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Rockford’s Back on the Trail

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TIMES STAFF WRITER

A lot of familiar faces are popping up this weekend on the small screen, including James Garner, Charles Nelson Reilly and Sarah, Duchess of York.

Garner returns as L.A. private detective Jim Rockford in the new CBS movie “The Rockford Files: Murder and Misdemeanors,” Friday at 8 p.m. on Channel 2.

Charles Nelson Reilly reprises his “X-Files” role as author Jose Chung on Fox’s “Millennium,” Friday at 9 p.m. on Channel 11.

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The Duchess of York travels across America and the Bahamas to share adventures with five inspirational people on the ABC special “Adventures of the Duchess,” Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 7.

A&E; presents “Paul McCartney’s Standing Stone,” Sunday at 7 p.m., the former Beatle’s orchestral work that had its world premiere Oct. 14 at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

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“Testing Our Schools: The Search for Solutions,” at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 28, is a special one-hour installment of “Life & Times,” examining reforms at such public schools.

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Friday

Daisy Fuentes and comic John Fugelsang are the new hosts of ABC’s “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 7.

The latest edition of “MTV Unplugged,” at 10 p.m., presents singer-songwriter-producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds.

Saturday

VH1 presents coverage of “Fairway to Heaven IV,” at 3 and 8:30 p.m. The fourth annual tournament pairs celebrities with golfers at the Las Vegas Country Club. George Foreman, 48, fights 25-

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year-old heavyweight Shannon Briggs, in a bout from Atlantic City at 7 p.m. on HBO.

TNT presents the 1964 documentary “Four Days in November,” at 8 p.m., a documentary chronicling the events following President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, hosts.

Sunday

Matthew Modine, Tom Skerritt, Jerry O’Connell and James Earl Jones star in CBS’ “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentation of “What the Deaf Man Heard,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 2.

Oscar-winning Timothy Hutton stars in ABC’s thriller “Dead by Midnight,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 7.

PBS’ six-hour “Liberty! The American Revolution,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 28, chronicles the birth of the United States. The series continues through Tuesday at 9 p.m.

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