Long before the force was with him,...

Long before the force was with him, Mark Hamill guest-starred on The Partridge Family (Monday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an epiosde in which Laurie gets braces.

Comic Godfrey Cambridge guests on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Monday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an episode in which the Petries’ home becomes a government command post.

Mary’s boyfriend (Bradford Dillman) has a son (John Rubinstein) her age on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Tuesday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Mary discovers her new friend (Mary Frann) is anti-Semitic on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Richard Pryor guests on The Partridge Family (Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon) in an installment in which a booking mistake sends the group to a club in a Detroit ghetto.

Mary refuses to heed Lou’s warning about a handsome newspaper columnist (Peter Haskell) who wants to interview her on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Thursday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Nancy Walker and Harold Gould return as Rhoda’s bickering parents on The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Friday at 10 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Nick at Nite airs “The Gunslinger,” the last episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show (Friday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

TNT dusts off two episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. (Saturday at 1:05 a.m.), the 1966-67 spinoff of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” which starred Stefanie Powers and Noel Harrison.

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The Kung Fu Book of Caine (Tuttle, $16.95) by Herbie J Pilato is a “complete” guide to TV’s first mystical Eastern Western. David Carradine, who starred in the ‘70s series and headlines the current syndicated version “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues” penned the forward.