Peter Falk’s Columbo made his debut in...

Peter Falk’s Columbo made his debut in the outstanding 1967 TV movie Prescription: Murder (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.), which Richard Levinson and William Link adapted from their Broadway play.

Lawrence Kasdan’s enjoyable but elusive 1985 Western Silverado (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.), is affectionate and caring for the form but a little too cooled out to be truly satisfying. It tells of four very different men who join forces to go after the bad guys. Another problem is that, despite the charismatic presence of Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover and others, no one emerges as a central, involving figure.

Murder by Natural Causes (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a 1979 TV movie that finds Barry Bostwick as a would-be assassin and Hal Holbrook as his intended victim. A minefield of surprises, this Levinson and Link production is sometimes sluggish and overly talky, but it is suspenseful. Bostwick and Holbrook are outstanding.

BAT 21 (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a standard 1988 war movie enlivened by Gene Hackman as an Air Force colonel shot down over enemy territory during the Vietnam War and by Danny Glover as the incredibly brave and courageous captain who sustains Hackman’s spirits via radio contact while plotting his rescue.

Set in the forbidding wasteland of the future, George Miller’s 1981 The Road Warrior (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is slam-bang entertainment envisioning a gasoline-starved postwar world in which scavengers prowl a shimmering strip of highway, ready to kill for a tank of fuel. Mel Gibson is Mad Max, a Shane-like loner drawn to helping a group of idealistic, bewildered survivors.

The misfired 1986 comedy-satire Soul Man (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) concerns an unexpectedly impoverished white college student (C. Thomas Howell) who “becomes” black to qualify for a minority scholarship at Harvard Law School.