THE WEEK’S OTHER PRIME-TIME FILMS

The new TV movie Child in the Night (KCBS, Tuesday at 9 p.m.) stars JoBeth Williams as a psychologist facing her own past, while she and a detective (Tom Skerritt) work with a boy who has witnessed his father’s murder.

Despite a terrific performance from Steve Martin and a generous one from Lily Tomlin, the 1984 All of Me (KTTV, Wednesday at 8 p.m.) fulfills only about half of its amusing premise. It centers on Martin’s jazz-loving lawyer who, due to a mystical mishap, is forced to share half his body with the spirit of a deceased client (Tomlin), a rich and selfish prude.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (KCOP, Wednesday at 8 p.m.) remains one of Clint Eastwood’s best, both as a star and as a director. One of the last truly successful Westerns, this 1976 film develops into a full-scale frontier saga.

Although Linda Bassett and Linda Hunt are excellent as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, 1987’s Waiting for the Moon (KCET, Wednesday at 9 p.m.), which details their daily life, is awfully precious.

Joan Churchill and Nicolas Broomfield’s 1987 documentary Lily Tomlin: The Film Behind the Show (KCET, Wednesday at 10:30 p.m.) is entertaining simply because Tomlin is entertaining, but do not expect to discover the woman behind the performer as Tomlin prepares her latest show, “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.”

Surely the 1986 film The Hitcher (KTLA, Thursday at 8 p.m.) has been toned down for TV. It’s a stylish, relentless and violent fable about a crazed hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer) pursuing a man (C. Thomas Howell).

The Philadelphia Experiment (KCAL, Saturday at 8 p.m.) takes its title from an attempt by the Navy in 1943 to render U.S. ships invisible to radar. This fast-moving, action-filled 1984 sci-fi film imagines that the experiment succeeds only too well, with sailor Michael Pare, after a spin through a shining vortex, landing in the desert 40 years later.

KCET is offering a strong Saturday double bill dealing with contrasting views of World War I: Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 anti-war classic Paths of Glory (at 10 p.m.) and the romantic 1932 version of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (11:30 p.m.), with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes.