by Joey Sasso CONFIDENTIAL PEPGPT: Three's Compaq' s'ar J Suzanne Somers is locking to make a charge. Ho y-vod I insiders are saying that the buxom tlor.de wants to d'op I beleaguered Jay Bernstein as her personal manager I just as Farrah Fawcett did recently and install m his I place her hubby. Alan Hamel. Hamel. a Canadian ta k I show star, is known as a pretty fair Cealrnaer I himself . . . We hear that Johnny Carson actually wears I the cologne that bears his name. It is a lemon-scented I number that costs $10.50 per four ozs.. and is ca'ed. I what else but. 'Here's Johnny' . . . NEC-TV has lined up J songbird Debby Boone for two one-hour variety speaais. I Whether Debby will be able to light up the ratings rs I something a lot of industry types are anxious to find I out . . . And still trying to stretch her talents is Mary Tyler I Moore who has just signed on to star in what could be I one of the blockbuster movies of 1980. She and Donald I Sutherland will star in 'Ordinary People.' based on the I best-selling book of the same name. And making his I directorial debut for the film will be none other than I Robert Redford. I CELEBRITIES IN CANDID: Few recent rock performers I bring such flash to the stage as Elton John. And now. I apparently, the networks think he can do the same on I the tube. All three are in the bidding for him to do a I one-hour special next year. And I hear that so far ABC-TV I has offered the most an astounding $2.5 I million . . . Producer Aaron Spelling is obviously hoping I that some of the magic from his Top 10 series Charlie s I Angels' will rub off on an all-male spinoff called 'Bad I Cats.' The casting director. Lynn Loring. held an open I audition recently at 20th Century Fox for men who were I "dark, attractive and Caucasian and in the 26-30 range." I The pilot for the series is due to begin shooting next I week. 'Bad Cats' revolves around a cop. a 'city dude' I and a country boy who answer to a female counterpart I of the Bosley character in Charlie's Angels ' V,rether I these 'Bad Cats' w-!l have to scamper around in I tight-fitting bikinis, like the 'Ange's.' only time and the I ABC censor will tell . . . Look out for 'Out of the E ue.' the ABC early Sunday night series starring Jimmy I Brogan that is to be canceled soon. No amount of rewriting can salvage the far-from-angehc working relationship of co-stars Brogan and Oscar winner Eileen Heckart. It's gone from bad to worse. TV TICKER: Gary Coleman, the pint-size star of 'Diff'rent Strokes.' will lend a b'g hand to NBC's far-from-skyrocketing Buck Rogers in the 25th Century' series. NBC is handing out press releases proclaiming that 1 1-year-old Gary asked to be in one of the episodes of the futuristic series because it's his favorite show. In the special episode. Coleman plays a "child prodigy cryogenically preserved." . . . When Kate Jackson left 'Charlie's Angels' there was talk that her husband, actor Andrew Stevens, encouraged the move so he could become involved in acting projects with her. Now. similar stories about Dennis Cole and Jaclyn Smith are making, the rounds, and "that really hurts Dennis when he reads things like that." Smith told me. "because it isn't true." Still. Smith's career overshadows his at this point, and she concedes that "such a situation puts added pressure on a marriage. Dennis only wants me to be happy, and he's very protective: we never argue about money and we live on what he earns." . . . Medieval romance Ava Gardner, as beautiful Queen Guinevere, and Robert Taylor, as valiant Sir Lancelot, are star-crossed lovers in 'Knights of the Round Table.' the Hollywood spectacular presented on the SFM Holiday Network. Mel Ferrer also stars as King Arthur in MGM's colorful film version of the immortal Arthurian legend.