Brian Dennehy is convincingly menacing and maniacal...

Brian Dennehy is convincingly menacing and maniacal as notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy in the two-part 1992 TV production To Catch a Killer (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m., concluding Tuesday at 8 p.m.). “Killer” tells Gacy’s story from the perspective of a Des Plaines, Ill., police lieutenant (Michael Riley). Director Eric Till knows how to wring suspense from a long and rambling crime story.

Romancing the Stone (KTTV Monday at 8 p.m.) is that delightful 1984 comedy in which Kathleen Turner, as a dowdy author of best-selling romances, is plunged into adventures beyond her wildest imaginings--with Michael Douglas as her breezy, rugged leading man.

Steven Spielberg has his shortcomings--he’s not an ace at either psychology or humor--but what he does, he does overpoweringly well. Crackling with action, grandiose set-pieces and childlike fervor and abandon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (CBS Tuesday at 8:25 p.m.) is the best of the Indiana Jones trilogy, though perhaps not startling enough for 1989 audiences. As boy Jones and Jones Sr., River Phoenix and Sean Connery provide appealing bookends for hero Harrison Ford.

Supposedly a movie about idealistic filmmakers trapped in the movie system, The Big Picture (KCOP Thursday at 8 p.m., again Saturday at 2 p.m.) is an attempted 1989 satire on the banality and venality of Hollywood that turns into a kind of celebrity roast in which the jokers and their target somehow get promiscuously intertwined. Kevin Bacon stars as a student-film prize winner wooed and dumped on by the dream factory.

Arguably the quintessential yuppie film noir , Lawrence Kasdan’s clever, cold, slick and tricky 1981 Body Heat (KCOP Saturday at 6 p.m.) was a “Double Indemnity” for the ‘80s. Full of glossy surfaces and multiple plot twists, it gave us Florida lawyer William Hurt, seduced by sultry Kathleen Turner into a murder plot that also involved shabby, shady Mickey Rourke.