The latest and, with luck, last celebrity TV biography of the season begins tonight, and concludes tomorrow night, on Fox, when the Mia Farrow-Woody Allen relationship is dissected in "Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story." For airing such a smarmy and tacky miniseries, the network ought to atone by issuing a two-word public apology: Mia culpa.
* "Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story" (8-10 p.m., Channel 45) -- Part 1 of 2. It's called "The Mia Farrow Story," but, except for about 15 brief flashbacks spread over the drama's four hours, this really is "The Mia Farrow and Woody Allen Story." That's unfortunate, because Ms. Farrow certainly had enough pre-Woody experiences worth examining. Instead, her sojourn in India with the Beatles gets mere seconds of air time, and her marriages to Frank Sinatra and Andre Previn are recounted in four brief, equal and almost repetitive phases: they meet, they marry, they fight, they break up. Patsy Kensit and Dennis Boutsikaris, as Mia and Woody, turn in decent performances, but the lawsuit-wary script is all surface and no substance. Take away the celebrity names, and neither the story as written nor the decision to watch it would make any sense. Fox.
* "Friends" (8:30-9 p.m., Channel 11) -- After last week's delightful two-parter, "Friends" shows up on Tuesday with a strong repeat. It's the one in which Morgan Fairchild, as Chandler's romance-novelist mom, surprises Chandler (Matthew Perry), among others, by planting a kiss on one of his close friends. NBC.
* "Frasier" (9-9:30 p.m., Channel 11) -- In tonight's first-run episode, there's no Sam Malone -- but there is a juicy conflict, thanks to the fact that Daphne (Jane Leeves) catches Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) in her room. NBC.
* "Children of the Dust" (9-11 p.m., Channel 13) -- Part 2 of 2. Sunday's episode ended with a grisly cliffhanger: a Ku Klux Klan member holding a knife between the legs of a wounded and helpless Gypsy (Sidney Poitier). Tonight's conclusion ups the ante in the revenge department, but ultimately this miniseries isn't very satisfying, despite good work in this concluding hour by Mr. Poitier and Michael Moriarty. CBS.
* "Frontline: Rush Limbaugh's America" (9-10 p.m., Channels 22, 67) -- One thing I didn't know about Mr. Limbaugh that I learned from Peter Boyer's strong biographical "Frontline" report: In xTC Sacramento in 1984, Mr. Limbaugh got his big radio break by replacing Morton Downey Jr., who had been fired for telling a racist joke. Small world. PBS.
* "NYPD Blue" (10-11 p.m., Channel 2) -- The accused serial killer faces his fate on tonight's episode, but there's probably more interest in a sizzling subplot, in which Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) once again faces Donna's sultry sister Dana (Debra Messing). ABC.