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Posted on: Saturday, April 23, 2005

Tube Notes

By Mike Hughes
Gannett News Service

Tonight's Must-See

"Little House on the Prairie." 7 p.m., ABC. This well-made, six-hour miniseries concludes tonight. One dispute between the Indians and the settlers is resolved. At the same time, however, a crisis over the Ingalls family's land rights keeps growing.

"All That," 10th anniversary special, 5 p.m., Nickelodeon. "All That" began in 1995 as a sketch-comedy show performed for and by kids. It had two big advantages. It was part of a hot network. At one giddy point, Nickelodeon had more than half of all the TV viewing by kids. And it had talented young stars. Nickelodeon soon created separate shows for Amanda Bynes, Nick Cannon, Jamie Lynn Spears and the duo of Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. All landed movie roles. Thompson went on to "Saturday Night Live" and Bynes to WB's "What I Like About You" and "Robots." Now the old stars reconvene. Frankie Muniz (who starred with Bynes in "Big Fat Liar") hosts, with music from Ashanti and Bow Wow.



Of Note

"Crossing Jordan," 7 p.m., NBC. This reruns the episode in which a blackout has left Jordon and Bug involved in a pileup in a Boston tunnel. Macy, Nigel and Woody learn the blackout was part of an elaborate jewelry heist — and the crooks are heading straight toward Jordan.

"Jurassic Park III" (2001), 8 p.m., ABC. Steven Spielberg didn't direct this third round of the dinosaur movies, but he did produce it and brought back Sam Neill and Laura Dern. Neil is tricked into returning to the island to save the son of an estranged couple (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni). Joe Johnston ("Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") directed.

"Cold Case," 8 p.m., CBS. This reruns an episode that goes all the way back to a 1939 murder. The victim was a young black woman. Now her granddaughter has found fresh evidence.

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," 8 p.m., NBC. In a rerun, some teen killers seemed to be copying a violent video game. Now the prosecutors go against a slick lawyer played by Barry Bostwick.

"Law & Order," 9 p.m., NBC. In this rerun, a rap star is killed and his proteges are suspects.