For Murphy’s Romance (Channel 13 Sunday at...

For Murphy’s Romance (Channel 13 Sunday at 8 p.m.), a genuinely adult 1985 romantic comedy, James Garner earned a much-deserved Oscar nomination as an independent-minded, widowed pharmacist in a small Southwestern town who conducts a roundabout pursuit of a struggling, younger divorcee (Sally Field).

The 1988 hit Big (ABC Sunday at 9 p.m.), by far the best of the body-change comedies, manages to be funny, warm, sophisticated and imaginative from start to finish. It’s also a triumph for Tom Hanks, playing a 13-year-old trapped in a 30-year-old’s body.

The Chase (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), a new fact-based action TV movie, stars Casey Siemaszko as an escaped prisoner and Ben Johnson as one of his hostages.

Suspect (Channel 5 Monday at 7:30 p.m.) is an entertaining but highly implausible 1987 courtroom thriller starring Cher as a Washington public defender aided by juror Dennis Quaid in investigating a murder case.

The new Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.) finds Mason (Raymond Burr) defending an ex-Mafia chieftain accused of murdering his wife.

Deadly Intentions . . . Again? (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars Harry Hamlin as a doctor paroled after being convicted of murdering his first wife. The terror begins anew when he returns home to his second wife.

Mask (Channel 5 Tuesday at 8 p.m.) forthrightly introduces us to a San Fernando Valley 15-year-old, beautifully played by Eric Stoltz, and lets us get used to his cruelly disfigured face until we discover what is really exceptional about him: his levelheadedness and sweet spirit. Cher is ferociously fine as the boy’s mother, a strong woman with a taste for low-life men and amphetamine highs.

You could not ask for more sensitivity, subtlety or perception in the appreciation of high school students and their emotions than the 1986 film Lucas (Channel 11 Tuesday at 8 p.m.). Corey Haim stars as a brilliant, bespectacled 14-year-old who nevertheless doesn’t anticipate how crucial is the two-year age difference between him and his pretty 16-year-old friend (Kerri Green).

Revenge of the Nerds (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.) is a delicious, gratifying underdog fantasy and a raunchy, uproarious satire set in the often cruel and inherently discriminating world of college fraternities and sororities. Robert Carradine and Anthony Edwards are the nerds, more resilient than anyone suspects.

The Principal (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.), with Jim Belushi in the title role, takes one of the best subjects imaginable, the tensions and conflicts at an inner-city high school, and turns it into one more cliche-ridden revenge movie.

The Outlaw Josey Wales (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.) remains one of the best and most ambitious films Clint Eastwood has ever directed, a handsome 1976 Western.