There have been more harrowing and authentic...

There have been more harrowing and authentic accounts of the white man’s brutal impact upon American Indians than Dances With Wolves (ABC Sunday at 8 p.m., concluding Wednesday at 9 p.m.), but none as effective in reaching such a large audience as Kevin Costner’s prize-winning epic. Costner stars as a disillusioned Civil War veteran whose life takes on fresh meaning when he is accepted by a Sioux tribe, which he discovers is far more civilized than the white soldiers determined to conquer it. This version, the director’s cut, is 50 minutes longer than the theatrical version that won seven Oscars, and has not previously been seen in this country.

In our increasingly fragile and unpredictable world, the 1990 blockbuster Ghost (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) certainly struck a seductive chord: A lover (Patrick Swayze) from the afterlife hovering over his beloved (Demi Moore) to keep her from harm, trying to communicate the love he couldn’t express for her in life. But you have to get past the notion of Swayze as a corporate New York banker, a certain woolly-mindedness in the script and production petrified to the point of stickiness.

Sylvester Stallone, as a daredevil L.A. cop, and Estelle Getty, as his mother from Newark, N.J., have a lot of chemistry but the 1992 Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is just another slick, slow-witted, 100% predictable movie.

In order to let go and really get into Renny Harlin’s 1990 Die Hard 2 (CBS Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) it’s necessary to take one’s willing suspension of disbelief, hit it over the head with a blunt instrument and bury it three miles underground. Once again Bruce Willis’ redoubtable detective John McClane, that resourceful one-man demolition team, has been pressed into saving a large section of the free world.

Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 RoboCop (KTLA Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is ferocious comic-book fare, starring Peter Weller as a slaughtered Detroit cop whose head and heart are mounted in a robot, the ultimate crime-stopper.

KCET’s Saturday-night double feature is a pair of vintage MGM romantic comedies: the 1941 Love Crazy (at 9 p.m.), with William Powell and Myrna Loy, and the 1950 To Please a Lady (at 10:40), with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck.