Theresa Beaty song and tainly strong enough to I next single. LEGEND -- '.Oscar winner Barbara Stanwyck will play Mary Carson, an Australian landowner, who tries to corrupt a handsome parish priest (Richard Chamberlain) in "The Thorn Birds," ABC's forth coming mini-series. The last time Miss Stanwyck did long-form TV was when she starred opposite pnda Evans in "The Big Valley," which ran on ABC from 1965-69. STAGELIGHTS -- "Lit tle House on the Prairie" is coming to Broadway next year. The new musical, which is based on Laura Ingalts Voder's nine-book series, also will focus on the fictional Eastern family who moves to the barren Kan- plains in the 1860s- NBC recently announced plans to focus on the younger cast members of TV's "Little House." TELE-BLIP -- Yet another TV film on Prince Charles and Lady Diana is in the works. CBS intends to make "Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance" starting «4his month in London. No one has yet been cast. ABC also recently announced its intentions1 to make a TV .mpvie on the royal couple. FOCUS -- NBC's histor ical saga, "Marco Polo," which will air fater this month, took 13 months to shoot. Ken Marshall, who stars as the legendary tra veler claims. "Filming in so many exotic places and PACH It FRIDAY, MAT I4 *Soventh Victim' In a March lor her milting titter, a woman picks up the /v»rol of o group of dtvl'WOflliippiri. Tim Conway, Kim Hunter, Hugh Baau- mont. 1943 0(23)i 6B (2) Despodida ®| (3$) Ross *«|l»y © 38 WorM Championship TmmiII MOV* "Beyond Sing the Woods' A story that r»»otv>i around a proud iron-willed man who knows only hit own low. Gert Frobe. I960 1:00 AM O DM KWedwtec's Rock Contort O Entertainment T» wight El yi-LtL * r(IQnTO®OT © MOVK: The Mond' (D MOVNh Hard Country' © Mixod lag kL"| «-- franklin theui • rOflRlifl •••wwf 1:15AM (D Captioned AK 1:30 AM O N VoNoy SI Chartio ROM Show 145 AM tfNrn 2:00 AM m Mm MOVK: The Big Shot* A involved with his ex-girlfriend and old gang. Humphrey logart. Iron* Man ning, Stanley Ridges. 1942. Q MOVK: Iko TetHee Of TehMf The story of a happy go ludcy family who Rvo Hi* beocheombors. Chariot Loughton, Jen HaH, Poggy Drake. 1942. 2:15AM 0i 2:30 AM t iscer- be her © Napoleon and Lovo fart * 03 Might Might 6D 1M2 U.S.A. International Don WllHems is beck in states after a two-week con cert and TV tour of Europe. While Don was away, his new est single. "Listen to the Radio," from his album of the same title, became one of the most programmed singles on radio. Evening at the Improv © Crisis In North Africa © Bobby Jonas Oespol'Show fiD iSPN Sports Cantor IS 99 News/Sign OH €D MOVK: 'Killers haw Space' A nuclear tcientist it-captured by At- tronion monttert who plan to con quer Earth with killer reptile!. 1934. The Texas Rangers track down a gang of cut throata. 2:45 AM (91 CimenwiOroond Holl#lu|oh Holtywoo ̂ 3KX) AM O Today in © At Large 10 MOVK CD MOVK: Daop VaNvy' A drab Southern CoMornlo mountain glrf hidet an escaped road gong bruiser. Ida lupino, Dane dark, Wayne Mor ris. 1947. 3:15 AM (9 Rookies 3:45 AM IB MOV* force of Don WllHems Two older Tom T. Hell songs have been released on a single. "Little Lady Preacher" and "Ramona's Revenge" were recorded in 1971 on Tom T.'s LP, "In Search of a Song." o Barbara Mendrell's "Live" album has now been certified gold. Barbara will be devoting more time to the personal appearance circuit, now that she has turned down doing another TV series. e Dorrts Macon. 71-year-old of performer Unci# Dave Macon, died recently in Wood bury, Tenn. Macon performed on the Grand Ole Opry for 47 years, playing with his father and Roy Acuff and the Fruit Jar Drinkers. • Prince Charles dealing with cultures so alien to my Midwestern background, I would often experience things as Ken Marshall that I would later use in scenes as Marco Polo. Just like Marco, this was my first real Opportuni ty to travel and it turned out to be the best education I ever had." (c)lM2 Computog - \ By Steve K. Walz • m