Lemmon and Caine Share Spotlight With ‘Pocahontas’

Weekend movie fare includes new films starring Oscar winners Jack Lemmon and Michael Caine and the network TV premiere of a popular Disney animated musical.

Lemmon is teamed with Sarah Paulson and Betty Garrett in the sentimental drama “The Long Way Home,” Sunday at 9 p.m. on Channel 2. He plays a lonely widower whose life changes when he takes a cross-country journey with a free-spirited young woman.

Caine returns as secret agent Harry Palmer, whom he introduced 33 years ago in “The Ipcress File,” in the Movie Channel thriller “Midnight in St. Petersburg,” Saturday at 9 p.m. Jason Connery also stars.

The popular 1995 Disney animated musical “Pocahontas” makes its network debut on ABC’s “The Wonderful World of Disney,” Sunday at 7 p.m. on Channel 7.

Other first-run movies include “Virtual Obsession,” a thriller on ABC at 8 tonight on Channel 7, with Peter Gallagher, Mimi Rogers and Bridgette Wilson; the family drama “The Sweetest Gift,” with Helen Shaver and Diahann Carroll ,Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on Showtime; a satire called “The Pentagon Wars,” Saturday at 8 p.m. on HBO, starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes; and “Glory & Honor,” at 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Sunday on TNT, in which Delroy Lindo and Henry Czerny play explorers at the North Pole.

Today

The NBC comedy series “Just Shoot Me” moves from Tuesdays to the cushy 8:30 p.m. time slot after “Friends.” The sitcom replaces the canceled “Union Square.”

Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford guest on CBS’ “Diagnosis Murder,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 2, as popular talk-show hosts, one of whom accidentally kills the other.

PBS’ “Mystery!” presents “The Ice House,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 28, a thriller about the discovery of a dead body found on a British estate.

Friday

Turner Classic Movies presents a 24-hour marathon of films starring Elizabeth Taylor, in honor of her 66th birthday, beginning at 3 a.m. with “National Velvet.” Other films include “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” “Butterfield 8” and “Suddenly, Last Summer.”

Patti LaBelle, Erykah Badu and Heavy D host the 12th annual “Soul Train Music Awards,” at 8 p.m. on Channel 5.

Everything old is new again as CBS premieres its updated version of the venerable “Candid Camera,” at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 2. Peter Funt and Suzanne Somers host.

Tony Award winner Gregory Hines returns to his dancing roots as his CBS series presents an episode in which Hines and the cast tap their way through a series of dreams, at 9 p.m. on Channel 2.

Leeza Gibbons and Drake Hogestyn host NBC’s “The 14th Annual Soap Opera Awards,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 4. Winners are chosen by the readers of Soap Opera Digest.

Saturday

CBS brings back “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” after a two-month hiatus at 8 p.m. on Channel 2.

Disney launches its new series, “Bug Juice,” at 8:30 p.m. The show deals with the actual experiences of kids, ages 12-15, at summer camp.

PBS kicks off its first night of pledge drive with “Riverdance Live From New York City,” at 8 p.m. on Channel 28.

John Walsh hosts an hourlong retrospective of Fox’s “America’s Most Wanted,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 11.

Sunday

TBS’ “The Hidden Zoo,” at 6 p.m., looks at the vets who work at Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo.

Bryant Gumbel hosts “The Young Kennedys,” at 6 p.m. on the Learning Channel.

ABC presents the two-hour special “Christopher Reeve: A Celebration of Hope,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 7. Mary Chapin Carpenter, Glenn Close, Ted Danson, Tom Hanks, Christine Lahti and Paul McCartney are among the celebrities who pay tribute to the actor and the cause he champions--spinal cord injury paralysis. Robert Stack hosts “City of Hope’s American Hero Awards,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 9. The special pays tribute to some of the country’s true heroes.

PBS premieres “Michael Crawford in Concert,” at 9 p.m. on Channel 28. The Tony Award-winning star of “The Phantom of the Opera” performs in a concert taped at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center.