actress Elsa Lanchester, who also was married to Charles Laughton, guests on “I Love Lucy” (Wednesday at 3:05 a.m. on TBS) as a peculiar woman who drives Lucy and Ethel to Florida in record time.

Robert Duvall, Ivan Dixon and James Shigeta star in “The Inheritors” (Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. on TNT), a two-part 1964 thriller from “The Outer Limits,” in which a Vietnam vet recovering from a near-fatal head wound discovers his intelligence is racing ahead of everyone around him.

Mickey Rooney plays a comic-turned-bookie with whom Kimble becomes involved on “The Fugitive” (Wednesday at 2 p.m. on A&E;).

Veteran actor Wallace Ford plays an old friend of Aunt Bee’s who comes a-courtin’ on “The Andy Griffith Show” (Thursday at 3:35 p.m. on TBS).

Former Boston Red Sox and Angels outfielder Jimmy Piersall, who was the subject of the 1957 film “Fear Strikes Out,” guests as himself on “The Lucy Show” (Thursday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon). The episode, set at the old Marineland, also features Ball’s own children, Lucie and Desi Arnaz Jr.

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The wacky ABC sitcom “McHale’s Navy,” which aired 1962-66, was so popular it spawned two feature films, 1965’s “McHale’s Navy Joins the Air Force” and 1964’s “McHale’s Navy” (Friday at 7 p.m. on the Family channel). This time around, the crew of PT 73 go to any lengths to raise money to pay off gambling debts. Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway and Carl Ballantine star.

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