A Fighting Choice, Sunday’s new Disney movie,...

A Fighting Choice, Sunday’s new Disney movie, stars Beau Bridges and Karen Valentine as the parents of an epileptic 16-year-old (Patrick Dempsey) who takes them to court to try to obtain a risky treatment for his condition. It airs at 7 p.m. on ABC and will be followed at 9 by The Man with the Golden Gun, the ninth James Bond, which is virtually interchangeable with its predecessors except that the double-entendres seem broader than ever. Christopher Lee is the title role villain who’s in the employ of Richard Loo, who has a device that can harness the the sun’s energy--for good or evil.

Richard Chamberlain stars as the visionary John C. Fremont in the seven-hour epic Dream West (CBS Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m., Tuesday at 8 p.m.).

Also airing at 9 p.m. Sunday (on NBC) is Return to Mayberry, a new two-hour TV movie reprise of “The Andy Griffith Show” in which Griffith returns to his North Carolina hometown to run again for sheriff. Among the original cast members in the film are Don Knotts, Jim Nabors and Ron Howard. For those who prefer Hitchcock, The Trouble With Harry, one of his slyest, airs Sunday on Channel 11 at 9 p.m.

Keith Carradine stars in the new TV movie A Winner Never Quits (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.) as Pete Gray, the courageous one-armed baseball player of the 1940s.

Immediately engaging and historically invaluable, John Antonelli’s Kerouac (Channel 28 at 10 p.m. Monday and again on Saturday at 10 p.m.) charts the complex, contradictory and finally elusive life of that Jack Londonish wanderer through the wilder shores of Eisenhower’s America.

Airing Monday at 8 p.m. on Channel 13 is The Hospital, that crackling satire on contemporary medical ethics, written by the late Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring George C. Scott, who is at his riveting, vital best as a middle-aged doctor beset by personal crises and the running of an understaffed and overcrowded metropolitan hospital.

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.), in which Tom Berenger and William Katt capably assume roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” is a resolutely lighthearted Western with a strong emphasis on comedy. It proceeds from one incident to the next without building much steam, but the stars are likable and Richard Lester’s direction is pleasingly deft.

Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 5 brings Mrs. Sundance, a so-so 1974 TV movie in which Elizabeth Montgomery plays the Sundance Kid’s lady Etta Place (played by Katharine Ross in the movie).

Arthur Penn’s “Little Big Man” in 1970 triggered a cycle of Westerns demythologizing the Old West, and among them was Doc (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.), director Frank Perry and writer Pete Hamill’s engrossing retelling of the gunfight at OK Corral. According to Perry and Hamill there wasn’t anything unduly heroic about Doc Holliday (Stacy Keach), a consumptive dentist turned gambler and gunslinger, or his mistress Kate Elder (Faye Dunaway), a rowdy, resilient frontier prostitute, or especially Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin), who emerges as a steely political opportunist who provoked the legendary gunfight with Ike Clanton (Mike Witney) and his relations simply to win an election--on a law-and-order platform!

Also airing Thursday at 8 p.m. (on Channel 13) is Clint Eastwood’s excellent Breezy, a deeply felt, offbeat love story between a 50-plus man (William Holden) and a beautiful 17-year-old hippie (Kay Lenz, in a dynamite debut).

Stacy Keach also stars in the new TV movie The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.) in which Keach reprises his series role as the hard-boiled private eye.

Sunday in New York, that pleasing, stylish romantic comedy starring Cliff Robertson and Jane Fonda, airs Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 13.

Special cable notes: the miniseries version of Das Boot starts Sunday at 10 p.m. on Bravo and Tuesday at 8 p.m. on Z; also, there’s an unusual number of Chaplin classics airing: City Lights (Showtime Monday at 6:30), Limelight (Showtime Monday at 8), The Great Dictator (Z Thursday at 9), Monsieur Verdoux (Z Saturday at 9).