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Legal Eagles (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is an inept, incoherent and charmless would-be romantic comedy-mystery, made in 1986, that wastes Robert Redford, Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah.

“Married ... With Children’s” Katey Sagal made her TV movie debut in the so-so 1991 She Says She’s Innocent (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.), playing the distraught mother of a daughter accused of murder.

In 1989’s See No Evil, Hear No Evil (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder play a blind man and a deaf man whose newsstand is the scene of a murder.

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The 1980 rambunctious and funny Melvin and Howard (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is also a lyrical and bittersweet piece of Americana, directed by Jonathan Demme from Bo Goldman’s script about Melvin Dummar (Paul Le Mat), that feckless Utah gas station owner who claims he gave a ride to Howard Hughes (Jason Robards), who in turn left him $156 million in the mysterious “Mormon Will.”

The 1990 Narrow Margin (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is an instance of a remake at its most perverse, a reworking of Richard Fleischer’s 1952 film noir classic about an assistant district attorney (Gene Hackman) transporting a murder witness (Anne Archer) on a train.

The provocative but wildly uneven Taps (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) stars Timothy Hutton as a military academy cadet major, so beguiled by the school’s old windbag commander (George C. Scott) that he leads a defense against the imminent razing of the institution.

The 1990 Impulse (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.) is a sex-and-suspense thriller about the divided consciousness of a woman in a man’s world: a smoky-eyed vice-squad cop (Theresa Russell) who becomes fascinated with her own alter ego as a hooker.

With the 1985 Return of the Living Dead (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), writer-director Dan O’Bannon accomplished the seemingly impossible: he reworked the plot of George Romero’s legendary Z-budget shocker “The Night of the Living Dead” and played it mostly for laughs.

Annie (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) was lots of good-natured fun on the stage but in 1982 landed on the screen with a thud, so overblown and so cold that neither the irresistible Aileen Quinn as the comic strip heroine nor Albert Finney’s multidimensional Daddy Warbucks could save it.

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In no time at all, Maggie Smith’s elegant elderly lady has swept her prim nephew (Alec McCowen) off in the grand, rollicking adventure that is George Cukor’s 1972 film of Graham Greene’s Travels With My Aunt (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.).

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