In the amiable, appealing 1985 children’s movie...

In the amiable, appealing 1985 children’s movie Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (KCOP Sunday at 6 p.m.) the denizens of Sesame Street band together to rescue Big Bird from the clutches of the disastrously dull Dodo family.

The 1956 The Ten Commandments (KABC Sunday a 7 p.m.) represents Cecil B. DeMille at his most enjoyable. This is another outlandish, overblown, slightly ludicrous spectacle--this time, the life story of no less than Moses, with Charlton Heston in the title role and Yul Brynner as Rameses.

Although uneven, it is surprising how close Sommersby (KNBC Sunday at 8:30 p.m.) gets to the traditional three-hankie satisfactions of classic ‘40s weepers. Set in 1867 in a benighted Tennessee hamlet, it stars Richard Gere in the title role as the town’s biggest landowner who strolls in after not having been seen nor heard from in seven years. As surprised as his faithful old dog to see him is his wife (a radiant Jodie Foster).

The spirited 1991 comedy Soapdish (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.) turns upon the amusing notion that the stars of TV soap operas have lives as crazy as the characters they play, if not more so. Presiding over the long-running soap “The Sun Also Sets” is America’s sweetheart (Sally Field), who at 42 is beginning to wonder whether there’s more to life than tearfully saying such lines as, “I’m guilty of love in the first degree.” Watching Kevin Kline (as her lecherous old flame) meet his match in Field is very much of a treat.

In the seductively entertaining 1990 Reversal of Fortune (KCOP Saturday at 8 p.m.), screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, director Barbet Schroeder and especially Oscar-winner Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bulow have shrewdly chosen to treat the question of whether or not Von Bulow was guilty of trying to murder his heiress wife Sunny (Glenn Close, icily splendid) as a tragicomedy of manners.

KCET’s notable Saturday night double feature is Hope and Glory (at 9 p.m.) and All My Sons (at 11 p.m.).