In Alan Pakula’s 1971 Klute (KCOP Sunday...

In Alan Pakula’s 1971 Klute (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.), Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a hard-bitten prostitute is only one attraction of one of the ‘70s key thrillers: a lady of the evening-in-distress shocker that’s sleek and metallic on top, smart and compassionate underneath.

The Empire Strikes Back (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), the hugely accomplished and exciting 1980 follow-up to “Star Wars,” may test the youngest and shortest attention spans toward its slow and extended final stretch. Otherwise, it mixes the familiar with the new to rush the story forward. The special effects are again stupendous, and returning for more adventure and romance are Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness and others.

A 1976 Emmy went to Sally Field for Sybil (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.), the story of a young woman who developed 16 separate personalities. Joanne Woodward is the psychiatrist who works with her.

In Return of the Jedi (NBC Monday at 8:30 p.m.) there is a sense of closing the circles in this thoroughly satisfying last installment (1983) of the “Star Wars” cycle. We press on with the business of the Jedi knighthood and rebel battles and with the question of Luke Skywalker’s parentage and his confrontation with his own nature.

Written by Horton Foote and directed by Bruce Beresford, Tender Mercies (KTTV Wednesday at 8 p.m.). is a spare, stunningly understated 1983 film about a stoic country singer (Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar, as did Foote) whose drifter’s existence is redeemed by a young Texas widow (Tess Harper) and her son (Allan Hubbard).

In Hope and Glory (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), John Boorman’s brilliantly evocative and warmly comic 1987 British film, the writer-director takes the point of view of a sweetly thoughtful 7-year-old boy (a splendid Sebastian Rice-Edwards) to whom World War II is something else entirely from what it is to tense and preoccupied adults.

Royal Wedding (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), Stanley Donen’s classic 1951 MGM musical, stars Fred Astaire and Jane Powell and is set in London at the time of Elizabeth II’s wedding. With a Burton Lane-Alan Jay Lerner score, it is famous for Astaire’s dancing on the ceiling sequence.