TV-Radio Museum Slates 9th Fest : Broadcasting: ‘Hill Street Blues,’ ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ Garry Marshall and KTLA are among those to be saluted March 4-21.

The classic series “Hill Street Blues,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Maude” will be saluted at the annual festival of the Museum of Television & Radio March 4-21, with cast members and creators taking part, it was announced Tuesday.

Other sessions will be devoted to “Roots” and such current series as “Brooklyn Bridge,” “I’ll Fly Away,” “Beverly Hills, 90210,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Seinfeld,” “A Different World” and “Civil Wars.”

The New York-based museum, formerly known as the Museum of Broadcasting, is marking its ninth Los Angeles festival. All of the events are open to the public and will be held at the Leo S. Bing Theater of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

One of the sessions is a salute to TV and film creator Garry Marshall, whose series included “Happy Days,” “Mork & Mindy,” “The Odd Couple” and “Laverne & Shirley.” Robert Batscha, president of the New York museum, said that in addition to Marshall’s shows, the salute also resulted from “the creative talent he spawned.”

The festival has also singled out the much-praised 1973-77 drama anthology “Police Story,” which was created by author and former Los Angeles policeman Joseph Wambaugh. Wambaugh will be among those taking part in the evening, and an episode starring Ed Asner will be shown.

“This is almost a forgotten series, but it dealt with the life of police seriously,” said Batscha. “It’s not just a cop show.”

There will be 14 salutes and three screenings--a 1960 Frank Sinatra-Elvis Presley special, a 1963 hour teaming Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand, and a 1964 Nat King Cole broadcast.

Another evening will be devoted to KTLA Channel 5, the pioneer Los Angeles TV station marking its 45th birthday.

“Hill Street Blues” will open the festival on March 4. Said Batscha: “It’s an old show, but everybody still talks about it. It’s a benchmark show. It changed the genre of police series.”

Aside from the enormous popularity of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which will close the festival March 21, the series produced “a whole group of people who went on to become major figures in television,” noted Batscha.

In addition to such cast members as Moore, Asner, Valerie Harper, Betty White, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman and Nancy Walker, the session will include industry figures and creators Grant Tinker, James L. Brooks, Allan Burns, David Lloyd, Ed. Weinberger, Jay Sandrich, Stan Daniels and Bob Ellison.

Except for the screenings, the other salutes will also include cast members and creators.

The schedule:

March 4: “Hill Street Blues.”

* March 5: “Brooklyn Bridge.”

* March 6: “A Different World”; “Beverly Hills, 90210.”

* March 7: “I’ll Fly Away”; “Together: Sinatra and Presley.”

* March 11: “Police Story.”

* March 12: “KTLA at 45.”

* March 13: “A Salute to Garry Marshall”; “Together: Garland and Streisand.”

* March 14: “Maude”; “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

* March 18: “Roots.”

* March 19: “Seinfeld.”

* March 20: “Civil Wars”; “Nat King Cole at the Hollywood Palace.”

* March 21: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”