The blue wall of silence--otherwise known as...

The blue wall of silence--otherwise known as a police department’s code of silence--costs a female officer her job and very nearly her life in the provocative 1994 TV movie One of Her Own (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.). A spirited, enthusiastic rookie cop (Lori Loughlin) is reduced to emotional paralysis after she is raped in her own home by a veteran officer (the smirky Greg Evigan) with whom she has been casual buddies on a very macho, small-town police force.

Like many movie makers preoccupied with heroism, John Milius seems to have both a little boy and a wild tiger clawing each other within his breast. And sometimes they run after each other with such savage persistence that one or both are churned into butter. That’s what happened with his 1989 Farewell to the King (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), which has the musculature it needs, even whispers of the soul, but not the raw, seething guts. It’s about a rebellious American G.I. (Nick Nolte) in World War II, deserting, descending into the jungle, becoming an emperor of the native headhunters, the Dayaks, and then suffering betrayal by the British after his tribe is recruited for jungle warfare against the Japanese.

Milius’ 1991 Vietnam saga Flight of the Intruder (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a sub-par film in which American bomber and fighter pilots brave the odds and strut their codes of honor. It’s about U.S. Navy Lt. Jake (Cool Hand) Grafton (Brad Johnson), who pilots an A-6 Intruder, a low-altitude bomber, over enemy airspace in North Vietnam. He longs for a real mission and, after his bombardier buddy is killed, he becomes fixated on an unauthorized maneuver--a bombing raid on a missile depot in downtown Hanoi.

Harvard and the homeless--what a concept! With Honors (NBC Saturday at 9 p.m.), scripted by playwright William Mastrosimone, is preordained from the first contrivance. This 1994 journey-to-wisdom gives us Monty (Brendan Fraser), an industrious political science student who reluctantly befriends Simon (Joe Pesci), a ragamuffin misfit who lives in the boiler room of Harvard’s Widener Library. This is a life-lesson movie where most of the lessons run one-way. Simon’s got all the answers. Monty at first doesn’t even know the questions. By the end he learns to shed his snobbishness and see Simon as a person, not a thing.