John Milius’ Red Dawn (Channel 5 Sunday...

John Milius’ Red Dawn (Channel 5 Sunday at 6 p.m.), a 1984 hit in which teen-agers (Charlie Sheen and Patrick Swayze among them) take to the hills to stave off Soviet invaders, is already a period piece: the sentiments are purple, the kid guerrillas posture like rock ‘n’ roll samurai looking for a video Alamo. One interesting sidelight: “Red Dawn’s” story all but duplicates a staple movie genre of ‘50s Eastern Europe: the World War II partisan melodrama.

Clint Eastwood, bedraggled Phoenix cop, and Sondra Locke, saucy Vegas hooker, hit the road under hails of bullets in director Eastwood’s 1977 The Gauntlet (Channel 13 Sunday at 6 p.m.). Dry as a desert, cool as a Mexican beer, wildly exaggerated as a Road Runner cartoon, this is the kind of trim, mean C. E. vehicle his critics sputter at, but his fans can’t wait to ride.

Sometimes the James Bond series gets a kink in its swing. It gets thick and gadget-bound. The 1979 Moonraker (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a good example: wandering all over outer space, spending money and blowing apart acres of hardware with a weary, jaded air--as if all the worlds left to conquer were dull ones. This Roger Moore-Lewis Gilbert-Richard “Jaws” Kiel collaboration misses most of the chi-chi zip of their previous “Spy Who Loved Me.”

Mark Harmon plays one of America’s more chilling serial killers--Ted Bundy, clean-cut law student who liked to murder long-haired college girls--in Part 1 of The Deliberate Stranger (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.), directed by Marvin Chomsky, and concluding Tuesday at the same time. Like Bundy, it’s scary but a little slick and opportunistic.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a sort of art film from a horror movie ace: Wes Craven, who made the original, inimitable “Nightmare on Elm Street.” Here, Craven cooks up another bad dream-vs.-reality tale with a voodoo backdrop. The images--Haitian orgies, city paranoia--are spectacular, the human content less so.

1988’s Vice Versa (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) was one of the pre-”Big” boy-into-man body-switch movies--in this one Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage supernaturally switch places--but it proved ahead of its time, or behind it, or maybe in need of a movie switch. A pity: the buoyant actors and director--Britisher Brian Gilbert--show more virtues than vices.

It’s not really Elvis Presley’s best movie but 1957’s Jailhouse Rock (Channel 5 Saturday at 6 p.m.) boasts one of his all-time greatest numbers: the raucous Lieber-Stoller title track, in which the brooding pelvis-twister reminisces about life in stir and a band whose “whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang.” Richard Thorpe directs; the King rocks.

Like all of us, Rodney Dangerfield would like a little Easy Money (Channel 9 Saturday at 8 p.m.), which is both plot and bank statement of this 1983 finance farce about a slob heir forced to clean up his act, directed by James Signorelli.

The 1984 Beat Street (Channel 9 Saturday at 11 p.m.), directed by Stan Lathan and starring charmer Rae Dawn Chong, is the kind of rap-graffiti-breakdancing hip-hop musical they might have made back at MGM in 1939, if they’d had mini-cams.