Something Wicked This Way Comes (KCAL tonight...

Something Wicked This Way Comes (KCAL tonight at 9, again on Saturday at 11 p.m.) is Disney’s 1983 film of Ray Bradbury’s short story in which he cast a childhood memory of the coming of a carnival in a sinister light, its various temptations testing the townspeople--two boys (Vidal Peterson, Shawn Carson) and Peterson’s father (Jason Robards) in particular.

Sweet Hearts Dance (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is an alternately fetching and annoying 1988 film about tensions in a Vermont town among people who have known each other a lifetime and are now tearing at the seams. The movie centers on two buddies (Don Johnson, Jeff Daniels)), now in their late ‘30s, whose destinies crisscross.

True Grit (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is that irresistible 1969 Hal Wallis-Henry Hathaway Western that won John Wayne his long overdue Oscar as a rip-snorting federal marshal who meets his match in Kim Darby’s doughty little girl.

There’s a terrific temptation to subtitle the 1984 Places in the Heart (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) “Norma Rae Plants Cotton” since Sally Field once again plays a scrappy rural woman learning to stand up for herself and her family. Even though overly familiar, Robert Benton’s saga of small-town Texas life in the 1930s is deeply felt.

El Dorado (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a superb late example of Howard Hawks’ seemingly casual style which allows him, in a disarmingly comic way, to treat the serious matter of the meaning of friendship in all its aspects. This 1967 Western stars John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.

The 1986 Nothing in Common (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) afforded the late Jackie Gleason an extraordinary career farewell. He portrays a burnt-out Chicago children’s clothing salesman as if he were playing Willy Loman; Tom Hanks is the advertising whiz kid son who loathes him but who must come to terms with him now that his mother (Eva Marie Saint) has finally left Gleason.

Alan Parker’s 1987 Angel Heart (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is a visually lush, determinedly lurid thriller of the supernatural that overreaches yet is captivating all the same. Mickey Rourke, in his usual ferocious low-life guise, stars, and Robert De Niro has a witty turn as Satan.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (KCBS Saturday at 8:30 p.m.) is the original, terrifying 1956 science-fiction classic directed by the late Don Siegel. Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter star in this chilling story.

Romantic melodrama raised to the level of poetic tragedy, Emiliano Fernandez’s 1944 Maria Candelaria (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) stars Dolores Del Rio as a radiant but ill-fated Aztec beauty, scorned because of her mother’s reputation but adored by handsome peasant Pedro Armendariz.