March of the Wooden Soldiers (KTLA Sunday...

March of the Wooden Soldiers (KTLA Sunday at 8 p.m.) is the alternate title for the delightful 1934 Laurel and Hardy version of the Victor Herbert operetta “Babes in Toyland.”

Charles Lane’s Hallelujah (KCET Sunday at 9 p.m.) is an original Christmas tale that premiered on PBS’ “American Playhouse” a year ago. It unabashedly pulls out every last emotional stop, including a contemporary retelling of the baby Jesus set against the reality of a black urban church--Bethlehem becomes a ghetto in Washington, D.C. Excessively sentimental, but only Scrooge would gripe about this show.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (KTLA Monday at 7:30 p.m.), Richard Fleischer’s 1954 landmark movie from Jules Verne’s futuristic submarine adventure, finds sailor Kirk Douglas and scientist Paul Lukas up against James Mason’s nefarious Captain Nemo.

If you’ve ever been in love you know the feeling--a word is spoken, a look exchanged and you suddenly think, “Who is this, anyway? And what the hell happened to the person I fell in love with.?” Both as a play and in this 1992 film, Norman Rene’s Prelude to a Kiss (KTTV and XETV Tuesday at 8 p.m.), takes that feeling to a nervy fantasy extreme, transforming a quirk of human nature into a delicate romantic fable that simultaneously deals with aging and solitude. Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan form an extremely likable comic couple.

Loretta Young, appearing before the cameras for the first time in 23 years, is the reason for watching the 1986 TV-movie Christmas Eve (KCAL Saturday at 6 p.m.), which is like a ‘40s film made on the studio assembly line--hokey and melodramatic and wanting nothing more than to leave viewers sobbing into their hankies. With Young, it works. She plays a feisty rich woman in Manhattan whose liberal notions put her forever at odds with her conservative, coldhearted son (Arthur Hill), who runs the corporation her late husband left them. Diagnosed with an inoperable aneurysm, she hires a private eye (Ron Leibman) to track down her three estranged grandchildren.