Ten years after the end of the “Cosby Show” and less than two weeks after appearing on the two-hour series retrospective, Rudy Huxtable (Keshia Knight Pulliam) returns to network television in the coming-of-age drama “What About Your Friends: Weekend Getaway” (7 p.m., UPN).

She should have waited a little longer. Pulliam stars as Temple, one of three gifted high school students who attend a weekend at a college campus to compete for a scholarship. Temple wants to sing, but her uptight yuppie mother wants her to settle down and attend an Ivy League college so she can make a lot of money. Her friend Alex (Angell Conwell) has a hard time concentrating with so many handsome college guys around, but the buttoned-down Breena (Monica McSwain) tries to keep her in line.

Together, they form a remarkably talented trio who sing too perfectly to be believed. In fact, this whole movie its two-dimensional characters, cliche-ridden dialogue and old-as-the-hills situations seems lip-synched. Academy Award-winning actor Lou Gossett (“An Officer and a Gentleman”) appears as a college dean.

Can mothers be warriors? “Be Your Own Hero: Call to Duty” (6 p.m., Lifetime) profiles six women who juggled children, homes and husbands as they report to dangerous duty in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Like many mothers, Army Sgt. Barbara Dooley brings photos of her children with her to work. But her job is guarding a prison camp in dusty Afghanistan. Marine Corps pilot Tricia Angelini is one of the few females to pilot helicopters used to ferry troops into combat. But she takes special pride knowing that she has helped liberate Afghan women from extremist Taliban rule. This is an illuminating glance at the ways that women have adjusted to a soldier’s life and how their presence changed the military.

Stars including Billy Bob Thornton, Charlton Heston, Jennifer Garner, Pierce Brosnan and Bruce Willis will be on hand to present “The 2002 World Stunt Awards” (7 p.m., ABC). Legendary stunt man Buddy Van Zorn (“Zorro,” “Spartacus”) will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

TV Land rewards late-night viewers with three campy classics. The retro network will air back-to-back episodes of the soap opera spoof “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” (11 p.m.), followed by “Fernwood 2-Night” (midnight) the talk show parody that starred Martin Mull and Fred Willard. Both “Hartman” and “Fernwood” were created by Norman Lear during the late 1970s and both syndicated shows were considered too daring for the networks. “Fernwood” presented a brilliant parody of Johnny Carson and his many imitators, and offers contemporary viewers a glance at the peculiar pop culture of the post-Bicentennial period. Do leisure suits cause cancer? You’ll have to watch it to find out. Repeats of the 1960s boy band comedy “The Monkees” will follow at 1:00 a.m.

Tonight’s other highlights

Fred Savage (“The Wonder Years”) directs an episode of the popular kids’ series “Even Stevens” (4:30 p.m., Disney).

Scheduled on “Dateline” (7 p.m., NBC): three small town girls compete for a coveted title.

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins star in the 1991 thriller “Silence of the Lambs” (8 p.m., USA).

Scheduled on “48 Hours” (9 p.m., CBS): After a Kansas City teacher flunks her students for cheating, their parents organize to get her fired.

Series notes

All are repeats … Cheech Marin hosts “Funny Flubs and Screw Ups” (7 p.m., CBS) … Max and Logan fall under the spell of mutant mind control on “Dark Angel” (7 p.m., Fox) … Aunt Irma (Barbara Eden) returns on “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” (7 p.m., WB) An animal rights activist meets a grisly end on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ” (9 p.m., NBC).