Robert Townsend wrote, directed and starred in...

Robert Townsend wrote, directed and starred in The Meteor Man (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a 1993 inner-city fantasy about a schoolteacher who is hit by a meteor and acquires superpowers. It’s a well-meaning yet self-righteous movie. Townsend seems to believe in the recuperative power of neighborhoods to band together to defeat the gangs, but he also casts himself as savior.

Underneath all the trendy Generation X trappings, the 1994 Reality Bites (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.) is an old-fashioned romantic comedy, about a TV production assistant (Winona Ryder) being wooed by a strait-laced executive (Ben Stiller) and a carefree musician (Ethan Hawke). Charming, lightweight entertainment geared to the late teens and twentysomething crowd.

Striking Distance (FOX Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a diverting, fast-moving, action-filled 1993 mystery thriller that zips past contrivances and implausibilities to provide a solid role for Bruce Willis as a mightily beleaguered and principled Pittsburgh cop.

The opening of Memphis Belle (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is pure old-fashioned movie stuff, but once this 1990 saga of one of the gallant B-17s that flew daylight missions over Nazi-occupied Germany gets into the air, it’s an unstoppable, low-key portrait of true American grit under almost unbelievable conditions.

One of producer Hal Wallis’s later films, the 1969 Anne of the Thousand Days (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is a handsome, entertaining historical drama teaming Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Genevieve Bujold as the ill-fated Anne Boleyn.