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Einstein sheds light on HBO; ‘Cosby’s’ goose is cooked on CBS; visit ‘The ‘Aristocats’ on Disney

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The game show Figure It Out (premiering Monday at 6 p.m. on Nickelodeon) challenges celebrity panelists to guess a child contestant’s special talent or invention. The kids are from all over the nation and have sometimes bizarre talents, inventions and collections. One is a bee-keeper, another a crawfish tickler. One sang the national anthem at the World Series. The show’s host is former Olympic champion swimmer Summer Sanders. For ages 6 to 11.

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When Hilton (Bill Cosby) discovers that a friend has fallen on difficult times, he tries to save the man’s goose feather company, on Cosby (CBS, Monday at 8 p.m.). For the family.

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“Einstein: Light to the Power of 2” launches “The Inventors’ Specials” on HBO, six programs that tell the stories of great inventors through their encounters with young people. The first one-hour drama (Tuesday at 7 p.m.) looks at Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein (Paul Soles) and an unexpected friendship that develops bewtween him and a 10-year-old African American girl (Lataye Studwood). For ages 10 to 15.

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Duchess and her three kittens are catnapped by Madame Adelaide Bonfamilie’s butler to prevent them from inheriting her fortune on The Aristocats, which premieres on the Disney Channel (Saturday at 7 p.m.). The cats are helped by Thomas O’Malley, an alley cat, in the animated story. For ages 5 to 10.

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