ABC’s Fall Season Leans to Comedy, Comics : TV: The lineup has seen more changes than Clark Kent’s phone booth. Superman and new sitcoms are on the way.

Shows about the personal lives of Superman and Lois Lane, a teen-age tennis phenomenon and the New York Police Department are among the new television series planned for ABC’s fall schedule, sources said Sunday.

ABC on Tuesday will be the first network to announce its schedule. The other three networks are expected to unveil their fall programming later this month.

Among the ABC shows canceled are “Homefront,” “Doogie Howser M.D.,” “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” and “The Jackie Thomas Show.”

New comedies on ABC this fall will include “Grace Under Fire,” starring comic Brett Butler as a single mother of three; “Phenom,” with former “Who’s the Boss?” star Judith Light as the mother of a teen-age tennis “phenom”; “Thea,” with stand-up comic Thea Vidale as a widow raising four children, and an untitled project starring Ben Savage, the younger brother of Fred Savage of “The Wonder Years.”

ABC’s most controversial new drama may prove to be “NYPD Blue,” touted as TV’s first PG-13-rated series. The show, from “Hill Street Blues” creator Steven Bochco, will feature “Hill Street” alum Dennis Franz and James McDaniel in supporting roles.

Other new dramas are “Do the Strand,” starring Bill Campbell as the owner of a Florida security business who gets involved with an impetuous young woman; “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher in the title roles, and “Missing Persons,” with Daniel J. Travanti as the head of Chicago’s missing-persons unit.

Potential backup series for the season include “George,” a comedy starring boxer George Foreman as a junior high school counselor, and “Divas,” a drama about a female singing group.

ABC climbed to the runner-up position this season, behind CBS, in the competition among the four networks. It was the favorite of the four networks among viewers 18 to 49 years old, the age group preferred by most advertisers.

The network is hoping for a hit comedy that could make up for the anticipated loss of “Roseanne” at the end of next season. Roseanne Arnold, ABC’s top attraction, is expected to make good on her threat to take “Roseanne” to another network because of her anger over ABC’s decision not to renew “The Jackie Thomas Show,” which stars her husband, Tom Arnold.