Patty Duke’s performance as a nurse on...

Patty Duke’s performance as a nurse on trial for murder in a drug overdose energizes the formulaic 1988 TV movie Fatal Judgment (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.).

I Know My First Name Is Steven (NBC Sunday and Monday at 9 p.m.) is the riveting, relentless 1989 TV movie about young Steven Stayner’s seven-year ordeal as the captive of a molester. Corin Nemec and Cindy Pickett star.

The power of the dream of returning to the past gives Joan Tewkesbury’s 1979 Old Boyfriends (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) its own peculiar power, which is considerable despite its unevenness. Talia Shire stars as a troubled woman retracing her romantic footsteps in hope of finding herself again.

Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot (Channel 13 Monday and Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a 1979 two-part TV movie adapted from a Stephen King best seller, is one of those stomach-churning, white-knuckle fright films that masterfully sets us up, shakes us around and leaves us jumping at our own shadows. David Soul and Marsha Mason star.

It scarcely matters that Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (CBS Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is not quite as crass as its two predecessors; only the original was funny.

Trackdown (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a witty, high-style 1976 exploitation picture in which Montana rancher Jim Mitchum tries to find his runaway teen-age sister (Karen Lamm) in Hollywood. Anne Archer’s high-class call girl is especially memorable.

The Lonely Lady (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), the 1983 adaptation of the lively Harold Robbins best seller in which Pia Zadora plays a determined Hollywood screenwriter, goes straight to the top of the collection of the truly dreadful films of all time.

The Eyes of Laura Mars (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is an exceedingly sleek and stylish (but only so-so) 1978 thriller starring Faye Dunaway as a celebrated, ultrachic Manhattan photographer who discovers she has ESP as an unknown killer zeros in on her.

Based on the Sidney Sheldon best seller, The Other Side of Midnight (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a lurid, extravagant, gaudy, romantic 1977 melodrama with sex, glamour, scandal, an emotion-charged trial, World War II and the filthy rich. It’s fun, to be taken with popcorn. Marie-France Pisier stars as a poor, naive girl from Marseilles who ends up a top movie star.

Despite an uneven tone and a few too many dramatic contrivances, the 1982 Divorce Wars: A Love Story (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) offers a grim, realistic look at a failing marriage. Tom Selleck and Jane Curtin star.

The Haunting of Julia (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.) is an instance of the perfect blending of role and performer, with Mia Farrow cast as a young woman who may be either the victim of a ghostly possession or slowly disintegrating into madness. Directed by Richard Loncraine and co-starring Keir Dullea and Tom Conti.

William Wyler’s 1940 film of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m., colorized) afforded Bette Davis one of her best roles, that of an English wife in Malaya attempting to cover up a murder.