Dennis Franz is much more credible on...

Dennis Franz is much more credible on “NYPD Blue” than he is as a naive Louisiana newspaper reporter snookered by the FBI in the methodical 1994 TV movie Moment of Truth: Caught in the Crossfire (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.). The only element this production has going for it is the edgy, Emmy Award-winning Franz. But without any particular grit or bite in this story of FBI chicanery and public corruption, he is mainly reduced to looking duped and anxious after he’s arrested for unwitting extortion as an inept informer.

In the so-so 1989 Troop Beverly Hills (KTLA Tuesday at 8 p.m.), Shelley Long plays the Beverly Hills ditz as a secular saint, who has agreed to lead a notorious group of failed scouts to which her daughter belongs.

Addams Family Values (Fox Tuesday at 8 p.m.), the 1993 sequel to the hugely profitable “Addams Family,” has some explosively funny moments before the tedium sets in. The good cast includes Raul Julia and Anjelica Huston as Gomez and Morticia, and, as the conniving gold-digger, Joan Cusack.

The 1991 Deceived (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) stars Goldie Hawn as a wife of six years to John Heard, who turns out to be not quite what he seemed. The trouble is that we catch on lots earlier than she does.

Kirk Douglas is so much fun in Greedy (NBC Thursday at 9 p.m.) that you’re tempted to forgive this wildly uneven 1994 satire. Douglas is cast as an aged but vigorous self-made scrap-metal tycoon whose declining health neither prevents him from going to work nor taking tremendous relish in watching his nephews and nieces currying favor in hopes of inheriting his fortune. Michael J. Fox is Douglas’ long-lost grand nephew.

How did the 1970 Catch 22 (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) misfire? Joseph Heller wrote some of the funniest dialogue of our time in his novel: a Kafka-cum-Marx Brothers look at anArmy misfit in the second World War. But somehow scenarist Buck Henry lost the manic energy and director Mike Nichols drowned it in ersatz Fellini. Alan Arkin is too grim for Yossarian--and the rest of the fine cast never quite gets the beat.