Burt Lancaster, Richard Crenna and Paul Le...

Burt Lancaster, Richard Crenna and Paul Le Mat star in the five-hour, two-part On Wings of Eagles (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m., Monday at 9), based on Ken Follett’s novel about the daring rescue of two American businessmen imprisoned in Iran during the Ayatollah Khomeini’s takeover.

Stagecoach (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), yet another remake of the John Ford classic, finds Kris Kristofferson and Elizabeth Ashley in the roles created by John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, John Schneider, Anthony Newley and Anthony Franciosa also star.

Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (CBS Monday at 8:30 p.m.), a new TV movie, stars Martin Sheen in the title role as the nationally known activist who struggled to provide shelter for the homeless. Cicely Tyson also stars as a feisty old lady Snyder tries to help.

Another new TV movie, Johnny Bull (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), stars Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as the impoverished, embittered parents of a young man (Peter MacNicol) who has brought his English bride (Suzanna Hamilton) home to their bleak mining town.

Also airing Monday is On Golden Pond (Channel 5 at 8 p.m.), with Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn and Jane Fonda.

Silver Streak (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) takes a bit too long to arrive at its quite literally smash finish, but the getting there’s such fun it hardly matters. Gene Wilder and Jill Clayburgh become entangled in adventure and romance aboard a train bound from Los Angeles to Chicago. It helps immensely that Richard Pryor is also along for the ride.

The new TV movie Blood Sport (CBS Wednesday at 9 p.m.) is an adventure about a desperate attempt to save a U.S. senator (Don Murray) and his wife (Kim Miyori) from terrorists. But never fear, William Shatner returns as that tough cop T.J. Hooker to take charge.

Sam’s Son (NBC Wednesday at 9 p.m.), Michael Landon’s sentimental recollections of growing up in South Jersey in the ‘50s, succeeds best as a heartfelt tribute to his late father (wonderfully played by Eli Wallach), a small-town theater manager and frustrated writer. Timothy Patrick Kelly plays the young Landon--then Eugene Orowitz--and Anne Jackson is his sour mother.

Prom Night (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is one of the horror pictures in which Jamie Lee Curtis got her start. Efficient rather than stylish, it mercifully lets you complete its grislier moments in your imagination. The plot turns upon the decision of four youngsters to keep a terrible secret, which years later leads them to be targeted for death at their senior prom. Also airing Wednesday: Paul Mazursky’s sparkling Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Channel 11 at 9).

All the President’s Men (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) brings to the familiar events of Watergate a clarity born of historical perspective but also a newly quickened feeling of national concern. It also accomplishes the remarkable feat of generating intense suspense about a matter whose outcome is known the world over. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star.

Brian De Palma’s The Fury (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is an exciting triumph of style over substance, involving a supersecret government agency, a man (Kirk Douglas) determined to locate his missing son (Andrew Stevens) and a young woman (Amy Irving) with extraordinary psychic powers.

All the Right Moves (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.) is a fine, involving film which captures very well certain truths about what it is like to be young and working class in a small, dying town. Tom Cruise stars as a high school senior in a bleak Pennsylvania town (Johnstown, in reality) and knows his only ticket out is a college football scholarship. Craig T. Nelson plays his coach, as strong-willed as Cruise, and just as eager to get out. A fine directorial debut for noted cinematographer Michael Chapman.

Long Time Gone (ABC Friday at 9 p.m.), yet another new TV movie, stars Paul Le Mat as a down-and-out private eye who stumbles upon a bizarre missing persons case. Also airing Friday: Mel Brooks’ loving and hilarious Young Frankenstein (Channel 5 Friday at 8).

If you missed Michael Mann’s terrific, stylish Thief, which aired last week, it’s back Saturday at 8 p.m. on Channel 5.

Selected evening cable fare: Heartland (Movie Channel Sunday at 10, Wednesday at 6); Pirandello’s Henry IV (Bravo Monday at 8:30); The Mission (Bravo Tuesday at 8); A New Leaf (WGN Tuesday at 9:30); Alsino and the Condor (Bravo Wednesday at 9); F.I.S.T. (Showtime Thursday at 8); Ticket to Heaven (Lifetime Friday at 8); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (WGN Friday at 9:30); Repo Man (Bravo Saturday at 9).