Peter Weir’s 1986 The Mosquito Coast (KCOP...

Peter Weir’s 1986 The Mosquito Coast (KCOP Sunday 1 p.m.), adapted by Paul Schrader from Paul Theroux’s novel, is a lot closer to his Australian work than “Witness.” It has a sense of the of the inexplicable, dangerous landscapes and mystical depths. Harrison Ford goes magnetically over the top as anti-hero Allie, a survivalist inventor at war with modern society, who makes ice from fire and sets up a jungle utopia that fails. Allie is a modern Leatherstocking, but the fact that he brings his family along makes his story a tragicomedy. With Helen Mirren and Tiver Phoenix.

The stylish and suspenseful 1987 Predator (Fox Monday at 8 p.m.) finds Arnold Schwarzenegger heading a military rescue unit in the jungle of a nameless Latin American country and coming up against an evil alien.

The undeniable fun in Class Action (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) comes from watching lawyers Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio tangle, as a strained father and daughter who find themselves on opposite sides of a class-action suit. The courtroom conclusion may surprise no one, but director Michael Apted and his fellow artists have done something special in drawing Hackman’s and wife Joanna Merlin’s characters--he’s shown how political convictions carry through to every detail of daily living.

Revenge on the Highway (NBC Friday at 9 p.m.) is a hard-nosed road picture, full of diesel rigs, renegade truckers and a father (Stacy Keach) determined to avenge the death of his son. The story is based on the ordeal of California diesel driver Claude Sams, who died from cancer as this 1992 TV movie was being completed.

My Stepmother Is an Alien (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) is a wild and wacky 1988 romantic comedy, rowdy and brash yet surprisingly tender. Dan Aykroyd is a workaholic scientist who inadvertently creates a gravity drain on another planet, whose authorities dispatch none other than Kim Basinger, via flying saucer, to get their planet recharged within 24 hours.

KCET’s Saturday night double feature: Raintree County (at 9 p.m.) and Written on the Wind (at 11 p.m.). The second is high melodrama, Douglas Sirk--style, starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack and an Oscar-winning Dorothy Malone.