High Anxiety (Channel 5 Sunday at 6...

High Anxiety (Channel 5 Sunday at 6 p.m.), Mel Brooks’ 1977 comedy in the form of a very respectful bow to Alfred Hitchcock, is funniest when it’s nearest the master. Brooks also stars as the doctor who comes to take over the Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, and the blonde in distress is Madeline Kahn.

Richard Chamberlain and Michael Learned star in the new TV movie Aftermath: A Test of Love (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), based on a true story about a family rallying together after being devastated by a violent crime.

In the frothy but likable Three Men and a Baby (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), the popular 1987 Americanization of Colline Serreau’s French hit “Three Men and a Cradle,” three swinging New York bachelors--Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson--cope with an adorable baby left at the door of their splendiferous Manhattan pad.

For all its good liberalism, the Robert Redford-directed 1988 The Milagro Beanfield War (Channel 5 Monday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.) hasn’t progressed much further than Frank Caprasville. It centers on an impoverished young husband and father (Chick Vennera) defying a big-time New Mexico developer intent on exploiting his land and that of his neighbor’s.

Poltergeist III (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.) puts the hapless Freeling family through more supernatural horrors with diminishing returns. Little Carol Anne (the late Heather O’Rourke) endures another horrendous battle with the great beyond, with squishy, grabby evil things reaching through mirrors. The special effects are ingenious but the acting is wretched.

Dead or Alive (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.), a new made-for-TV western, stars Kris Kristofferson as a tracker trying to rescue two girls from a religious fanatic.

The 1987 hit Lethal Weapon (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) is a big, shallow, flashy buddy-buddy cop thriller redeemed by Mel Gibson in the title role as a suicidal L.A. cop (Danny Glover is his apoplectic partner).

In Lucky Day (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie, Chloe Webb plays a mentally retarded young woman who wins a state lottery, bringing to a head a simmering conflict between her younger sister (Amy Madigan) and their mother (Olympia Dukakis).

The 1988 cop thriller that launched martial arts star Steven Seagal, Above the Law (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), is something of a standoff: good in its excitingly grimy Chicago atmosphere and terse, hard-bitten energy. Having started out in the semi-realistic frameworks of the ‘70s cop movies, it veers off into ‘80s action movie cuckooland and lapses into the paranoid one-against-a-hundred Schwarzenegger-Stallone heavy-pectoral snow job.

Middle Age Crazy (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), a funny yet compassionate and incisive 1980 comedy that spans three generations, stars Bruce Dern as a Houston contractor for whom turning 40 is a painful milestone.

Robert Altman’s 1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.), an alternately pretentious and tedious parable on the disgraceful treatment of Native Americans by whites, demythologizes Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) and his Wild West Show.

None of the sequels to the hilarious “Police Academy” remotely lived up to the original but at least Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.) is marginally better than the last three.