Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (CBS...

Circle of Violence: A Family Drama (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is one of four new TV movies airing this week. Dealing with the problem of the elderly abused by their grown children, it stars Tuesday Weld as a woman with children deserted by her husband (Peter Bonerz) and further burdened with the care of her mother (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who’s beginning to show signs of senility.

Airing opposite Circle of Violence Sunday at 9 p.m. on NBC is another new TV movie, When the Bough Breaks, in which Ted Danson plays a child psychologist who becomes obsessed with investigating a series of murders. The film is based on Jonathan Kellerman’s mystery novel, which won the Edgar Allan Poe Award last May.

Also airing at 9 p.m. Sunday (on Channel 11) is The Changeling, a scary ghost story starring George C. Scott.

The new TV movie Can You Feel Me Dancing? (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) stars Justine Bateman as a young blind woman struggling to break free from her overly protective family.

The Fortune Cookie (Channel 11 Monday at 9 p.m.) launches a week of some of Jack Lemmon’s best movies on KTTV. Other highlights are Save the Tiger (Thursday at 9 p.m.) and Some Like It Hot (Friday at 8:30 p.m.) with Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe.

Miles to Go (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), the last of the week’s new TV movies, stars Jill Clayburgh as a woman with cancer who tries to find a replacement for herself in her family’s life. Tom Skerritt co-stars as Clayburgh’s husband.

On Tuesday at 8 p.m., Channel 13 airs that sturdy Western The Magnificent Seven, while its various--and progressively weaker--sequels will fill the station’s 8 p.m. movie slot the rest of the week.

Ken Burns’ engrossing documentary Huey Long (Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 50 and 9 p.m. on Channels 28, 15, 24) reveals the profound contradictions within the popular but demagogic Louisiana governor.

At 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, Channel 28 launches its sixth season of the film and video series, “The Independent Eye,” with Iverson White’s Dark Exodus, which focuses on one family who joined the vast migration of blacks to the North during World War I.

Channel 5 is airing Robert Aldrich’s cynical, violent and quite exciting World War II adventure The Dirty Dozen in two parts, Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.

Written by George Lefferts from trial transcripts and directed by George Schaefer, The People vs. Jean Harris (Channel 4 Saturday at 8 p.m.), a 1981 TV movie, is an honest, extremely effective effort to etch a portrait of a woman caught in what she felt were intolerable circumstances as told in her own words. Ellen Burstyn offers a brilliantly defined Jean Harris, the posh private school headmistress convicted of killing her lover, Dr. Herman Tarnower, creator of the Scarsdale Diet. The courtroom drama begins unconventionally with a 27-minute uninterrupted scene in which Harris calmly describes the killing in detail.

Also airing at 8 p.m. Saturday (on Channel 13) is The Naked Spur, one of the five exceptional Westerns James Stewart made with Anthony Mann.

Selected evening cable fare: The Mission (Bravo Sunday at 8:30); Starman (Cinemax Monday at 6); The Emigrants (Lifetime Monday and Tuesday at 8); M (Bravo Monday at 8:30); The Power and the Glory (Z Monday at 9); White Zombie (Z Tuesday at 6:30); Lola Montes (Bravo Tuesday at 8); Dreamchild (SelecTV Wednesday at 6:30); The New Land (Lifetime Wednesday and Thursday at 8); La Colmena (Galavision Wednesday at 8:45); The Importance of Being Earnest (Bravo Friday at 8).