In terms of simle, flat-out fright, Steven...

In terms of simle, flat-out fright, Steven Spielberg’s 1982 Poltergeist (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) gives full value. However, it’s a case of a credibility-defying story weighed down by lavish special effects. Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams are a likable couple who move into a nice tract house with their kids, only to be confronted with supernatural terrors.

On stage Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias (CBS Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) was a highly effective play about the lives of several women who are all customers of a small-town Louisiana beauty parlor. But when it reached the screen in 1989 it was crushed by too many stars, several of whom were miscast; however, it did manage to launch Julia Roberts’ career as the fragile daughter of Sally Field.

So many movies portray business sharks as unregenerate killjoys that the freshest aspect of the 1991 Other People’s Money (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is the zest with which Danny DeVito plays a Wall Street liquidator. DeVito’s character zeros in on a feisty Gregory Peck’s Rhode Island-based New England Wire & Cable Co. Unfortunately, this shark is too much of the ‘80s to work in the recession-ravaged ‘90s.

Director Penelope Spheeris’ satirical edge helped turn the 1992 Wayne’s World (NBC Tuesday at 8 p.m.), an extended “Saturday Night Live” skit, into a 1992 hit. As a couple of high school dudes who broadcast a public-access cable show from an Aurora, Ill., basement recreation room, Mike Myers and Dana Carvey are hilarious.

Internal Affairs (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.) has an intriguing but unfortunately misfired premise: a young cop (Andy Garcia) becomes obsessed with the crooked officer (Richard Gere) he’s intent on nailing.

The Heist (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), a standard-issue 1989 cable movie in which ex-con Pierce Brosnan exacts revenge from a double-crossing ex-partner.

The mystery is just mediocre in Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice (NBC Friday at 9 p.m.), which first aired last May. Louis Gossett Jr. proves a commanding reason to keep watching, cast as a hole-in-the-wall restaurateur who does some private investigating on the side. James Coburn plays a high-powered attorney who wants Gossett’s Alexander to meet an unjustly accused client.

Roland Joffes 1986 The Mission (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a ponderous, pretentious allegory about an 18th-Century Jesuit mission in the Brazilian jungle, menaced by greed and politics. Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons star.

Teen Wolf (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.), a monstrously unfunny 1985 comedy of modern-day lycanthropy, stars Michael J. Fox.