TV & Video - Oct. 19, 1988

As has been rumored for some time now, Jerry Lewis will indeed step into a multi-episode guest-starring role as a clothing manufacturer involved with not-nice people in CBS’ “Wiseguy” this season. Executive producer Stephen J. Cannell confirmed the Lewis news Monday, adding that he decided to offer Lewis the guest shot after he saw Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy”--in which Lewis plays it relatively straight--again recently. Cannell also announced he had cast Tennessee attorney Fred Dalton Thompson--once known for his 1970s television appearances as real-life minority counsel on the Watergate Committee--as the leader of a white supremacist sect.