Weekend TV : Networks Offer Banquet of Viewing Choices for Thanksgiving Week

The networks have stuffed Sunday night so full of movies that at least one is bound to suit nearly everyone’s Thanksgiving-week tastes.

ABC serves up the appetizer at 7 p.m. with “The Thanksgiving Promise,” a 1986 “Disney Sunday Movie” starring three generations of Bridges--Lloyd, Beau and Beau’s son Jordon--in a story about a young boy who agrees to prepare a Canadian gosling for a neighbor’s Thanksgiving dinner.

The evening’s main course follows at 8:30 on NBC with the commercial-television premiere of the second of George Lucas’ “Star Wars” films, “The Empire Strikes Back.” The darkest of the trilogy, this 1980 film stars Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford as Han Solo and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia, along with Darth Vader, Yoda and the rest of Lucas’ robots, androids and legendary alien creatures.

Then, for those who prefer beer and saloon peanuts to laser-fried snacks and automated space glop, CBS will dish out Kenny Rogers in “The Gambler III: The Legend Continues” at 9 p.m. Rogers reprises his role as gambler Brady Hawkes as he fights for justice during the Dakota Territory Indian Wars of the 1880s.

And if none of that is enough to satiate you, travel with Dolly Parton to her hometown in Tennessee for a country Thanksgiving celebration that includes turkey, country music, country cousins and pumpkin pie on ABC’s “Dolly” at 9 p.m.