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In Trading Places (Channel 13 Sunday at 6 p.m.), that hilarious variation on “The Prince and the Pauper,” Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy decide to see if streetwise con man Eddie Murphy can run their Philadelphia commodities brokerage as well as insufferable WASP Dan Akyroyd has.

Taken Away (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a new TV movie starring Valerie Bertinelli as a single working mother fighting to regain custody of her child.

John Heard and Mel Harris star in the new two-part Cross of Fire (NBC Sunday and Monday, 9-11 p.m.) which is based on the true story of the Ku Klux Klan’s rise and fall in Indianapolis in the ‘20s.

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Crocodile Dundee (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), one of the most popular movies of the decades, stars Paul Hogan in the title role as a resourceful tour guide in the Australian outback, who winds up in adventure and romance in New York.

Randal Kleiser’s fine 1980 remake of The Blue Lagoon (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) succeeds in involving us with a couple of kids (Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins) stranded on a tropical isle and presents their coming of age with tenderness and honesty.

The Gate (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.) is sub-Spielberg stuff, a bit of horror-whimsy about wholesome, lovable all-American kids battling the Forces of Darkness; Stephen Dorff stars.

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When He’s Not a Stranger (CBS Monday at 9 p.m.) is a new TV movie starring Annabeth Gish as a college freshman seeking justice after being raped by a man she knows.

Dick Tracy, Detective is the first of four Dick Tracy movies from the ‘40s airing on Channel 28 this week at 11 p.m. Morgan Conway stars in the first (Monday) and in Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball (Tuesday); Ralph Byrd, the definitive Tracy, stars in Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (Wednesday) and Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (Thursday).

John Hughes’ 1985 The Breakfast Club (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) finds five radically different kids (Anthony Michael Hall, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson) who get to know each other in the course of an all-day detention at their suburban Illinois high school. It’s engaging but finally too schematic for its own good.

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Set in the forbidding wasteland of the future, George Miller’s The Road Warrior (Channel 13 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is slam-bang entertainment envisioning a gas-starved postwar world in which scavengers prowl a shimmering strip of highway, ready to kill for a tank of fuel. Mel Gibson is once again Mad Max, a Shane-like loner drawn to helping a group of idealistic, bewildered survivors.

The Secret of My Success (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), a 1987 misfired comic fantasy on business success in in the Reagan era, stars Michael J. Fox who brings a welcome low-key winsome chutzpah to a Kansas college graduate determined to conquer the corporate world of Manhattan.

Alan Parker’s Angel Heart (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a visually lush, determinedly lurid thriller of the supernatural that overreaches yet is captivating all the same. Mickey Rourke, in his usual ferocious low-life guise, stars, and Robert De Niro has a witty turn as Satan.

Richard Beymer and Natalie Wood aren’t the most convincing casting as a Puerto Rican Romeo and Juliet, but Robert Wise’s Oscar-laden, razzle-dazzle film of West Side Story (Channel 13 Thursday at 7:30 p.m.) is nonetheless a terrific entertainment.

Blake Edwards’ unfunny Blind Date (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) features a beautiful woman (Kim Basinger) with no tolerance whatever for alcohol who goes out on a blind date with a yuppie executive (Bruce Willis) who, although warned about her problem, feeds her quantities of champagne and then watches in outraged dismay as she lurches out of control.

WarGames (Channel 5 Friday at 7:30 p.m.) is a taut, ingenious winner in which high school computer whiz Matthew Broderick blunders into a game, Global Thermonuclear War, with the Defense Department’s computer which keeps ticking away after Broderick quits.

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The 1966 Batman (Channel 11 Friday at 8 p.m.), with Adam West, is just awful, hopelessly dated.

In An American Werewolf in London (Channel 9 Saturday at 8 p.m.) director John Landis juxtaposes humor and gore with such outrageousness that from one moment to the next you can’t tell whether you’re going to laugh or cringe. Not for the very young but a delirious treat that develops surprising poignance. David Naughton and Griffin Dunne star.

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