The summit meeting of Russian director Andrei...

The summit meeting of Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky and Sylvester Stallone in the 1989 Tango & Cash (KCBS Sunday at 9 p.m.) produces not cinematic glasnost but the same old dopey, recycled car-chase thriller. Mismatched cops, surrounded by cliches, explosions and wild jailbreaks, duel omnipotent drug czars, while continuously and witlessly wisecracking. Konchalovsky shares direction with Peter MacDonald and Albert Magnoli; Stallone, playing a natty dude, shares star-time with scruffy Kurt Russell. The movie pulverizes them all.

Although in the 1987 Mayflower Madam (KTLA Monday at 8 p.m.) the elegant Candice Bergen isinspired casting as the upper crust Sydney Biddle Barrows, who related her experiences as the proprietor of a luxe Manhattan call-girl service in a witty and provocative memoir, this 1987 disappointed.

The 1985 remake of King Solomon’s Mines (KTLA Thursday at 8 p.m.) is a disappointing attempt to capture the breezy comic-book aura of such adventures yarns like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” but the result is mainly camp. Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone star. Its agonizingly dull 1987 sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (KTLA Friday at 8 p.m.), also disappoints.

The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag (KTLA Saturday at 5 p.m.) is too silly and improbable to accomplish anything except to show off Penelope Anne Miller’s considerable range and skill as a comedian. Miller’s Betty Lou, an assistant librarian, is one of life’s human doormats. When her dog finds a gun, she tries to inform her policeman husband (Eric Thal), but he’s too busy to talk to her. When that gun proves to be a weapon used to murder a gangster, Betty Lou confesses to killing him when she’s unable to get anyone to listen. Unfortunately, the premise of this 1992 film is underdeveloped.

In the excellent, intimate 1992 The Quarrel (KCET Saturday at 10:45 p.m.) passion andprinciple collide memorably as two old friends and enemies (Saul Rubinek, R.H. Thomson), Holocaust survivors both, meet unexpectedly in a Montreal park on Rosh Hashanah. Complications are large, for like the Jewish culture it tries to encapsulate in 88 minutes, this film balances philosophical issues with the warmer, earthier bonds of life.