Total Recall (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.),...

Total Recall (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), the spectacular 1990 futuristic hit, asks whether Arnold Schwarzenegger is a malcontent construction worker obsessed with dreams of Mars and sleazy brunettes or a turncoat secret agent, his memory erased by the all-powerful intergalactic “Agency.”

Twins (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), however, is an overblown self-destructing 1988 comedy-thriller which, wastes Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as fraternal twins separated at birth.

A much better bet is the 1990 Death Warrant (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m., repeats Thursday at 8), in which martial-arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a cop who goes undercover in a prison to investigate a series of mysterious murders.

Born in East L.A (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.), Cheech Marin’s exuberant but under-appreciated (and undersold) 1987 comedy is at once satirical and Chaplinesque. Marin casts himself as a third-generation Mexican-American mistakenly deported as an illegal alien.

In Trading Places (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.), John Landis’ hilarious 1983 variation on “The Prince and the Pauper,” Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy decide if street-wise con man Eddie Murphy can run their Philadelphia commodities exchange as well as insufferable WASP Dan Aykroyd has. With Jamie Lee Curtis.

Arnold Schwarzenegger manages not to take himself too seriously, but that’s about the only redeeming quality of the 1986 Raw Deal (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), in which Schwarzenegger plays the sheriff in rural North Carolina, recruited by FBI veteran Darren McGavin to infiltrate Chicago Mafia lord Sam Wanamaker’s inner circle.

John Hughes’ 1986 Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) offers a tantalizing fantasy for adults as well as kids: What if you could fool your parents and teachers (or your boss) into thinking you were sick, earning yourself a 24-hour free ride from the boredom and responsibilities of real life? Unfortunately, Matthew Broderick, in the title role, is so smug and invincible that he doesn’t give us any chance to root for him.

James Brooks’ Oscar-laden 1983 Terms of Endearment (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is one of the key films of the ‘80s, and it brought Shirley MacLaine an Academy Award as a brittle, middle-aged woman coming to grips with her spirited daughter (Debra Winger) and an unexpected romance with her next-door neighbor, a womanizing ex-astronaut (Jack Nicholson, who also won an Oscar).

In the 1986 Tampopo (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) Juzo Itami has fun with movie genres as a Clint Eastwood-like trucker (Tsutomu Yamazaki) blows into a grungy Tokyo noodle shop.