SFist contributor and virtual TV pundit Rain Jokinen offers her Bay-area-centric TV picks of the week

It looks like Indian summer may be over for good what with the wind and the rain and the whining about the wind and the rain. So SFist recommends that you stay indoors and enjoy some of San Francisco's local landmarks on the small screen.

The creative partnership of Clint Eastwood and director Don Siegel is probably best remembered for the ultimate San Francisco vigilante flick Dirty Harry. But Clint decided to go behind bars for the 1979 Don Siegel-directed Escape from Alcatraz in which he plays Frank Morris, one of the only prisoners to successfully break out of Alcatraz (and we use the term "successfully" loosely, as none of the gang was ever seen again, dead or alive.) The movie's a pretty good life-in-prison yarn, and for those who have never set foot on the Rock, it offers some picturesque views of that odd tourist attraction. It airs on AMC on Wednesday at 3:45pm and Thursday at 6:45am.

From Alcatraz you can get a pretty good view of the City's Presidio district, and staring at the
former military base from afar is probably ten times more entertaining than watching the 1988 film The Presidio starring Sean Connery, Meg Ryan, and Mark Harmon. (Remember when Mark Harmon thought he'd have a huge movie career? Poor guy. He really hit his peak hawking Coors beer.) Frankly, SFist has blocked most of this film from our minds, but painful memories of Meg Ryan trying to act sultry and Mark Harmon trying to act angry remain. Also: Chinatown car chase! A&E is airing the film Wednesday at 8:00am and 2:00pm.

Delve back into San Franciso history in a film that most likely doesn't feature any actual San Francisco locations. John Wayne stars in 1945's The Flame of the Barbary Coast as a cattle-rancher who ventures to San Francisco in the 1900s and falls in with the no-good gamblers and floozies who populated that seedy section of the City. Anne Dvorak plays the dance hall girl named Flaxen (of course) and the film's finale is set against the 1906 quake. Check it out on AMC on Saturday at 10:30am.