Claudia Weill’s 1991 Face of a Stranger...

Claudia Weill’s 1991 Face of a Stranger (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a superior 1991 TV movie, starring Gena Rowlands as an elegant Seattle matron who strikes up an unexpected friendship with a feisty homeless woman (Tyne Daly).

The suburban wife and mother (Meredith Baxter-Birney) in the 1990 TV movie Burning Bridges (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.) is nearing 40 and is dazed with an obsessive, lusty love for a married man (Derek de Lint). She might as well be wearing the scarlet letter “A� for all the agony she endures in this soaper that equates marriage with adultery. This show is actually anti-feminist, a movie that punishes women for the sake of insecure male viewers.

Whoopi Goldberg, cast as a computer programmer inadvertently caught up in international intrigue, makes the mild 1986 thriller Jumpin’ Jack Flash (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) seem much hipper than it really is.

The 1988 Stealing Home (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), with its convoluted structure, soft jazz score and wistfully confessional air, might pass these days for a “personal� Hollywood film. It’s a weird, glossed-up hybrid, soggy with nostalgia, and it treats the identity crisis of a failed minor league baseball player (Mark Harmon) as if he were a suffering artist, struggling in a world that had no place for baseball. In flashbacks Jodie Foster plays his first love.

Empire of the Ants (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.), features a colony of ants, feeding on atomic waste, mutating into lethal and manipulative creatures capable of making humans obey their orders. It is a scary but ludicrous 1977 sci-fi horror flick that Joan Collins, playing a predatory land developer, most likely leaves off her filmography.

In contrast, the 1972 Frogs (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) is a darkly humorous tale that imaginatively blends Tennessee Williams and ecological horror. Ray Milland stars as a grouchy old Southern patriarch and Sam Elliott, then a newcomer, as an ecologist studying Milland’s polluted waters.

Narrow Margin, the misguided 1990 remake of the 1952 classic which first aired last week, repeats on KTLA Saturday at 8 p.m. Gene Hackman and Anne Archer star.

The Stranger and the Gunfighter (KABC Saturday at 11:30 p.m.) is a 1976 spaghetti-Western with a touch of karate thrown in to make a lively and entertaining action entertainment. Lee Van Cleef’s cowboy teams up with a Kung fu wiz to try to recover a missing fortune.