Christine (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.),...

Christine (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.), a typically bravura--and typically excessive--1983 John Carpenter film of the Stephen King novel, features a singularly malevolent 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury that transforms (in unexpected ways) the life of a klutzy, persecuted high school youth (Keith Gordon, who is excellent).

Even though in substance The Untouchables (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) doesn’t match its great look, this 1987 Brian De Palma movie is entertaining, thanks especially to Sean Connery’s Oscar-winning portrayal of a Chicago Irish street cop who shows the ropes to an inexplicably bland Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) as he prepares to take on Al Capone (Robert De Niro).

In the new TV movie Burning Bridges (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, casts Meredith Baxter-Birney as a married woman (to Nick Mancuso) who refuses to give up her affair with a married man (Derek de Lint).

A Death in California (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m., completed Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a persuasive 1985 TV movie directed by Delbert Mann, stars Cheryl Ladd as a Beverly Hills woman who becomes involved with the man (Sam Elliott) who raped her and killed her boyfriend.

In contrast to the sharp original, Beverly Hills Cop II (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.) is a crude, muddled business that has Eddie Murphy this time pursuing bad guy Jurgen Prochnow.

Loni Ding’s The Color of Honor (Channel 28 Tuesday at 10 p.m.) is the most comprehensive study to date of the Japanese-American experience during World War II. Ding focuses on the crucial, little-known role 6,000 Japanese-Americans played in the Pacific-Asia theater as interrogators and translators in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service.

The Natural (Channel 11 Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.) is a sadly ponderous 1984 adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s 1952 tragicomic allegory about baseball and a second chance at the American Dream. Robert Redford stars as an almost over-the-hill baseball player who falls heir to a magical bat. The wonderful supporting cast includes Barbara Hershey, Kim Basinger and Glenn Close.

Wayne Wang’s warm, well-observed Eat a Bowl of Tea (Channel 28 Wednesday at 9 p.m., again on Saturday at midnight) evokes New York’s Chinatown, circa 1949, with affectionate detail and stars Russell Wong and Cora Miao as newlyweds heavily pressured to produce an heir by Wong’s father (Victor Wong, a skilled comedian). Slight but endearing.

James Brooks’ Oscar-laden 1983 Terms of Endearment (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is one of the key American films of the ‘80s, and it brought Shirley MacLaine an Oscar as a brittle middle-aged woman coming to grips with her spirited daughter (Debra Winger) and an unexpected romance with her next-door neighbor, a womanizing ex-astronaut (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar.