In Murder in High Places (NBC tonight...

In Murder in High Places (NBC tonight at 9), a new TV movie-series pilot, Ted Levine, who played the serial killer in “The Silence of the Lambs,” stars as a celebrated countercultural writer who’s reluctantly elected mayor of a Colorado ski resort and who teams up with an ex-cop-pro football player (Adam Baldwin) to solve a murder case.

The 1989 Jacknife (Channel 13 Monday at 8 p.m.), which illuminates the lingering effects of the Vietnam War on its veterans, stars Robert De Niro as an uninhibited type who descends upon his war buddie (Ed Harris) and his unmarried sister (Kathy Baker); all three excel.

Phylicia Rashad stars in the routine 1989 TV movie False Witness (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) as an assistant D.A. on a rape case whose own private and personal lives are intertwined. With Philip Michael Thomas.

Like other “heartland” movies, the 1987 Square Dance (Channel 13 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is both celebratory and satirical in its telling of a 13-year-old (Winona Ryder) who must choose between the settled, rural life of her grandfather (Jason Robards) and the messier, more exciting (and dangerous) city terrain of her mother (Jane Alexander), a Fort Worth hairdresser.

No Small Affair (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 6 p.m.) is a truly charming 1984 film which brought early acclaim to Jon Cryer as an aspiring, teen-aged photographer who falls for a tough-surfaced Demi Moore, six years his senior.

The powerful and exciting 1981 Fort Apache, the Bronx (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) stars Paul Newman in one of his finest performances as a veteran New York policeman in one of the most dangerous precincts in America, a third-generation Irish cop who at last must honor his conscience.

Kevin Spacey becomes the latest in a long line of actors portraying legendary attorney Clarence Darrow in the new “American Playhouse” film biography, Darrow (Channel 28 Wednesday at 9 p.m.).

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.) is a good, solid suspense story, made in 1974, about four ruthless gunmen who board a New York subway and hold a car full of passengers hostage. Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw star.

The Outside Woman (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.), an entertaining 1989 TV movie based on a true incident, stars Sharon Gless as dreamy, Louisiana millworker who engineers a prison escape and is party to grand theft and kidnaping all because she falls for convict Scott Glenn.

Terry Gilliam’s 1985 Brazil (Channel 5 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a brilliant, exhausting, savagely funny post-Orwellian satire, starring Jonathan Pryce as a shiningly innocent clerk in a futuristic Ministry of Information.

Marathon Man (Channel 13 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is that sleek, violent 1976 thriller about a marathon runner (Dustin Hoffman) who becomes involved in pursuing a former Nazi concentration camp doctor (Laurence Olivier).