Deadhead Miles (A&E; today at 11 a.m.)...

Deadhead Miles (A&E; today at 11 a.m.) Practically nobody has ever seen Vernon Zimmerman’s offbeat, largely unreleased 1972 road film starring Alan Arkin as a trucker. Written with Terrence Malick (largely unseen himself since his 1978 “Days of Heaven”), it is a true rarity, uneven yet engaging and featuring a large cast that includes Bruce Bennett, Ida Lupino and George Raft in addition to Hector Elizondo, Loretta Swit, Charles Durning and many others.

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Showtime Monday at 6 p.m.) In this wry 1973 romantic comedy, beautifully written by Alvin Sargent and directed equally well by Alan Pakula, Maggie Smith and the considerably younger Timothy Bottoms, who meet on a summer bus tour of Spain, are as engaging a pair of klutzes imaginable.

Detour (A&E; Thursday at 5 a.m.) Edgar Ulmer’s 1945 film noir classic, one of the most relentlessly intense psychological thrillers ever made, stars Tom Neal, who has good reason to regret ever crossing paths with the perfectly cast--and aptly named--Ann Savage.

A Streetcar Named Desire (KDOC Saturday at 8:30 p.m.) Ann-Margret is stunning good as Blanche DuBois in this first-rate 1984 TV production of the Tennessee Williams classic, which co-stars Treat Williams as Stanley Kowalski, Beverly D’Angelo as Stella and Randy Quaid as Mitch. John Erman directed from Oscar Saul’s adaptation.