17 Wednesday Beverly Hills, 90210 (Fox, 8-9 p.m.) An episode sure to be deconstructed by both Susan Faludi and Katie Roiphe: Students hold a rally to protest violence against women at California University, and Steve (Ian Ziering) is subsequently accused of date rape.
Melrose Place (Fox, 9-10 p.m.) Michael (Thomas Calabro) pops the question to Kimberly (Marcia Cross), but later the lovebirds are severely injured in an auto smash-up. Amateur tramp Sydney (Laura Leighton) considers going pro when she is recruited by a Heidi Fleiss-like madam (played by Falcon Crest vet Kristian Alfonso).
Tales from the Crypt (HBO, 10-10:30 p.m.) German director Uli Edel tried to make a convincing murderer out of Madonna in Body of Evidence. Now he takes on an even greater challenge: directing Brooke Shields as a thieving seductress in an episode titled ''Came the Dawn.''
18 Thursday The Simpsons (Fox, 8-8:30 p.m.) During the Junior Campers' father-son rafting trip, Bart and Homer get stuck in the same boat with their Jesus-freak neighbors, Ned and Rod Flanders. Ernest Borgnine guest-voices as himself (we're guessing it's a McHale's Navy gag).
Seinfeld (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.) The sitcom stays on familiar ground: A few years ago, George (Jason Alexander) had a traumatic encounter with a masseur (''It moved!''); now Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) dates a masseuse who won't give him a rubdown, although Kramer (Michael Richards) is a customer. And last season, Jerry wooed a woman with a problematic name (''Mulva?''); now Elaine (Julia Louis- Dreyfus) dates a man with the same name as a serial killer.
Frasier (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.) Shameless NBC Tonight Show plug No. 1: Jay Leno provides the voice of ''Don,'' an overweight man who calls Dr. Crane's radio show on his car phone from a fast-food drive-through lane. herman's head (Fox, 9:30-10 p.m.) Brady Bunch guest star No. 1: Maureen ''Marcia Brady'' McCormick makes an appearance, as Herman (William Ragsdale) and his compadre Jay (Hank Azaria) squabble over who will get to co-author her memoirs.
19 Friday 20/20 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.) Battling Babses-a Saturday Night Live sketch in the making: Barbara ''Baba Wawa'' Walters interviews Barbra ''Like Buttah'' Streisand.
20 Saturday Dr. Quinn, medicine woman (CBS, 8-10 p.m.) Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) heads home to Boston to tend to her ill mother (Georgann Johnson, taking over a role created by Jane Wyman), then wonders whether she wants to return to Colorado Springs. The Wonder Years' Alley Mills and Father Knows Best's Elinor Donahue play two of Seymour's sisters.
Movie: Official Denial (Sci-Fi, 8-10 p.m.) Hardy Boy-turned-Melrose man Parker Stevenson heads a parade of bad-'70s-TV relics-Medical Center's Chad Everett, Battlestar Galactica's Dirk Benedict, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century's Erin Gray-in this alien-abduction shockudrama.
Where I Live (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.) This sitcom may not do well in the ratings, but it wins the award for funkiest-named actors. In addition to regulars Doug E. Doug, Flex, and Yunoka Doyle, this episode features Malik Yoba, Almayvonne, and Don Fullilove.
