Irreconcilable Differences (KCOP tonight at 6) is...

Irreconcilable Differences (KCOP tonight at 6) is one of the wittiest Hollywood movies of the ‘80s. Ryan O’Neal and Shelley Long star as a struggling director and his screenwriter-wife. When O’Neal finally gets his big break, their lives spin out of control--to such an extent that their 11-year-old daughter (Drew Barrymore) sues them for divorce.

The 1989 TV movie Incident at Dark River (KTLA tonight at 8) deals powerfully with an environmental tragedy in which Mike Farrell (the film’s co-executive producer and co-writer) is determined to bring a corporation to its knees for causing the lead-poisoning death of his little girl.

Good Guys Wear Black (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a cynical, reasonably entertaining 1979 neo-Clint Eastwood action-adventure starring Chuck Norris that blames ruthless politicians and diplomats for Vietnam and other blunders.

John Carpenter’s 1988 horror picture They Live (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is uneven but can be forgiven everything because of the sheer nasty pizazz of its central concept: America is run by an oligarchy of outer-space ghouls who have clouded everyone’s mind through subliminal advertising in the media.

The rousing 1973 police drama Serpico (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.) stars Al Pacino in one of his best performances as a New York cop fighting criminals and corruption in his own department.

Penelope Spheeris’ provocative, driving 1986 The Boys Next Door (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) stars Maxwell Caulfield and Charlie Sheen as a couple of outsiders who celebrate their high school graduation by going on a murder spree.

Willie and Phil (KDOC Friday at 7 p.m.), Paul Mazursky’s sunny and gentle 1980 variation on Francois Truffaut’s “Jules and Jim,” is one of the writer-director’s least-known films, but it is no less than an affectionately satirical survey of the changing relationships between bright young people in the ‘70s.

Robert De Niro won an Oscar as Jake La Motta in Martin Scorcese’s superb 1980 Raging Bull (KTLA Friday a 8 p.m.), one of the best American films in recent decades. De Niro’s well-publicized weight gain for the role helps, but his portrayal of the champion boxer is created deeply from within. Filmed in a rich black and white by Michael Chapman, “Raging Bull” is an impeccable period piece and another of Scorcese’s unforgettable expressions of the Italian-American experience.

You have to give credit to Ted Nicolaou, the writer-director of the 1986 TerrorVision (KCOP Saturday at 9 p.m.), a fitfully funny horror spoof. The idea of another shocker about aliens leaping from our TV sets (shades of “Poltergeist”) must have seemed so preposterous that he and his colleagues shrewdly decided to play it for laughs.