Even if Spike Lee’s 1988 movie School...

Even if Spike Lee’s 1988 movie School Daze (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m., Cinemax Tuesday at 10 p.m.) tries to be too many things it nevertheless emerges with its guts and brains mainly intact as it spins a tale about pledges at an all-black college fraternity during homecoming weekend.

Without the affecting setting of the last days of the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua, the 1983 Under Fire (KCAL Sunday at 9 p.m.) would simply be a weary old love triangle between journalists Nick Nolte, Joanna Cassidy and Gene Hackman; there’s an edge to Nolte’s growing loss of objectivity.

The uneven but endearing 1989 Rude Awakening (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) whisks a pair of hippie radicals (Eric Roberts, Cheech Marin) to present-day New York after they’ve been in a Central American backwoods for 20 years.

Carl Weathers, in the title role of Action Jackson (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.), and Craig T. Nelson, as his nemesis, give more authority to this lousy 1988 action movie than it merits.

The stylized, allegorical 1973 High Plains Drifter (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is the weirdest of the movies in which Clint Eastwood directed himself, a macabre, nightmarishly funny revenge saga, whose locale is either the Old West or Hell--depending on your viewpoint.

The 1983 Uncommon Valor (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.), which plays like a routine war movie, is not nearly an uncommon enough film for its subject: those American soldiers long ago written off by the government as missing in action in Southeast Asia but who may still be alive. Gene Hackman stars.

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), made for cable in 1990, is a hoot, a playful, glossy entertainment full of knowing winks to the 007 movies and even to ‘40s-style filmmaking that suggests that Fleming, played by Sean Connery’s son Jason, really was his creation, James Bond.

In the quietly endearing 1982 Tex (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.), Matt Dillon stars as an impoverished, small-town Oklahoma 15-year-old. He’s one of a group of appealing, resilient teen-agers getting on with their lives yet valuing the bonds of friendship and family.

My Stepmother Is an Alien (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a wild and wacky 1988 romantic comedy, rowdy and brash yet surprisingly tender. Dan Aykroyd is a workaholic scientist who inadvertently creates a gravity drain on another planet, whose authorities dispatch none other than Kim Basinger, via flying saucer, to get their planet recharged within 24 hours.