The subject of Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Gandhi...

The subject of Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Gandhi (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) is in itself so compelling, its telling in a straightforward, earnest and intelligent manner so absorbing, that it finally matters little that it lacks emotional empathy. With its magnificent, Oscar-winning performance by Ben Kingsley, the film does everything it can to make us understand India’s loss as if it were our own.

Tobe Hooper’s scary, stylish The Funhouse (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is a 1981 release in which four teen-agers decide to spend the night in the fun house of a traveling carnival.

Adapted by Carol Sobieski from the Robert Ludlum novel, the 1988 two-part TV movie The Bourne Identity (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m., concludes Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is highlighted by glamorous international exteriors, occasional moderate suspense and nice work by a dashing Richard Chamberlain as an amnesiac whose search for his identity leads him to a Zurich bank and a multimillion-dollar account.

Lushly melodramatic, visually electrifying, as violent as its subject--the heroin wars in New York’s Chinatown--Michael Cimino’s operatic 1985 Year of the Dragon (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), which was written by Oliver Stone, once again constructs fantasies upon the real facts. Mickey Rourke stars as Chinatown’s new police captain and John Lone as the elegant young Chinatown leader who’s also a major drug trafficker.

Guilty Conscience (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.), an ambitious and original 1985 TV movie written by Richard Levinson and William Link, stars Anthony Hopkins as an attorney who debates his alter ego over the matter of killing his wife for his mistress. With Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz.

Writer-director Burt Kennedy resists most of the treasure hunt cliches in the amiable 1973 John Wayne comedy-Western The Train Robbers (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.), in which Wayne comes to the rescue of Ann-Margret, agreeing to help her retrieve a half-million in stolen gold.

Neil Simon’s 1978 The Cheap Detective (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) isn’t as funny as his earlier spoof “Murder by Death,” but it’s amusing in a very silly, broad Mad magazine way. Peter Falk is back as a Sam Spade replica from the earlier film, caught up in a plot knitted together from “The Maltese Falcon” and “Casablanca.”

Larry Cohen’s 1989 Wicked Stepmother (KTLA Saturday at 8 p.m.) is of interest only as the final appearance of Bette Davis, who left the film during production.