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The 1990 Three Men and a Little Lady (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) drags along memories of the 1987 hit “Three Men and a Baby,” but no one figures out anything amusing for Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson to do. This time out the guys are worrying that the mother (Nancy Travis) of the baby she initially abandoned will marry a snobbish Englishman (Christopher Cazenove) who doesn’t like children.

Predator 2 (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is a lively but derivative 1990 sequel to the 1987 hit original. This time the jungle is urban--L.A. in 1997--rather than strife-torn Central America. Arnold Schwarzenegger took on the gigantic alien the first time around, now it’s Danny Glover’s turn.

The 1991 Point Break (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is a beautiful but dumb 1991 thriller starring Keanu Reeves as an ex-Ohio State Rose Bowl quarterback turned FBI agent, who goes underground to infiltrate the surfer subculture.

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Amy Heckerling’s Look Who’s Talking (KABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a comedy about unwed motherhood and potential step-fatherhood, with Kirstie Alley and John Travolta, tapped an unexpected box-office vein in 1989. It’s a sweet, but unexceptional entertainment, whose major gimmick-Bruce Willis as a wisecracking baby voice-is milked endlessly.

Whoopi Goldberg is all sass and flash as an undercover cop in Fatal Beauty (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a rickety, ultra-bloody star vehicle that allows Goldberg to strut her stuff and also socks over a strong anti-drug message. Whoopi is fun, but the 1987 film self-destructs, succumbing to hypocrisy in trying to preach against drugs while exploiting violence to the hilt.

Arnold Schwarzenegger manages not to take himself too seriously, but that’s about the only redeeming virtue of the ultra-violent, ultra-complicated 1986 Raw Deal (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.). He plays a rural North Carolina sheriff who is able to infiltrate the Mafia in Chicago.

Practically the only guilt-free way to laugh about ill-fated plane flights is to watch the 1980 parody Airplane! (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.). Robert Hays plays a pilot afraid to fly but who chases his stewardess ex-girlfriend (Julie Haggerty) on a flight that appears doomed when the crew is food-poisoned. Hilarity ensues.

KCET’s Saturday night double feature offers two strong historical dramas concerning miscarriages of justice: the Australian Breaker Morant (at 9 p.m.) and The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (at 11 p.m.)

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