Jaclyn Smith stars in the new TV...

Jaclyn Smith stars in the new TV movie Lies Before Kisses (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) as a woman whose perfect life begins to fall apart when she learns that her wealthy publisher husband (Ben Gazzara) was involved with an expensive prostitute.

Ben Kingsley has the title role in Gandhi (Channel 5 Monday at 8 p.m. and Tuesday at 8 p.m.), director Richard Attenborough and writer John Briley’s compelling, intelligent, epic-scale 1982 version of the life of the liberator of India. The filmmakers open boldly with the 1947 assassination of Gandhi and then cut to the 23-year-old Indian attorney’s ejection from a whites-only railway carriage in South Africa, an incident that Gandhi always referred to as the moment his path was set.

Julien Temple’s 1988 Earth Girls Are Easy (Channel 11 Monday at 8 p.m.) is slick fluff ingeniously lacquered over, a rock-musical comedy about a dumped-on Valley Girl who ushers three girl-crazy aliens around town after they crash-land in her swimming pool. Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carreys and Damon Wayans star.

Cathy Podewell stars in Earth Angel (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.), a new TV movie, the most popular girl of the class of ‘62, killed in a car accident on prom night, returns to earth to fulfill the mission that will help get her admitted to heaven. Cindy Williams Erik Estrada, Mark Hamill and Roddy McDowall co-star.

Double Exposure (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 8 p.m.), a 1989 TV movie, stars Farrah Fawcett as photo-journalist Margaret Bourke White.

Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (Channel 5 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a notable TV movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis as the Canadian teen-ager drawn to Hollywood’s tinsel but who meets tragedy.

Before its appealing loose ends are awkwardly tied together at the finish, the 1987 TV movie Long Gone (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) is an amusing, raucous evocation of life on a minor league baseball team in the ‘50s. Starring William Petersen.

In the 1979 Starting Over (Channel 13 Friday at 8 p.m.) director Alan Pakula and writer James L. Brooks gave Burt Reynolds one of his best roles: a New York writer coping confusedly with feminism, new sexual mores and his own divorce. It’s a smart, good-hearted comedy with unforced glints of satire.

Luis Valdez’s 1987 film biography La Bamba, (CBS Saturday at 9 p.m.) of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roller Richie Valens is as infectious as its music, an irresistible saga of how a teen-age Mexican-American (Lou Diamond Phillips) made it from a migrant farm worker background to three hit records at the age of 17.