The six-hour Near Death (Channel 28 Sunday...

The six-hour Near Death (Channel 28 Sunday at 1 p.m.), the latest documentary by the esteemed Frederick Wiseman, surveys how life-and-death decisions are made in the intensive care unit at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.

The Operation (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie, stars Joe Penny as a doctor in conflict with his patient (Lisa Hartman).

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, finds Raymond Burr defending an angry author (Barbara Babcock) accused of murdering her scheming ex-husband (David Warner) at a mystery writers’ convention.

Following in the footsteps of John Barrymore, Fredric March, Spencer Tracy and, most recently, Anthony Perkins, Michael Caine (on the cover) stars in a new made-for-TV version of Jekyll & Hyde (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror tale about a doctor torn between good and evil.

The Memphis Belle (Channel 28 Sunday at 10 p.m.) is William Wyler’s notable, rarely seen documentary about our bombing missions over Germany during World War II.

Charlton Heston stars as one-legged Long John Silver in a three-hour remake of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (TNT Monday at 5 and 8 p.m.).

An amiable, though overly long and overly complicated 1970 Western, Chisum (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.) stars John Wayne as the real-life “King of the Pecos,” John Simpson Chisum, beleaguered pioneering New Mexico cattleman. It launches a week of John Wayne movies.

Cocoon (CBS Monday at 8:30 p.m.) is that irresistible 1985 Ron Howard hit in which eight elderly Florida couples are given the opportunity to join an incredible adventure. Among the key players are Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Maureen Stapleton and the Oscar-winning Don Ameche.

The Delta Force (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) is a standard 1986 hijack-hostage adventure, even if it was inspired by an actual event. Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin star.

The Norman Mailer-Larry Schiller The Executioner’s Song (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m., completed Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is an exceptional TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as convicted killer Gary Gilmore.

In spite of a sturdy cast, headed by Christopher Lambert and including Sean Connery, and dazzling production design, the 1986 Highlander (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a stultifyingly awful time-tripping adventure in which some immortal warriors battle it out across the centuries.

David Soul, Edward Herrmann and Chad Lowe star in So Proudly We Hail (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie about the rise of neo-Nazism in America.

Face to Face (CBS Wednesday at 9 p.m.), a new romantic comedy-drama made for TV, stars Elizabeth Montgomery (on the cover) as a brilliant paleontologist and Robert Foxworth as a rough-and-rowdy miner who clash over digging rights in Kenya’s high country.

Made in 1979, The China Syndrome (Channel 5 Friday at 7:30 p.m.) proved to be one of the most prophetic movies ever made, having been released shortly before the Three Mile Island debacle. At once a fervent anti-nuclear protest and an edge-of-the-seat thriller, it stars Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and an Oscar-winning Jack Lemmon.

Daughter of Darkness (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie starring Anthony Perkins, is a supernatural thriller about a woman (Mia Sara) caught between the worlds of the living and the dead.

D. W. Griffith’s 1919 heartbreaker Broken Blossoms (Channel 24 Friday at 9 p.m.; Channel 28 Friday at 9:30 p.m.) will be introduced by its star, Lillian Gish, who plays a London waif adored by a young Chinese shopkeeper (Richard Barthelmess) but menaced by her sadistic father (Donald Crisp).

Set just as World War II ends, Welcome in Vienna (Channel 28 Friday at 11 p.m.), the concluding film in director Axel Corti’s superb trilogy, is a bittersweet valentine to Austria, at once an expression of love for one’s homeland--and hate for its pervasive and enduring anti-Semitism.

My Darling Clementine (Channel 28 Saturday at 10 p.m.) is John Ford’s memorable 1946 take on the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp and Victor Mature as Doc Holliday.

The Image (HBO Saturday at 10 p.m.), a new comedy-drama, casts Albert Finney as an investigative TV journalist.