THE WEEK’S OTHER PRIME-TIME FILMS

In the 1987 China Girl (KCOP, Tuesday at 8 p.m.), director Abel Ferrara has created one of his potent ultra-violent, ultra-stylish Manhattan street fables. This time, it’s a Romeo (Richard Panebianco) and Juliet (Sari Chang) tale set in the Lower East Side’s cheek-by-jowl Little Italy and Chinatown. Not for youngsters.

As if New York didn’t already have enough to contend with, C.H.U.D. (KCAL, Saturday at 8 p.m.), a routine 1984 social protest/horror picture, finds the city’s derelict population turned into hideous-looking ghouls through contamination with radioactive waste. John Heard and Daniel Stern star.