Lethal Weapon 2 (CBS Sunday at 9...

Lethal Weapon 2 (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) again has Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a cop team, but this 1989 sequel is outrageously overscaled and has the brain-rattling pace of a speed freak going the wrong way on a freeway. This time, Gibson and Glover go after a drug kingpin operating under diplomatic immunity.

KTLA presents four 8 p.m. airings of Clint Eastwood movies, starting Monday with Play Misty for Me, which marked Eastwood’s assured 1971 directorial debut. Eastwood stars as a Monterey Bay deejay stalked by a deranged fan (a bravura turn by Jessica Walters).

While this film shows the lean, taut influence of director Don Siegel (who appears briefly), Eastwood’s surreal 1973 Western High Plains Drifter (Tuesday, again Saturday at 7 p.m.) echoes Eastwood’s other mentor, Sergio Leone, who directed him to stardom in a series of ‘60s spaghetti Westerns. Indeed, Eastwood once again becomes Leone’s “The Stranger,” as the steely, monosyllabic sharpshooter of “Drifter.” His mission is to face down three gunmen on their way to wipe out a frontier town. This stylized allegory, chillingly paranoid,atmospheric and filled with sardonic humor, is as ambiguous as it is violent--and much like a samurai movie.

Directed by John Sturges and written by Elmore Leonard, Joe Kidd (Wednesday) is a solidly crafted 1972 Western that forthrightly depicts injustices to Mexican Americans. Robert Duvall and John Saxon co-star with Eastwood, who is hired by land owner Duvall to track down some Mexican Americans.

Don Siegel’s wry, witty Coogan’s Bluff (Thursday), the first of the five Siegel-Eastwood collaborations, turns Southwestern lawman Eastwood loose on Manhattan’s mean streets.

Omen IV: The Awakening (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.), a 1991 TV movie, extends the legacy of Damien, the Son of Satan, with decidedly diminishing returns.

Crocodile Dundee II (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is almost as much fun the second time around. As an adventure, this 1988 release is nothing special, yet it again shows to advantage the tremendously likable Paul Hogan, who this time out must rescue his journalist girlfriend (again Linda Kozlowski) from a Colombian drug kingpin.

John Ford’s dark-hued 1947 The Fugitive (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) finds a revolutionary priest coming into conflict with the man who once extended him hospitality. Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio and Pedro Armendariz star; Gabriel Figueroa was the film’s great cameraman.