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By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: All night, NBC. The season's final ratings "sweeps" period begins tonight. For the next four weeks, the networks will try harder to please viewers. Then they'll ignore us for the summer — or for longer if there's a writers' strike. So let's enjoy this while we can. We begin at 7 p.m. with Winona Ryder visiting "Friends." She plays Rachel's former sorority sister who may or may not have kissed her one drunken evening. On "The Weber Show," at 7:30 p.m., Jack and Katie have a commitment problem. On "Will and Grace," at 8 p.m., Woody Harrelson plays a new tenant who feuds with Grace. Then "Just Shoot Me," at 8:30 p.m., has Kathy Lee Gifford lusting for David Spade. At 9 p.m. "ER" starts its second Sally Field trilogy. Last fall, Field gave great performances as Abby's bipolar mother. Now Abby starts a road trip to retrieve her mother from an Oklahoma motel. Meanwhile, Corday may be ready to have her baby.

"Survivor: The Australian Outback," 7 p.m., CBS. Tonight the field gets trimmed to the final three. They'll collide in next week's two-hour finale for the million dollars.

"World's Worst Drivers 3" (7 p.m.) and "Surviving the Moment of Impact 4" (8 p.m.), Fox. Here's the dark side of any sweeps period. Fox feels obligated to stuff it with real-life collisions.

"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," 8 p.m., CBS. A jogger may have been killed by an animal .

"Mystery: Second Sight," 8 p.m., PBS. This two-part story starts tonight with a young man stabbed to death and his sleepwalking fiancee soaked in blood.