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FLORIDA TODAY TV WEEK July 17-23, 1994 3 'TV Nation' debuts offbeat, irreverent reports 3 "All About Bette" Jodie Foster hosts this tribute to the 60-year film career of actress Bette Davis. 8 pan. on TNT. "Mississippi Burning" Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star as FBI agents searching for three missing civil rights activists. p.m.

on ABC. "King Ralph" Before he was cast as Fred Flintstone, jovial John Goodman played another lovable lunkhead in this 1991 comedy about a Vegas entertainer who improbably attains royal status in England. Peter OToole gives the film a much-needed touch of class. 8 p.m. on Fox.

Space specials at a glance "Apollo 11: As It Happened'' The 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon is detailed as covered by ABC News, from blastoff on July 16 to splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean on July 24. The six-hour special airs at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday on PBS Channel 24. "One Small Step" Using footage from the NASA library, this 90-minute documentary tracks the developments and breakthroughs of the space race that led to the 1969 lunar landing. 9 p.m.

Tuesday on Disney. "A Walk Through History" A rebroadcast of Apollo 11's 1969 landing on the moon, "one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." 8:30 p.m. Wednesday on CNN. "Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back" This 90-minute show documents how Apollo 13 astronauts James A. Lovell Fred W.

Haise Jr. and John L. Swigert Jr. coped with an oxygen tank rupture during their April 1970 flight. 9 p.m.

Wednesday on PBS. JJ i rr r'Lj i TV Nation" Series premiere: Director Michael Moore tackles controversial and outrageous topics. Tonight: Moore visits the former Soviet Union to find the nuclear missile aimed at his hometown. 8 p.m. on NBC "All My Children" Tad (Michael E.

Knight) is buried in the rubble of a tornado that strikes Pine Valley in an episode featuring cameos by former cast members Kim Delaney, Darnell Williams, Gil Rogers and Barbara APOLLO 13 astronauts Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise are pictured above preparing for the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission in 'To The Edge and airing 9 p.m. Wednesday on PBS. century's most infamous dictators on a two-hour special addressing the question of whether such a tyrannical ruler could rise to prominence today. I p.m. on CBS.

Rush. 1 pan. on ABC USE "Investigative Reports" Less than 48 hours before "The Great Comet Crash" Derrick Pitts, vice president of the Fels Planetarium, hosts coverage of the collision between Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter as seen by the Hubble Telescope in this taped program. 1O-J0 p.m. on PBS.

Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy's car ran off a bridge at Chappaquidick, resulting in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. This two-hour report recalls the tragic accident and again raises questions about the possibility of a cover-up. 1p.m. on A4E.

1 after an eight-year absence, this prime-time pageant in Mobile, is hosted by Brian Austin Green of "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "Entertainment Tonight's" Leanza Cornett, a former Miss America. 8 pjn. on NBC "Doomsday Gun" International arms dealing serves as backdrop for this TV movie about Gerald V. Bull (Frank Langella), expert in ballistics and weapon design who was murdered in 1990 while nearing completion of a top-secret "supergun" for Saddam Hussein. 8 p.m.

on HBO. Florida Today Wires "In Concert" Paul McCartney and Let Die," the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing Elton John Let the Sun Go Down on Marc Cohn and Robbie Robertson serve up old favorites. p.m. on AtE. "Hitler And Stalin" Charles Kuralt and retired Gen.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf chronicle two of the "Goodwill Games" Opening ceremonies, basketball, boxing and beach volleyball are covered on the first day of this two-week event in Russia, land 439 p.m. on ABC and 8 p.m. on TBS. "America's Junior Miss" Back on network TV.