Jerry Belson’s Surrender (KTLA Sunday at 6...

Jerry Belson’s Surrender (KTLA Sunday at 6 p.m.) is a middle-of-the-road 1987 romantic comedy that’s often better when it’s serious than when it’s trying to be funny; refreshingly, it is very honest about the thorny relationship between love and money. Sally Field plays a struggling artist with a rich, younger--and egotistical--lover (Steve Guttenberg) who’s not about to settle down; Michael Caine is a successful mystery writer too often taken to the cleaners by women.

The Ten Commandments (ABC Sunday at 7 p.m.) is the last Hollywood spectacle made by a silent-era pioneer with a strong Victorian sensibility. Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 remake of his 1923 hit is never less than stirring and is possessed of genuine pictorial grandeur. Charlton Heston’s Moses is a great heroic portrayal that has stood the test of time.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders (NBC Sunday at 8 p.m.), the landmark 1973 TV movie, written by Abby Mann and directed by Joseph Sargent, deals with a detective (Telly Savalas) trying to prevent a teen-ager from being wrongly convicted of murder.

A comic original who’s more than a comedian, Hal Hartley is a filmmaker who takes us to familiar-looking yet utterly strange places: modern cul-de-sacs where anxiety meets lassitude, where honor battles absurdity and love tries to strike a bargain with lust. With his mixture of sly wit and wary compassion, he’s able to dig deeper into his characters than all but a handful of American directors. Hartley’s third feature, Simple Men (KCET Monday at 9 p.m.) is lyrically offbeat and brilliantly wacky, adapting the form of ‘60s and ‘70s road pictures with specific period-political implications. At the center of his film is a deeply emotional situation that goes oddly askew: two mismatched brothers (Robert Burke, William Sage) looking for their father, an all-star Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop who became a ‘60s radical and is wanted for trying to blow up the Pentagon.

Nothing can be anticipated in this 1992 film, but everything falls into place.

Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.) is an unspectacular 1992 cable movie biography about the Loyola Marymount basketball star who died in March, 1990, after collapsing during a game. The controversy surrounding Gathers’ death from a heart disorder is absent from this account, and there’s also nothing distinctive or compelling about this depiction of the short life of Gathers, played adequately by Victor Love.

Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers brought undiminished sparkle to the 1993 TV movie Hart to Hart Returns (NBC Friday at 9 p.m.), but at two hours its plot lines get stretched mightily.