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Gunsmoke: The Last Apache (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie based on the long-running series, finds Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness), now retired, belatedly learning that he has a grown daughter (Amy Stock-Poynton) who’s been kidnaped by a renegade Apache warrior.

Love and Lies (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), yet another new TV movie, stars Mare Winningham as a private eye who becomes emotionally entangled with a murder suspect (Peter Gallagher).

It’s too bad that so much of the 1985 Target (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m., again on Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a conventional spy thriller with high-speed chases because at its heart it is an honest father-and-son estrangement that comes to a boil when the father (Gene Hackman), a Dallas businessman, resumes secret agentry after 20 years. Matt Dillon plays the son.

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Robin Williams, Jerry Stiller and Joseph Wiseman all have some of the best moments of their careers in Seize the Day (Channel 28 Monday at 9 p.m.), which Fielder Cook directed from the Saul Bellow novella about a sweet loser (Williams) treated barbarously by his ice-cold father (Wiseman) and exploited cruelly, though hilariously, by a con man (Stiller, in the role of a lifetime).

Stalag 17 (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is the 1953 Billy Wilder prisoner-of-war comedy-drama classic, which brought an Oscar for William Holden as a wary sergeant in Otto Preminger’s POW camp.

Highly implausible but intermittently entertaining, the 1987 Suspect (CBS Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) stars Cher as a Washington public defender trying to help a prime suspect in a killing--and getting a highly illegal assist from slick jury member Dennis Quaid.

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The Wash (Channel 28 Wednesday at 9 p.m.), which Philip Kan Gotanda adapted from his own play, is uneven yet moving. It’s full of complex, very real issues centering on a docile Japanese-American wife (Nobu McCarthy) who leaves her stubborn, vinegary husband (Mako) of 40 years.

High Noon (Channel 11 Thursday at 8 p.m.), the classic 1952 Fred Zinnemann Western, stars Gary Cooper as a sheriff who must face the bad guys all by himself.

In the quietly endearing 1982 Tex (Channel 5 Saturday at 6 p.m.), Matt Dillon stars as an impoverished, small-town Oklahoma 15-year-old. He’s one of a group of likable, resilient teen-agers, some trapped by the burden of too-early maturity, getting on with their lives yet valuing the bonds of friendship and family.

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The Room Upstairs (Channel 9 Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a decent but underwritten 1987 TV movie in which Stockard Channing stars as a woman gifted in working with retarded and abused children but unwilling or unable to connect with adults.

The ratings checks on movies in the TV log are provided by the Tribune TV Log listings service.

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