In the 1994 Blown Away (NBC Sunday...

In the 1994 Blown Away (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), Jeff Bridges plays Jimmy Dove, the star of Boston’s Bomb Squad, who, 20 years earlier when his name was Liam, fled the Irish Republican Army after sabotaging an explosion that would have killed innocent bystanders. Now the mastermind of that thwarted attack, Tommy Lee Jones’ Ryan Gaerity, has broken out of a Northern Ireland prison and set his sights on dismembering Liam/Jimmy--but not before systematically exploding his Bomb Squad buddies, his violinist wife (Suzy Amis) and her daughter.

Addams Family Values (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.), the 1993 sequel to the hugely profitable “Addams Family,” has some explosively funny moments before the tedium sets in. The good cast includes Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as Gomez and Morticia and, as the conniving gold-digger, Joan Cusack.

Grease (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.), based on the Broadway musical fantasy of teen-age life in the ‘50s and filtered through a satirical ‘70s consciousness, stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden, Tab Hunter, and Sid Caesar.

Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed 1971 TV movie Duel (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.) stars Dennis Weaver as a businessman in a rented car inexplicably menaced by a Diesel truck.

The 1992 Batman Returns (NBC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is, for better and worse, the product of director Tim Burton’s morose imagination. His dark, melancholy vision is undeniably something to see, but its effect is oppressive rather than exhilarating and, with the notable exception of Michelle Pfeiffer’s splendid work as Catwoman, it strangles almost all of the enjoyment out of this movie without half-trying. A proverbial feast for the eyes that leaves you hungry for something more.

North by Northwest (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.): The United Nations murder, the erotic upper berth, the sinister crop duster (“dusting crops where there ain’t no crops”), the Mt. Rushmore cliffhanger--it’s all in Alfred Hitchcock’s last (1959) great comic thriller, as near to perfection as a movie can get.