S E R I E S

Martin (8 p.m., Fox) ends its run with an hour-long finale featuring cameos from George Clinton, Lou Rawls, boxer Tommy Hearns and basketball star Lisa Leslie. On Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC), George is wooed by the Mets, Elaine is obsessed with an inattentive salesperson and Kramer counts down to the millennium. Stevie Wonder appears as himself on New York Undercover (9 p.m., Fox). 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) reports on the search for a missing Texas girl.

S P O R T S

NBA Playoffs: Heat at Magic (8 p.m., TNT); Sonics at Suns (10:30 p.m., TNT).

S P E C I A L S

Stephen King's The Shining (9 p.m., ABC) concludes. The miniseries turned out to be less than the ratings blockbuster ABC expected.

T A L K

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes Joan Collins; Ted Koppel interviews Larry King on Larry King (CNN); Garry Shandling and Luke Perry guest on David Letterman (CBS); Mike Myers visits Jay Leno (NBC); Harold Ramis and Cathy Moriarty are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Tom Snyder (CBS) talks with Mandy Patinkin and a woman who lost her baby in the Oklahoma City bombing; Richard Lewis and the band Silverchair appear on Conan O'Brien (NBC).

E T C.

Question of the Day: If they can make cows fly in "Twister" and they can blow up Dallas in "Asteroid" and they can make those dogs look like they're really driving the minivan in that Nissan commercial, why can't they manage to make Helen Hunt really look pregnant on "Mad About You"? First, she doesn't show until her eighth month; then, the makeup people give her this prosthetic belly that looks like a basketball shoved under her T-shirts, because they forgot to pad the rest of her proportionately. She's supposed to be giving birth on the show in three weeks and she has yet to bloat. What's she having, a Beanie Baby?
May 1, 1997

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