TELEVISION - Feb. 21, 1991

Hitler Hoax to TV: The strange events surrounding the 1983 “discovery” and sale of the forged diaries of Adolf Hitler--one of the great literary hoaxes of this century--will be depicted in a five-part British TV series called “Selling Hitler.” The tongue-in-cheek look at how so many eminent people were duped will air this summer in Great Britain. “Miss Saigon” star Jonathan Pryce plays the German journalist who first buys the forged papers, and Barry Humphries plays Rupert Murdoch, whose News International was conned into buying reprint rights. There are no plans yet for airing the show in the United States.