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Romancing the Stone (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is the delightful 1984 comedy in which Kathleen Turner, as a dowdy author of best-selling romances, is plunged into adventure beyond her wildest imaginings--with Michael Douglas as her breezy, rugged leading man.

Michael Roemer’s The Plot Against Harry (KCET Sunday at 10 p.m.), which was made in 1969 but only released in 1989, proves to be a balmy, sometimes deliciously deadpan Jewish gangster comedy that takes a wry, sneaky peak into the seamier sides of urban Jewish culture.

The Onion Field (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is the grueling, uneven but engrossing 1979 film which Joseph Wambaugh adapted from his own nonfiction novel about a notorious, still-controversial cop killing and its aftermath. James Woods stars as a thoroughly scary psychopath.

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The lively and involving 1981 Don’t Cry, It’s Only Thunder (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) tackles issues from what growing up really means to what war signifies. Dennis Christopher is splendid as a young, cynical medic in Vietnam whose life is transformed when he inherits an ever-increasing number of war orphans.

The 1984 Dreamscape (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a mild diversion in which playboy Dennis Quaid, who has formidable ESP gifts, is arm-twisted by his old professor (Max Von Sydow) into participating in a decidedly sinister research program.

Mike Csaky’s 1986 Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is as infectious as its subject, the legendary St. Louis-born entertainer who became the toast of Paris in the ‘20s; it’s followed at 10:30 with one of Baker’s several French films of the ‘30s, Princess Tam-Tam, a winning variation on the “Pygmalion” theme.

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