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If Game Seven of the World Series is not played Sunday, ABC at 9 p.m. will televise Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money, a 1986 sequel to 1961’s “The Hustler.” Paul Newman is back as pool-hall champ Fast Eddie Felson, only now he’s the mentor rather than the protege, that role having been taken over by Tom Cruise. For three-quarters of the way, the film is a sensationally good piece of Americana, but it curiously miscalculates its finish. Even so, it’s very entertaining--Helen Shaver, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Forest Whitaker are also standouts--and it did win Newman an overdue Oscar.

Do You Know the Muffin Man? (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie (shown on the cover) about a police officer’s family torn apart when one of its children is abused, stars John Shea, Pam Dawber and Brian Bonsall. Gilbert Cates directed.

Class Cruise (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars Richard Moll and Jane Carr in a comedy about students from rival high schools who spend a semester aboard a floating campus.

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The 1987 Harry and the Hendersons (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) is a saccharine comic fantasy about a Seattle family taking home an injured Bigfoot. John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon star.

The new TV movie False Witness (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) stars Phylicia Rashad as an ambitious assistant district attorney who clashes with her co-worker/lover (Philip Michael Thomas) as they try to solve a headline-making crime.

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a disappointing 1987 sequel to the 1985 remake of “King Solomon’s Mines.” Richard Chamberlain again stars as adventurer Quatermain, who this time is scouring the African jungle for his missing brother.

For Ladies Only (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a routine 1981 TV movie in which Gregory Harrison stars as a struggling actor who takes a job as a male stripper.

The Best of Times (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) cannily manages to give us a lip-smacking tale of all-American wish fulfillment, as Robin Williams gets a magical chance to redeem a fumble in a crucial high school football game, and also to satirize the dangers of getting your fondest wish. Kurt Russell co-stars; Ron Shelton wrote the script and Roger Spottiswoode directed.

There is no hint that The Concorde: Airport ’79 (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m., concluding Thursday at 8 p.m.) was meant to be a spoof, but it certainly plays like one. Robert Wagner plays a deranged weapons manufacturer who launches a series of explosive attacks on a supersonic jet in flight to protect his own guilty secret.

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The Final Conflict (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is the worst and blessedly the last in the “Omen Trilogy,” about that anti-Christ, Damien (Sam Neill), who of course is still hell-bent on destroying the world.

Phil Karlson’s 1973 Walking Tall (Channel 11 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a shrewdly directed, bloody, slam-bang fictionalized account of the exploits of Sheriff Buford Pusser of Tennessee, who was killed in a mysterious car accident in 1974. Joe Don Baker plays the club-swinging crusader against rural organized crime.

John Carpenter’s 1980 The Fog (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.) is an elegant thriller of the supernatural centering on a deliberately wrecked ship whose crew rises up from its watery grave during an eerie fog to wreak vengeance on a Northern California bay community. Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook and John Houseman are in the large cast.

Dick Francis: Blood Sport (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.), a new TV movie in the “Mystery Wheel of Adventure” series, stars Ian McShane, Patrick Macnee and Lloyd Bochner.

Single Women, Married Men (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars Michele Lee as a divorced psychotherapist who forms a support group for single women whose lovers are married men.

Joe Dante’s The Howling (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is an amusing, grisly piece of Grand Guignol set in a Northern California retreat run by suave, soothing psychiatrist Patrick Macnee. Dee Wallace and Christopher Stone star.

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The Organization (Channel 13 Saturday at 8 p.m.) was Sidney Poitier’s third and final outing as “In the Heat of the Night’s” Virgil Tibbs. This time he takes on an international drug ring in this suspenseful, violent 1971 film.

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