The 1989 Field of Dreams (CBS Sunday...

The 1989 Field of Dreams (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) was the most potent, unexpected fantasy of the ‘80s--a heartfelt, irresistible account of a young farmer (Kevin Costner) who heeds “the voice” that tells him to build a baseball diamond on his Iowa cornfield, which is suddenly populated by baseball greats of the past. At the heart of the matter in Phil Alden Robinson’s wonderful film is a grown man’s yearning for a reconciliation with his long-gone father. With Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones and Burt Lancaster.

Buried inside the sugarcoated 1986 movie of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is a tender, sharp-eyed reminiscence of Brooklyn adolescence: of family squabbles, brotherly bonds, the crises of raging puberty. Jonathan Silverman is Simon’s alter-ego at 15. With two superb portrayals: Judith Ivey as the sweetly self-centered Aunt Blanche and Steven Hill as a bilious boss.

The Name of the Rose (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is Jean-Jacques Annaud’s darkly menacing, deeply convoluted 1986 film of the Umberto Eco novel in which a shrewd English Franciscan monk (Sean Connery) and his young novice arrive in an Italian Benedictine monastery--in the 14th Century--just as it is struck by a series of murders.

The Rosary Murders (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is an engrossing mystery that illuminates a complex and special world while steadily building suspense. This 1987 film, directed by Fred Walton from Elmore Leonard’s adaptation of William Kienzle’s novel, is most persuasive in its depictions of the everyday workings of the American Roman Catholic Church. Donald Sutherland stars as a Detroit priest on the track of a serial murderer while defying his blunt, by-the-book superior (Charles Durning).

Richard Franklin’s 1981 Road Games (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a nifty Australian thriller starring Stacy Keach as a truck driver and Jamie Lee Curtis as a hitch-hiker who are pursued by a killer across a vast desert.

In the 1989 Uncle Buck (CBS Friday at 9 p.m.) writer-director John Hughes fuses his two genres of choice: the clashing family members comedy and the tortured teen pic, with predictable results. John Candy stars as an eccentric relative from blue-collar hell who’s called in to baby-sit his stuffed-shirt brother’s three kids.