Michael Caton-Jones adequately directs this 1991 fish-out-of-water...

Michael Caton-Jones adequately directs this 1991 fish-out-of-water comedy, Doc Hollywood (NBC Sunday at 7 p.m.). Michael J. Fox plays an arrogant plastic surgeon headed to target rich Los Angeles, but ends up crashing his car in the backwoods of South Carolina. Forced by the local authorities to perform some community service in the medical field, this Doc soon learns that life outside Tinseltown can also be very enriching. Julie Warner shines as Fox’s love interest.

In the 1950s and ‘60s, she was the curvy Mouseketeer, the girl next-door, America’s sweetheart and a growing boy’s dream date. And although her perky innocence may be out of style, it has never been tarnished by scandal. So don’t expect any dirt to be dished in Sunday’s CBS movie, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.). This is a glowing valentine to everyone’s favorite Mouseketeer, whose happily-ever-after Cinderella story was not supposed to include the multiple sclerosis she fights today; based on Funicello’s autobiography.

In an age of contrived sentimentality, The Joy Luck Club (KNBC Monday at 8 p.m.), director Wayne Wang and Amy Tan’s 1993 film from Tan’s best-selling novel, offers straight-from-the-heart emotions. A story of distance and how to bridge it, of painful gaps between immigrant mothers and U.S.-born children, it has the strength and clarity of its source.

The 1983 Never Say Never Again (KCOP Friday at 8 p.m.) puts the emphasis back where it belongs: on wit, intelligence and style. Sean Connery embodies all this and more, and for his return he’s got some adversaries worth his mettle: Barbara Carrera as the gorgeous and outrageous Fatima Blush and Klaus Maria Brandauer, who manages to be both worldly boyish and quite demented when stolen nuclear warheads are concerned.

In the 1988 Stand and Deliver (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.), Edward James Olmos gives a towering portrayal of Jaime Escalante, the inspired teacher who produced a string of calculus prodigies in an East L.A. high school. He suggests the passion, the doggedness, the psychological jags and edges of a brilliant tutor.