Robin Williams is the host, and James Taylor the musical guest, for a new installment of NBC’s Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m., WPTV-Ch. 5, WSVN-Ch. 7).
Sunday, WBFS-Ch. 33 airs an afternoon of westerns: Clint Eastwood’s Joe Kidd (1 p.m.), written by Elmore Leonard; Burt Lancaster’s Ulzana’s Raid (3 p.m.); and The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (5 p.m.), with Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall as Cole Younger and Jesse James. All three features were made in 1972.
Later, Miami/Fort Lauderdale PBS station WPBT-Ch. 2 premieres Alabasters & Night Blues: A Writers’ View of the Florida Keys (8 p.m. Sunday). James Earl Jones, Roy Scheider, Don Johnson and William Hindman provide character narration for this oral history of Key West’s literary community. This entertaining documentary was produced by WPBT; the most surprising thing about it is that no one thought of it earlier.
Also on Sunday evening, NBC begins a good, if overlong, miniseries: The Murder of Mary Phagan (8:30 p.m., Channels 5 and 7). Jack Lemmon stars as Georgia Gov. John Slaton, who was at the center of a 1915 controversy over the trial of New York businessman Leo Frank (Peter Gallagher) for the murder of one of his teen-age factory workers. The concluding half begins Tuesday at 9 p.m.
