Harold and Maude (KCOP Sunday at 6...

Harold and Maude (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.) is that irresistible 1972 cult classic written by Colin Higgins, directed by Hal Ashby and starring Bud Cort as a suicidal 20-year-old rescued by Ruth Gordon’s 79-year-old swinger.

Without the affecting setting of the last days of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, the 1983 Under Fire (KCAL Sunday at 8 p.m.) would simply be a weary old love triangle involving journalists Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman; there’s an edge to Nolte’s growing loss of objectivity, but the filmmakers tend to walk away from it.

Network (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) returns with its all-out assault on the evils of commercial TV. At the heart of this savage 1976 satire is Peter Finch’s fed-up elder statesman of TV newscasters.

The memorable 1948 Howard Hawks classic Western, Red River (KCOP Wednesday at 6:05 p.m., also TBS at 8:20 p.m.), stars John Wayne as a tyrannical Texas cattleman and Montgomery Clift, who leads a rebellion against him during a cattle run.

Bonnie and Clyde (KCOP Wednesday at 8:20 p.m.) is that 1967 American cinematic landmark in which director Arthur Penn, writers Robert Benton and David Newman and producer-star Warren Beatty join to re-create a 1930 heartland landscape-and then blow it all to hell in an astonishing crescendo of violence. With Faye Dunaway as an unforgettable Bonnie.

Daniel Petrie’s thoughtful, autobiographical 1984 film The Bay Boy (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 3 p.m.) is an exceptional, complex coming-of-age drama starring Kiefer Sutherland and Liv Ullmann. Marred-but not critically-by a melodramatic murder (an actual incident in Petrie’s youth).

William Friedkin’s 1988 TV movie C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf (KNBC Friday at 9 p.m.) is an efficient action piece involving a counter-terrorist mission in South Africa.

Blake Edwards’ vitriolic 1981 Valentine to Hollywood, S.O.B. (KCAL Saturday at 8 p.m.) is always audacious, often hilarious but sometimes downright appalling. Producer Richard Mulligan and his wife Julie Andrews, America’s G-rated sweetheart, sex up their latest film to save it from disaster.

KCET offers a terrific, vintage British double feature Saturday: Joseph Losey’s The Servant (at 9 p.m.) and Lindsay Anderson’s This Sporting Life (at 11 p.m.).