Marlee’s ABCs

Oscar winner Marlee Matlin will guest-host a special edition of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” set in nearby Bergenfield, N.J. The episode, which began production yesterday, revolves around Matlin and the show’s design team rebuilding a home for a blind father and his family members, who are either legally blind or deaf. They’ll begin the “demo/ construction” phase tomorrow.

The episode is scheduled to air this summer.

Matlin recently joined “The L Word” cast.

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Longtime Ch. 5 cameraman Raymond Suarez collapsed Wednesday covering Tom Cruise’s appearance at the Ziegfeld Theatre and died later that night. He was 50. “Ray has been a field cameraman at WNYW for 20 years, and he will be remembered as a caring friend and colleague by all of those who were fortunate to know him,” said a station spokeswoman.

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Kate Mulgrew, who’s been largely absent from TV since the demise of “Star Trek:

Voyager,” will guest-star on Tuesday’s “Law & Order: SVU” as a prosecutor in a case revolving around a teenage kid who sets up his own porn Web site-with the help of his parents.

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Ch. 5’s 10 p.m. newscast experienced massive technical difficulties Wednesday, forcing Ch. 5 to run sister station Ch. 9’s news feed.

“Video and audio from the WNYW News Control Room was interrupted by numerous short-duration power outages,” said a station spokeswoman.

And . . .

* Ed Koch surprises “Judge Judy” Sheindlin on today’s “Tony Danza” (10 a.m./Ch. 7).

* Congrats to Emily Spitale, LOGO’s new senior publicist.