In To Dance With the White Dog...

In To Dance With the White Dog (KCBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, weave a bittersweet tale of aging and the pain of letting go, playing a devoted elderly couple, married 57 years when suddenly the husband is left a widower. As warm and appealing as Tandy and Cronyn are, this 1993 TV movie is flawed because of the disproportionate screen time given to the couple’s two daughters (Christine Baranski and Amy Wright), whose clownish demeanor and overplaying throws the fragile tone of the movie off balance.

Bracing and invigorating, City of Hope (KABC Sunday at 11:30 p.m.) was the most ambitious American film of 1991. Writer-director John Sayles interweaves the stories of nearly three dozen characters into a cinematic version of those old-fashioned novels that offer a cross-section of society. And he doesn’t do it to be noble but because he is absolutely (and rightly) convinced that there is human interest here. Vincent Spano stars.

The Cisco Kid (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), featuring that dashing caballero and Robin Hood of the Old West who filled kids’ imaginations for half a century, is back after a 38-year absence. Jimmy Smits, with an easy swagger and light romantic panache, proves a stylish match for the legion of Cisco predecessors. Cheech Marin portrays Cisco’s sidekick and comic foil, Pancho.

There are misfires but also some funny stuff and a refreshing taste of self-mockery in Keenen Ivory Wayans’ I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), 1988 satire of the early ‘70s blaxploitation movies, with their natty, super-masculine heroes, flamboyant pimps and drug czars.

Splash (KABC Saturday at 9 p.m.), a high-spirited mermaid fantasy and romantic comedy, finds Tom Hanks and John Candy drowned in the loveliness of fin-flipping Daryl Hannah. It’s not as good as it seemed in 1984, but director Ron Howard and the actors give it a nice bright bounce--and splash.

The Curse of the Cat People (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.), the 1994 sequel to the 1942 Val Lewton-Jacques Tourneur classic, “Cat People,” is less of a shocker. With Simone Simon and Kent Smith.