Peter Hyam’s 1986 Running Scared (KTLA Sunday...

Peter Hyam’s 1986 Running Scared (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) stars Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines as undercover Chicago cops dreaming of opening a bar in Key West but waylaid by plenty of exploits in the Windy City. The stars enliven the film with their exceptional rapport.

Although the 1991 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (CBS Sunday at 8 p.m.) doesn’t compare with “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938), starring Errol Flynn, or with Douglas Fairbanks’ 1922 silent “Robin Hood,” it is an amiable mishmash, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring a likable but all-too-American Kevin Costner (who’s upstaged by Alan Rickman’s deliciously evil Sheriff of Nottingham). Co-starring Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio as Maid Marian.

The impact of the Vietnam War on working-class American lives is the great subject of Michael Cimino’s 1978 multi-Oscar winner The Deer Hunter (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.). Cimino and his writers do it justice, centering on several young men (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage and John Cazale) from a bleak Pennsylvania steel town. What lingers in the memory is not so much the brutal experiences the friends endure in Vietnam but the film’s depiction of how blue-collar people struggle to square away their love of country with its role in Southeast Asia.

Arachnophobia (ABC Monday at 8:30 p.m.), Frank Marshall’s 1990 primal scream of a comedy, manages to be genuinely frightening but with an affectionate tip of the hat to ‘50s horror pictures. Jeff Daniels stars as a San Francisco doctor who moves his family into a pleasant old house--infested with deadly spiders--in an idyllic central California town. With Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman and Julian Sands.

The Seven Percent Solution (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) is a genuinely charming and beautifully staged period piece, a fictional conjecture about what the most famous of all fictional detectives was really like, and why. This Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) has been ensnared by cocaine and reduced to a twitching, hallucinating wreck of a man. Robert Duvall is his Watson who leads Holmes to Vienna to Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin)--and adventure.

Kind Hearts and Coronets (KCET Saturday at 11 p.m.) is the classic 1949 British comedy in which Alec Guinness plays all eight members of a titled family that’s being systematically rubbed out.