The 1982 An Officer and a Gentleman...

The 1982 An Officer and a Gentleman (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) is a slick, entertaining, old-fashioned heart-tugger about a couple of naval cadets (Richard Gere, David Keith) who become involved with some townies (Debra Winger, Lisa Blount) while attending the rigorous Officers Candidate School in Puget Sound. Louis Gossett Jr. walked off with an Oscar for his portrayal of a super-tough drill instructor.

Twins (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), an overblown, self-destructing 1988 comedy-thriller, wastes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as fraternal twins separated at birth.

The Big Easy (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a 1987 release, is more memorable for the sizzling chemistry between Dennis Quaid’s New Orleans police lieutenant and Ellen Barkin’s East Coast assistant D.A., than its police corruption plot; the sex may well have been toned down for TV.

A love of the world of movies permeates the crackling excitement of F/X (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.), giving dimension to this sophisticated, savvy 1986 thriller involving a New York-based special-effects wizard (Bryan Brown) hired to stage a fake assassination of a Mafia kingpin (Jerry Orbach).

The stylish and suspenseful 1987 Predator (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.) finds Arnold Schwarzenegger heading a military rescue unit in the jungle of a nameless Latin American country and coming up against an evil alien.

Short on style and pace, but strong in conviction and performances, the 1990 A Thousand Pieces of Gold (KCET Wednesday at 9 p.m., Saturday at 10 p.m.) tells of a young Chinese woman (Rosalind Chao) who ends up the “property” of a fellow countryman in an Oregon gold-mining village, circa 1880.

The slight possibility that three convicts who vanished from Alcatraz in 1962 didn’t drown in San Francisco Bay provides the basis for the taut and dynamic 1979 Escape From Alcatraz (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.), which stars Clint Eastwood as the escapees’ leader.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) remains one of Eastwood’s best, both as star and director. The handsome 1976 Western features Eastwood as a farmer turned avenging outlaw when his family is massacred by a band of Northern guerrillas during the Civil War.

It’s fortunate that Turner & Hooch (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.) has at its center a terrific chemistry between Tom Hanks and his canine co-star Beasley, because this 1989 release is yet another movie that seems stranded without a script.

Family Business (KTLA Saturday at 8 p.m.), a frail little 1989 caper movie, is over-awed by its cast, and furthermore asks us to believe that Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Matthew Broderick are grandfather, father and son.