The 1982 Tootsie (ABC Sunday at 8:30...

The 1982 Tootsie (ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) seems destined to become a screen classic. What a joy Dustin Hoffman is as a dedicated but unemployed New York actor driven to disguise himself as an actress, winding up a soap opera star while he ends up with his consciousness raised. Among Hoffman’s perplexed colleagues and friends are Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Charles Durning and Bill Murray. Larry Gelbart wrote the inspired script, directed flawlessly by Sydney Pollack, who also plays Hoffman’s agent.

There will be a constant flow of Christmas-themed movies today and tomorrow. Among them are It’s a Wonderful Life (Channel 28 Sunday at 2:30 p.m., plus many other airings, including cable); Christmas in Connecticut (Channel 5 Sunday at 3 p.m.), a delightful wartime romantic comedy in which non-cooking cooking columnist Barbara Stanwyck is assigned by her editor to prepare a Christmas dinner for a soldier (Dennis Morgan); Holiday Inn (Channel 5 Sunday at 8 p.m.), the 1942 film in which Bing Crosby introduced “White Christmas” and Fred Astaire co-starred; Life With Father (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.), the 1947 film of the long-running stage comedy about a Victorian family starring William Powell and Irene Dunne; and the 1984 TV movie version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) with George C. Scott and the 1938 version, a colorized one (on Channel 9 at 10 p.m.) with Reginald Owen as miserly Scrooge.

On Monday afternoon there will be a repeat of The Homecoming--A Christmas Story (CBS Monday at 3 p.m.), the 1971 TV movie that Earl Hamner Jr. adapted from his own novel and which launched the long-running series “The Waltons.” Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas star.

The Sound of Music is back (NBC Monday at 8 p.m.), but you may want to take a look at the less familiar 1961 version of the Victor Herbert operetta Babes in Toyland (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) with Ray Bolger or Blake Edwards’ giddy homage to slapstick, The Great Race (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.) with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Jack Lemmon.

That most enjoyable historical drama The Lion in Winter returns on Channel 5 Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. and stars Peter O’Toole as Henry II and Katharine Hepburn as his feisty Eleanor of Aquitaine.

More love story than Western, Robert Mulligan’s 1969 The Stalking Moon (Channel 13 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a beautiful, eloquent film in which Army scout Gregory Peck comes upon a white woman (Eva Maria Saint), an Apache captive for nine years.

My Favorite Year (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), one of the funniest movies of the decade, stars Peter O’Toole as a boozy Errol Flynn/John Barrymore star making an appearance on a TV comedy hour in 1954.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman (Channel 13 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), a takeoff on the ‘50s classic “The Incredible Shrinking Man,” is never quite as sharp or funny as intended but Lily Tomlin certainly is a delight as a housewife whose constant exposure to various products causes her to shrink.

Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges and Nastassja Kinski all have their moments in Tony Richardson’s film of The Hotel New Hampshire (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.), John Irving’s seriocomic novel about a highly unconventional family, but the characters they play seem more literary conceits than real people.

Chameleons (NBC Friday at 8 p.m.) is a new TV movie, a comedy-adventure about the escapades of a self-styled superhero crime-fighter. Marcus Gilbert stars.

Finnish director Aki Karismauki’s Hamlet Goes Business (Channel 28 Friday at 11 p.m.) is a darkly humorous contemporary reworking of Shakespeare with a Hamlet who is the bulky, middle-aged son of a Helsinki industrial paper and shipping tycoon. The plight and fate of Hamlet’s insidious family have considerable political implications for life in Finland and that country’s minor position in world trade.

The Jazz Singer (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) defies updating, and this Neil Diamond version is a disaster.

John Huston’s high-spirited The Man Who Would Be King (Channel 9 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is the Kipling tale in which a pair of roguish ex-regimentals (Michael Caine, Sean Connery) set out to find a country where a man might be a king.