Three expert actors--slickster James Woods, fighting machine...

Three expert actors--slickster James Woods, fighting machine Lou Gossett Jr. and fat cat-heavy Bruce Dern--don’t fumble the ball in the 1992 Diggstown (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), a right-cross and double-cross boxing comedy. Director Michael Ritchie and company give it a sometimes slapdash feel--there are curious holes, skips and loose ends throughout--but the dialogue snaps, and there are rousing moments in the climax.

Men at Work (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is an amiable 1990 comedy about two trash collectors (Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez) whose daily routine goes awry when they find the body of a city councilman in a load of trash. Written and directed by Estevez.

Last in George Miller’s “Mad Max” trilogy, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) takes the whole post-Apocalypse thriller concept far past “The Road Warrior” into a future where everything is breaking down, fuel is almost gone and mankind is resorting to more and more primitive means. Not as effective as its predecessors, perhaps because of a pretentious subplot involving feral children or the presence of a second director (George Ogilvie)--but the chase scenes, the weird desert settings and the swaggering sexuality of both Mel Gibson and Tina Turner connect anyway.

Sarafina! (KTLA Saturday at 11:30 p.m.), Mbongeni Ngema’s exuberant South African musical, set during the 1976 Soweto student riots, gains such raw immediacy in its transfer to film that it’s almost a different work. Leleti Khumalo’s winning lead performance is there, the infectious mbaqanga songs, the vibrant dances, but so are strong new cast members Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba, John Kali and Ngema himself and a vivid new visualization of Soweto, a city gripped by volcanic convulsions.