Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (CBS...

Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a new TV movie of the 1953 play rather than a remake of the memorable 1954 movie, “The Caine Mutiny” which starred Humphrey Bogart as the unstable Capt. Queeg. Brad Davis plays Queeg this time, under the direction of Robert Altman.

Something Is Out There (NBC Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m.), is a new two-part thriller about a deadly alien. Joe Cortese and Maryam D’Abo star. Another new two-parter, The Bourne Identity (ABC Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m.), teams Richard Chamberlain and Jaclyn Smith in the Robert Ludlum tale of murder, greed and passion.

On Golden Pond (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) expresses eloquently a dream shared by many: to grow old, but never less passionate, alongside the person one has loved most dearly. The dream couple is played by Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, but their comfortable situation proves to be no defense against the fright and confusion of old age. Another key element: an unresolved relationship between the husband and his daughter, played by Jane Fonda.

48 HRS. (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.), Walter Hill’s smart, rambunctious crooks-and-cops comedy, marked a smash 1982 debut for Eddie Murphy, who played a slick con on a two-day leave from prison to help San Francisco police detective Nick Nolte nail one of Murphy’s former cohorts. It’s fun, but pretty violent in its slam-bang way.

Alongside “Star Wars’ ” razzle-dazzle, the Oscar-winning special effects of the George Pal productions, War of the Worlds (1953) (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.) and When Worlds Collide (1951) (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) may seem quaint in these days of ultra-realism. Yet they are triumphs of cinematic artistry and a tribute to just plain resourcefulness. In the first, which stars Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, a bullet-shaped, meteor-like object lands outside a small Southern California community and a hatch on the huge object’s crusty, red-hot exterior starts to unscrew slowly. In the second, scientific evidence that the star Bellus will crash into earth within nine months triggers a massive evacuation of Los Angeles. Richard Derr and Barbara Rush star.

Milos Forman’s Oscar-sweeping 1975 film of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) strains credibility at the climax--why don’t the guys cut out when they get a chance?--but Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are memorable as the ribald, cagey inmate and the determinedly destructive Nurse Ratchet whom Nicholson nevertheless dares to defy.

Meteor (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) may wipe out Manhattan, Hong Kong and all of Switzerland, but it’s done in by sheer dullness. Sean Connery and Natalie Wood head a large--and largely wasted--cast.

A couple’s sudden divorce has a surprising affect on their friends in the new TV movie Who Gets the Friends? (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), a comedy with Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino and Lucie Arnaz.

Forget Godzilla. Forget all the other dinosaurs and fire-breathers and make way for the greatest dragon yet, the wondrously scary Vermithrax Pejorative, the terror of the 6th-Century British kingdom of Urland. Not until 80 minutes into the splendid 1981 Dragonslayer (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) do we get to see the 40-foot tall Vermithrax in all his immense, bat-winged splendor. This is an evocation of the Dark Ages that is as convincing as it is fun. The late Ralph Richardson stars as an old sorcerer, and Peter MacNichol is his young apprentice.

Critters (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a so-so thriller, well-paced but violent and derivative, featuring little prickly extraterrestrial creatures resembling porcupine bowling balls who besiege a TV sitcom-like family. Dee Wallace Stone stars.

The grim and witless Rocky IV (CBS Wednesday at 9 p.m.) proves that Sylvester Stallone should have quit while he was ahead. It was quite a feat to parlay “Rocky” into two rewarding sequels, but in the third, Stallone lunges into ludicrousness in which Rocky Balboa takes on a hyper-technological creation of the Soviets (Dolph Lundgren).

With the 1984 Red Dawn (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.), director John Milius convinces us that a full-scale Soviet invasion could happen here, only to settle for making a cheap rabble-rouser that becomes increasingly incoherent and bathetic. Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen play high school resisters to Red rule.

In his sleek and scary 1981 Wolfen (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.), director Michael Wadleigh keeps us mystified right up to a jolting finish as Manhattan cop Albert Finney tries to solve a series of perplexing killings. The film is so well-planned that it is able to evolve into an allegory on the perils of man’s violence against nature.

Annie (NBC Friday at 8 p.m.) was lots of good-natured fun, but it landed with a thud on the screen, so overblown and cold that neither the irresistibleness of Aileen Quinn’s Annie or Albert Finney’s multidimensioned Daddy Warbucks could save it. Not one to remember director John Huston by.

In John Carpenter’s stylish, scary and utterly nihilistic 1981 Escape From New York (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.), it’s 1997 and the crime rate is so bad that Manhattan has been turned into one big sealed-off prison. Alas, the President of the United States (Donald Pleasence) winds up there when terrorists take him hostage, so it’s tough guy Kurt Russell to the rescue. Crude, violent, brutal but undeniably vital and entertaining.

Channel 28 is airing two silent classics this week: Buster Keaton’s sublime Our Hospitality (1923) (Friday at 9 p.m.) and the blithe, evergreen Raoul Walsh-Douglas Fairbanks Sr.’s The Thief of Bagdad (1924) (Saturday at 9 p.m.).

For all its plot potholes and other excesses, Michael Cimino’s 1985 Year of the Dragon (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) lingers hauntingly as part documentary and part grand opera. It pits two arrogant young men, Mickey Rourke’s scruffy, hotheaded, newly made captain of New York’s Chinatown precinct and John Lone’s elegant, supremely cool leader of the Chinese Mafia. It’s not quite the “Godfather” films, but it does leave us feeling that we’ve been smuggled behind the scenes of a closed world.