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F11 LOS ANGELES TIMES WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2000 TODAY ON IV Class Dismissed! 'Beverly Hills, 90210' closes its doors after 10 years. 10:00 a.m. By PAUL BROWNFIELD TIMES STAFF WRITER CHANNELS lot Angeles 03 KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County EE KDOC (Ind 1 56 HKCBSIC8SI02 HI KJLA (Ind.) 25 HKNBC(NBC04 HDKLCS (Edu. 17 KTIA (WB) 05 ES KRCA (Ind 1 20 flKABC(ABC)07 Palm Springs 0KCALlnd.O9 i3S KMIfl (NBC) 04 DO KTTV (Fox) 1 1 H2KESQABC)7, EKC0PUPN13 25 EQKSCI (Ind) 18 S1KCET(PBS28 3 EQKPXN(PAX)30 San Bernardino EDKMEX(Uni 14 24 KVCR (PBS) 24 EE KTBN Ind 1 40 Ventura County B3K0CE(PBS50 KA0YUPN)16 Cable Services 39 63 NICK 38 CMAX 'The Newton Boys" '98 IPG-13) 2hr02 579272 DISN BearBig Blue House (TVY) ESPN America's Horse ESPN2 World's Strongest Man Competition FSN2 Yoga Zone HBO "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" '89 (PG 2hr06 45366611 (10:45) HIST In Search Of (TVG) NICK Franklin 933369 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) SHOW "Enchanted" '98 1hr36 TLC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC "A House in the Hills" '93R)1hr31 5639098 USA Fired Up (TVPG) V.f;i I.V-j A 11:00 a.m. AMC ESPN 34 SCI-FI 87 35 BET 57 ESPN2 84 SHOW 41 BRV0 54 FAM 47 TBS 43 a KABCI31 KEYT42I KESQ Regis Kathie Lee 67475 KCAL Maury (TV14) 18123 KTTV Divorce Court KCOPMontel Williams 21611 DO KSCI I Can Do It! KWHY "La Banda del Carro Rojo" '75 2hr 99104 84) KVCR Sesame Street 98949 53 KCET Barney (TVY) 37291 KTBN Dr.

Cherry ED KOCE Instructional TV KVEA Monica 90307 KOOC Life in the Word KJLA Mike Russell (TVG) KLCS Algebra AMC "Tarzan and the Huntress" '47 1hr30 355727 Night Court BETVideolink BRVO Moonlighting CNBC Power Lunch 75562 CNN Newsday COM Whose Line Is It Anyway? (TVPG) DSC Assignment Discovery (TVG) DISN Otter (TVY) El Talk Soup (TVPG-D) 5841 23 ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 NBA Today FAM Itsy Bitsy Time (TVY) 106253 FSN Sports Geniuses FX Picket Fences (TVPG-DV) HIST The Real West (TVG) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Utile Bear 937185 SCI-FI Highlander (TVPG) SHOW'' "Reckless Kelly" '93 (PG1hr21 7410291 (9:05) TBS Matlock TLC Bingo Molly (TVY) TMC "Storm Trooper" 1hr27 988185 TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT Lois Clark (TVPG) USA Hearts Afire (TVPG) CNBC 31 FSN FSN2 COM 79 27 TCM 59 TIC 89 TMC 33 TNN 30 TNT 46 USA 48 VH1 CSPN 29 FX CMAX 45 HBO CNN 42 HIST DSC 37 LIFE KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) 131 KEYT Home Improvement (TVG) a KNBC EXTRA (TVPG) 80727 a KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) Infidelity secrets. 66659 KABC42; KESQ The View Angela Lansbury. 51727 KCAL Jerry Springer (TV14) Taboo romantic triangles. 96825 ID KTTV Queen Latifah (TVPG) 97543 SB KCOP Forgive or Forget 70901 24 KVCR Creative Living HO KCET Sesame Street 76765 EH KMEX Maite 1361 KMIR Judge Mills Lane ED KTBN Behind the Scenes S3 KVEA "Las Mujeres de Jeremias" 2hr 27388 BJ KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) SO KLCS in Me; Entrepreneur in You; World of Work (10:15) KRCA Cine Murder, She Wrote BET Hits From the Street BRVO "Olivier Olivier" '92 (R)2hr30 315901 CNN CNN Today COM At First Sight" '95 (R 2hr 9128388 DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN RoliePolie Olie(TVY) The True Hollywood Story ITV14-S) "Savannah" 218678 ESPN Racehorse Digest ESPN2 World's Strongest Man Competition FAM The 700 Club FSN2 The Method FX Beverly Hills. 90210 (TVPG) HIST In Search Of (TVG) LIFE Chicago Hope (TVPG -L) NICK Kipper 743833 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TBS Hunter TLC Pappyland (TVY) TNN Matt Houston (TVPG) TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-V) USA Ned and Stacey (TVPG) VHI New Videos (TVPG) ANDREW SEMEL DISN 53 MTV They are the dog days of "Beverly Hills, 90210," the last gasps of a teen soap grown up and grown old: Episode No.

299, titled "The Penultimate." In this scene, for the umpteenth time, Dylan McCay (Luke Perry) and Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth) will (almost) profess their love for each other. Dylan will ask, "How's meaning Kelly's boyfriend, and Kelly will say, "He's pretty devastated," because Man's something-or-other died, and Dylan will say, "The other night. You wanted to know things. But you had to talk to Matt first I was wondering if you'd done that," and Kelly will say, "Not yet. No," and Dylan will say, "Well, tell him I'm sorry for his loss, will and Kelly will say, "Of course." And then Dylan will go to the door, as if to leave (where is he always He will say, "I talked to David about Donna," and Kelly will ask, "How's he doing?" and Dylan will reply, "He can't figure out how two people so obviously meant for each other can't get together," and then, before he exits, Dylan will add: "And frankly, neither can Outside the sound stage, waiting to be called back on set, Perry horses around on a vintage Schwinn he's bought for his son.

Garth, in a robe, smokes. Like "90210's" other veteran stars, she has made a lot of money by sticking around, but today, no one confuses the show for television that matters. "We always had such emotional, reality-based dialogue, and that has really been absent, I think, in the last couple of years," says Tori Spelling, who has played the virtuous Donna Martin since the show's inception, when she was 16. Ten years later, the show's cancellation strikes Spelling as a not-very-surprising plot twist. "I'd say in the last two or three years I've really been bored.

And it bums me out because I take real big pride in what I do and our show and it's just these talky, talky scenes with nothing going on." Teen Audience Dropped From 20 to Under 4 Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus. Where ttiere are two numbers, repeat the procedure. in the grid, denotes a repeat program. TV RATINGS (TVY) All Children TVY7 Directed to Older Children (TVWV) Directed to Older Children; FantasyViolence (TVG) General Audience (TVPG) Parental Guidance (TV1 4) Parents Strongly Cautioned (TVMA) Mature Audiences Only (D) Suggestive Dialogue (U Coarse Language IS) Sex (V) Violence KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV1 4) 31949 KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABC 1 3 KEYT Port Charles (TVPG) 83765 KCAL Judge Mathis (TVPG) Bl KTTV Living Single 0 KCOP Jenny Jones 90765 KWHY La Corte del Pueblo B4I KVCR Sewing With Nancy BO KCET Noddy (TVY) 43524 EH KMEX Querida (TVPG) 98307 I36I KMIR The People's Court D3 KTBN James Robison (423 KESQ Leeza 63291 03 KDOC Southland Today SI KJLA Local Angle (TVG) 03 KLCS Using Maps, Globes, Graphs, Tables, Charts and Diagrams; TaxesUS. (11:10) Magnum, P.I.

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Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Morning EO KTTV Divorce Court BD KCET Puzzle Place (TVY) 41982 EH KTBN Dean and Mary Brown E3 KDOC Benny Hinn 31 KJLA Dow 30 Report (TVG) BO KLCS Algebraic Concepts Night Court CNN Burden of Proof 21 0920 COM Ben Stein's Money (TVPG) DISN Out of the Box (TVY) Mysteries Scandals (TVPG) ESPN2 RPM 2Night FAM CBN Special Edition 843272 FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Blue's Clues TCM 'The Awful Truth" '37 1hr32 3940456 TLC Salty's Lighthouse (TVY) USA Almost Perfect (TVPG) 9:00 a.m. 13 KEYT Mad About You (TVPG) CI KNBC Access Hollywood 96291 24i KVCR Kaye's Quilting Friends 36) KMIR Judge Mills Lane EH KTBN Casey Treat S3 KDOC Froozles (TVG) 967307 KJLA Bio-Med Check-Up (TVG) SO KLCS Crafts for Kids 51833 AMC "Magic Town" '47 2hr 762920 KCBS Martha Stewart 34123 KNBC36I KMIR Later Today Talking to teens about sex. 29291 El KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) 72307 The audience has long since caught onto Spelling's ennui. Twenty percent of the nation's teens watched "90210" during its second season, but by the end of season nine that figure had dropped to under 4, and Prime-Time TV Rankings 'Frasier' Give 'Millionaire' Competition hope for the other networks, since the Sunday installment has generally pounded their high-profile miniseries throughout the current rating sweeps. "ER's" chart rose to the second-highest rating this season thanks to Julianna Margulies' final appearance.

CBS could also point to a strong performance by "Judging Amy," which beat "NYPD Blue" for the first time since February. Fox continues to trot out sweeps-oriented reality programs, as "Battle of the Child Geniuses" steadily gained viewers to win its second hour, while "Powers of the Paranormal: Live on Stage" didn't exhibit any powers when it came to attracting an audience. BRIAN LOWRY The CBS miniseries "Jesus" and NBC's "Frasier" managed to make "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" look like a mere mortal series last week, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. "Jesus," starring Jeremy Sisto, amassed the biggest flock for a miniseries this season, while "Frasier" delivered its highest tune-in since "Millionaire" became its time-slot competition in January. Competing directly with both, ABC's quiz-show hit slipped to its lowest Sunday and Thursday ratings of the year.

Those results suggest that while "Millionaire" is still a ratings dynamo, the program is vulnerable to special events and stunts a glimmer of National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 8-14) 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 260 million potential U.S. viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions.

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Charmed (Sun.) 7th Heaven Beginnings I Daie Voul Zoe Movie Stars WB WB UPN WB WB 1.96 1.85 1.65 1.35 1.30 Cable Top 10 Clockwise from top left, the "Beverly Hills, 90210" original cast included Ian Ziering, Luke Perry, Shan-nen Doherty, Gabrielle Carteris, Tori Spelling, Brian Austin Green, Jennie Garth and Jason Priesdey, center. "The premise that I made about Beverly Hills is that it's a very image-conscious city, and yet at the time in 1990, here was Beverly Hills with a bankrupt school district, every store seemed like it was up for lease, real estate values were plummedng, and yet the city was holding on to its world-class image. There seemed to me to be a disparity between the image and the reality. And I applied that to high school." Spelling, Rosin and current executive producer Paul Waigner will always have this defense: Back in the early days, when no one was paying much attention, the show did speak about teen sex, drugs and date rape, and did so boldly. By the time Brenda slept with Dylan on prom night and enjoyed it (although she worried she was pregnant), Fox understood it had something on its hands.

A new run of originals was ordered, and Fox aired them in the summer, while the competition was in reruns. "It wasn't even that the audience solidified so much," Rosin says. "It was that the media found us. And once the media found us it changed everything." For Priestley, Celebrity Status Was a Hard Road On a cell phone a decade later, Jason Priesdey says this about the media: "If anyone in the media has ever bestowed you with (the name teen idol, it then gives everybody else in the media license to completely defecate on anything you do thereafter." He is calling from London, where he is starring in the seemingly defecation-proof, Tony Award-winning play "Side Man." By various accounts, Priesdey, who played the good-guy hunk Brandon for seven full seasons, had the roughest time with his "90210" celebrity, with the full-court press of personal appearances in the early days, when Spelling and Fox dispatched their budding stars into the heartland and beyond to stoke the show's fan base. It seems quaint to recall, in today's era of multimedia convergence, but "90210" fashioned a sense of mania the old-fashioned way through mall appearances.

Locked into five-year deals, the cast wasn't drawing top dollar relative to the show's emerging success; these global hit-and-runs, then, had the added benefit of lining their pockets. "Every hiatus I would travel," says Ian Ziering, who played the testosterone-driven party boy Steve Sanders for the life of the show. "Denmark, Finland, Israel, department stores, grocery stores anywhere that I could, you know, have a mass of people come together and say hello to and, whatever, sign autographs." But if Ziering inhaled his popularity like a guy who knew it probably wouldn't last, Priestley and Perry, the show's true sex symbols, attempted a more detached pose, staring at fame and all the kooky crap that came with it through a cigarette haze. Today, neither have come full circle on that teen zine chapter in their lives at least not enough to joke about it openly. They're more prone to oblique rants on the nature of fame versus "the work," as if the tabloid press is still rooting around in their trash for underwear.

Like Priesdey, Perry left the show before the bitter end, but unlike Priestley he came back, two seasons ago, after a string of feature films didn't work out as planned. "Apathy coupled with whatever is a nasty cocktail," he says, asked about doing the show now versus then. "Nobody is walking through anything on camera, that much I am sure of. But you know, it used to be a lot of fun and now it's not as much fun and it still could be. I'm just a little disappointed about that." Tori Spelling, meanwhile, all along had to battle the notion that nepotism got her here.

There is an apocryphal story that Spelling went out of her way to preserve her anonymity, auditioning for "90210" under the name Toria Mitchell. But a source formerly on the show says that Aaron Spelling was also given to writing "Where's Tori?" in the margins of scripts. Both Spellings proclaim amazement that a cloud still hovers particularly given that Tori has since gone on to do independent films and recently shot a sitcom pilot for Fox. "I've seen so many other actors who come from Hollywood families now coming about and they get no Oak. Nothing," she says.

"It's like, why me? I look back at old episodes, and I'm like, OK, I mean, I've grown. I've seen much worse. I don't look at them and go, 'That's a bad performance. I was cute. I was Spelling, as it happened, got a juicy line in one of the more controversial "90210" episodes.

Tided "Everybody's Talkin' 'Bout It," the show explored passing out condoms in high school, at a time when the Los Angeles Unified School District was confronting the same issue. As the virginal Donna, it was Spelling who spoke the show's conscience by asking her conservative mother, in front of a roomful of adults: "If you have a swimming pool in your back yard, OK, you can tell your children not to go in. You can even build a fence around it. But if you know they're going to find a way to get in the water, don't you think you ought to teach those kids how to swim?" In the finale that airs tonight, no one talks about condoms, and post-marital sex is what's in the air, as Donna and David finally tie the knot. It's a reunion show of sorts, with the return of cast members Tiffan-i-Amber Thiessen and Gabrielle Carteris.

Priesdey appears, via videotape, to wish the newlyweds well, but his sister, Brenda, is nowhere to be found. Shannen Doherty, who left in 1994, flirted with coming back, but ultimately the details couldn't be worked out. There's more to that story, but it's hard to care-even if, as subplots go, it's a tad more promising than anything emanating from the mother ship. Hie two-hour series finale of "Bewrly Hills, 90210" can be seen tonight at 8 on Fox. The network lias rated it W-PG-D (may be unsuitable for young children with special adi 'isories for suggestuie dialogue).

Here are Nielsen's top 10 cable programs in prime time last week, also ranked by total viewers (in millions). mm Jeremy Sisto Net- He Prograei work en 1. Wrestling 10 p.m USA 7.44 2. Wrestling (Mon 9 p.m.) USA 6.99 3. Hey Arnold NICK 399 4.

Rugiats (Tue. 8 p.m.) NICK 3.58 5. Wrestling (Mon.) TNT 3.45 6. Boxing (Sat.) HBO 3.33 7. Wrestling (Sun TNT 3.27 8.

The Comer" HBO 325 9. Rugiats (Thui. 8:30 pm.) NICK 3 24 10. Wrestling (Wed.) TBS 3.14 the adults who continued to show up, if only to appreciate the show's camp qualities, its earnest approach to nighttime soap, hardly comprised a viewing majority. This sort of attrition is unavoidable, though to its credit "90210" told its story in real time meaning the characters graduated high school, entered college, then left college for "the real world." All that's left now is the two-hour finale, airing tonight at 8 on Fox, and a vague sense of what the show and the hysteria it prompted once meant.

In the tradition of eulogies, you could be grandiose: "Beverly Hills, 90210" solidified a then-fledgling Fox network, resuscitated Aaron Spelling's career, and sent the industry chasing after teens and twentysomething viewers like never before. "90210" didn't invent the wheel (when the show arrived, for instance, a popular Canadian series, "Degrassi High," was going off the air). But "90210's" success was "the beginning of the younger-skewing drama," says Jamie Kellner, who was Fox's network president when the series launched and today is CEO of the WB, a network programmed for a modern-day "90210" audience, with "Dawson's Creek," "Popular" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Those shows are more explicit sexually, populated by a generation who speak with the morose sophistication of adults. "They're in high school and they have their breasts sticking out halfway. We never did that.

We never did that," Aaron Spelling says through his pipe, interviewed recendy in his spectacularly large Miracle Mile office. "They're wild about sex but they have the vocabulary of someone who's 50. That kinda throws me a little bit" The ubermensch of prune-time soap, Spelling says he cherishes "90210" and not "Dynasty" or "Fantasy Island" or "Charlie's Angels" the most. Still in the game in the year 2000, at age 77, Spelling has two shows on the WB, "Charmed" and "7th Heaven," and a new show, "Titans," premiering on NBC in the fall. It is set, appropriately, in Beverly Hills.

When ABC canceled "Dynasty" in 1989, Spelling was supposedly through; his long reign at ABC was over, and all he had was a leftover deal at Fox, a 13-episode commitment for a "Charlie's Angels" remake, tided "Angels '88." It was to feature a then-unknown T6a Leoni, but complications, including a strike by the industry's television and screenwriters, shelved the pilot, and Spelling's deal was eventually rolled into something else a property still kicking around the executives' offices called "Beverly Hills High." It was, in some form or another, Barry Diller's idea or notion or phone call that got the ball rolling. Spelling insists the deal for "90210" had nothing to do with the one for "Angels '88." But everyone agrees that Diller, then CEO of Fox and a Beverly Hills High graduate, "had a conviction that anything about Beverly Hills was intrinsically interesting to people," says Garth Ancier, Fox's programming chief at the time and now head of entertainment at NBC. Among Diller's first moves at Fox, in fact, was to commit money to a sitcom version of the film "Down and Out in Beverly Hills." That project went nowhere, but a reluctant Spelling was paired up with 28-year-old screenwriter Darren Star to develop "Beverly Hills High." Their relationship, while not always amicable, nevertheless proved fruitful; in addition to "90210," the two would collaborate on another hit for Fox, "Melrose Place." Star would go on to create bad TV Park but also "Sex and the City," a signature comedy for HBO, and today he says of "I feel a sense of accomplishment that people don't even know I did it." Star Deserves Some Credit in Creating Show And yet, Star, whose new show for the WB, "Grosse Point," is being described as a parody of the teen-drama genre spawned by "90210," wants at least some of the credit: He was the one who dreamed up the Walsh siblings, Brandon and Brenda, who move from Minnesota to glitzy Beverly Hills, where the kids at West Beverly High are so pampered they get their BMWs valet parked. Spelling, meanwhile, worked his magic in casting, shaping "90210's" look according to time-honored show business adages (Spelling: "Dick Powell once told me something. He said, 'Skinny, in diis business you're going to find out attention to detail is Charles Rosin became an executive producer after the pilot and stayed until the end of the sixth season, by which time "the kids," as they're still called, were in college.

Today, actors on the show instantly perk up when you invoke his name. Rosin grew up in Beverly Hills in die left-leaning 1960s, and he believed that you could do a show about the idle rich without being cynical. Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Nat- View-Program work ra 1. ER NBC 32.67 2.

"Jesus" Parti CBS 24.10 3. Millionaire (Sun.) ABC 23.94 4. Millionaire (Tue.) ABC 23.04 5. Frasier NBC 22.96 6. Millionaire (Wed.) ABC 22.55 7.

Millionaire (Thu.) ABC 21.98 8. Friends NBC 20.87 9. Friends (8:30 p.m.) NBC 20.47 10. Frasier (9:30 p.m.) NBC 20.02 11. taw SOrtef NBC 18.64 12.

the Practice ABC 18.14 13. Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 17.12 14. Touched by an Angel CBS 1695 15. Becker CBS 1534 16. The Drew Carey Show ABC 15.29 17.

DhaimaSGreg ABC 14.84 18. "My Best Friend's Wedding" ABC 14.76 19. JlldgingAmy CBS 14.54 20. The West Wing NBC 14.33 21. NYPD Blue ABC 1411 22.

LawS Older SVU NBC 13 70 23. 60 Minutes CBS 13.28 24. SpmClty ABC 1322 25. Providence NBC 13.05 26. JAG CBS 12.95 27.

The X-Files FOX 12.79 28. Malcolm in trie Middle FOX 12.56 29. Walker. Tenas Ranger CBS 12.52 30. The Simpsons FOX 12.22 31.

60 Minutes II CBS 12.00 32. Willi Grace NBC 11,93 33. FamilyUlw CBS 11.71 34. 2020(Wed.) ABC 1170 35. Dateline NBC (Fri.) NBC 11.41 36.

"Jason and Argonauts" Ft 2 NBC 11.40 37. "SNl 25th Anniversary" NBC 1135 38. 2020 Domtom ABC 11.12 39. Dateline NBC (Tue.) NBC 11.08 40. "Mulan" ABC 1081 41.

Diagnosis Mulder CBS 10.80 42. Just Shoot Me NBC 1079 43. ladies Man CBS 10 77 44. AllyMcBeal FOX 10 75 45. King of Queens CBS 10 55 46.

Sports Nht ABC 10.39 47. 2020 (Fn.) ABC 10.37 48. "Best Fiiend's Wed." (Sat) A8C 10 02 49. "Battle ol Child Geniuses" FOX 9.91 50. Whose Une Is It (8:30 ABC 990 51.

"RomyMichelles Reunion" ABC 9.73 52. 90210 final Goodoye FOX 968 53. That 70s Show FOX 956 54. "Celebnty Weddings" ABC 9.27 55. Bevedy Hills, 90210 FOX 925 56 Titus FOX 924 57.

The Pretendei NBC 9.02 53. Maitiallaw CBS 8.94 59. Dateline NBC (Mon.) NBC 8.81 60. "Miss Universe Pageant" CBS 8.61 61. "Snaring the Secret" CBS 8.44 62.

America's Most Wanted FOX 8.18 week to date ABC 13.64 million 14.21 NBC 12.84 12.29 CBS 11.86 12.44 FOX 8.56 8.98 UPN 4.08 3.93 WB 3.24 3.63 Net- View-Program work ere 63. Early Edition CBS 7.98 64. Dateline NBC 8 p.m.) NBC 7.94 65. King of the Ml FOX 7.93 66. Amenca's Fun.

Home Videos ABC 7.70 67. WWF Smackdownl UPN 7.62 68. Whose Une Is It Anyway? ABC 7.56 69. TheOthBS NBC 7.32 70. Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 7.21 71.

48 Hows CBS 698 72. 3rd Rock From the Sun NBC 6.96 73. Will Grace (8:30 p.m.) NBC 6.90 74. Greed FOX 6.58 75. "Here's to Charlie Brown" CBS 6.55 76.

Futurama FOX 609 77. Cops FOX 698 78. "Glona Estefan Fnends" CBS 5.72 79. 7th Heaven WB 5.71 80. WoiM's Wildest Police Videos FOX 5.57 81.

Star Trek: Voyager UPN 5.53 82. "Powers of me Paranormal" FOX 5.24 83. Angel WB 4.92 84. Dawson's Creek W8 4.73 85. Buffy.

the Vampire Slayer WB 4.55 86. Charmed WB 4.38 87. The Partes UPN 3.84 88. Moesha UPN 3.40 89. 7 Days UPN 3.30 90.

Rosweli WB 3.23 91. Grownups UPN 3.22 92. Malcolm Eddie UPN 3.12 93. Felicity WB 2.94 94. "HotBoyz" UPN 2.83 95.

Moesha (Tue.) UPN 2.81 96. The Parkers (Tue.) UPN 2.49 97. The Steve Harvey Show WB 2.35 98. Steve Harvey Show (8:30) WB 2.29 99. The Jamie Fon Show WB 2.12 Populai W8 2.12 101.

For Your Love WB 2.01 102. Charmed (Sun.) WB 196 103. 7th Heaven Beginnings WB 1.85 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 watching. Stfr Home.

Program Hon holds 1. ER KNBC 1.209,216 2. Frasier KNBC 984.124 3. Fnends KNBC 957.950 4. KNBC 842.878 5.

"Jesus" KCBS 837,552 6. Fnends (9 p.m.) KNBC 827,083 7. Millionaire (Tue.) KABC 806,144 8. Law Order KNBC 738.093 9. AllyMcBeal KTTV 680,511 10.

Millionaire (Wed.) KABC 664.807 RADIO Tips for Today Noon-l p.m. Lei's Do Lunch: Pasadena Playhouse artistic director Sheldon F.pps; Andrew Robinson, director of the play "The Class Menagerie," (88.5). p.m., a.m. The Whistler: A popular comedian is not as carefree as he seems (originally broadcast June 18, 1945), KNX (1070). Classical 2-3 p.m.

Mara's Muse: Bach for KCSN-FM (H8.5). Country-Folk-Jazz-Pop 9 a.m. -noon Morning Becomes Eclectic: Malt Johnson offers an acoustic performance (1 1:15 a.m.-noon), KCHW-I-'M (89. H). Rock-Urban 8-10 p.m.

Rhapsody in Black. doo-wop, KITK-FM (90.7). p.m.-Rockllne, KCBS-FM (93.1). 10 p.m.-midnight Chocolate City: Legend of Phoenix, KCRW-FM (89.9). Sports 11:15 a.m.

2 p.m. Baseball: Dodgers at Chicago Cubs, KXTA (1 150), KVVKW (1330). 7-10 p.m.. Baseball: Baltimore Orioles at Angels, KIAC (1090). Talk-Interview 11 a.m.-Noon Sam Rubin, KLSX-FM (97.1).

1 1 a.m.-1 p.m. Talk of the Nation, KI'CC-FM (89.3). Noon-2 p.m. George Putnam's Talkback, Noon-3 p.m. Dr.

Laura Schlessinger, KIT (640). Noon-3 p.m. lonathon Brandmeier, KI.SX-FM (97.1). Noon-3 p.m. Dan Lungren, KPI.S (830).

Noon-3 p.m. Dr. Tonl Grant, KRLA (1110). p.m. Al Rantel, KABC (790).

1 p.m.-Talk of the City, KPCC-l (8S.3). 2- 5 p.m. Michael Medved, KIEV (870). 3- 4 p.m. Clark Howard, KFI (640).

3-7 p.m. Larry Elder, KABC (790). 3- 8 p.m. Tom Leykls, KI.SX-FM (97.1). 4- 5 p.m.

Marc Cooper, KPFK-FM (90.7). 4-7 p.m. Karel Andrew, KFI (640). 1.