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Television personality Bob Hilton has been named to host NBC’s revival of the game show “Let’s Make a Deal,” which joins NBC’s daytime lineup July 9. Hilton has announced such shows as “Win, Lose or Draw,” “The Dating Game,” “The Joker’s Wild,” “The Newlywed Game,” “Card Sharks” and “Tic Tac Dough.”

Jill Eikenberry, already distressed by an emotional breakdown, is kidnaped by Michael Tucker in “Archie’s Wife,” a CBS movie now shooting in Denver for future broadcast. Tucker, an incompetent bank robber on the run from the law and two slimy loan sharks, drags Eikenberry from one hiding place to the next--including the home of his ex-wife (Elaine Stritch). Eikenberry and Tucker, co-stars of “L.A. Law,” are married in real life.

Production has been completed on “Babies,” a lighthearted NBC drama starring Lindsay Wagner, Dinah Manoff and Marcy Walker as three ladies whose biological time clocks are ticking out of control. The movie is scheduled for telecast in the 1990-91 season.

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Linda Lavin will be executive producer of “The Sunset Gang,” a three-part “American Playhouse” miniseries about a group of old folks living in a Florida retirement community. The production, based on a short-story collection by Warren Adler, who wrote the book “The War of the Roses,” will air in October.

Florence Henderson has been signed to host the sixth annual “Mrs. World Pageant,” a two-hour syndicated TV special taping Aug. 11 at Hong Kong’s Academy of Performing Arts. Lucila Boggiano of Peru, the current Mrs. World, will crown the winner of the pageant. Henderson has hosted the show for the past three years.

“Memories . . . Then and Now,” a half-hour weekly nostalgia series produced by NBC News Productions, is scheduled to make its national syndicated debut Sept. 15 in more than 60% of the country--including KNBC in Los Angeles. The title of the program is by special arrangement with Memories magazine, a fast-growing magazine chosen by Advertising Age as the best new publication of 1989.

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“Captain Planet and the Planeteers,” TBS’ new animated environmental series, is set to debut this fall in over 100 syndicated markets, including KTTV in Los Angeles. The series, featuring a collection of celebrity voices including Tom Cruise, focuses on a superhero and his five international Planeteers who battle environmental villains out to destroy the earth.

MTV will relive a decade of video music history during the cable channel’s “Top 100 of All Time” weekend, June 16-17. MTV will show the top 100 videos as voted by viewers, counting down from 100.

Michael York, Alison Doody, Ben Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin and Billie Whitelaw will star in the TNT movie “Duel of Love,” a romantic adventure based on Barbara Cartland’s novel. The story follows Doody, a high-spirited London debutante in 1821, whose evil cousin, played by York, is bent on killing the man she loves. The movie, now shooting in London, will air later this year.

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