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In The Girl Who Came Between Them, a new TV movie (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a veteran and his wife bring his Vietnamese daughter to the United States. Cheryl Ladd and Anthony John Denison star.

The 1988 TV movie Too Young the Hero (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) could have been a riveting look at some Kafkaesque yet real-life absurdity, but was botched in the writing and direction. Even so, Ricky Schroder is impressive as Calvin Graham, who managed to join the Navy during World War II at age 12!

Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler star in Paul Mazursky’s Down and Out in Beverly Hills (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.). It’s the 1986 comedy in which Nolte plays a bum who enters the lives of a nouveau-riche family.

The new TV movie Follow Your Heart (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) stars Patrick Cassidy as a stranded Marine who befriends an old woman (Frances Sternhagen), her retarded son and a Vietnamese girl in a desert town.

Martin Scorsese’s 1983 The King of Comedy (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is so dark in its humor that it’s as disturbing as it is funny. Robert De Niro stars as a nerd with delusions of being a stand-up comic whose obsession with a TV talk-show host (played with a riveting coldness by Jerry Lewis) finally goes over the edge.

Laker Girls (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie, finds a college graduate, a dance teacher and an incognito heiress becoming cheerleaders for pro basketball’s Lakers.

The 1973 Bang the Drum Slowly (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a deeply affecting and often humorous but never maudlin account of how a glib, fast-talking pitcher (Michael Moriarty) tries to ensure that the dim but appealing catcher (Robert De Niro) will be able to play until Hodgkin’s disease finally overtakes him.

Native Son (Channel 28 Wednesday at 9 p.m.) is a disappointing 1986 film adaptation of the landmark Richard Wright novel which deletes, among other things, much of Wright’s insight into the psychology of black rage. Victor Love stars as the ill-fated Bigger Thomas.

Agatha (Channel 11 Friday at 8 p.m.) is based on Kathleen Tynan’s novel which ingeniously imagined what happened to Agatha Christie during her never-explained 1926 disappearance. This handsome, romantic 1979 film casts Vanessa Redgrave in the title role and Dustin Hoffman as a brashly confident American journalist intent to tracking her down.

Robert Benton’s funny-sad film noir The Late Show (Channel 13 Saturday at 8 p.m.), one of the best films of the ‘70s, stars Art Carney as an aging Hollywood private eye and Lily Tomlin as a zany Bohemian who try to solve the murder of his ex-partner and the mystery of her missing cat.

The ratings checks on movies in the TV log are provided by the Tribune TV Log listings service.