Captain Ron (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.)...

Captain Ron (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) A 1992 seagoing comic fable that, like Captain Ron’s vessel, the Wanderer, keeps springing leaks, blowing gaskets, falling apart and struggling to reach one phony port after another. The movie is about a beleaguered Chicago corporate clone (Martin Short) who inherits a yacht and decides to take his family on a pleasure cruise from the Caribbean to Florida, dreaming of calypso seas and reggae adventure. The skipper he hires, Captain Ron (Kurt Russell), is a life-force tramp, like Nick Nolte in “Down and Out in Beverly Hills,” the raffish rascal who’ll get the party rolling.

The Chase (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a 1994 no-brainer with the emphasis on the no. Charlie Sheen plays a wrongfully convicted bank robber running away from prison who inadvertently kidnaps an heiress (Kristy Swanson) and spends most of the movie speeding away from the police in her bright-red BMW. The writer-director, Adam Rifkin, attempts to work some deep-think about tabloid media manipulation into this rollicking piece of movie road kill, but the film seems to be part of what it is attacking. Sheen and Swanson go in for a lot of high-octane mugging but Josh Mostel, as one of the cops in pursuit, is fun, and there’s a good bit involving cadavers.

A 1990 revisionist western, with Australian aborigines replacing Native Americans, Quigley Down Under (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 5 p.m.) has the panoramic scope of a big-screen epic but the soul of a TV movie. It has an interesting premise: A sharpshooter from Wyoming (Tom Selleck) hires himself out to a slimy cattle baron (reliable scene-stealer Alan Rickman) in Western Australia only to discover his job entails picking off aborigines.

Miami Blues (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), George Armitage’s violent, dippy joy ride, derived from Charles Willeford’s smart, nasty 1984 crime novel, stars Alec Baldwin as a jailbird posing as a lawman in sun-drenched modern Miami. Fred Ward plays the cop whose credentials Baldwin purloins. It’s made with great finesse, but the results are slightly queasy. Also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh.