THE WEEK

Tickets play pivotal roles in full house (ABC, March 21, 8- 8:30 p.m.) and home improvement (ABC, March 21, 9-9:30 p.m.). On House, Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and D.J. (Candace Cameron) hoodwink poor little Michelle (the Olsen twins) into coughing up a pair of concert passes. Meanwhile, Jesse (John Stamos) freaks out when Rebecca (Lori Loughlin) wants to try bungee jumping. And on Home, Tim (Tim Allen) and Al (Richard Karn) get busted for scalping hockey tickets and can't join their wives for a performance of Waiting for Godot. Cop-show trivia alert No. 1: Watch for Barney Miller vet Max Gail as the arresting officer. Money matters occupy the minds of roseanne (ABC, March 22, 9-9:30 p.m.) and ellen (ABC, March 22, 9:30-10 p.m.). Rosey mediates an allowance dispute between D.J. (Michael Fishman) and Darlene (Sara Gilbert), while pleading with Fred (Michael O'Keefe) to reunite with Jackie (Laurie Metcalf). Ellen (Ellen DeGeneres) donates her $5,000 tax refund to charity, only to panic when the government asks her to return the money. Cop-show trivia alert No. 2: Watch for Law & Order vet Dann Florek as the IRS agent. New Shows Executive producer Paul Simms' NewsRadio isn't the only new NBC Tuesday-night sitcom graced by a Larry Sanders Show grad. Jeremy Piven (who played Jerry, the head writer who got fired on Sanders) costars in pride & joy (NBC, March 21, 9:30-10 p.m.), about two young married couples struggling to raise newborn babies. The brainchild of Family Ties' Marc Lawrence, P&J also features Madman of the People survivor Craig Bierko and Doc Hollywood's Julie Warner, who must have decided to take a breather from her big-screen career after playing SNL slob Chris Farley's love interest in the soon-to-be-released Tommy Boy.

NewsRadio isn't the only new radio-themed sitcom, either. bringing up jack (ABC, March 28, 9:30-10 p.m.) casts stand-up comic Jack Gallagher as a Philadelphia sports-talk host with a pregnant wife (Parenthood's Harley Jane Kozak) and two kids. One is played by Mrs. Doubtfire's Matthew Lawrence (Joey's bro), the other by Full House twins Ryan and Kathryn Zaremba. After a post- Home Improvement debut, Jack moves to Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on March 29, following Grace Under Fire. The plum time slot may help, although Corbin Bernsen's ABC sports-radiocom, A Whole New Ballgame, struck out after Coach.

Returns Last year, Grant Show helped Aaron Spelling launch his revival of the 1960's Hollywood-whodunit series burke's law (CBS, March 21, 10-11 p.m.), and more Melrosers kick off the show's second season. In the premiere, Doug Savant guest-stars as a movie actor implicated in a chef's death. Other suspects include Frankie Avalon, Dom DeLuise, Dave's World's Shadoe Stevens, and Beverly Hills, 90210's Kathleen Robertson. And in the March 28 episode, Thomas Calabro-Dr. Michael Mancini himself-is joined by Baywatch castaway Nicole Eggert, Howard ''Dr. Johnny Fever'' Hesseman, Pat ''Schneider'' Harrington, and Shirley ''C'mon, Get Happy'' Jones. This show is a kitsch lover's dream-too bad only the Modern Maturity crowd watches it.