Marathon Man (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.),...

Marathon Man (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.), adapted by William Goldman and John Schlesinger from Goldman’s novel, is a 1976 spy-thriller, laced with Freudian motifs, shiny technique and slick excess: Dustin Hoffman is a grad student who faces Nazi Laurence Olivier from a dentist’s chair or gets chased through Manhattan streets in his underwear.

In Cheech and Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.), from 1984, the clowns of cannabis are at their lowest ebb. Hey, it’s Alexander Dumas, man! Let’s do a swashbuckler (or is it swishbuckler?) with swords and castles and twins. Hey, why bother? Oh well, it’s almost over. Later, dudes.

The Milagro Beanfield War (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), adapted by John Nichols from the first volume of his New Mexico trilogy, offers director Robert Redford a subject he obviously loves--ecological, populist, ribald, with the “little people” against the greedy--and a cast which includes Sonia Braga, Ruben Blades and the greatest movie pig of modern times.

In 1987’s Hellraiser (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), horror novelist Clive Barker took a whack at filmmaking, and about nine or 10 bloody whacks out of his cast--including the madman upstairs, who’s lost much of his anatomy. It’s a grim gateway-to-hell shocker, with morbid effects.

Franklin Schaffner’s last film, 1989’s Welcome Home (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) has a predictable script--with Kris Kristofferson as the returned POW, reunited with a much-changed family--but it also has a warmth and sincerity that almost bring it home.

Based on Manuel Puig’s novel, 1985’s Kiss of the Spider Woman (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), directed by Hector Babenco, movingly juxtaposes sexual repression and political tyranny, with (Oscar-winner) William Hurt and Raul Julia, two cellmates, ripping it up in classic chamber-drama style.

Writer Ron (“White Men Can’t Jump”) Shelton first showed his flair for sports argot and fantasies in the neglected 1986 wish-fulfillment comedy The Best of Times (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.); Robin Williams and Kurt Russell are a terrific pair of aging football players, trying to relive the championship game that destroyed one’s morale and the other’s knee.

Any Which Way You Can (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) brings back one of Clint Eastwood’s more popular characters--luckless-in-love, orangutan-fancying, bare-knuckle boxer Philo Beddoe--in a 1980 middling, but likable, vehicle, directed by Buddy Van Horn. We’ll forgive them.