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Harry and the Hendersons (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.), a misfired 1987 comic-fantasy about a Seattle family taking home an injured Bigfoot, emulates the Steven Spielberg look and feel, but director William Dear hasn’t captured his writer-producer’s fairy-tale acumen. John Lithgow and Melinda Dillon star.

The Seventh Sign (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.), a 1988 thriller of the supernatural, envisions a chic apocalypse that culminates in the pregnancy of a Venice Beach woman (Demi Moore), a race to prevent an execution, and finally, the Second Coming of Christ.

In the 1985 The Legend of Billie Jean (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), Helen Slater and Christian Slater become a pint-sized, MTV-generation version of Bonnie and Clyde with a few deft strokes. However, it could have been a dark, horrific shocker.

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A strong 1980 prison drama, Brubaker (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a superior and shocking expose in which the good guy, Tom Murphy (Robert Redford), plays a feisty and uncompromising Arkansas prison reformer.

The 1985 Invasion U.S.A. (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a brutal, sadistic affair in which director Joseph Zito and co-writer and star Chuck Norris offer a scenario for a terrorist assault on America. A motley band of Russians and Latinos visit Miami, machine-gunning a boatload of Cuban refugees and killing a cocaine czar.

The sudsy 1988 TV-movie Double Standard (KCBS Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.) tippy-toes into the illusory world of bigamy. Robert Foxworth stars.

Firewalker (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a breezy, big-scale 1986 comedy-adventure that takes soldiers of fortune Chuck Norris and Louis Gossett Jr. on a pursuit for Aztec treasure.

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (KCBS Thursday at 8:30 p.m.) is a lively Italian-made 1975 gangster comedy starring the late Lee Van Cleef and Tony Lo Bianco as his worshipful sidekick.

Blind Fury (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is a cornball 1989 action-comedy about an American soldier (Rutger Hauer) in Vietnam who, blinded in battle, is nursed back to health by villagers and schooled in the art of swordsmanship. Derived from the Japanese “Zatoichi” series.

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When Harry Met Sally ... (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) casts a hopeful and persuasive eye on modern romance and marriage. The question in this 1989 hit, directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron, becomes whether Sally (Meg Ryan) and Harry (Billy Crystal), over an 11-year friendship, can fall in love.

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