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TODAY ON TV Prime-Time TV Rankings CHANNELS Bulls-Pacers Series Gives NBC Winning Assist lm Angefet Orange County BKC8SiCBSIQZ HKNBC(NBC)04 HKTIAIWBI05 HKABCIW07 ESIKTTV(Ftw)11 iBKC0P(UPN)13 n3Ksaiwii8 EKVEA(TeteJ23 B3KDOClnd)56 BDKLCSPBS)17 Ptkn Springs 36KMR(NBQ 04 Santa Bartwa l.KEYT(ABCu7 The NBA championship series begins this week, but NBC has already seen its basketball action score fantastic ratings, based on results issued Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research. Sunday's deciding game of the series matching the Indiana Pacers and the Chicago Bulls put up dominating numbers surpassing the viewing record set during last year's final playoff round, while more than doubling the audience for any entertainment show except "Seinfeld." Basketball also assisted in easy NBC victories on Wednesday and Friday of last week. With most popular series in reruns and. networks burning off leftover episodes of canceled shows, newsmagazines remained the only other reliable ratings draw. Some programs weathered the NBA storm better than others, with basketball draining viewers from Fox's "The X-Files," while "Unsolved Mysteries" scored its highest rating since joining CBS' Friday lineup in April.

The farewell telecast of HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" attracted 2.3 million viewers Sunday, ranking 29th among last week's cable offerings. BRIAN LOWRY CD KTTV Grace Under Fire C3 KSCI I Can Do It! KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Groundling Marsh 50 KCET Barney (TVY). 37164 CD KTBN Alvin Slaughter ES KHSC Smart Cooking BO KOCE Instructional TV B0 KDOC Life in the Word B0 KLCS Film Feature AMC Movie "The Glass Key" (1942) 500723 Northern Exposure (TVPG) CNBC Power Lunch 90810 CNN Newsday COM Movie "Under the Rainbow" (19811 (2 hr.) 7948641 DSC Assignment Discovery (TVG) DISN The Little Mermaid (TVY) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 World Dog Show FAM Christy (TVG) FSW2 Fox Sports World 548471 FX The Collectibles Show (TVG) LIFE Sisters (TVPG) NICK Little Bear 182181 SCI-H The Twilight Zone (TVPG) SHOW Movie "D.A.R.Y.L." TBS Matlock TLC Work in Progress (TVG) TNN Creative Living With Crafts TNT Movie "Mannequin Two: On the Move" (1991) 366839 USA Sports Tennis French Open, Women's Semifinals. From Paris. 729433 VH1 Pop Up Video (TVPG) WGN Geraldo Rivera (TVPG) 7:30 a.m.

KCAL The Mask 22094 BB KCOP Extreme Dinosaurs 48365 IS KSCI Iran-Sima (Farsi) 762636 B9 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Wimzie's House 33075 BDKCETStorytime EH KTBN Marilyn Hickey 03 KOCE Wai Lana Yoga Show ES KVEA Hola Los Angeles 35433 S3 KOOC Ohayo Salon BO KLCS Putting English to Work $3 KADY The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgebog 31075 AMC Movie "Wheel of Fortune" (1941) 586452 (TVY) Model TV (TVPG) ESPNZBodyShaping HBO Babar (TVY) LIFE Denise Austin Daily Workout (TVG) MTV The Daily Bum (TVPG) NICKRocko's Modern Life 159988 TLC Skinnamarink TV (TVY) USA Gargoyles (TVY7-FV) WGN BatmanSuperman 623636 National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 25-31) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates that there are 254 million potential U.S. viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions.

Ventura County S3K0CE(PBS)50 SSKAWILPN) 16 Cable Services S3 SO-H 87 AMC35 ESPN 34 SHOW 41 BET 57 ESPNZ84 TBS 43 BRVO 54 FAM47 TIC 51 CNBC 31 FSW27 TMC 58 COM 79 B(89 TNN 49 CSPN29 HBO 33 TNT 52 CMAX45 HBT30 USA 44 CNN 42 IK 46 VH152 DSC 37 Mjy WGN 55 DSN 53 NOC38 Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus. Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure. A indicates advertisement. (R in the grid, denotes a repeat program. Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Nwt- Vkwh Ptomr worti an 1.

Wrestling (Mon, 10 p.m.) USA 4.92 2. Wrestling 9 p.m.) TNT 4.76 a Wresting 857 p.m.) USA 4.73 4. South Pa COMC 4.55 5. Wrestling 10 p.m.) TNT 4.55 6. "A Bright Shining Lie" HBO 4.45 7.

Wrestling (Moa, 8 p.m.) TNT 4.41 8 Rugrats MCK 3.62 9. Wrestling (Wed.) TBS 3.38 10. "FaceOff" H80 3.37 Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. TV RATINGS 9:30 a.m. KCAL 63 KADY The Dating Game ED KTTV Grace Under Fire QD KCOP A Different World ES KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Backyard Safari 94013 B0 KCET Puale Place 18617 ED KTBN Ron Hembree B0 KLCS Science Is Elementary (9:45) BRVO Movie "House Calls" (1978) 49024346 (9:45) CNN Burden of Proof 444433 DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) Gossip Show (TVPG-D) 440365 MTV Daria (TVPG) NICK Blue's Clues TMC Movie "3 Ninjas" (1 hr.

25 min.) 37832810 (9:35) TNN Creative Living With Crafts VH1 My Generation (TVPG) 49. AlyMcBeat FOX 8.84 50. America's Most Wanted FOX 8.82 51. "Behind the Laughs" FOX 8.72 52. Soul Man ABC 8.69 53.

NewsRadio NBC 8.63 54. Mad About You NBC 862 55. Caroline in the City NBC 8.56 56. "Bev. His Family Rob." ABC 8.55 57.

Public Eye: Bryant Gumoel CSS 851 58. ABC 8.44 59. Cops (8:30 p.m.( FOX 8.40 60. Something So Right ABC 8.39 61. Promised land CBS 8.09 62.

You Wish ABC 8.03 Teen Angel ABC 803 64. Suddenly Susan NBC 8.00 65. "World Musk Awards" ABC 7.95 66. Cybi CBS 7.92 67. Elen ABC 7.89 68.

3rd Rodtn (8:30 p.m.) NBC 7.80 69. Spin City ABC 7.76 70. The Nanny (8:30 p.m.) CBS 7.63 71. TheXfles FOX 7.60 72. The Nanny CBS 7.41 73 George Leo CBS 7.24 74.

Woliing NBC 7.20 75. "Where An They Now? 3" CBS 7.14 76. Cops FOX 6.93 77. The Naked Truth NBC 6.88 78 World's Funniest! FOX 6.69 79. "NioXFuy" FOX 6.28 80.

ABC News Saturday Night ABC 6.25 81. EariyEdWon CBS 6.06 82. Beyond Belief? FOX 5.84 "Major League 2" ABC 5.84 84. "Speechless" NBC 5.79 85. Dr.Oum.n C8S 5.74 86.

New Yo Undercover FOX 5.61 87. C-16 ABC 5.10 88. 7th Heaven (9 p.m.) WB 5.04 89. Mtennium FOX 4.93 90. Damon FOX 4.87 (TVY) All Children (TVY7I Directed to Older Children (TVG) General Audience (TVPG) Parental Guidance ITV14) Parents Strongly Cautioned ITVMA) Mature Audiences Only wMk te fete NBC 13.93 million 14.76 CBS 9.84 13.91 ABC 9.24 12.07 FOX 7.32 10.42 WB 3.57 4.45 UPN 2.70 3.96 1.

NBA Playoffs (Sun.) NBC 30.57 2. NBA Playoffs (Fri.) NBC 19.96 3. NBA Playoffs (Wed.) NBC 17.69 4. Seinfeld NBC 16.70 5. Dateline NBC (Sun.) NBC 15.35 6.

2020 (Mon.) ABC 15.34 7. 60 Minutes CBS 14.72 8. "Deaf Man Heard" CBS 14.45 9. ER NBC 14.26 10. Home Improvement ABC 14.23 11.

Vomica's Closet N6C 13.87 12. Dateline NBC (Mon.) NBC 13.78 13. Mneftnelive ABC 12.77 14. Touched by an Angel C8S 12.74 15. Friends NBC 12.56 16.

Just Shoot Me NBC 12.51 17. "NBArr(Wed.) NBC 12.33 la "NBATipor(Fll.) NBC 12.20 19. The Drew Carey Show ABC 12.18 20. 2020 ABC 11.80 21. "Sen.

dugs. Consent" ABC 11.72 48 Hours CBS 11.72 23. Dateine NBC (Tires.) NBC 11.60 24. 2 Guys. Gil Ansa Race ABC 11.34 25.

"NBATipor(Sun.) NBC 11.02 26. Unsolved Mysteries CBS 10.90 27. Just Shoot Me (Tues.) NBC 10.78 28. JAG CBS 10.28 29. KingoftheHI FOX 10.12 30.

America's Fun Videos ABC 10.06 31. The Practice ABC 10.00 32. The Simpsons FOX 9.92 33. Diagnosis Murder CSS 9.83 34. OhamiaSGreg ABC 9.81 35.

"Titanic" Fat 2 CBS 9.76 36. Waller. Texas Ranger CBS 9.75 37. Cosby CBS 9.74 38. Fiasier NBC 9.71 39.

Kite Say Damdest Things CBS 9.55 40. Candid Camera CBS 9.43 41. Hash Bridges CBS 9.34 42. DateMe NBC (8 p.m. Fri.) NBC 9.32 43 Ewybody Lows Raymond OBS 931 44.

"Trial by ABC 9.30 45. CNcagoHope CBS 920 46. Sudden Susan (ftXpjn.) NBC 9.06 47. "Wildest Pokce Videos" FOX 9.05 48 Boy Meets Wond ABC 899 8:00 a.m. BKCBSThis Morning Dr.

Bernadine Healy; gothic films; Jim Carrey. 52655 KCAL Tex Avery 26346 IE KCOP Extreme Ghostbusters 88100 B3 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Teletubbies (TVY) 49029 B0 KCET The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (TVY) 83433 EE KTBN Kenneth Copeland EH KOCE Inspiration of Painting: Acrylics HD KDOC Robert Tilton B0 KLCS Wimzie's House 27839 S3 KADY Extreme Dinosaurs Quincy(TVG) BET Jam Zone BRVO Movie "Black Orpheus" (1959) 6600029 COM Dr. Katz (TVPG) DISN Goof Troop (TVY) One Day at a Time ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Fitness Beach FAM Rescue 911 (TVPG) FSW FIT-TV HBO Movies "Real Genius" (1985)11 hr. 46 min.) 880346 FX Mission: Impossible (TVPG-V) LIFE What Every Baby Knows (TVG) MTV MTV Jams Countdown (TVPG) NICK Charlie Brown 272758 SCI-H Incredible HulklTVG) TBS Mama's Family TLC Swamp Critters (TVY) TMC Movie "Two Bits" (1 hr. 25 min.) 1115471 (8:05) TNN Dallas (TVPG-SI TNT Spenser: For Hire USA Facts of Life (TVPG) VH1 Music Videos (TVPG) WGN Andy Griffith (TVG) Suggestive Dialogue Coarse Language (SI Sex (V) Violence Southland Viewing Here are Nielsen's Top 10 prime-time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week.

The rankings are based on the number of households MORNING Sa- 736357 MislDeat Msi Heavo" Seinfeld Friends Just Shoot Me Dateline NBC (Tue.) eOMinutes KCBS KNBC KNBC KNBC KNBC KCBS KABC KCBS KTTV KNBC 641.181 581071 576,061 576.061 556.025 551.015 551,015 Cable Top 10 Here are Nielsen's Top 10 cable programs in prime time last week, also ranked by total viewers (in millions). The Drew Carey Show 8. Touched by an Angel 9. The Simpsons Veronica's Closet 'Heroes' Provide Travelers' Aid for Escapists BKCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) KNBC EXTRA (TVPG) 10723 KTLA Little House fl KABC KEYT The View Rosie O'Donnell; designer Bill Blass: spring fashions. 93568 KCAL 36 KMIR Maury Povich (TVPG) 28278 ED KTTV Andy Griffith (TVG) 03 KCOP Dr.

QuinnlTVG) 53 KWHY Business News 24 KVCR Watercolor Workshop B0 KCET Sesame Street 79891 S3 KMEX Maite EE KTBN Behind the Scenes; Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (10:15) 42' KESQ The View 86181 ES KHSC Pearl Harvest KVEA Llovizna 31617 B0 KDOC New Zoo Review BO KLCS 3-2-1 Classroom Contact: Different and the Same (10:15) 63 KADY Jenny Jones (TVPG-LI Law Order (TVPG) CNN CNN Today DSC Home Matters (TVG) 253758 DISN Bear in the Bn Blue House (TVY) Harrison Ford: Celebrity Profile ESPN Survival of the Finest ESPN2 College World Series Highlights FAM The 700 Club HBO Movie "The Secret Garden" (1993) 1557742 FX Life Goes On (TVPG-D) HIST American Caesar (TVG) LIFE A. Law MTV My So-Called Life (TVPG) NICK Richard Scarry 427891 SCI-R Night Gallery TBS Movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal" (1993) (2 hr.) 451723 TLC On the Inside (TVG) TNNTheWaltonstTVG) VH1 Women First (TVPG) WGN News 8:30 a.m. KCAL X-Men 25617 09 KCOP Bananas in Pajamas the Crayon Box 87471 D3 KSO You and World of Medicine ES KWHY Business News '24 KVCR Mister Rogers 681 00 B0 KCET Arthur (TVY) 82704 EC KTBN Steve Brock BD KOCE Teletubbies (TVY) 198365 B0 KLCS Wishbone CMAX Movie "Bophal" (19931(2 hr. 1 min.) 185471 CNN CNN Company 71 1617 COM The Daily Show (TVPG) DISN Adventures in Wonderland One Day at a Time ESPN2 Kiana's Flex Appeal LIFE Kids These Days (TVG) NICK Rugrats TBS Mama's Family TLC Swamp Critters (TVY) USA Facts of Life (TVPG) VH1 Crossroads (TVPG) WGN Andy Griffith (TVG) 7:00 a.m.

flKCBSNews KNBC 36 KMIR Today Dr. Bob Arnot, Len Berman; plan-ningfamily reunions. 52297 rTLA Morning News Actress Marilu Henner. 89365 DKABC 3 KEYTGood Morning America George Carlin, indoor and outdoor window boxes. 74433 KCAL Mummies Alive 16487 DO" KTTV Good Day LA 34839 ODKCOP Marvel Superheroes 32758 E3 KWHY Business News 2 KVCR Theodore Tugboat (TVY) BO KCET Barney (TVY) 941 00 EQ KMEX jDespierta America! EE KTBN Rod Parsley 42 KESQGood Moming America 74346 EH KOCE Humanities Through the Arts BBKVEA Lift-Off 56926 S3 KDOC NewsJiNi Business News (7:20) BD KLCS Learning English ES KRCA Isla de Jordan 63 KADY The Mask 52568 The Cosby Mysteries (TVG) CNBC Market Watch 32384 CSPN House of Representatives 6126926 DISN Aladdin (TVY) Ei News Daily 619568 ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Gotta Sweat FAM Bonanza (TVG) FSW Fox Sports News HBO Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TVY) FX FIT-TV (TVG) HIST Movie "Young Winston" (19721 (3 hr.) 669365 UFE Everyday Workout (TVG) NICK AaahhM! Real Monsters SCI-H Land of the Giants (TVG) SHOW Movie "Mandela and de Klerk" (1997) 16675758 TBS Little House on the Prairie TLC Salty 's Lighthouse (TVY) TNN Crook Chase (TVG) 492988 TNT Starsky and Hutch (TVPG) USA Gargoyles (TVY7-FV) VHlCardioVideo(TVPG) WGN Pinky the Brain (TVY) Generally, things are the same as they are in the 1965-71 series.

The bribe-taking barracks guard is Sgt. Schultz (John Banner), who knows and Col. Klink (Werner Klemperer) knows as little but won't admit it. The German shepherds are pussycats. Somebody is always screwing things up by making coffee in the coffeepot (it's the speaker for a bug planted in Klink's office).

And, as Klink is forever reminding his superiors, there has never been a successful escape from Stalag 13. DETAILS, DETAILS: Which "Hogan's Heroes" stars were regulars on "Rowan Martin's Answer next week. The answer to last week's quiz (What songwriter co-starred for a year on the western Hoagy Carmichael, who wrote "Star Dust" and "Georgia on My Mind." loe (Ivan Dixon, who later became a director) are POWs who want to be at Stalag 13 so they can get other captured Allied soldiers back to safety. (It's sort of like "Robin Hood" combined with "The Great Escape" that has a happy ending. The operation which Hogan refers to as a "travelers' aid society" provides contacts, forged papers and money and civilian clothes, as well as haircuts and manicures.

The prisoners who stay put are also taken care of with gourmet meals-courtesy of LeBeau and a steam room so the pounds they put on from those meals don't make their captors suspicious. Hogan's 499th customer is Larry Hovis, who plays Sgt. Andrew Carter (Hogan's demolitions expert) in the series. In "The Informer," he's a lieutenant just passing through. By JOAN FANTAZIA TIMES STAFF WRITER Quit taking "Hogan's Heroes" for granted.

You think that because you've seen some of the episodes you've seen them all. You haven't. The pilot, called "The Informer," holds a few surprises. And a scheduling coincidence gives you two chances to see it today: KDOC-TV Channel 56 airs it at 7:30 p.m.; cable channel TV Land shows it at 2 p.m. "The Informer" sets up the series: In 1942, Col.

Hogan (Bob Crane) and his men Frenchman LeBeau (Robert Clary, who was an inmate at a Nazi death camp), Briton Newkirk (Richard Dawson) and American Kinch- 9:00 a.m. BKCBS Guiding Light (TV1 4) 95297 r3 KEYT Lee 82723 DKNBC36KMRLeezalTvPG 80365 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TVG) Viewers receive good news. 37297 KABC KESQ Regis Kathie Lee Michael Douglas, Norm Macdonald; Michael Crawford 22365 KCAL 63 KADY The NewlywedGame 10:30 a.m. KNBC Access Hollywood 22617 HI KTTV Andy Griffith (TVG) KWHY Business News, Health News (10:50) Please see TV LOG, 62 THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1998 CALENDAR WEEKEND.