Mission of the Shark (CBS Sunday at...

Mission of the Shark (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) is a fine 1991 TV movie account of a near-forgotten naval disaster, the sinking of the U.S. cruiser Indianapolis at the end of World War II. The disaster left hundreds of men bobbing in shark-infested waters for five days; Stacy Keach and Richard Thomas star.

As true-life TV movies go, Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), directed by Gil Cates, hits unusually close to home. It’s about how two young men, played by Jason Bateman and James Wilder, confess to a murder that only one them could have committed.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is a feebly written and stridently directed teen-age comedy about five California kids left alone when their mom vacations in Australia and their babysitter dies.

Black Widow: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.), a mediocre 1993 TV movie, does manage to offer sordid fun with Elizabeth Montgomery playing a real-life serial poisoner.

Point Break (KTTV Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is a beautiful but dumb 1991 thriller starring Keanu Reeves as an ex-Ohio State quarterback-turned-FBI agent who goes underground to infiltrate the surfer subculture.

Pacific Heights (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.), in which Michael Keaton plays the renter from hell to yuppie San Francisco landlords Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine, ought to have been more pulpy fun than it is; however, Keaton does give the 1990 film a core of genuine horror.

Imagine a video game that becomes the real thing. The Last Starfighter (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) starts out promising but dissipates fast. Lance Guest and Robert Preston, in his last feature role, star.

Pale Rider (NBC Friday at 8:30 p.m.) is Clint Eastwood’s 1985 variation on “Shane,” marred by the queasy and unlikely development that has a pretty teen-age idolater trying to seduce him.

Break of Dawn (KCET Friday at 9 p.m.) is an awkward yet moving 1988 biography of singer Pedro Gonzalez (Oscar Chavez), an influential local radio pioneer exploited by politicians.

David Cronenberg’s dazzling, unsettling 1986 remake of The Fly (KTTV Saturday at 6 p.m.) is as much a romantic tragedy as a dark-humored horror picture; with Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis.

Not to be confused with the sinister 1992 Drew Barrymore film of the same name, this Poison Ivy (ABC Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a standard 1985 TV movie summer camp romp with Michael J. Fox.

Oddball Hall (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.) is a complicated, unfunny 1990 TV movie comedy, despite the presence of Don Ameche and Burgess Meredith.