Plunking citified types Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern...

Plunking citified types Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern and Bruno Kirby onto the range may not be the freshest of gambits, but it’s a funny one all the same in the uneven but hugely popular 1991 City Slickers (ABC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.). Midlife crises confront these longtime buddies on their two-week vacation from unrewarding jobs and family hassles. On the cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado, black-garbed trail boss Jack Palance, in an Oscar-winning performance, gives even the cattle the willies.

There’s a lethal lack of humor in HBO’s mostly dull, lumbering 1993 remake of the 1958 sci-fi movie Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.). Daryl Hannah stars as a rich, suppressed, bullied, passive homemaker who is turned into a tough, marauding giant by a spaceship from another galaxy. This attempt at an “Attack of the 50 Ft. Feminist” works as neither spoof nor a message about female empowerment. Big woman, big flop.

Days of Thunder (CBS Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a flat 1990 retooling of “Top Gun” as a race-car saga, starring Tom Cruise as an enigmatic Californian with a bummer of a past and a burning need to prove himself. The best part is the 20 minutes of footage on the NASCAR racing circuit.

Sidney Lumet’s zesty 1982 Deathtrap (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.) has a plot that’s absolutely not mentionable without spoiling the fun. The cast is splendid: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth and Henry Jones; the setting is a wonderfully elegant converted windmill country house. Skillfully adapted from the Ira Levin play by Jay Presson Allen.

Maid to Order (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) is an amusing 1987 comedy in which a rich, spoiled Ally Sheedy ends up working as a maid in Malibu.

The Entertainers (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a misfired, sentimental, seriocomic 1991 TV movie teaming Bob Newhart and a chimp as a vaudeville team desperately trying to break into the big-time Vegas venues.

The Toll of the Sea (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), a 1922 two-strip Technicolor production restored by UCLA, is a charming “Madame Butterfly”-like romance about an exquisite young Chinese woman (Anna May Wong) who rescues a handsome American (Kenneth Harlan) from drowning only to be betrayed by him.