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The great Claude Rains stars as an alcoholic actor desperate for a part on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Sunday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Annette Funicello took a break from “The Mickey Mouse Club†in 1959 to play Gina, a student who visits the Williams household, for several episodes on Make Room for Daddy (Sunday at 2 a.m. on Nickelodeon). On Monday, Gina asks Frankie Laine to sing at the school dance.

Mae West and Ed horse around on Mr. Ed (Monday at 8 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

Pat O’Brien, who played the title role in the 1940 film classic “Knute Rockne, All-American,†hosts a vintage Biography (Tuesday at 5 and 9 p.m. on A&E;) documentary on-who else?-Rockne.

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Hugh O’Brian plays a former star quarterback who risks everything to make a comeback in “A Punt, a Pass and a Prayer†(Tuesday at 6 and 10 p.m. on A&E;), a Hallmark Hall of Fame drama from 1968. Betsy Palmer costars.

Frank Gorshin and Victor Buono-who early played The Riddler and King Tut in the “Batman†series-guest together on O’Hara, U.S. Treasury (Wednesday at 6 a.m. on A&E;) in an episode in which O’Hara’s fellow agent becames a pawn in an extortion scheme.

Donald Pleasance plays a Scotland Yard detective who believes he has committed the “perfect†crime until he meets Mrs. Columbo (Wednesday at 11 a.m. on A&E;).

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Kris Kringle, or rather Edmund Gwenn (“Miracle on 34th Streetâ€), guests on Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Wednesday at 11 p.m. on Nickelodeon) as a Scrooge-like pawnshop owner who refuses to lend his son the money he needs to get married.

A Chicago blizzard strands injured MTV veejay Martha -uinn and the entire emergency room staff on E.R. (Thursday at 6:30 p.m. on Lifetime.) American audiences finally get to see Honor Blackman of “Goldfinger†fame as John Steed’s first partner, Mrs. Catherine Gale, on The Avengers (Friday at 3 p.m. on A&E;). In 1962, Blackman appeared in 42 episodes of the British spy series which have never been seen in America.

Joan Rivers promotes “Rabbit Test,†her ill-fated comedy feature which starred Billy Crystal as the first pregnant man, on America 2Night (Saturday at 10:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon).

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