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Television 2 World of National Geographic' focuses on grizzlies in Alaska and at Yellowstone Park; Ch. 13, 8 p.m. ate-SO' is less than stellar LOOK WHO'S TALKING the 1994 movie "Star-gate," militia man Kurt Russell and scientist STARGATE SG-1. Sunday, 8 p.m.. Showtime.

Ap James Spader used alien technology to follow a gateway to another world, and apparently vanquish an evil nemesis called Ra. This Sunday, Showtime launches a new weekly series based on that film, and starts off with what might be described as a Ra deal. Hard-core fans of the movie may be im Wright, continues the the-atrical film's narrative thread in an unusually coherent fashion. Scientist David Jackson, now played by Michael Shanks, is revisited when O'Neill and company step through the Star-gate and return to the planet Abydos; so is DAVID B1ANCULU pressed, but first-time visitors to the "Star-gate" probably won't be. The TV pilot, like the theatrical film, is long on hardware and gunplay and short on logic.

The "Stargate SG-1" series, starring Richard Dean Anderson Skarra, the young man played by Alexis Bruz (the primary cast holdover from the movie). Once on Abydos, O'Neill and a new member of his team, played by series regular Amanda Tapping, are shown a newly discovered control de MORNING 9:00 Leeza. Murdered inmates. 4 Fox After Breakfast. Actor Thomas Haden Church, Isabella Rossellini.

0 Regis Kathie Lee. Actress Kathy Kinney; singer Bob Carlisle. 7 10:00 Maury. Sexual threesome. 4 Rosie O'Donnell.

Arsenio Hall, Wyn-onna, Johnny Depp. 7 11:00 Caryl Marilyn. Authors Mark Victor and Marci Shimoff. 7 Mont el Williams. Kids tried as adults.

9 i i Jerry Springer. KKK parents. 11 AFTERNOON Noon Ricki Lake. Dumped after sex. 9 1:00 Jenny Jones.

Family hates mate. 9 Rolonda. Killers' early release. 11 2:00 Montel Williams. Cheaters.

9 3:00 Gordon Elliott. Extreme fighting. 2 Maureen O'Boyle. Childrens' beau-' ty pageants. 4 4:00 Geraldo.

Internet predators. 2 Sally. Women confront cheaters. 4 Oprah Winfrey. Photography tips.

7 5:00 Ricki Lake. Trouble with mom of boyfriends' kids. 9 EVENING 9:00 Politically Incorrect. TV newswom-' an Laura Ingraham; comic Jon Stewart; Pat Boone. 7 11:30 Late Show.

Dan Rather; comic actress Kathy Griffin; k.d. lang. 2 Charlie Rose. Actor Samuel L. Jackson; author Naomi Wolf.

13 The Daily Show. Actorcomic Ben Stein. COM RuPaul. Daisy Fuentes. VH1 11:35 Tonight.

Model Kathy Ireland; actors Kenan Thompson, Kel Mitchell; magicians the Pendragons. 4 12:05 Politically Incorrect. Lynn Redgrave, Laura San Giacomo; comic Louie Anderson. 7 12:30 Late Late Show. Comicauthor Franken, actress Karen Duffy.

2 12:35 Late Night. Actor-comic David Alan Grier, music group Sugar Ray. 1:35 Later. Actor Phil Hartman. 4 LET'S DO LAUNCH: From Tapping, Shanks, Anderson, Judge of "MacGyver" in Russell's role of Jack O'Neill, takes place a year after the movie ended.

O'Neill is retired, but is called back into service by an understandably worried general (Don S. Davis) when more of those snake-headed alien nasties burst through the long-dormant Stargate, kidnap a shapely sergeant and leave behind a batch of wounded and dead servicemen. The two-hour "Stargate SG-1" premiere, written by executive producers Jonathan Glassner and Brad vice for the alien Stargate portal. "Amazing," she says. "This is what was missing from the dig at Giza.

This is how they controlled it It took us 15 years and three supercomputers to MacGyver a system for the gate on Earth." The use of MacGyver as a verb, with Anderson flashing an understated wry smile, is one of the few genuine pleasures in this first "Stargate SG-1" and that was ad-libbed on the set by Tapping herself. However, this series, unlike the movie, does at least make an effort to blur the lines between good and evil, and even to have a few characters change allegiances along the way. With the former MacGyver as the star and the sci-fi genre as the canvas, along with its early time slot, parents might expect "Stargate SG-1" to be child-friendly, but be forewarned: This opening episode, at least, contains some dramatically defensible yet still startling nudity. The cliffhanger ending suggests a continuing narrative, mixed from equal parts "The Fugitive," "The Time Tunnel" and "Sliders." Showtime has enough faith in "Stargate SG-1" to have ordered a total of 44 hours; viewers can make up their mind after two whether they'd like to go along for the voyage. raternity honors Kuralt By RICHARD HUFF Daly News Staff Writer WHO'S WHO of the broadcasting industry turned out yesterday for RADIO HIGHLIGHTS ka memorial service honoring the via ing" Executive Producer Missie Ren-nie and "Sunday Morning" creator Shad Northshield.

Among the crowd paying tribute: NBC's Tom Brokaw, ABC's Ted Koppel and Peter Jennings, former CBS anchor-woman Connie Chung, "60 Minutes" correspondent Morley Safer and CBS Entertainment boss Leslie Moonves. "When the call came in saying Charles had died, I wept," Rooney recalled. "I was on vacation, in my woodworking shop, and I noticed yesterday that there are little spots of rust on the big steel table of my saw where my tears fell." Kuralt, who wasn't flashy and preferred talking to regular people around the country, retired from CBS and "Sunday Morning" in early 1994. "It's true that Charles was no threat to the world's supply of hairspray and hyperbole," Heyward noted. "He was, instead, a great man." late CBS newsman Charles Kuralt Kuralt, best known for his "On the Road" reports, his long stint as host of the eclectic "Sunday Morning" and his devotion to writing, died July 4 at age 62.

"Charles Kuralt did everything in TV news better than anyone else," "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney told the crowd gathered at Alice Tully Hall. "There has never been anyone as good as he was at everything." Rooney was among several friends and colleagues who spoke at the memorial tribute. Others included CBS News President Andrew Heyward, former CBS News anchor Walter Cron-kite, current anchor Dan Rather, "60 Minutes" correspondents Mike Wallace and Ed Bradley, "Sunday Morn Yankees-Angels I 8:00 WFUV The Log-ptayer. Joni Mitchell's album, "Miles of Aisles' i 9:00 WOU Health Talk With Dr. Ronald Hoffman 10:00 WWRL Night Talk with Bob Law 9:30 WFAN Baseball.

Mets-Dodgers 10:00 WQXH The jo-cal Scene. "The RimskSf-Korsakov Operas HI" WABC Sean Hanntty Show WNYC-AM New-sHour With Jim Lehrer. News and public affairs Midnight WFAN Joe Benigno Midnight WOR Joey Reynolds Show. Singer Julius LaRosa AFTERNOON Noon WBA1 Natural Living. Author Pratima Rai-chur Beauty: Radiant Skin and Inner Harmony Through the Ancient Secrets of Noon WKCR Out to Lunch.

Pianist Brad Mehldau 12:06 WOR Food Talk. Topic: "Flavors of Italy" WOR The Dolans. 2:00 WNYOAM Talk of the Nation With Ray Suarez WOR Bob Grant Show. Author Martin Lee Beast EVENING WQEW Del De Montreux Show. American popular standards 7:05 WABC Baseball.

TRIBUTE: CBS News legend Charles Kuralt UJ FLICK PICKS 4:40 (MAX) "Roxanne" (1987). Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah. Charm and wit abound in equal measure in Martin's clever "Cyrano de Berge-rac" update, set in and around a fire station in scenic British Columbia. (AMC) "The Family Jewels" (1965). Jem Lewis, Donna Butter-worth.

You get seven Jerries for the price of one in this frantic farce. If you're a Lewis lover (or French), you'll want to tune in. 8:00 (55) "Reversal of Fortune" (1990). Jeremy Irons' wan Claus von Bulow (accused of trying to kill his wife) provides a perfect counterpoint for manic defense attorney Ron Silver, while a comatose Glenn Close lends new meaning to the term "laid-back" in Barbet Schroeder's ironic film. 10:00 (MAX) "Freeway" (1996).

Scripter Matthew Bright's directorial debut is an at once brutal and trenchant "Little Red Riding Hood" update that casts Reese Witherspoon as a white-trash teenage Red and Kiefer Sutherland as a modem big bad wolf. A pic fully deserving of its growing cult rep. a.m. (TNT) "Red River" (1948). John Wayne, Montgomery Gift.

Duke and Monty bond, break up and do battle in Howard Hawks' classic chronicle of a grueling cattle drive. John Ireland, as a rising gun-slinger, heads an excellent supporting cast. The Phantom 2:00 p.m. (55) "Last Train From Gun Hill" (1959). Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn.

Sheriff Kirk works against mounting odds to bring a killer to justice in John Sturges' taut western. Look for sultry starlet Ziva Rodann in a small part as an American Indian maiden. BULOW DUO: Close and Irons.