TV Guide GREAT! movies action Tuesday

Steed receives a letter from an anonymous source informing him that Purdey has been kidnapped and demanding Allied attack plans as ransom. Espionage adventures, starring Patrick Macnee, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt

Three cowboys, mistaken for outlaws, find themselves pursued by a relentless posse. Western, written, starring and co-produced by Jack Nicholson, with Cameron Mitchell and Harry Dean Stanton

San Francisco suffers a devastating meteor bombardment, which turns out to be the first in a series of showers of space debris causing chaos in the city. A scientist tries to prevent further strikes, while her ex-husband takes charge of getting the population to safety. Sci-fi thriller, starring Michael Trucco and Kari Matchett

Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp and go on the run in the aftermath of the American Civil War. A Union major is assigned the task of tracking them down, but the mission becomes personal when he realises they have kidnapped his fiancee. Western, starring Glenn Ford and George Hamilton, and featuring an early appearance by Harrison Ford

Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp and go on the run in the aftermath of the American Civil War. A Union major is assigned the task of tracking them down, but the mission becomes personal when he realises they have kidnapped his fiancee. Western, starring Glenn Ford and George Hamilton, and featuring an early appearance by Harrison Ford

A member of the infamous Dalton gang survives the outlaws' last stand, only ro find himself a fugitive wanted for murder. After forming a new band of renegades, he decides to turn his back on a life of crime and settles down under a fake identity - but his past refuses to leave him alone. Western, starring Randolph Scott and George Macready

A member of the infamous Dalton gang survives the outlaws' last stand, only ro find himself a fugitive wanted for murder. After forming a new band of renegades, he decides to turn his back on a life of crime and settles down under a fake identity - but his past refuses to leave him alone. Western, starring Randolph Scott and George Macready

New York's deputy mayor receives a warning from his estranged meteorologist wife that the city is about to be hit by a massive tornado, but convincing the residents of the scale of the impending danger proves an uphill struggle. Disaster thriller, starring Nicole de Boer, Sebastian Spence, Colby Johannson and Jerry Wasserman

Mannering has sold some antiques on behalf of Madame Nicharos, the wife of a deposed Balkan president. Before he can deliver the money to her he is confronted by the general who led the coup

Steed and Mrs Peel track down a blackmailing assassin who scares his victims into meek compliance by carrying out fake murders. Vintage hokum, with Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg and Simon Oates

A veteran of the American Civil War returns to his home town to discover a former friend, who has become a ruthless land baron, is intent on seizing his father's ranch, forcing the hardened soldier to take up arms once more to protect his family and their property. Western, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Vincent Spano and Stacy Keach