Giant (TBS Sunday at 7:30 a.m.) and...

Giant (TBS Sunday at 7:30 a.m.) and Rebel Without a Cause (TBS Sunday at 11:30 a.m.) James Dean’s oil wildcatter who strikes it rich is secondary to Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor’s aristocratic Texas couple in George Stevens’ epic saga from the Edna Ferber novel, but it’s the second film, directed by Nicholas Ray, in which he became an icon for an entire generation, playing a misunderstood teen-ager.

The Harvey Girls (Channel 5 Sunday at 3 p.m.) George Sidney directed this classic MGM musical set in the West at the turn of the century when nice girls (like Judy Garland), hired as waitresses at Fred Harvey’s railroad restaurants, were beginning to give competition to the bad girls (like saloon entertainer Angela Lansbury) as the frontier closed.

In Cold Blood (Showtime Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.) Richard Brooks was Truman Capote’s personal choice to bring to the screen his celebrated “nonfiction” novel about a pair of killers who slay a family in rural Kansas. A memorable, haunting film starring Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.