Writer-director-actor Albert Brooks really hit his stride...

Writer-director-actor Albert Brooks really hit his stride with Lost in America (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.), his effortlessly satirical 1985 portrayal of the wreckage of ‘60s dreams in ‘80s America: He and Julie Hagerty play two yuppies on the road, trying, like Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in “Easy Rider”--and Paul Simon’s “Cathy”--to find America. They meet vastly dissimilar, but chastening, fate.

The Rookie (KABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a minor 1990 Clint Eastwood movie, with Eastwood, as a veteran cop, teaming up with a new partner, rich boy Charlie Sheen, for routine mayhem.

Something Wild (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 p.m.) is one of Jonathan Demme’s best, a 1986 romantic comedy-adventure that shows off Demme’s eye for the dark cloud behind every silver lining. Jeff Daniels plays a nice yuppie lassoed by free-spirited Melanie Griffith, while Ray Liotta supplies unforgettable menace.

In Down and Out in Beverly Hills (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), Paul Mazursky resets his 1986 version of the rescued bum in a typical well-off frazzled couple’s household, which he proceeds to thoroughly disrupt. It’s a bright, high-spirited comedy, voluptuously satiric, with good turns by Nick Nolte as the sexy hobo, and Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfuss.

Beverly Hills Cop (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), the 1984 Eddie Murphy smash hit, is a slick, sleek (and violent) high-style Hollywood entertainment that seduces you in spite of yourself. Murphy plays a sassy, streetwise Detroit cop set down in the lush Hills of Beverly.

With The Hitman (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) it’s too bad this 1991 Chuck Norris picture didn’t concentrate on the good cop long teamed with one (Michael Parks) who has gone bad, instead of on its trite and savage gang warfare plot.

Above the Law (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), the 1988 cop thriller that launched martial arts star Steven Seagal, is something of a standoff: good in excitingly grimy Chicago atmosphere and terse, hard-bitten energy but veering off into action-movie cuckoo land--the paranoid one-against-a-hundred cliches.

KCET’s Saturday night double feature is Atlantic City (at 10 p.m.) and House Calls (at 11:45 p.m.)