This week sees (he return of one of TV's most distinguished duos. No, not Beany and Cecil. I'm talking about Oscar Madison and Felix Unger as CBS sequelizes The Odd Couple (Fri., Sept. 24, 9 p.m. ET). Though Tony Randall and a vocally challenged Jack Klugman—his voice still ragged since his 1989 throat surgery—are troupers in this TV movie, I wish they hadn't reprised these roles. As with all these reunions of classic shows, it's a sad and exploitive affair. The more I liked the original (as with Get Smart and The Odd Couple), the more I'm offended by the wrinkled revision. Please, leave me alone with my memories, my rerun videotapes and my diet root beer.

>Grade: C

ASININE ADVENTURES AWAY! SURE, THERE ARE SOME GOOD SHOWS on the networks, but when you're in the mood for mindless, cheap-thrills entertainment, you have to turn to syndication. The season brings two exemplars. Cobra (check local listings) stars Michael Dudikoff (American Ninja) as Scandal Jackson, a renegade Navy SEAL who works for a covert agency helping victims shortchanged by the system. It's like The Equalizer with more munitions and less script. Still too realistic for you? Try the ultracartoonish Acapulco H.E.A.T. (check local listings) about a beautiful young team of international crime fighters led by Catherine Oxen-berg and Brendan Kelly. The group's cover? In their off-hours they pose as swimsuit models. Sure, it's a dumb Mission: Impossible with bikinis, but I guarantee it's the only show you'll ever see that costars both hunky cover boy Fabio and crusty character actor John Vernon. Silly yet watch-able, both programs merit a gentlemanly