Doing Life (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.),...

Doing Life (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.), a strong 1986 TV movie, stars Tony Danza as real-life convict Jerry Rosenberg who became a pioneer jailhouse lawyer and a spokesman for the prisoners during the 1971 Attica uprising.

The Exorcist (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) is one of the most successful scare shows ever made. William Peter Blatty adapted his own bestseller about a movie star’s daughter (Linda Blair) possessed by the devil. Ellen Burstyn plays Blair’s mother, who turns to a priest-psychiatrist (Jason Miller) who in turn brings in an exorcist (Max von Sydow) of his own. Even with likely trims for TV, this 1973 film is still definitely nightmare material, especially for youngsters.

In Weird Science (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), a 1985 John Hughes illustrated teen-age daydream, Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith conjure up a computer-built woman, played by Kelly LeBrock--to her credit--as if she were real.

Summer School (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.) is a good-natured, perceptive 1987 comedy in which a high school gym teacher (Mark Harmon), all set for a Hawaiian vacation, is lassoed into teaching remedial English.

In Maid to Order (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.), an amusing 1987 comedy, a rich, spoiled Ally Sheedy ends up working as a maid in Malibu.

Although awesome in its fantasy splendor, Ridley Scott’s 1985 Legend (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is pretty thin stuff, lacking in humor and invention. Tom Cruise stars as a handsome young hermit who does battle with the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry), who has imprisoned a beautiful princess (Mia Sara).

Some Kind of Wonderful (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), a cheerfully satisfying teen-age fairy tale, is a 1987 variation on John Hughes earlier “Pretty in Pink.” This time the spunky high school outsider is Eric Stoltz, who’s in love with someone (Lea Thompson) infinitely above his own station but has a weird duck friend (Mary Stuart Masterson) who adores him; naturally he doesn’t realize it.

St. Elmo’s Fire (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) wants us to love its super-charged seven (Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Mare Winningham and Andrew McCarthy), college graduate pals, but they’re mainly a bunch of thoughtless yuppies.

Chinatown (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is the quintessential private-eye yarn about love and murder provoked by an idealist posing as a cynic, whose curiosity uncovers the truth and destroys those he most wants to protect. With Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston. Superb writing and direction by Robert Towne and Roman Polanski.