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The 1980 Foxes (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) shows four hip, loose L.A. teens, including the young Jodie Foster, and their dismally hedonistic adventures in a cityscape swirling with smoky lights, rock ‘n’ roll and joyless sex.

In the 1990 Opportunity Knocks (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) Dana Carvey has his first starring role, but few of his “Saturday Night Live” impersonations take hold here, and when he’s not dithering with some funny accent he’s playing an affable con man with a heart of gold--and a romantic lead to boot (a mistake).

In the hilarious and stylish 1988 Jonathan Demme comedy, Married to the Mob (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) Mafia widow Michelle Pfeiffer finds herself on the run, pursued by Dean Stockwell’s lecherous don and aided, more or less, by Matthew Modine’s sweetly square FBI agent.

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His zany, funny 1976 Silent Movie (KCAL Sunday at 9 p.m.) has Mel Brooks playing an old-time movie director who believes that making a silent movie is just the thing to save Sid Caesar’s studio from the giant conglomerate Engulf & Devour.

In the frothy but likable Three Men and a Baby (NBC Tuesday at 8 p.m.), the popular 1987 Americanization of Colline Serreau’s French hit “Three Men and a Cradle,” three swinging bachelors--Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson--cope with an adorable baby left at the door of their splendiferous Manhattan pad.

Evil Under the Sun (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a delightful 1982 rendering of an Agatha Christie yarn set in a tiny luxury hotel in the Adriatic and peopled with raffish American and British visitors caught up in a murder. As Hercule Poirot, Peter Ustinov heads a starry cast.

Buried inside the sugarcoated 1986 movie of Neil Simon’s autobiographical play Brighton Beach Memoirs (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a tender, sharp-eyed reminiscence of Brooklyn adolescence: of family squabbles, brotherly bonds, the crises of raging puberty. Jonathan Silverman is Simon’s alter-ego at age 15.

In the 1992 The Restless Conscience (KCET Wednesday at 9 p.m.) Hava Kohav Beller brakes some ground in her comprehensive survey of the often-overlooked resistance to Hitler and Nazism within Germany itself, but her method is so academic that not until she outlines the various plots to kill Hitler does the film come fully alive.

Despite an overly literal climax, Sidney Lumet has made a brilliant 1977 film of Equus (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), the Peter Shaffer play dealing with the interplay of sex and the need to worship. Peter Firth and Richard Burton star.

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