Bruce Beresford’s 1985 King David (KCOP Sunday...

Bruce Beresford’s 1985 King David (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.), with Richard Gere in the title role, starts out as a well-told Biblical tale only to falter in the second half.

The Journey of Natty Gann (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) is an affecting 1985 Disney picture about a girl (Meredith Salenger) who crosses the country during the depths of the Depression with a wolf for a traveling companion.

Spectacle all but overwhelms Steven Spielberg’s star-laden 1991 Hook (ABC Sunday at 8 p.m.), nominally a sequel to J.M. Barrie’s “Peter Pan” but really a modern reworking of the 1904 play. Here, Robin Williams plays a corporate raider who must regain his true self--Pan--if he’s to save his children; Dustin Hoffman has the villainous title role and Julia Roberts is Tinkerbell.

John Hughes’ sometimes funny, sometimes tasteless 1989 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) offers a hideous vision of a suburban Christmas gone totally amok. The movie is much like a Norman Rockwell illustration with a punk-rock beat and spiders nibbling through the frame. As in previous “Vacations,” Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo head the Griswold household.

This Miracle on 34th Street (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is the enchanting 1947 original in which Edmund Gwenn plays a department store Santa who believes he is the genuine article. With little Natalie Wood and Maureen O’Hara and John Payne as her parents.

White Christmas (KTLA Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.) is an elaborate 1954 VistaVision reworking of the much-better 1942 “Holiday Inn,” in which Bing Crosby introduced “White Christmas.” Crosby returns, as do Irving Berlin’s songs, and he’s joined by Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. The plot has to do with Army buddies Crosby and Kaye jazzing up ex-officer Dean Jagger’s winter resort.

With the 1992 cable remake of Christmas in Connecticut (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), writer Janet Brownell has embellished as well as updated the 1945 comedy in which non-cooking cooking columnist Barbara Stanwyck is maneuvered by her boss into preparing a holiday dinner for a soldier. Occasionally, Brownell goes over the top, but she and debuting director Arnold Schwarzenegger effectively suggest how far more complex our lives have become in the four decades since the original film. Dyan Cannon plays the star of America’s favorite TV cooking show while her assistant (Kelly Cinnante) does all the real work off camera. With Kris Kristofferson and Tony Curtis.

The 1989 Romero (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) has the good fortune to have the late Raul Julia in the title role of the martyred Salvadoran archbishop, but his solid portrayal (one of the actor’s personal favorites) cannot redeem a trite film that in too many crucial ways goes wrong.