With the 1991 Sleeping with the Enemy...

With the 1991 Sleeping with the Enemy (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.), a solid book has been inflated by overproduction and underwriting into thin melodrama with Julia Roberts playing an abused wife who tries to begin her life again. Patrick Bergin plays her menacing husband.

In the 1993 The Beverly Hillbillies (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), director Penelope Spheeris brings equal amounts of sophistication and affection to her smart, fresh spin on the 1962-1971 TV series while honoring the cornball humor of the original. Hillbilly billionaire JedClampett (Jim Varney) heads for the hills of Beverly with the hopes of making a lady out of his tomboy daughter Elly May (Erika Eleniak). Threatening to run off with the entire film is Lily Tomlin as an uptight but randy Miss Hathaway.

The Silence of the Lambs (CBS Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.) is based on Thomas Harris’ harrowing, mesmerizing book concerned an institutionalized psychopath who is used to identify a serial killer. In this fine 1991 adaptation, director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Ted Tally have focused on a duel of wits and wills between Jodie Foster’s young FBI trainee and that paradigm of evil, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). For audiences, the fascination is how much both actors are able to do with their literally or occupationally straitjacketed characters.

Crocodile Dundee (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), one of the most popular movies of the 1980s, stars Paul Hogan in the title role as a resourceful tour guide in the Australian outback who winds up in adventure and romance in New York City.

Although the 1987 Dragnet (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is uneven as a spoof of the classic Jack Webb radio and TV series, Dan Aykroyd is hilarious as Sgt. Joe Friday’s dim, nerdy nephew; his partner is an amusing Tom Hanks.

Victor/Victoria (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is a wise, delicious musical sendup of all the absurdities and hypocrisies surrounding the issue of sexual orientation. It stars Julie Andrews as a singer so down on her luck in Depression-era Paris that she accepts a job as a female impersonator, quickly becoming a star under the tutelage of the late, irrepressible Robert Preston. James Garner is the guy who becomes very confused by his attraction to Andrews, whom he really believes to be a man.