The sprightly 1990 Back to the Future,...

The sprightly 1990 Back to the Future, Part III (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) satisfyingly ties up the various plot strands that were left hanging from “Part II” of the time-travel trilogy. In “III,” director Robert Zemeckis and writer Robert Gale indulge their love of Westerns. Through a series of blissfully nutty schemes, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) travels back to the Old West, circa 1885, to try to rescue Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) before he’s shot in the back.

The 1983 Phar Lap (KCAL Sunday at 11 p.m.), which means “lightning” in Siamese, is the name of a scrawny New Zealand-born racehorse who becomes a champion and an underdog hero to Depression-era Australians. Youngsters most likely will identify with the stalwart stable boy (Tim Burlinson) who becomes closest to the horse.

Blake Edwards’ 1986 A Fine Mess (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), an extended slapstick chase movie about a horse-doping scandal, two hapless hangers-on and two bumblers pursuing them, doesn’t have the flair of Edwards at his best. The film often lacks real character, comic tension and inevitability. Ted Danson and Howie Mandel star.

The 1991 TV movie Christmas on Division Street (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), a fable about the transcendence of love, tells the story of an unconventional friendship between an upper-class youth (Fred Savage) and an elderly homeless man (Hume Cronyn).

Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.), a lousy 1987 macho melodrama, finds “Dukes of Hazzard” stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat as deadly enemies delivering a truck full of presents from California to a tiny Canadian town in desperate straits.

March of the Wooden Soldiers (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is a splendid 1934 version of the Victor Herbert operetta “Babes in Toyland,” with Laurel and Hardy.

A detective story set in Los Angeles in 1943, the 1992 TV movie Lady Against the Odds (NBC Friday at 9 p.m.) proves to be no more than warmed-over Rex Stout, plodding through a series of murders affecting two next-door families basking in Beverly Hills splendor.

In spite of its amazing technical wonders, the 1981 Great Muppet Caper (KTLA Saturday at 8 p.m.) has few laughs, sequences that strain mightily for them and miss, and an unimaginative batch of chores for its visiting stars--adding up to a disappointing follow-up to the 1979 “Muppet Movie.”

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a misfired 1991 TV movie fictionalizing the events surrounding the famous 1897 letter-to-the-editor written by a little girl questioning Santa’s existence.

The Point (KCET Saturday at 8 p.m.), a fine 1971 animated feature for children, tells of a boy who suffers banishment because his head is rounded rather than pointed like everybody else’s.