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No picture could be more appropriate for black and white than The Blackboard Jungle, Richard Brooks’ landmark 1955 film from Evan Hunter’s all-too-prophetic novel about chaos in the classroom, yet it will air in a colorized version on Channel 5 tonight at 8. Starring Glenn Ford.

Airing opposite on Channel 9 is another ‘50s classic, All About Eve (1950), starring Bette Davis (which thankfully won’t be colorized).

About Last Night . . . (Channel 13 tonight at 8) has taken playwright David Mamet’s taut, vitriolic, dazzlingly funny valentine to the one-night stand and turned it into a hilarious, insightful, bawdy love story. The 1986 movie stars Rob Lowe and Demi Moore, who are thrown by their playful, above par-for-the-course one-night stand.

The 15th James Bond adventure A View to Kill (ABC tonight at 8:30) is a so-so affair, with Roger Moore beginning to seem a little weary in his last outing as Agent 007. In this 1985 release Christopher Walken is the villain, out to destroy Silicon Valley.

Echoes in the Darkness (CBS tonight at 9, concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is complex, intriguing and troubling, a knotty, intricate murder story adapted by Joseph Wambaugh from his own book and so shadowy, bizarre and unlikely that it is unsettling simply because it actually happened. Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia and Stockard Channing star.

Planet of the Apes (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m.), an odyssey of much imagination and style, directed by Franklin Schaffner, stars Charlton Heston as an astronaut who lands 2,000 years into the future on a world ruled by apes who speak, read and write--and who regard man as the lowest form of life. At once a parable and an adventure, it has an ending that’s a stunner. This 1968 Arthur P. Jacobs production spawned four ingenious and largely effective sequels, all of which will screen through Friday on KTLA at 8 p.m.

The Sure Thing (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.), directed by Rob Reiner, is a thoroughly enjoyable, sharply observed 1985 comedy in which Ivy League students John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, who loathe each other, end up in the same car headed for Los Angeles for Christmas.

All of Me (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) finds the spirit of Lily Tomlin, a deceased millionairess, inhabiting the body of her lawyer, Steve Martin, a jazz lover of no fixed ambitions. The results may be somewhat to the left of whoopee, but the stars are frequently hilarious--and the 1984 picture actually does get better as it goes along.