My Girl (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.)...

My Girl (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a 1991 kid weepie starring spunky moppet Anna Chlumsky and a kinder, gentler Macaulay Culkin. It’s supposed to portray the grief and helplessness of a child’s experience at the loss of a loved one, but it’s too twinkly and conventional to hit home. Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis provide adult support.

With Taking Care of Business (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) it’s high-concept time again. Chicago ad executive and neat-freak Charles Grodin loses his Filofax at Los Angeles International Airport; escaped con Jim Belushi picks it up and assumes his identity. It’s a mix-and-match “Trading Places,” a cross-town “Midnight Express” with an “Odd Couple” who never meet. And, under Arthur Hiller’s direction, it’s a singularly laughless comedy, released in 1991.

Michelle Pfeiffer, Jack Nicholson and the passionate animal inside him, hellbent on getting out. The 1994 Wolf (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.) sounds so simple, so effective and so foolproof. Directed by Mike Nichols and written by novelist Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick (with an uncredited assist from Elaine May), “Wolf’s” problem, as those very different sensibilities indicate, is that it can’t seem to decide what kind of a movie it wants to be. At varying times it is a satirical look at New York publishing, a star vehicle, a meditation on the nature of disease and immortality and even, in its spare time, a standard-issue werewolf horror thriller.

Extraordinarily violent, top-heavy with its huge budget and special effects, Total Recall (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), the large-scale 1990 adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “I Can Remember It for You Wholesale”--about a dull Earthling who freaks out after a memory transplant and becomes/imagines he is a secret agent involved in Martian intrigue--is a bit schizoid itself. Part of it is a standard-issue Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle; part, a ribald comedy of psychosis. Which part you enjoy, or dislike, is a matter of temperament.

Night of the Living Dead (KCET Friday at 10:30 p.m.) is George Romero’s Z-budget 1968 horror classic about a lot of radiation-drenched zombie cannibal corpses plaguing the countryside around Pittsburgh, and their bickering, terrorized victims, pinned down in an isolated farmhouse. This is the ultimate “They’re coming to get you” movie, and if you think it can’t possibly scare you, you’re probably wrong.