In the inspired Cloak & Dagger (Channel...

In the inspired Cloak & Dagger (Channel 13 tonight at 6), young Henry Thomas has been given an imaginary hero and constant companion, a sort of paramilitary Tinker Bell named Jack Flack (Dabney Coleman, who also plays Thomas’ sorely tried widower-father), the super-spy hero of a video game. The 1984 film is fun for adults as well as older kids, thanks to the imaginative script (by Tom Holland) and direction (by Richard Franklin).

The 1984 Gremlins (NBC tonight at 9) is Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” turned inside out, upside down and pickled in brine, a sweet-and-sour comedy featuring an invasion of a small Middle American town by a horde of fast-multiplying, malicious reptilian creatures.

The new TV movie Finding the Way Home (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.) stars George C. Scott and Hector Elizondo in a fable about a businessman who finds new meaning in his life in the midst of Latino migrant farm workers.

The Grey Fox (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a beautiful, quietly memorable and eminently satisfying 1983 Canadian film starring Richard Farnsworth as a courtly, silver-haired stagecoach bandit who emerges from prison in 1901 after serving a 33-year-sentence.

Conan the Destroyer (Channel 13 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a lively 1984 sequel to “Conan the Barbarian,” this time teaming Arnold Schwarzenegger with Grace Jones.

Killing in a Small Town (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.) is a superior 1990 TV movie in which Barbara Hershey gives yet another multilayered portrayal of a woman who confesses to the ax murder of her neighbor, but is she guilty? The mystery here is a mystery of the mind. Brian Dennehy and Hal Holbrook co-star.

Russian-born Andrei Konchalovsky’s first--and best--American film, the heady 1984 Maria’s Lovers (Channel 5 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a fable of love about a young GI (John Savage), an ex-prisoner of war, who discovers that when his dream of marrying his childhood sweetheart (Nastassja Kinski) at last comes true, he’s so overwhelmed by it, he cannot consummate his marriage.

Jean de Florette (Channel 28 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) and Manon of the Spring (Channel 28 Thursday at 8 p.m.), Claude Berri’s superb 1986 adaptation of the two-part Marcel Pagnol novel about greed, innocence and revenge, stars Yves Montand, who attains the pinnacle of his career as a grasping, mean-spirited peasant out to gull his new neighbor, the high-spirited, open-hearted Gerard Depardieu. With Daniel Auteuil as Montand’s hapless nephew and Emmanuelle Beart as Depardieu’s beautiful daughter.

Re-Animator (Channel 13 Saturday at 6 p.m.) is just about the best and funniest black-comedy horror picture to come along in ages. Directed by Stuart Gordon from an adaptation of a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft story, it stars Jeffrey Combs as a creepy young genius teetering on the brink of madness and determined to conquer brain death. (To be avoided by small children and the squeamish.)