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PACE 22 FRIDAY.FEB.il tion when they work for different clients in solving a jewel hei$t. (60 min.) CI News €0 35S CNN Heodline News CD Undersea World of Jocques Coutteau (33) S) (39) Amerkan Playhouse "Keeping On.' A small southern mill • town is torn apart during a campaign to unionize the local mill. (90 min.) <D Crisis Counselor O World Championship Boxing: Marvin Hpgler vs. Tony T~~ IP MOV*: 'National Lampoon's Animal How#' O MOVIE: 1 Monte Python's in* of Brian ' (38) 700 dub Dave Brubock: Live at the tin (3® Independent Network i!3 U.S. Intomational Swimming (35) 700 dub I TBS Evening Newt 9:30PM Q Spodal Presenta­ tion Qj) Hyannis Affair tfl Now York Report 10:00PM O O O O © I B ® ® N e w s O Eyewitness Now* ©Soap IE) ® M*A*S*H HI Business Report ID Human Sexuality |B Newswatch M0 MOVIE: 'Vanessa' An innocent teenager's life is altered dramatically when she inherits a chain of luxury brothels. Olivia Pascal, Anthony Diffr- ing, Eva Eden. © Night Flight ETO ESPN SpsrtaCenter §D @ 700 Club ® (38) Throe's Company Ml Al In the Family in the spotlight Ask Kate Who was Boone's buddy? By Kate Woods Australian animals Most of the extraordinary animals of Australia exist nowhere else in the world. "Australia's Animal Mysttfries" are profiled when the "National Geographic Special" airs Wednesday, Feb 9 on PBS. (Air dates may vary; please check local listings.) When Australia broke away from Antarctica 50 million years ago the world's largest island and smallest continent started to develop animal life as unique and exotic as the landscape. The hour-long documentary, underwritten by the Gulf Oil Cnrp features one of the world's most beloved creatures -- the koala bear Tourists love to catch the gentle creature posmg. However, in some parts of the country, scientists have fyund that the koala's birth rate is declining. Investigators are still trying to piece the puzzle together. The best known Australian native is probabiy the kangaroo, it? astounding leaping -- as much as 25 feet in one bound -- is filmed at close range and in slow motion. Also shown is the plight -of newborn kangaroos. At birth, they are blind and yveigh less than an ounce as they negotiate the journey through the.mother's thick fur to the protection and nourish­ ment in its mother's pouch. The koala and kangaroo are just two of "Australia's Animal Mysteries " Approximately 150 species of marsupials -- pouched animals -- can be found on the continent. Wallabies, wombats, the platypus and the Tasmanian devil are also shown (c) 1963 Compulog Who played the Indian companion of Daniel Boone (Fess Parker) on the old TV series? -- K.B. Ed Ames played the tomahawk-wielding Mingo from 1964-'68, before quit­ ting to concentrate on his singing career. The show went on for two more years. THIRD COMING -- Please, please. When is "Revenge of the Jedi" coming out? kids, have begged me to find out. Also, for my own interest, didn't they film some of this one in the States? -- L.F. The third installment in the "Star Wars" saga has been retitled "Return of the Jedi." (under the assump­ tion that Jedi knights are not vengeful) and will hit movie screens across the country on May 25. Butter­ cup Valley, Calif., was used as a major location for the picture. Geographically, that's on the border of Yuma, Ariz. BROTHERLY LOVE -- Where can I write to the brothers of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"? -- H.G. Write in care, of MGM/UA, where the series is produced. The address is '10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, Calif. 90230. KIM THE COP -- What was the name of the cop show that Kim Basinger (now doing ads for Revlon) starred in a few years back? And who was her male co-star? -- J.P.K. Miss Basinger, who is now co-starring 'opposite Sean Connery in his Bondi- an revival, "Never Say Nev­ er Again," was teamed with Lou Antonio in "Dog and Cat." The mid^-season replacement lasted about two months on the ABC schedule in 1977. ON THE BEACH -- Wasn't there a TV series called "Beachcomber"? I can't find any reference to it, and can't remember who starred in it. -- A.F. "The Beachcomber" was a syndicated series that aired in 1962. Camer­ on Mitchell played John Lackland, who gave up a business career to hang out on a Pacific island. Sebas­ tian Cabot co-starred. Send your letted to Kate Woods. United Feature Syndicate. 200 Park Ave., Room 602. New York. N. Y. 10166. ©1983 Computog Kangaroo nursing at its mother's pouch on PBS' "Australia's Animal Mysteries."