If fires had agents, not to mention...

If fires had agents, not to mention publicists, the seven (or is it eight?) blazes that energize the 1991 Backdraft (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.) would have their names up in lights. The film’s nominal stars, Kurt Russell and William Baldwin as the battling firefighting brothers, the McCaffreys, would end up in small print. Nothing anyone does in this conventional smoke opera can hold a candle to conflagrations so eye-popping they make “The Towering Inferno” look like leftovers from “The Little Match Girl.” The cast is rounded out with Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn and Rebecca De Mornay. Directed by Ron Howard.

In the 1989 Troop Beverly Hills (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) Shelley Long plays the Beverly Hills ditz as a secular saint, who has agreed to lead a notorious group of failed scouts to which her daughter belongs.

Steve Kloves’s 1989 The Fabulous Baker Boys (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.), a clear-eyed look at an unpromising end of show biz, is as salty and sexy and unhousebroken a movie as you could hope to find. As Frank Baker, Beau Bridges confides to us that he and his brother Jack (Jeff Bridges) have been playing twin pianos across from each other for 15 years at places like Tiki-Bob’s and the Starfire Lounge. They have an act that needs resuscitation. Enter Susie Diamond (Michelle Pfeiffer), one of 37 women who audition to be the singer that livens up their show.

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), Paul Mazursky’s inspired reworking of the old French play filmed by Jean Renoir as “Boudu Saved From Drowning” (1932), drops Nick Nolte’s gloriously iconoclastic vagabond into the nouveau riche households of businessman Richard Dreyfuss and his wife Bette Midler, the Beverly Hills housewife supreme.

The 1986 Ruthless People (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.), another top comedy of the ‘80s, is that delicious satire in which the lives of a nouveau riche Beverly Hills couple (Bette Midler, Danny De Vito) are turned upside down when a desperate young couple (Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater) kidnap Midler only to discover De Vito doesn’t want her back at any price.

The Perfect Weapon (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is a 1991 martial-arts action-thriller as efficient and mechanical as its star, Jeff Speakman, who is stoic in the extreme as he avenges the murder of his surrogate father (Mako).