New Network Has Angels in the Outfit--Plus Lucy

Pax, which on Monday becomes television’s seventh network, promises to be family-friendly: free of explicit sex, senseless violence and foul language.

Fortunately, that doesn’t mean that everybody who makes an appearance on its shows--a mix of syndicated reruns, original programming and family movies--will be angels. If they were, there would be no “Diagnosis: Murder.” And Barnaby Jones would have no one to go after.

Pax, which can be seen in Southern California via KPXN Channel 30 in Los Angeles, is being launched by Paxson Communications Corp. Its chairman is Lowell “Bud” Paxson, who wants the network to reflect his born-again Christian values.

“Every show we’ve bought skews heavily toward women because when it comes to drama, women control the set,” Paxson, who also founded the Home Shopping Network, said in an interview late last year. “I want everybody to watch a drama and at the end have that warm, fuzzy feeling.”

“Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” (weeknights at 9 p.m.) doesn’t premiere until Sept. 14, but most of the network’s other series will start next week. This is how weeknights will look for a while: “Highway to Heaven” (6 p.m.; another episode at midnight); “Life Goes On” (7 p.m.); “Touched by an Angel” (8 p.m., though it also airs Sept. 4 at 9 p.m.); “Diagnosis: Murder” (10 p.m.; some days next week it also airs at 9); and “Father Dowling Mysteries” (11 p.m.).

On weekdays: “Here’s Lucy” (noon and 12:30 p.m.; it premieres Tuesday); “The Love Boat” (1 p.m.); “Eight Is Enough” (3 p.m.); “The Hogan Family” (4 p.m.); and “Dave’s World” (4:30 p.m.). On weekends: “Bonanza” (3 p.m.); “The Big Valley” (4 p.m.); “Flipper” (Saturday at 5); “Christy” (Sunday at 6; but it premieres with the two-hour pilot at 5 p.m.; “Blue Skies” airs at 5 thereafter); “Neon Rider” (Saturday at 9 p.m.); “Barnaby Jones” (Saturday at midnight); “I’ll Fly Away” (Sunday at 10); and “Medical Center” (Sunday at midnight).

DETAILS, DETAILS: In which ‘80s series did “Touched by an Angel” star Della Reese play a judge? Answer next week. Answer to last week’s quiz (What TV-actor-turned-movie-star-turned-TV-star played the role of a blacksmith on “Gunsmoke” from 1962 to ‘65?): Burt Reynolds.

Set Your VCR

Among offerings in TV Land’s “I Dream of Jeannie” marathon (5 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday): the first of three episodes directed by Larry Hagman (8 p.m.); the first appearance of Jeannie’s sneaky sister, Jeannie II (10:30); and the wedding of Jeannie and Tony (2 a.m.).

Felix provides a brilliantly funny defense when he and Oscar go to court on ticket-scalping charges on “The Odd Couple” (Wednesday at 2 p.m. on Comedy Central).

Make sure your VCR is set for 90 minutes for those digitally remastered episodes of “Star Trek” that begin airing on the Sci-Fi Channel weekdays at 4:30 p.m. (repeating at 8:30 p.m.) beginning Tuesday. That extra half-hour will include interviews with cast members, as well as restored content. The first episode is “The Man Trap”;

the next is “Charlie X.”

Doogie gets his first kiss and loses his first patient on the same day, on the pilot of “Doogie Howser, M.D.” (Monday at 1 p.m. on KTLA Channel 5). Other pilots: “The Brady Bunch” (Monday at 9:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon) and “My Three Sons” (today at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on TV Land).