Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (ABC Sunday at 9...

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a pleasant way to tour the South of France. Blithe, witty, with as many twists as a Riviera roadway, this 1988 comedy has as its greatest assets its glorious look (courtesy of cinematographer Michael Ballhaus), Michael Caine, his hair greased back, his heart full of larceny, and Steve Martin as his sloppy, snakey new rival.

Fraternity Row (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) offers a thoroughly riveting look inside fraternity and sorority life in the ‘50s and is based on an actual incident. Made as part of a doctoral dissertation program at USC by its writer-producer Charles Gary Allison, the 1977 release tells of a hazing death and thereby touches upon bigotry and an all-consuming concern with image. Among the cast’s impressive newcomers: Gregory Harrison and the late Scott Newman.

Said to be the most popular program on Canadian TV in 1989, the two-part Love and Hate: A Marriage Made in Hell (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a fascinating, though fundamentally unpleasant, story about an actual child-custody case that escalated to murder. Kenneth Welsh and Oscar-nominee Kate Nelligan star.

The 1981 On Golden Pond (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) expresses eloquently a universal dream: to grow old, but never less passionate, alongside the person one has loved most dearly. The 1981 film’s dream couple is played by Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn, whose comfortable situation proves no defense against the onslaught of old age. There’s also an unresolved relationship between Fonda and his daughter, played by his own daughter Jane.

Robert De Niro won an Oscar as boxer Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese’s superb Raging Bull (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), one of the top films of the ‘80s. De Niro’s La Motta is in the classic mold: The street kid who came up from nothing, caught the brass ring and lost it, largely through an ungovernable rage and jealousy.

If you have any vestiges of faith in the court system, you’ll be sobered and numbed by the 1990 HBO cable production Criminal Justice (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 4 p.m.), which shows that plea bargaining can be more urgent than the issue of guilt or innocence.

Despite the comparisons with “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” which the 1989 Howard Zieff comedy The Dream Team (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.) evokes, Zieff and his actors, headed by Michael Keaton, manage to hook you in.