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College Football: Oregon at Stanford (3:30 p.m., SportsChannel).
Basketball: Lakers at Warriors (7:30 p.m., SportsChannel).
On a two-hour episode of Sweet Justice (8 p.m., Channel 4), Kate (Melissa Gilbert) is attracted to a client she's defending against murder charges.
Ice Wars: The U.S.A. vs. the World (8 p.m., Channel 5) is back for a final round of competition between Nancy Kerrigan's Team U.S.A. and Oksana Baiul's international squad. Tune in next week when Kerrigan and Baiul go at it on "American Gladiators."
The new TV movie The Shaggy Dog (8 p.m., Channel 7) is a remake of the Disney movie about a kid who is transformed into a sheep dog. Scott Weinger and Ed Begley Jr. star.
Whitney Houston performs in Johannesburg in The Concert for a New South Africa (9 p.m., HBO).
Sarah Jessica Parker hosts Saturday Night Live (11:30 p.m., Channel 4), with music from REM.
Football: Chargers at Chiefs (10 a.m., Channel 4); Cowboys at Niners (1 p.m., Channel 2); Buccaneers at Lions (5 p.m., ESPN).
The new TV movie A Promise Kept: The Oksana Baiul Story (1 p.m., Channel 5) dramatizes the saga of the plucky Ukrainian orphan who overcame adversity to win the figure-skating gold in the 1994 Olympics. Take that, Nancy! Monica Keene plays Oksana; Miguel Ferrer of "Twin Peaks" fame, departing from his usual good taste in choosing material, plays her coach.
At the start of the TV season, Fox fumbled big by slotting the dumb action series "Fortune Hunter" after football. The show lasted half an episode. Now, the network wises up and puts reruns of its hottest show, The X-Files, in this prime slot (7 p.m., Channel 2). Tonight, it's the one where Mulder's unauthorized investigation of a UFO crash site gets him in hot water with the Bureau.
On Earth 2 (7 p.m., Channel 4), the colonists discover that they're not the first earthlings on their new planet. Tim Curry joins the cast.
Lisa becomes a hockey phenom on The Simpsons (8 p.m., Channel 2).
Oliver Stone's jumbo 1991 fact-and-fiction gumbo, JFK (9 p.m., Channel 4), makes its network debut, chopped into two parts. You'll have to wait until Wednesday for the conclusion.
Touted as the TV event of the season, CBS' four-part mini-series Scarlett (9 p.m., Channel 5) turns out to be the yawner of the decade. This lumbering, pedestrian sequel to "Gone With The Wind" simply inserts Scarlett and Rhett into every tedious romance-novel situation under the sun. In part one, Rhett (the thoroughly charmless Timothy Dalton) rescues Scarlett (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, who looks alarmingly like Victoria Principal) from a shipwreck, and their romantic flame is rekindled in an abandoned beach shack. It gets even sillier after that. "Scarlett" is so awful that it makes you question the validity of your fond memories of "GWTW." Avoid at all costs.
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