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Outlaws (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie that’s also a series pilot, stars Rod Taylor as a Texas sheriff and William Lucking, Richard Roundtree, Charles Napier and Patrick Houser as four gunfighters transported, via a freak electrical storm, from 1899 to present-day Houston.

Once again the hills are alive with The Sound of Music, which NBC is bringing back Sunday at 8 p.m., in keeping with the season.

Also in repeat (at 9 p.m. on ABC) is one of the best of the Bonds, For Your Eyes Only, starring Roger Moore and crammed with a stunt man’s manual of the most preposterous and dazzling works. The frail but serviceable plot has something to do with the raising of a sunken British spy ship from its watery tomb off Albania.

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ABC’s 7 p.m. “Disney Sunday Movie” is the made-for-TV Tiger Town, in which Roy Scheider stars as a fading ballplayer rejuvenated by a young boy (Justin Henry).

The TV movie repeat Love Thy Neighbor (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.) finds John Ritter and Penny Marshall consoling each other, despite strong personality clashes, when their spouses (Bert Convy, Constance McCashin) run off together.

Blue DeVille (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie comedy, stars Kimberly Pistone as a free-spirited type who persuades her pal (Jennifer Runyon) to hit the road in a 1959 Cadillac for a cross-country adventure. Mark Thomas Miller also stars.

Also airing at 9 p.m. Monday (on Channel 11) is the Marx Brothers classic, A Day at the Races.

The fine 1982 TV movie version of Oliver Twist repeats Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CBS. Clive Donner directed, James Goldman adapted the Dickens classic and George C. Scott is the film’s splendid Fagin.

Like that tidal wave that overturns its elegant ocean liner, Irwin Allen’s The Poseidon Adventure (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) pretty much sweeps over the viewer with its suspense, knock-out special effects and handsome production design. Its formula is so sure-fire and its development so forceful (under Ronald Neame’s polished direction) that it could easily have sustained far less crudely drawn characters and far better dialogue. But it’s lots of lurid fun anyway. Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine star.

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The Talk of the Town (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), one of George Stevens’ best comedies, stars Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman and Cary Grant. There’s more Marx Brothers on Channel 11 Wednesday at 9 p.m.: A Night at the Opera.

My Little Chickadee (Channel 11 Thursday at 9 p.m.) really isn’t all that inspired as a comedy-western but it’s a classic anyway, thanks to its famous teaming of Mae West’s shady lady and W.C. Fields’ consummate con man. Channel 11 has scheduled more legends on Friday at 9 p.m. with Robert Youngson’s superb compilation Four Clowns, featuring Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Charley Chase in some of the greatest moments of silent comedy.

A sensitive yet somewhat strained remake of the hit Brazilian comedy “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands,” Kiss Me Goodbye (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.) stars Sally Field, who’s about to marry Jeff Bridges when she’s suddenly plagued by the ghost of her first husband James Caan.

Von Ryan’s Express (Channel 9 Saturday at 10 p.m.) is pure suspense and excitement, thanks to Mark Robson’s hard-driving direction. Frank Sinatra stars as a POW colonel who stages a daring escape by commandeering a freight train.

The undeservedly obscure 1973 film Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Channel 28 Saturday at 11 p.m.) offers excellent proof that if a director cares enough about his characters and if they’ve been written with sufficient individuality--and then played superlatively well--it doesn’t much matter how familiar the plotting and other devices may be. In this wry romantic comedy, which is beautifully written (by Alvin Sargent) and directed (by Alan Pakula), Maggie Smith and the considerably younger Timothy Bottoms, who meet on a summer bus tour of Spain, are as engaging a pair of klutzes imaginable.

Selected evening cable fare: Marie: A True Story (Showtime Sunday at 8); Murphy’s Romance (SelecTV Monday at 6); Pumping Iron II: The Women (SelecTV Monday at 8); Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (Z Tuesday at 7); Fright Night (Cinemax Tuesday at 8); Wild Strawberries (Bravo Tuesday at 9:30); Into the Night (SelecTV Wednesday at 7); The Jewel of the Nile (HBO Thursday at 8, Showtime Friday at 8, Z Friday at 9, Movie Channel Saturday at 9); Reds (Z Thursday at 8); Indiscreet (WGN Thursday at 8:30); The 400 Blows (Bravo Thursday at 10); Heaven Help Us (Z Friday at 7); Mask (Showtime Saturday at 6); Young Sherlock Holmes (Showtime Saturday at 8); Wetherby (Z Saturday at 9).

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