Kramer vs. Kramer (KTLA Sunday at 8...

Kramer vs. Kramer (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.), one of the key films of the 70s, cuts to the heart, intensified--as it so often is--by a custody battle. Dustin Hoffman is superb, a successful New Yorker whose wife (Meryl Streep) leaves him with their young son (Justin Henry) he barely knows.

In the 1989 Back to the Future, Part II (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), an especially inventive sequel, it seems there’s big trouble ahead in 2015 for Michael J. Fox’s son (conveniently played by Fox himself), so he and Christopher Lloyd’s D. Emmett Brown once again take off in the doc’s magic DeLorean to see if they can alter the course of history.

Top Gun (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.) is that wildly popular 1986 picture, a male-bonding adventure that’s both mind-boggling and vacuous. Allegedly based on the Navy’s crack fighter pilot program at San Diego’s Miramar Naval Base, it sucks us into a high-tech world of multimillion-dollar aircraft and hell bent-for-leather flyboys. Tom Cruise stars.

Coming to America (CBS Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is today much better known for Art Buchwald’s lawsuit against Paramount, claiming it was based on his idea. Actually, the 1988 release is a pretty erratic comedy about an African prince (Eddie Murphy) and his stateside amours.

Peter Hyams’ Running Scared (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) stars Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines as undercover Chicago cops dreaming of opening a bar in Key West; it’s a stylish genre film enlivened by the stars’ exceptional rapport.

Robert De Niro, as a hard-case bounty hunter, and Charles Grodin, as a soft-shelled embezzler, are the stars of the often murderously funny 1988 chase comedy Midnight Run (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) as a sort of Laurel and Hardy on the run.

In Trading Places (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), that hilarious 1983 variation on “The Prince and the Pauper,” Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy decide to see if streetwise con man Eddie Murphy can run their Philadelphia commodities exchange as well as insufferable WASP Dan Aykroyd has.