Cheryl Ladd gives new meaning to the...

Cheryl Ladd gives new meaning to the term model prisoner in the 1991 TV movie Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.). She’s pretty as a picture after years of unjust incarceration, and perky, too, except for the odd nervous breakdown in solitary confinement. But Ladd isn’t really the problem with this film, with a script stuck somewhere in the twilight zone between the cliches of the old-fashioned women-behind-bars movies and an unrequited desire for fleeting realism.

Racism and child molestation are the twin evils driving the Southern-set 1991 TV movie Carolina Skeletons (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), which has enough Southern Carolina atmosphere but not enough skeletons in the closet to justify the viewing time involved. Louis Gossett Jr. stars as a Marine officer on leave from Vietnam in 1967 whose dying mother requests that he clear his brother’s name. A decent but typical potboiler.

The Karate Kid Part II (KCOP Monday at 8 p.m.), released in 1986, is just as good as the original and finds Ralph Macchio accompanying his martial arts mentor (Pat Morita) on his return to Okinawa after a 45-year-absence; Part III airs Tuesday, but it’s a disaster.

Back to School (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m.), the 1986 summer hit, is a big belly laugh of a comedy that casts Rodney Dangerfield as a college freshman.

Wanted: Dead or Alive (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), a taut, jagged-edged 1987 thriller with more twists and turns than a Ross Thomas novel, stars Rutger Hauer as a taciturn bounty hunter.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand (KTLA Saturday at 6 p.m.), an exceedingly broad and boisterous 1978 Robert Zemeckis comedy, follows the dizzying impact on a group of young people of the Beatles’ first trip to the United States in 1964.

It’s followed at 8 p.m. by The Compleat Beatles, a 1982 documentary that maddeningly chops up most of their songs into video bits and snippets yet, as narrated by Malcolm McDowell, presents a nostalgic evocation of great music, vanished times.

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man (CBS Saturday at 8 p.m.), which first aired last January, finds Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) embroiled in actual history, one of the bloodiest feuds of the American West: The Pleasant Valley (Ariz.) War of the 1880s.

The 1972 And Now for Something Completely Different (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.), the first Monty Python movie, is an avalanche of skits, sight gags and blackouts, the best of which are heroically demented.