Outrage (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is...

Outrage (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a misfired 1986 TV movie in which the late Robert Preston plays a man who takes the law into his own hands after charges against the man who raped and murdered his daughter are dropped.

Dress Gray (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m., completed Monday at 9 p.m.) is a disappointing 1986 TV movie, adapted by Gore Vidal from the Lucian K. Truscott IV novel about a cover-up of a homosexual rape and murder at a fictional military academy. Alec Baldwin and Hal Holbrook star.

John Ritter and Sharon Gless brighten Letting Go (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), an otherwise standard 1985 TV movie about a couple who meet in a self-help group.

Barbara Hershey has graduated from horror pictures such as the 1983 release The Entity (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) but the picture is effectively scary. Hershey herself is outstanding as an already struggling single parent besieged by a malevolent power and eventually caught in a battle between psychiatrists and parapsychologists over the true nature of the mysterious evil force.

Ruckus (Channel 7 Monday at 9 p.m.) is a routine 1982 exploitation picture about a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran (Dirk Benedict) who becomes the object of a manhunt.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Channel 13 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is full of noise and screeching gears and dirty words (some surely deleted for TV) but holds interest. This 1974 release is a good, solid suspense story about four ruthless gunmen who get on a New York subway and hold a car full of passengers hostage. Their demand: a million-dollar ransom from the mayor’s office. An excellent cast is aboard, especially Walter Matthau as a transit detective and the late Robert Shaw as the coldblooded leader of the gunmen.

Alice in Wonderland (CBS Tuesday at 8 p.m., completed Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is unfortunately more an “Alice in Dullsville.” As adapted by Paul Zindel and directed by Harry Harris, this 1985 production of the young Lewis Carroll heroine’s travels through a weird and silly world haven’t much meaning. Of no help are its forgettable song-and-dance sequences. As Alice, 9-year-old Natalie Gregory is appropriately cute, blond and bright-eyed, but she’s lost in the morass of the story.

Alan Alda wrote The Seduction of Joe Tynan (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) for himself, and this 1979 film is a very decent effort that examines the pressures on a rising politician, both from within and without. The women in the politician’s life are especially well-drawn. Barbara Harris is his supportive wife and Meryl Streep is his mistress, an ambitious labor lawyer.

The outstanding 1978 TV movie First You Cry (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) was a personal triumph for Mary Tyler Moore. She portrayed Betty Rollin, the NBC News correspondent who did one of the first comprehensive reports on breast cancer in a 1974 documentary, only to be struck by the disease herself. Carmen Culver’s fine script closely follows Rollins’ book of the same name, catching with flip humor Rollins’ horror and fear. George Schaefer’s carefully controlled direction, however, lets us see the pain beneath the jokes.

Through the compassion and the film-making skills of George Stevens Jr., the life and work of his father become in the 1984 George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (ABC Thursday at 8 p.m.) the real stuff of drama, a deeply American life with a shadow of sadness over the last third and with much that is as profoundly moving as the best novel. Watching Katharine Hepburn with her first recollections of working with Stevens (who directed her in the 1935 “Alice Adams”), or hearing the stories of Frank Capra, Fred Zinnemann, Joel McCrea or John Huston, you get the feeling that this is how films were really made during Hollywood’s heyday. The documentary includes extraordinary color footage of D-day and Dachau that Stevens shot as a member of Eisenhower’s special film unit in Europe. A remarkable documentary on a remarkable director.

The Master Gunfighter (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.) is Tom Laughlin’s occasionally muddled but handsome remake of the fine Japanese samurai movie “Goyokin,” transposed to tumultuous 1836 California.

Helen Slater shines in the uneven 1985 Legend of Billie Jean (ABC Friday at 9 p.m.) as a young Texan on the run from a crime she didn’t commit.

Hide in Plain Sight (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a modest but very affecting 1980 film based on a true story about a man struggling to contact his children, who have disappeared along with his ex-wife when her new husband, a small-time criminal, becomes part of the government’s witness relocation program. James Caan stars and directed.