Hooper (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) is...

Hooper (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) is an ingratiating tribute to Hollywood’s most unsung heroes, the stunt men. In the title role of this 1978 winner, Burt Reynolds plays a stunt man at the top of his profession who feels threatened by cool, daring novice Jan-Michael Vincent.

James L. Brooks’ terrific 1987 Broadcast News (ABC Monday at 8 p.m.), which managed to be diabolically clever without being heartless, goes right to the heart of a modern romantic triangle, and while it’s there gives us a look at what ails the news broadcasting business. A veteran TV news writer (Albert Brooks) and a fledgling reporter (William Hurt) are two-thirds of our triangle; the last third is a rising young producer (Holly Hunter).

The 1988 The Nest (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.) harks back to the days when entire communities were regularly terrorized by “The Blob,” “The Birds” or “Them.” There’s something inherently satisfying about the injecting of total hysteria into the serenity and peace of an otherwise predictable environment. This recent chapter in the genre, complete with state-of-the-art hideous effects, unquestionably does a bang-up job of scaring the pants off an audience.

Steve McQueen’s penultimate movie, the 1980 Tom Horn (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a handsome but disappointing Western about an actual bounty hunter (whose story had already been better told in the 1979 TV movie “Mr. Horn,” starring David Carradine).

The $1,000,000 Duck (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) is one of the better old-regime Disney stories, a souffle-light 1971 family comedy that has Dean Jones’ son’s pet duck, accidentally irradiated in a college lab, laying eggs with solid gold yokes.

KCET is offering a Saturday night double feature of a pair of all-time Jean Renoir films: the 1939 The Rules of the Game (at 9 p.m.), set at an aristocratic gathering at a country estate, contemplates the decline of the old order as the clouds of war gather; and the 1937 Grand Illusion (at 11 p.m.), a drama of World War I POWs starring Jean Gabin, Erich Von Stroheim and Pierre Fresnay, is the anti-war film at its most prophetic.