In the enthralling, 1984 Oscar-laden Amadeus (KTLA...

In the enthralling, 1984 Oscar-laden Amadeus (KTLA Sunday at 4 p.m.), which Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman adapted from Shaffer’s play, “the genius” is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and “the mediocrity” is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Salieri was the success of the Austrian court until he became a man driven to deadly jealousy by the young, impudent and tragically naive Mozart.

The 1993 Diana: Her True Story (NBC Sunday at 7 p.m.), starring Serena Scott Thomas, is one of many journeys through the valley of the shocking truth of rollicking British royals. Entertaining, if you don’t take it too seriously.

In the 1992 charmer The Man Upstairs (KCBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), Katharine Hepburn stars in a tailor-made role as a formidable spinster who surprises herself when she gives refuge to an escaped convict, played with much warmth by Ryan O’Neal. The first-rate script and direction are by James Prideaux and George Schaefer, respectively.

The British comedy lives, even though in the 1990 A Shock to the System (ABC Sunday at 9:15 p.m. approximately, based on Super Bowl coverage), it lives in suburban New York. The movie has the same charm as the classic Alec Guinness comedies, even though it is too pokily paced. Like those films, it stars a consummate professional at the peak of his comedic flair. As a marketing executive who turns murderous when he’s passed up for promotion, Michael Caine has such a chuckling rapport with the audience that we smile in collusion the first time he speaks.

In Garry Marshall’s 1990 Pretty Woman (NBC Monday at 8:30 p.m.) an Oscar-nominated Julia Roberts plays a gorgeous hooker and Richard Gere is the tycoon who hires her during a stay at the Beverly Wilshire. It works as long as you ask nothing more of it than to be diverted.

The Cutting Edge (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) is such lively crowd-pleaser of sufficient wit, vitality and intelligence that you don’t have to be a teen-ager to enjoy it. This 1992 movie teams Moira Kelly as an imperious Olympic-class figure skater who barely misses winning the gold in 1988 and becomes determined not to let history repeat itself.

In the 1985 The Legend of Billie Jean (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.), Helen Slater and Christian Slater (no relation) become a pint-sized, MTV Generation of Bonnie and Clyde with a few deft strokes. The film could have been a dark shocker.

Like the original, the 1990 Predator 2 (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) has a jungle setting----an urban jungle. Another of those gigantic alien species that Arnold Schwarzenegger took on in the first film pops up in the midst of a shootout between Colombian and Jamaican drug gangs, making quick work of the beasts. Unfortunately, the big guy makes no distinction between good and evil, which spells trouble for cops Danny Glover, Maria Conchita Alonso and Ruben Blades along with federal agent Gary Busey.