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Three members of the original 1967 feature “The Dirty Dozen”--Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Richard Jaeckel--team up and put together another unit of warriors in 1985’s The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission (Sunday at 5 p.m on TNT); Ken Wahl and Larry Wilcox also star.

Shelley Fabares of “Coach” and “The Donna Reed Show” guests on The Rockford Files (Monday at 3 p.m. and Tuesday at 10 a.m. on A&E;) as a convict’s wife who hires Rockford to help her find hidden loot.

Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich and Anjelica Huston head the cast of Lonesome Dove (Monday-Thursday at 5:05 p.m. on TBS), the critically acclaimed 1989 CBS miniseries based on Larry McMurtry’s novel about two Texas Rangers.

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When WJM is sold, the entire staff is fired except for Ted on the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Tuesday at 9 p.m on Nickelodeon), which originally aired March 19, 1977.

Robert Altman directed “The Young Ones” episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Wednesday at 10:30 p.m on Nickelodeon), which stars Carol Lynley as a young woman who wants to escape her small town and the clutches of her overprotective aunt.

Long before he became a movie sex symbol thanks to “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” Patrick Swayze played a motorcycle gang member in the 1981 TV movie Return of the Rebels (Friday at 7:05 a.m. on TBS); Jamie Farr, Barbara Eden and Don Murray also star.

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Linda Evans plays Rockford’s former fiancee who comes back into his life on The Rockford Files (Friday at 3 p.m. on A&E;); Jackie Cooper also is featured.

Jackie “Uncle Fester” Coogan guests on The Lucy Show (Friday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode involving broken televisions, night jobs and insomnia.

A pre-Napoleon Solo Robert Vaughn guests as Laura’s old flame on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Friday at 9:30 p.m on Nickelodeon).

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Nick at Nite celebrates the wit, wisdom and cooking abilities of Sue Ann Nivens (Betty White), WJM’s “Happy Homemaker,” with four classic Sue Ann episodes from The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Saturday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

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