Moon Over Parador (Channel 5 Sunday at...

Moon Over Parador (Channel 5 Sunday at 6 p.m.), Paul Mazursky’s hilarious 1988 satire about a minor American actor (Richard Dreyfuss) strong-armed into masquerading as an inconveniently deceased Latin American dictator, never got the attention it deserved. With Raul Julia and Sonia Braga.

A Patch of Blue (Channel 5 Sunday at 8 p.m.), a fine 1965 film, stars Elizabeth Hartman as a blind girl who falls in love with a black man (Sidney Poitier); Shelley Winters won an Oscar as Hartman’s horrible mother.

Henry Winkler, Richard Kiley, Karl Malden, Patty Duke, Audra Lindley and Jennifer Hetrick star in the new TV movie Absolute Strangers (CBS Sunday at 9 p.m.), a drama based on the true story of a husband’s struggle to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing the termination of her pregnancy.

The Great Pretender (NBC Sunday at 9 p.m.), another new TV movie, stars Bruce Greenwood, Gregg Henry and Jessica Stern in a thriller about a Pultizer Prize-winning newsman (Greenwood) who is down on his luck and uses his column to go up against everything and everyone--including his own publisher.

She Stood Alone (NBC Monday at 9 p.m.), a new fact-based TV movie, tells of a little-known American heroine, Prudence Crandall (Mare Winningham), who in the New England of the 1830s dared to integrate her school.

James Woods and John Lithgow star in the new TV movie The Boys (ABC Monday at 9 p.m.) as lifelong friends who must face the fact that one of them is terminally ill. (See Cover Story on Page 3.)

Romero (CBS Tuesday at 9 p.m.) has the good fortune to have Raul Julia in the title role as the martyred Salvadoran archbishop, but his solid portrayal, a work of simplicity and concentration, cannot redeem this 1989 film, which goes wrong in too many crucial ways. The sad truth is that for all its good intentions, the film is mired in trite dialogue and the disastrous miscasting of Richard Jordan as a fiery Salvadoran activist priest.

Bang the Drum Slowly (Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.), an outstanding 1973 release, is deeply affecting, often humorous but never morbid or maudlin in telling how a glib, fast-talking pitcher (Michael Moriarty) connives to ensure that his battery mate, a dim but appealing country boy (Robert De Niro), will be able to play until Hodgkin’s disease finally overtakes him.

The Oscar-laden 1967 In the Heat of the Night (Channel 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.) pits Rod Steiger’s bigoted Southern sheriff against Sidney Poitier’s smart big-city cop.

There’s more grit than consistent credibility in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village (Channel 5 Friday at 8 p.m.), but Mickey Rourke is terrific as a would-be slick Manhattan operator undone by his loyalty to his screwed-up cousin (Eric Roberts). The great supporting cast includes Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page and Jack Kehoe.