Rambunctious and surprisingly touching, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot...

Rambunctious and surprisingly touching, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) finds drifter Jeff Bridges (as Lightfoot) mixing in with some professional bank robbers, an ever-cool Clint Eastwood (Thunderbolt) and a hot-headed George Kennedy. In his potent 1974 directorial debut, Michael Cimino, who also wrote the script, made a sly, outrageous and finally tender film.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the hugely popular, though overdone and less inspired 1984 sequel to “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” reprises on ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.

The premise of the 1983 release The Star Chamber (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is that nine L.A. Superior Court judges, in despair over dangerous criminal suspects escaping convictions on technicalities, have taken the law into their own hands. Unfortunately, the film spends more time rabble-rousing than in sustaining credibility. Michael Douglas stars.

Although the good-hearted 1987 Barry Levinson hit Good Morning, Vietnam (NBC Monday at 8:30 p.m.) is shallow, a piece of programmed irreverence, photogenic torpor and prefab compassion, Robin Williams is blazingly brilliant as explosive Armed Forces disc jockey Adrian Cronauer.

The Last Dragon (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a ludicrous but entertaining 1985 martial arts movie starring Taimak as a black Bruce Lee, launches four nights of ninja fare. Others are the 1982 Sword of the Ninja (Wednesday), the 1985 American Ninja (Thursday) and the 1984 Ninja III: The Domination (Friday).

The 1981 Superman II (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) is one of the movies’ best sequels ever, in which the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) ultimately has to choose between the woman he loves (Margot Kidder’s Lois Lane) and the world he has vowed to protect.

Sydney Pollack’s 1981 Absence of Malice (KTLA Saturday at 8 p.m.) offers an astringent look at contemporary journalistic practices. Written by former newspaperman Kurt Luedtke, it creates an absolutely authentic newsroom atmosphere only to depict an ambitious reporter (Sally Field) as being so naive as to defy credibility. Field has been duped into placing an innocent Paul Newman (excellent in his dry, ice-cold rage) at the center of a murder investigation.

The 1986 Heartburn (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is thin stuff from rich talents: Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson serve as writer Nora Ephron’s alter egos for herself and her ex-husband journalist Carl Bernstein in her story inspired by the breakup of their marriage. Individually delicious moments pop up in an otherwise empty and surface film.