David Seltzer’s 1988 Punchline (KCOP Sunday at...

David Seltzer’s 1988 Punchline (KCOP Sunday at 8 p.m.) takes us into the acrid, hostile world of stand-up comedy in which Tom Hanks is brilliant as a struggling comedian, his very real charm stretched thin over a core of ruthlessness; less convincing is Sally Field as a New Jersey housewife with as much ambition as Hanks.

Four minutes, tops, of some wild merengue dancing is not quite enough to be grateful for in the unfocused, unrealized 1990 comedy My Blue Heaven (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) starring Steve Martin and Rich Moranis.

If Against All Odds (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.), Taylor Hackford’s stylish 1984 remake of the film noir classic “Out of the Past” doesn’t entirely succeed, it’s because its convoluted plot is still a tangle at the finish and because we are on to the central villain at the outset. Keeping it from mattering too much is the sheer intensity of the love triangle created by fading football player Jeff Bridges, bookie-nightclub owner James Woods and enigmatic heiress Rachel Ward. You may remain confused but the getting there is sexy, elegant and shrewdly observed.

William Phelps’ North Shore (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 6 p.m.) is a likable 1987 rites-of-passage teen movie set in a Hawaiian surf mecca starring Matt Adler, Nia Peeples and Gregory Harrison.

The Fly (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.), David Cronenberg’s dazzling, unsettling 1986 reworking of the 1958 low-budget original, is as much a romantic tragedy as a black-humored horror film, and it unfolds with such eerie grandeur that it will leave you stoked with a creepy high hours after it’s over. Jeff Goldblum is outstanding as the scientist who falls victim to a botched experiment.

William Friedkin’s 1985 To Live and Die in L.A. (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) has much of the spirit of his 1971 cop classic “The French Connection” but with the look and feel of Southern California. The police drama is grim, bleak, harrowing--and underrated.

The Stepfather (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is that gory 1987 horror-sleeper in which Terry O’Quinn is genuinely scary as a seemingly loving but actually lethal husband and stepfather.

Space Hunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), 1983, is highly derivative, especially of “The Road Warrior,” an obstacle course in which anti-hero Peter Strauss is off to the unpleasant planet Terra Eleven in search of three apparently kidnaped women.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), Tony Richardson’s landmark 1962 British film from Alan Sillitoe’s story, stars Tom Courtenay as a reform school youth competing in a track meet.