Who’s Harry Crumb? (KTLA Sunday at 6...
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Who’s Harry Crumb? (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) He’s John Candy as the klutziest detective since Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau. In this pleasantly silly 1989 private-eye spoof, Crumb is a grand poseur, shamelessly self-important, slow on the uptake yet good of heart and not the complete fool he so often seems.
The 1986 Amazing Stories: The Movie (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) and its 1987 sequel are compilations of the Steven Spielberg half-hour anthology series launched in 1985. Kevin Costner and Christopher Lloyd are featured in the first; Danny De Vito and John Lithgow in the second (Tuesday at 8 p.m.).
Out on a Limb (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is a 1992 numb-skull comedy that wastes both Jeffrey Jones, in a dual role as the mayor of a small logging town and his revenge-consumed brother, and Matthew Broderick as the mayor’s financial hot-shot stepson.
La Bamba (KCOP Tuesday at 8 p.m.), Luis Valdez’s 1987 film biography of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roller Ritchie Valens is as infectious as its music, an irresistible saga of how a teen-age Mexican-American (Lou Diamond Phillips) made it from a migrant farm worker background to three hit records at the age of 17.
Duel (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is the tense 1971 Steven Spielberg movie with Dennis Weaver as a businessman in a rented car inexplicably menaced by a Diesel truck.
Timestalkers (KCBS Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.), a venturous 1987 TV movie, is a time-travel adventure-romance starring William Devane and Lauren Hutton.
An often murderously funny 1988 chase comedy, Midnight Run (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) stars Robert De Niro as a hard-case bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as soft-shelled embezzler.
The dreadful 1986 comedy Armed and Dangerous (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) stars John Candy and Eugene Levy as a pair of goofy, sex-crazed misfits adrift in Los Angeles.
Stripes (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.), a raucous, amiable 1981 send-up of today’s U.S. Army, stars Bill Murray as an out-of-shape and 30-plus former taxi driver with nothing better to do than to sign up with Uncle Sam.
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