Producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg...

Producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg did a flawless, exciting job of capturing the fun of old Saturday matinee serials in the 1981 blockbuster, Raiders of the Lost Ark (ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.). Harrison Ford and spunky leading lady Karen Allen couldn’t be better.

Sydney Pollack’s 1981 Absence of Malice (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.) is an astringent look at some dubious journalistic practices, but a game Sally Field’s reporter is so naive as to defy credibility, duped into placing an innocent Paul Newman at the center of a murder investigation.

In the 1988 License to Drive (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.), writer Neil Tolkin and director Greg Beeman whisk us back to that awful period in your teens when you’re finishing up driver’s education and applying for your first license--and then plunge us into a wild, nonstop freewheeling adventure. Unfortunately, the film irresponsibly lurches out of control. With Corey Haim and Corey Feldman.

And God Created Woman (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.) is Roger Vadim’s misfired remake of his 1956 erotic classic of the same name. With Rebecca De Mornay in the role originally played by Brigitte Bardot.

The new TV movie Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) casts Corbin Bernsen as the Southern lawyer who took on the Ku Klux Klan.

Tyne Daly stars in The Last to Go (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, as a woman who sees the dreams of her youth change over a 22-year period.

In Sidney Lumet’s absorbing The Verdict (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.), Paul Newman digs deep to show the rebirth of a decent man, a Boston lawyer on the skids who lands a case never meant for trial. The 1982 film is the engrossing story of Newman’s redemption, a crackerjack courtroom drama (in which Newman is pitted against suave Establishment attorney James Mason), a suspense piece--and a stunning rendering of Boston.

Tom Hanks is the engaging naif who becomes mixed up with some CIA shenanigans in The Man With One Red Shoe (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a 1985 remake of the even funnier French comedy, “The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe.”

52 Pickup (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a dull, brooding 1986 thriller in which Roy Scheider’s midlife crisis evolves into a deadly war with a trio of crazed blackmailers.

In Superman (Channel 13 Friday at 7:30 p.m.), that romantic and thoroughly entertaining 1978 fantasy, we’re introduced to the comic-book hero who comes from the planet Krypton (Marlon Brando, no less, is his father) to save Metropolis. Christopher Reeve is as perfect as shy, awkward, myopic Clark Kent as he is as Superman, embodiment of the invincible hero.

The Onion Field (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.) is the grueling, uneven but engrossing and deeply affecting 1979 film which Joseph Wambaugh adapted from his own nonfiction novel about a notorious, still-controversial cop-killing and its aftermath. James Woods is a thoroughly scary psychopath, and Franklyn Seales’ stooge is an even more complex characterization.

Julie (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is that diverting 1956 Andrew Stone suspensor which finds stewardess Doris Day having to fly an airliner by herself.

Harper (Channel 13 Saturday at 8 p.m.). is that terrific 1966 film of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer mystery, “The Moving Target.” Paul Newman stars.