Movie: The Last Outlaw (HBO, 8-10 p.m.) Part-time pugilist/part-time poet Mickey Rourke stars as a renegade ex-Confederate officer who leads a gang of bank robbers on a run for the Mexican border with a sheriff's posse on their $ trail. Young Guns' Dermot Mulroney, Reservoir Dogs' Steve Buscemi, and The Silence of the Lambs' Ted Levine costar.
31 Sunday National Geographic Rxplorer (TBS, 9-11 p.m.) Robert Urich hosts this Halloween look at "Nature's Nightmares," including bats, black widow spiders, and other bugs. Plus: a visit to the first-ever meeting of a support group for people who have been struck by lightning.
Movie: No Child of Mine (CBS, 9-11 p.m.) Forget true crimes-custody battles are this season's hot TV-movie topic. This week's entry casts Patty Duke as a grandmother who tries to get custody of her grandson, who has Down syndrome, after her daughter (Tracy Nelson) tries to give the child up for adoption.
1 Monday Star Trek:Deep Space Nine (syndicated, check local listings) Quark (Armin Shimerman) gets a visit from Fallit Kot, an old acquaintance who wants to kill him to get revenge on the Ferengi. (Kot is played by Peter Crombie, known to Seinfeld fans as the similarly vengeful Crazy Joe Davola.)
Movie: Ghost Mom (Fox, 8-10 p.m.) Not a sequel to Bill Cosby's 1990 flop, Ghost Dad, but a TV movie (originally titled Bury Me in Niag-ara) starring Jean Stapleton as an overbearing mom who pesters her son from beyond the grave. Cowrit-ten and directed by Dave Thomas (SCTV, Grace Under Fire).
Movie: House of Secrets (NBC, 9-11 p.m.) Scarecrow and Mrs. King's Bruce Boxleitner and his real-life squeeze, Little House on the Prairie's Melissa Gilbert, star in this tale of adultery, voodoo, and murder set in New Orleans.
2 Tuesday NYPD Blue (ABC, 10-11 p.m.) An eventful week for Detective Sipowicz (Dennis Franz): His 18-year-old son (Michael DeLuise) gets engaged to a promiscuous older woman (Julianne Christie), and his toupee-wearing nemesis, Alfonse Giardella (Robert Costanzo), gets whacked by the mob.
